Iodine - Suppressed knowledge that can change your life

Iodine - Suppressed knowledge that can change your life

Gabriela Segura, M.D.

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Comprehensive Handbook of Iodine

Comprehensive Handbook of Iodine
September 14, 2018

nutritional, biochemical, pathological and therapeutic aspects

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part i
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part ii
http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/a5089d_e6084a2fd8ad43f4805cae4c06dfba90.pdf

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Co-factors are important:

Main cofactors:

L-Tyrosine (amino acid).  Needed for production of T4 thyroid hormone.
Selenium.  Needed for conversion of T4 (inactive) to T3 (active)

We use the L-Tyrosine from PureBulk.com as there are NO excipients or other ingredients, and comes in a safer BSE-free bovine gelatin capsule.  

You can get either the Biotics Research Aqueous selenium liquid, or get the 3rdi 5% iodine with selenium added from Jimmy Pitticus.

Other co-factors:

Magnesium
Vitamin C (we use Sodium Ascorbate from NutriBiotics)
Copper & Zinc

The Liver MUST be cleaned and cleared (both physically and energetically) for the T4 to T3 conversion to take place.

NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine):  To assist detoxification, glutathione production, clear up fatty liver, and especially dissolve myxedema (mucin deposits) often seen on hypothyroid sufferers. Myxedema is like a type of metabolic waste, and one of the "hardenings of the body", as I have termed it. We now use NAC from PureBulk.com, since it is also free of excipients/nasty other ingredients and it also is available in safer gelatin capsules. 

Inositol:  Helps with fatty liver and detoxification.
We use a bulk powder of the Myo-inositol, as it kind of has a sweet taste and it's easy to drink in a glass of water.  There is a D-chiro brand of inositol which is great for polycystic ovaries and helps with fertility.
See:  https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2016/11/inositol.html

Choline and/or Phosphatidylcholine:
Phosphatidylcholine  Preferably one derived from sunflower as opposed to soy lecithin.

d-limolene essential oils: (lemon, lime, grapefruit, tangerine, wild orange), these help dissolve liver/gallstones.  Terpenes and carvacrol from oils will help too.

Lipase enzymes:  Helps to digest and dissolve fats.


Other posts regarding the above...


Myxedema:

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2018/12/what-myxedema-looks-like.html
Has links to the 3rdi iodine.


https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2018/10/hypothyroidism-type-2-myxedema-symptoms.html


Hardening of the Body:

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-daily-messenger-how-satanic.html

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2017/05/hardening-of-body-fibrin-fibrosia-mucin.html


NAC & Other:

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2017/05/juicing-and-raw-foods-edta.html

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/search?q=NAC


Pain:

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2018/10/juicing-and-raw-foods-i-tried-medical.html


Sulfur & DMSO:

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2015/02/organic-sulphur-as-versatile-healer.html

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/search?q=DMSO
https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/search?q=Sulfur



Other Iodine & Thyroid posts:

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2015/01/how-do-you-know-when-you-need-more.html

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2015/10/7-reasons-your-thyroid-medication-isnt.html

https://messiahmews.blogspot.com/2019/02/t0ny-iodine-1gmday-doubles-lifespan.html


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Iodine, the Forbidden Nutrient

FenbenLady
JUL 29, 2018, 11:07:26 AM

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/870366928080273408

Iodine, the Forbidden Nutrient

Dr Kellman of the Centre for Progressive Medicine in New York said,

"Once damage to the thyroid takes place it affects all the other organs – starting with digestion and absorption. Toxins start accumulating in the system. You can have an array of symptoms: heart disease and its complications, high homocysteine levels, poor circulation, weight gain/loss, no appetite or bingeing, bloating, fluid retention, skin problems, aching joints, low blood pressure, high cholesterol, low libido, hair loss, and sensitivity to cold." [xvii]
https://www.realrawfood.com/article/iodine-and-chelation-heavy-metals-and-halogens

Why I use High Dose Lugols and Natural thyroid pills

How did they help me? My story

Lugols iodine has to be taken in minimum 50 mg to get the proper protection in place. That much is established by the Guide to Supplementing Iodine. https://jeffreydachmd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Guide-to-Supplementing-with-Iodine-Stephanie-Burst-ND.pdf

I used to be a mess, a right hot mess.

