Iodine Sufficience is Key to Mental Clarity!

Iodine Sufficience is Key to Mental Clarity!

 

Iodine Deficiency Ails Mental Health

 

Iodine's importance to humanity has been downplayed to the detriment of billions. Iodine deficiency has been the LEADING preventable cause of mental retardation throughout the entirety of human history. This was known to a few for a few thousand years. This was studied to confirmation in the early 1900's by the medical science community though has received scant attention since.

 

Stating iodine deficiency leads to mental retardation, is not to say down syndrome is iodine curable. The manner of mental retardation, iodine deficiency caused, is far more subtle than the big foreheaded, slurred if at all speech capable, stereotypical mental retardation.

 

The mental retardation associated with iodine deficiency is the type of labored thinking that a majority of the population suffers on a regular basis. Mental retardation where iodine deficiency is concerned is characterized by: longer than immediate recognition of simple terminology; a requirement to read mildly complex terms many times prior understanding; failing tasks for imprecise consideration, and many other widely suffered nutritionally resolvable brain ailing.

 

Once you understand how often a person must consume Iodine and how a person goes about consuming enough iodine for mental clarity, how true all of the above is, will become abundantly clear.

 

Iodine Abundance's Sole Location

 

Iodine is found in abundance in just one Earthly medium, that is the Earth's oceans. Thus seafood is the ONLY dependably iodine RICH food. There has yet to have been a study published which declared absolutely the IDEAL human consumption of iodine. The Japanese on average, live the longest on the planet. They consume on average 100X the USRDA of iodine. Most Americans don't even consume the USRDA. Iodine vacates a persons body within 24 hours of it's consumption. Thus iodine is required EVERY day to maintain a level of iodine that effects a persons best competence.

 

Iodized Salt - A Facade of Sufficience

 

Iodized salt contains VERY LITTLE iodine at 100 micrograms of iodine per gram of salt. The longest living people on the planet, the Japanese, consume on average 15000 MICROgrams (150 milligrams) of iodine daily. The U.S. RDA is just 150 MICROgrams which per Doctors Hakala, Flachas and Abraham is a minimalist iodine consumption and NOT nearly what a person should consume for best health.

 

For perspective, one table spoon of salt is 15 grams. Per the National Accademie's Institute of Medicine 3.8 grams or approximately 1/4 tablespoon of salt is recommended daily for an average adult male. That's approximately 300 micrograms of iodine if of course the salt your consuming is iodized. Considering most of the salt people consume is packaged in foods that make no list of iodine content per serving and don't bother stating even if the salt used in the food preparation was iodized, the iodine in the salt people are consuming is not very easily measured. Thus salt should not be depended on as a person's main source of iodine.

 

Where packaged foods are concerned there is no way of knowing whether the salt listed in the ingredients was iodized salt, short of successfully querying the food goods producer in such regard.

 

With there being no greater reason for slow thought than iodine deficiency you won't find the iodine content on the label of ANY food product, not even tuna fish! Considering the human suffering that results from sloppy decision making this effort to prevent wide comprehension of nutrition for brain health is criminal worth every injury of or by an iodine deficient person where that injury could have been prevented by better thinking.

 

The Thyroid - Iodine Store for Essential Hormone Production

 

Whether you use your brain for riding a skateboard or sending rockets to space, your brain's process will be greater variable weighing in a shorter time for your having the most iodine in your system your thyroid is capable of storing.

 

The size of a person's thyroid varies widely and is highly dependent on how much iodine a person has been regularly consuming. If you've gone months without consuming iodine you can overload your frail thyroid with iodine quite easily which results your thyroid's swelling. This condition is called goiter.

 

Altering your iodine consumption suddenly is NOT recommended. Instead, if you haven't been consuming much iodine and are going to increase your daily iodine intake, build the level of iodine you're consuming over a few months.

 

Brain Food

 

ALL seafood are an excellent source of iodine. Which presents another problem, particularly the Earths oceans are in large part horribly polluted with brain deteriorating mercury. Luckily the mercury pollution problem is generally limited to industrial coastlines, thus there are pristine waters where fish are virtually mercury free. Imported fish though rare offer a potential for mercury free seafood.

 

As for fish nabbed off U.S. shores, small short lived and nonpredatorial fish are a safe bet for low mercury. Big, long lived predatorial fish, shark, tuna, swordfish and the like, are so thoroughly contaminated as to warrant avoiding them all together and certainly not eating that fish type more often than every other week.

 

Testing Your Iodine Level

 

Tincture of iodine can be added to water both to purify water and as supplemental iodine. Tincture of iodine can also be used to test your need for iodine and to directly adjust your iodine saturation.

 

To test for iodine sufficience, simply place iodine anywhere on your skin and check for the brown stain every couple hours for the next 24 hours. If the stain is gone in less than 24 hours, reapply iodine effecting such a stain, monitor the stain. Repeat this process until the iodine you've applied is apparent on your skin as a brown stain for 24 hours.

 

That's all for now!  Hope you can find some Iodine!

Dan

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