Iodine Deficiency’s Role in Breast Cancer

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Iodine deficiency’s role in breast cancer is only now beginning to be understood. An inadequate amount of iodine in the diet impairs thyroid function, increases risk of breast cancer and plays a role in fibrocystic breast disease. Iodine consumptions have dropped 50% since the 1970s and breast cancer rates have gone up. In the U.S. Goiter Belt, where it is known that iodine in the soil is low, breast cancer rates are high. In Japan women consume 25 times the iodine of American women and have a lower rate of breast cancer.

Japanese women consume a diet high is seaweed, while using sodium based condiments. Fish is also consumed with a high vegetable diet. What comes into play is that they eat less flour products, sodas, and take fewer medications that exacerbate iodine deficiency. Iodine blocking bromides have been added to the U.S. supply of flour. Fluoridated water depletes iodine absorption.

Iodine deficiency’s role in breast cancer means that iodine plays a role in fibrocystic breast disease. By adding iodine to the diet of women suffering from this condition symptoms resolve in 24 hours to two months depending on the source of the iodine. Several Canadian studies confirmed this. These have proponents looking at different forms of iodine treatments.

Iodine intake at one time came from our wheat supply. Flour mills have switched from adding iodine to adding bromides. Bromides in flour are banned in the U.K. and in Canada as being toxic. But the FDA who looks out for us still allows its use in the U.S. Iodine deficiencies come from a decreased intake, and from bromine and fluorine in our diet.

The salt used in food processing does not have iodine, and people are told for good reason to use less. Soy protein is added to processed food and this inactivates an enzyme called “thyroid Peroxidase” and plays a role in hypothyroidism. The thyroid depends on iodine, and the breast is second in dependency on iodine. It has been show that tissues from women with breast cancer have lower iodine levels than healthy controls.

For breast patients, Iodine’s therapeutic action may come from the fact that iodine desensitizes the estrogen receptors, and may have an anti-tumor effect by causing cell apoptosis (cell suicide) of malignant cells. Iodine-rich seaweed exhibits an anti-cancer effect in laboratory studies of human breast cancer cells.  

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