I never got a positive Lyme test, I had the one where they always say negative. PCR test very poor test. I know I had Lyme. I picked it up from a few trips to Lyme endemic areas.

California has Lyme and bartonella endemic.

I used to have really bad carpal tunnel syndrome, so bad I got my disability early on that. I used to have hot burning feet. I was subject to strange growths. Scars. Slimes were in my lungs. I was hot cold hot cold and fat with ballooning stomach with skinny limbs.

I lost everything, all because of that mold and lyme and bart. We used to visit a cabin; it was really dirty. We got bit badly there, we went traipsing through the countryside and we both got bit by mosquitoes these all carry bartonella.

Bartonella is a nasty blood parasite. I had babsesia too. I was miserable with strange uncontrollable rages, and I could not get my breath. The bartonella made me angry so angry. I got aggressive and loud, not my personality actually.
Then I started making scenes in dr offices. I was mad at husband, friends, family, everyone. That shows it is an illness, because it crushed my being able to just relate. I got so isolated.

Invisible goiter

I had a big obvious goiter, a swollen thyroid gland. The doctors could not see it. They thought I was fat, but if you looked at me, you would see that my limbs were skinny. My figure was very strange. Gone was my attractive smile. I was always in an elevator going down. Glum. Unable to sleep, my cognition went down the drain.

Why was I having trouble swallowing? The fact is, drs don’t see thyroid anymore. They did an ex ray exam to see why I was having trouble swallowing. They found nothing.

They offered to do worse they kept offering to ram a camera down my throat under general anesthetic. The camera was to try to find out why I could not swallow easily, but it was obvious that my thyroid was swollen.

This blindness about thyroid is sick. They got to the point that they could not even see it with their eyes. My swollen neck, dry skin, eyes were always sleepy; I guess that is a sign that a woman is horribly lazy, ignorant and unworthy of that mighty science mans attention.

Are you able to distinguish a swollen thyroid? All these doctors were totally stumped.
At least 1/3 of my problem was low thyroid. So they tried me on the synthetic. They could not understand why that did not work. They kept accusing me of cheating.

The reason their synthetic thyroid don’t work: it has no iodine.

Years went by. The amount of prejudice that I encountered was so harsh and I was so vulnerable, I really wanted to die. Thoughts of dying, thoughts of suicide were a daily companion.
I read online that you could use the natural. When I had my first pill of natural thyroid, I felt better for the first time in years. One pill of that was a real eye opener. But the prejudice was pretty thick. As was the bullshitting they did on me.

You see, they are blind not only to thyroid, but more importantly blind to iodine and its effects.
Any mention of any product which contains iodine was greeted with such hostility, I got worse and worse. The natural pills have iodine in them.

Even after I bullied them back and demanded the natural, my mood was flat, because the one thyroid pill they allowed me stopped working. But they told me that was all I could have, cause my blood test showed ABNORMAL VALUES.

What was abnormal was the amount of thyroid they detected in my blood. Apparently, the tsh test is messed up from using natural. It seems to say, you are hyperthyroid. Apparently, they restrict a patient to 32 mg , a half grain, of the desiccated thyroid pills. That is the amount that “medicine” and “science” thinks we should take.

This attitude created a battle ground for me, every dr visit was awful, and I left in tears. I made no progress with my symptoms. I showed the WORST hypothyroid symptoms once they allowed me to take THAT miniscule amount. Worst symptoms so far were from taking low dose thyroid pills.

My point: taking one 60 mg tablet of desiccated thyroid, you will get tired to death. I was down so low, all because they were ignorant of the effects of the iodine in the thyroid pills. Yes, the pills have iodine in them. The amount is very small.

They dose the natural thyroid exactly the same as they dose the synthetic. Not one dr ever even looked up the natural, to see what it contained. Not one of my dozen or so dr was in favor of my taking more thyroid pills.

Someone finally believed me

One day, one dr allowed me to take 120 mg natural thyroid, and that was a breakthrough. My dr was ready to take a chance on me.
She got fired within a few months of allowing me to have 120 mg of glandular material.
She was the only one who would even entertain the thought of my using two pills not one.

