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avoid them,” reports Shames, a longtime advocate in the movement against the common practice of adding fluoride (a derivative of fluorine) and chlorine to municipal water. Fluoride is also added to many brands of toothpaste. Bromide is part of almost all commercial flour and flour products, as well as soft drinks. Shames offers an historic insight.


“Fluoride was once used to slow down an overactive thyroid, as recommended by the physicians’ bible, the Merck Manuals. Now we’re putting it in the water supply and wondering why we have a mushrooming epidemic of low thyroid incidence.” Food: “So-called ‘iodized’ salt


doesn’t contain much usable iodine, and neither does pink Himalyan sea salt,” Shames cautions. We’ve known that our soil is


deficient in essential minerals such as iodine since at least 1936, when a spe- cial U.S. Senate report concluded that our soil was already severely depleted. “This simply means that when we grow


9 in 10 North


Americans may be iodine deficient.


~ Dr. Robert Thompson


produce, the plants cannot extract these vital nutrients from the soil for us—in- cluding iodine—if those nutrients aren’t there in the first place,” says Thompson. If anything, he adds, U.S. soils have be- come even more sterile in the 80 years since the report and, “Factory farming and the use of genetically modified (GmO) crops, Roundup herbicide and synthetic chemical fertilizers have un- doubtedly worsened the situation.”


Sources of Iodine It’s difficult to include sufficient natural iodine in our daily diet unless we fol- low a Japanese-style diet that includes


lots of seaweed and saltwater fish, says Shames. Other food sources are shell- fish, turkey, cheese, yogurt, milk, eggs, legumes, cranberries and strawberries. There is little agreement about the


optimal levels of iodine people need. The U.S. Department of Agriculture maintains that we need 150 micro- grams a day, but iodine advocates are quick to point out that a person eating a typical Japanese diet (where hypothy- roidism, or low thyroid activity, is rare) ingests 12.5 milligrams of iodine each day—83 times the amount recommend- ed by the government.


Shames recommends getting an iodine lab test (available without a prescription at CanaryClub.org) to determine exact needs. Thompson rec- ommends potassium iodide and sodium iodide supplements for thyroid health.


Kathleen Barnes is author of numerous natural health books, including User’s Guide to Thyroid Disorders.


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Causes of Iodine Deficiency The Hidden Deficiency Having the proper amount of iodine in our system at all times is critical to overall health, yet the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that iodine deficiency is increasing drastically in light of an increasingly anemic national diet of unpronounceable additives and secret, unlabeled ingredients. This deficit now affects nearly three-quarters of the population.


Almost everyone is routinely exposed to iodine-depleting radiation


Radiation OLow-Sodium Diets


veruse of zero-nutrient salt substitutes in foods leads to iodine depletion


IoIodized Table Salt


A toxic chemical found in baked goods overrides iodine's ability to aid thyroid


Bromine Iodine-Depleted Soil


Poor farming techniques have led to declined levels of iodine in soil


dized salt may slowly lose its iodine content by exposure to air


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