Natural Awakenings Detoxified Iodine Supplement

Description

In the modern world, our thyroids are bombarded by all types of radiation. Detoxified iodine can help protect them. To understand the relationship, one must know that iodine is a chemical element required for the production of the essential hormones produced by and concentrated in the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland actively absorbs iodine from the blood to make and release these hormones into the blood, a process regulated by a pituitary gland hormone. Iodine deficiency can cause hypothyroidism, with symptoms such as extreme fatigue, mental slowing, depression, weight gain, low basal body temperatures and even goiters (enlargement of the thyroid). Iodine deficiency is the leading cause of preventable mental retardation that primarily develops among babies or small children lacking the element. Other health effects that may possibly be related to iodine deficiency include fibrocystic breast disease and breast and stomach cancers.