My Waterloo: low dose thyroid pills

The agony of low dose, this is my waterloo. I went nearly a year on their insistent low dose thyroid, which has a tiny bit of iodine in it. I was always cold and nothing about my Lyme ever healed. I was feverish and freezing, hot and cold, pain all throughout my body. I had insomnia.

I had SIBO, you know that one, right? That is the upper intestine problem where the mechanism won’t let down the food to the lower intestine. People get methane and ammonia gasses in their body, ravaging them like blowtorches. That mechanism responds to a decent amount of lugols.

But is does not budge for low dose thyroid pills, I was on that for a year too. Pain and agony.
I was frankly afraid to use iodine. Mostly because of the reactions of my drs. They sent me to a psychiatrist, who gave me pills to take, the pills contained fluoride. The fluoride was to kill my thyroid, and to shut it down.

That is how they treat the distress of hypo thyroid symptoms: douse you in poisons, to kill the whole organ if they can get you to agree.They love to remove the thyroid gland, or kill it with radioactive iodine. They are hateful to the solution, which is to take enough lugols to douse them back and remove the poisons.

I quit going.

I stopped going to them about 2014. My last visit was follow up on the appendicitis, the operation to remove my appendix was in 2015. Two things here: if I had been allowed to use enough pills, I could have stopped the SIBO, the carpal tunnel, the insomnia, the rashes, the depression, the dry skin, the joint pain. I had been living at the temperature: 96 degrees, not warm enough to carry out the functions of life. Sleep eluded me nightly.

I wanted to die. I tried to stay home when the appendix was acting up. I had a demented plan to commit suicide by appendicitis. I figured just stay home and wait, it hurt so much. But at least it could be over with. My painful life was too much.

I started lugols, but one drop. I was told I was crazy, that I was taking excessive iodine. THAT amount was ONE DROP OF 2% lugols. Miniscule.

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small

One pill was not enough, so I took two, and that got her fired. Not until I was up to three, then I started to receive the benefits of using natural thyroid. It warms you up. The core temps are raised to reasonable, livable levels.

The point is that low dose thyroid pill and the low dose iodine really messed me up. It prolonged my agony; it created the conditions for the appendicitis, by smothering my appendix with bacteria, the kind that lugols take out.

They Gaslight us

Now I see articles all over about things that are incurable. Articles every day, these are based on acting like there is NO SUCH THING AS IODINE. I saw one recently, a problem with an incurable fungus. That one is just fear mongering.

Another article says that the cell death is not regulated in us, there is no mechanism to control cell death.
That one really got me pissed off, because the best thing that iodine does is control cell death. It does police the cells and (if we are carrying sufficient iodine in us) it kills all cells that are mutating or dividing poorly.

Cell death, fungal control, oxygen to the rescue! But no, we are not allowed to ever take enough to awaken our third eye, which is the real benefit of taking lugols in sufficient amounts.
Benefits of lugols seem a myth

Lugols prevents cancer; it detoxifies drugs they give, the poison pills and the poison food. It protects us and allows us to thrive, to digest. That mechanism that lets the food into the lower intestine: that is controlled by the body heat. If your body heat goes too low, you cannot digest food, period.

That is where SIBO comes in.

These "scientists" who claim to be working on the problems, they all want you to buy their proprietary formulas, formulas that have no iodine. They all know they won’t get any funding if they are study iodine. That is because iodine is the forbidden nutrient. We are not even supposed to know about it.

People make money selling crap to sick people, and the people are vulnerable to being harmed by poisons. All this effort made, just to avoid the hated iodine. Or to avoid any supplement that has iodine.

They act as if we don’t have a thyroid, no women are helped. They just judge people.

Long story short:

I started in 2015 on high dose iodine and I just took as many thyroid pills as it took to keep my temperature up to normal. The result was remission of all my thyroid related problems.

Goiter fades away

I had a bad goiter, and it went away on my high dose regimen. I was already on fenben for a year. The fenben had not been able to remove whatever was bothering me until I took enough iodine. Then, the fenben seemed to work better, and I felt better and better.

Bottom line: I have been through the system, and they gaslight women. They have hateful devious ways to get us drugged up. It is as if there is a war on women.

So here we are, with people using iodine.

