Nutritional Nuggets

Low energy? Can't lose weight? Poor sleep? Poor concentration? Poor memory? Maybe you just need iodine. Low iodine levels can also increase your risk for certain kinds of cancer, too. The blurb below is from www.womentowomen.com website. One of my absolute favorites for women's health issues.

Iodine. If you are at all concerned about your thyroid function, I would strongly recommend talking to your healthcare practitioner about iodine. For decades now, women have limited or avoided salt, which is our primary source of iodine — and a limited one, at that. This avoidance, along with a generally low intake of seafood and sea vegetables, is just one reason for the current trend toward iodine deficiency in this country. According to a 2002 CDC nutrition evaluation, approximately 36% of women of childbearing age in the US may receive insufficient dietary iodine.
Your thyroid simply can’t function without this crucial trace element, and if you are iodine deficient, more iodine could make all the difference for your thyroid. The essential thyroid hormones that circulate in our bodies, known as T4 (also known as thyroxine) and the more active T3, are partially made of iodine and are the only iodine-containing hormones in humans. If we are deficient in iodine, the thyroid doesn’t have the most basic building blocks to make these key hormones, and all the tissues in the body are negatively impacted as a result.