Posts Tagged ‘Lugo’s iodine’

America’s food supply has made iodine the missing nutrient, from the dinner table. Iodine is not needed in large quantities, so why are we short on this valuable nutrient?  There are a few glaring reasons, and one has to do with food manufacturing.  Bread and bakery products are now using a substance called bromine instead of iodine in their products.  Iodine and bromine look the same to the thyroid gland; this makes it possible for bromine to bind with the thyroid glands iodine receptors.

Bromine inhibits the activity of iodine, and has no nutritional value. Bromine can present a whole host of problems ranging from impaired thinking, sleepiness, dizziness and irritability. When someone complains of wheat causing some unpleasant symptoms, it can be bromine related. Iodine helps the body eliminate, fluoride, bromine, lead, cadmium, arsenic, aluminum and mercury. It is easy to see the problems this causes. High quantities of any of these can cause a host of conditions, which are related to heavy metal toxicity.

The health problems that we see around us may very well be in part because we are not getting this valuable nutrient. We know that the thyroid gland is dependent on iodine, but it is not common knowledge that the breast is second in its need of iodine. Breast cysts respond to iodine therapy to the point of resolving the condition. Lugo’s idodine is used for this purpose. Iodine intake and breast cancer is beginning to get some attention from researchers, and alternative healthcare providers who recommend sea salt.

There seems to be growing evidence that there is a correlation between iodine levels and breast cancer. Japan is a country with high concentrations of iodine in their diet and a lower breast cancer rate.

Their low rate of breast cancer has been attributed to everything from soy products, to a low fat diet. The truth is it a combinations of different things, but it is a glaring fact that their diet is high in iodine rich sea vegetables.

The Japanese traditional diet is one that contains 50% more iodine than American’s get. They get it in a large part from marine plants. Our problem is that we have increased consuming competing elements such as fluoride and bromide. This is a disturbing trend, since iodine is known to induce apoptosis, which means that all cells that are a threat are destroyed including cancer cells, and cells infected with viruses.

In the age of rising incidents of almost all chronic conditions, with threats of pandemics, it certainly would make sense to see that we have all the important nutrients available from our diet. Our minimum daily requirement is on the low side, so with low iodine levels in the soil, and salt restrictive diets we know what makes iodine the missing nutrient.