I am so happy to hear of people success on it. I have a little secret: old fashion doctors were NOT any better than today’s doctors. Old fashion doctors told everyone to use iodine, and they did, and they came back Doc, I'm cured!

No matter what the complaint, the old time doctors were praised as miracle workers, because they gave their patients iodine. Lugols to be exact, for about 150 years.
Those old fashion drs were smart but abysmally ignorant at the same time. They had no idea why the Lugols worked, but it made them look good. People became very loyal to their dr, a person whose main medicine offered was good old Lugols. The patients all get better, no matter what the complaint.
Cancer? Lung crud? Indigestion? Depression? Take lugols for that.

Into the future with lugols

That patient who can vault the 50 mg barrier, that group member that works past that obstacle, that will be the person who succeeds, right beside the patient or member who chooses NOT to use lugol's. It is that simple.

The one not using lugols will falter and fail, and the one using it will succeed. That is why I advocate for the higher doses. That is how I came to understand iodine, not from any book, but from using it.
And oh, that third eye thing: be sure to enjoy that clarity.

Lugols for women

Results of using Lugols: It will sharpen your inner vision, but it never contradicts you. Once you get the Eye opened up you become more than you were, not different! It is hard to describe.

I got more focus, more clarity. I was relieved of the urge to die, I was told of my new mission, etc. You gain the power to renew your cells. That cell death thing, we start rebuilding our blood right away. The things that we are hosting, they are done in by lugols. Get it saturated in the blood, the bart and babs just leaves without a whimper.

But women have a higher physiological need for lugols than men do. We women can’t maintain our hormonal tissues at all without lugols. Our mood, skin, digestion, these are critical for women, and we become vulnerable to cancer without it. If a woman gets enough lugols, she will assert her place. That might upset an applecart of two, but the return of the Goddess in you is worth a few ruffled feathers.

Females host hormonal tissues (breast, ovaries, uterus, etc.) and these tissues are maintained by lugols. We become more even tempered. The moods disappear. Our natural resiliency asserts itself, and the female power to endure is soon apparent. Low thyroid women are mean bitches until you can get them some of these: iodine and natural thyroid. It will sweeten the worst harridan's temper.

What has fenben to do with this?

There are things that lugols cannot do. It does not target parasites like fenben does. There could be no finer partners, as they compensate for each other’s weaknesses.

Fenben Reishi is a healing combo that works especially for men. So many of us wonder why our partners seem oblivious to morgellons. The reason could be the male’s lower need for iodine. That iodine element can make a difference. If you are dying and the partner is thriving, check to see if you can try high dose lugols.

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3rdi Iodine:

Took me  a few to get the obvious play on words with this brand.  Good one Jimmy Pitticus!

eBay:  Lugols-Solution-25mcgs-Selenium

Then the needed co-factors...

* L-Tyrosine (amino acid) Needed for T4 production of thyroid hormone. Might as well just get the MAP (Master Amino Acid Pattern) for all the amino acids.  It's still a clean formula in tablet form.
* Selenium - Needed to convert T4 (inactive) to T3 (active). A clear functioning liver is necessary for this conversion to take place.  Coffee enemas, liver flushes, and I LOVE NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine) for the glutathione production and removal of toxins, fats, myxeda (mucin deposits).
* Copper and zinc (We get it in Tangy Tangerine full supplement)
* Vitamin C (sodium ascorbate - I use Nutribiotic brand)
Magnesium (We have three kinds here, the Mag07 (magnesium oxide), as part of the Steve Beddingfield F.I.R.M. protocol, Natural CALM from the health food store, which is magnesium citrate, and the spray on magnesium  (Magnesium Chloride). EASE Magnesium Spray has 22 mg of magnesium chloride hexahydrate. Youngevity Osteo FX Plus has Magneisum carbonate, along with calcium and boron.
The Tangy Tangerine by Youngevity is the all-around vitamin/mineral supplement we like.

Jimmy Pitticus offers the 3rdi brand of a 5% Lugols, which also contains selenium.  We will get that one with the selenium later on.

Solutions For The Planet w/Troy Hyyppa (August 5, 2015)

Great past interview video with 'DOC' PETER and Troy Hyppa from Living Herbal Farmacy as they share simple alternative healing protocols to heal the body.. Enjoy great truth with Troys educational link attached. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkecLh3fwuQ





Iodine/Iodide, (NAC/Vitamin-C),(DMSO) Treatments for Radiation Exposure and Detoxification as well as CHEMO: Great Practical Solutions You Need to Know. Great for Lymes Disease. Compress on Liver with Castor Oil.
http://www.livingherbalfarmacy.com/category-s/117.htm

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How Do You Know When You Need More Iodine?

Here is the short list:

• cold feet and hands, especially in the evening
• lackluster hair, thinning, and brittle or dry
• thinning eyebrows, especially the outer third
• dry skin, especially on heels (cracking and splitting)
• weight gain, or inability to lose weight even on starvation diet
• chronic fatigue, low energy
• sweet cravings, bread or starch or dessert cravings

The main function of Iodine is to balance your endocrine (hormone regulating) system -especially your thyroid gland – resulting in a greater ability to manage your emotional states. This is more obvious in women because of different hormonal dynamics.

Iodine’s secondary function is to regulate reproductive organs:

ovaries and breasts in women… prostate in men.

It seems like so many of my middle-aged girlfriends have a sluggish thyroid and they feel so very tired and easily gain weight – more so than what’s “normal” for middle-age.

Most see their doctor and get their thyroid tested, and everything comes back “normal, within range”. The problem is with the test! It does not measure results …

Iodine Deficiency is Common and Can Be Terribly Harmful!

You Do Not Get Enough Iodine…

Iodine is a trace mineral that is essential for normal growth and development. Seventy to 80% of iodine is found in the thyroid gland – in your neck. The rest is distributed throughout your body, particularly in ovaries (women), muscles, and blood.

Your thyroid gland is the only organ that stores significant quantities of iodine.

Your body produces NO iodine, so you must supplement (unless you are eating a lot of sea weed, and use more sea weed as compost on your vegetable garden).

In America, you cannot get enough iodine from your diet. It used to be added to bread but not anymore.  It’s added to salt, but the amount has been lowered over the years.

We know from clinical studies that few people have anywhere near enough iodine in their body for their thyroid to function optimally.

Three disturbing trends initiated in the 20th century made this collective deficiency inevitable:

1. The introduction of chlorine use in drinking water, in pools, and as a ubiquitous cleaning agent (Clorox, Lysol). Iodine is displaced or deactivated by chlorine, bromine and fluoride.
2.  Alteration of the Western diet that reduces natural food sources of iodine (sea weed, dulse, etc.)
3. Farming practices designed to increase crop yield, leading to reduced iodine content in many foods.

Naturally occurring iodine is found in kelp, dulse, nori, hijiki, wakame, arame, kombu and seafood.

Iodine Supplementation for Thyroid Health is Easy

Thyrodine

Non-toxic, Highly Absorbable and Effective

Help Balance Emotions

Regulate Reproductive Organs

This is nascent iodine, or detoxified atomic iodine, made to the specification introduced by Edgar Cayce.

Unlike the common Lugol’s solution of molecular iodine and potassium iodide, our atomic iodine is not toxic even at high dose.

Protects against damage from radiation, stress and aging.

Benefits of Iodine Supplementation with Thyrodine

Better energy management, endurance
Reduced joint and muscle pains
Improved elasticity of muscles and tendons
Faster healing and repair from injuries
More resilient immune system
Clearer thinking, less brain fog
More insulin sensitivity, better blood glucose management
Improved sweating mechanism for detoxification
Better elimination (no more constipation)
Decreased menstrual problems (PMS, mood swings)
Reduced body odors (vaginal, foot, underarm, etc.)
Lower chance of miscarriage, higher baby birth weights
Effective on ringworm and toenail fungus
Warmer hands and feet (thermo-regulation)

Adequate iodine intake will also result in much-improved muscular coordination, flexibility and strength, plus improved vision as the eye muscles lose their unwanted calcium that causes hardening and stiffness.

Iodine supplementation can also induce long term remission of auto-immune problems including Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue, Vitiligo, Myalgia, Migraine.

Protection from Radioactive Fallout
Created when a nuclear plant is damaged or a nuclear weapon detonates, radioactive dust and/or ash can be very damaging to your thyroid gland.

Taking iodine before – and even just after – a nuclear event, keeps you from absorbing the fallout into your thyroid.

If you’re Iodine Deficient, here’s what may happen…

Hypothyroidism
That makes you feel very sluggish and gain weight easily.

Fibrocystic Breast Disease
Painful breasts with nodules and cysts that often hurt more prior to menstruating.
93% of American women have Fibrocystic Breast Disease, and the longer the deficiency persists, the higher the risk of breast cancer.

Polycystic Ovarian Disease
Iodine is needed in the ovaries, and Russian studies showed a relationship between iodine deficiency and the presence of cysts in the ovaries. The greater the iodine deficiency, the more ovarian cysts a woman produces.

Prostate Problems for Men
Long term iodine deficiency can manifest as prostate problems – either enlargement or cancer or both.

Dry Eyes, Mouth and Skin
Iodine is concentrated in the lacrymal glands of the eye, and submandibular glands of the mouth, and a lack of it can cause dryness. 20% of all your iodine is stored in your sweat glands, and a lack of iodine can manifest as dry skin, and a decreased ability to sweat.

Goiter
Really low iodine levels in the thyroid end up as a Goiter – enlargement of the thyroid.

Cancer
Extended iodine deficiency contributes heavily to our recent epidemic cancers of breasts, ovaries and prostates.  Areas of the world where iodine deficiency is high (Switzerland, parts of Asia and Africa) have high incidence of thyroid cancer.
Iodine can also be concentrated in stomach tissue, and a deficiency there manifests as achlorhydria (lack of digestive acid production).  Prolonged deficiency causes a much higher incidence of stomach cancer.

Impaired Physical and Mental Development
In infants and children, hypothyroidism can impair physical and mental development.

Support Your Thyroid Function with Thyrodine

Iodine Deficiency

http://altmedangel.com/iodine.htm

How to Self-Test for an Iodine Deficiency
1. Dip a cotton ball into USP Tincture of Iodine. (You can get iodine at the drugstore for under $1.)
2. Paint a 2 inch circle of iodine on your soft skin, like the inner part of your thigh or upper arm.
3. Wait. -- If the yellowish stain disappears in less than an hour; it means your body is lacking crucial iodine and has soaked it up. If the stain remains for more than four hours, you iodine levels are fine.

Why check your iodine levels?

Low iodine levels can zap your energy and make you feel tired, edgy and worn out. Low iodine levels can even prevent you from getting a good night's sleep. Before you go to your doctor with complaints of tossing and turning all night, aches and pains, and just feeling "blah," you may want to perform this self-test.

Because the symptoms of an iodine deficiency are classically identical to so many other illnesses (like depression, stress, chronic fatigue, or fibromyalgia,) many doctors either misdiagnose it or miss it completely and tell you there is nothing wrong.

Why are iodine levels so important?

Low levels of iodine mean your thyroid isn't functioning properly. The thyroid helps balance hormones, regulate heartbeats, stabilize cholesterol, maintain weight control, encourage muscle growth, keep menstrual cycles regular, provide energy, and even helps you keep a positive mental attitude.

Women are naturally prone to iodine deficiencies. That's because the thyroid gland in women is twice as large as in men -- so under normal circumstances, women need more iodine. However, when women are under stress, the need for iodine can double or triple. Yet the foods we eat contain less and less dietary iodine. For example, back in 1940, the typical American diet contained about 800 micrograms of iodine. By 1995, that amount plunged to just 135 micrograms. That's an 83% decline.

Two thirds of the body's iodine is found in the thyroid gland. One of the best ways to boost your iodine levels is to add seaweed sea vegetables to your diet. Just one teaspoon of sea vegetables a day can help you regain normal iodine levels. Incorporating seafood and fish into your diet can also help. Other foods that contain iodine are eggs and dairy products, including milk, cheese and yogurt, onions, radishes, and watercress. Some foods, called goitrogens, should be omitted for awhile as they hinder iodine utilization. These included kale, cabbage, peanuts, soy flour, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, kohlrabi and turnips.

To reactivate the thyroid gland, tyrosine, iodine, zinc, copper and selenium are needed so make sure that foods containing these nutrients are included in your diet.