Sentences with phrase «because iodine deficiency»

This is because iodine deficiency causes intellectual disabilities, thyroid malfunction, and hormone imbalances, which are all symptoms of fibromyalgia.

Because iodine deficiency heightens the effect of perchlorate, the team more closely examined those women with less than 100 micrograms iodine per liter of urine.

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Iodine deficiency is common in mountainous areas far from the sea and places where there are frequent floods, because iodine is washed from theIodine deficiency is common in mountainous areas far from the sea and places where there are frequent floods, because iodine is washed from theiodine is washed from the soil.

He estimates that over 90 % of thyroid patients have autoimmune thyroid disease and not simply low thyroid function because of iodine deficiency so cruciferous vegetables are almost always a non-issue.

Iodine deficiency is particularly profound in the Midwest and Great Lakes region of the United States because iodine is typically found only in soils close to the oceans, whereas soils of inland areas are iodine defiIodine deficiency is particularly profound in the Midwest and Great Lakes region of the United States because iodine is typically found only in soils close to the oceans, whereas soils of inland areas are iodine defiiodine is typically found only in soils close to the oceans, whereas soils of inland areas are iodine defiiodine deficient.

Most goiters are caused when the thyroid enlarges in an effort to pull more iodine in out of the bloodstream because of chronic iodine deficiency.

Because a single measurements serves only as an isolated snapshot in time, and may not be reflective of total body iodine status, repeat testing may be necessary before conclusions about iodine deficiency can be drawn.

Today we can eat food from around the world — we can make sure we get enough selenium by eating a brazil nut or two (kidneys are also a good source of selenium), we can get enough iodine from iodised salt or seaweed (selenium and iodine are the most important deficiencies in New Zealand, because of local soil conditions), and if we eat wholefood from a variety of sources — e.g. meat, a little organ meat (once or twice a week), nuts & seeds, seafood, vegetables, and dairy (or bone broth if you don't tolerate dairy, two or three times a week)-- this will supply enough nutrition for optimum health.

It produces the thyroid hormone, which helps control the body's metabolism as well as many other organ functions, from iodine and can not produce hormones when the body lacks iodine.2 Some thyroid troubles originate from an iodine deficiency, leading to a simple increase in iodine intake to improve health.4 However, problems can also occur when the thyroid produces either too much or too little of its hormone because there is trouble with the gland itself or with any of the other glands in the body it communicates with.

Physically active people are at especially high risk for deficiency because you lose iodine through sweat.

Because the conventional medical model treats autoimmune thyroid disorders in the same way as they would treat someone with a nutrient deficiency induced thyroid disorder, someone who was born without a thyroid or someone who had their thyroid removed or treated with radioactive iodine.

Taking iodine or foods and supplements that contain iodine to help your thyroid can be problematic because many cases of autoimmune thyroid disease — by far the most common cause of thyroid conditions in the U.S. — are not due to iodine deficiency.

Maybe it's because of the iodine deficiency in her diet that gave her this goiter.

On the other hand, try to not overdose iodine because although it is believed that hypothyroidism is due to iodine deficiency, yet according to Dr. Kharrazian in case of Hashimoto's disease taking supplemental iodine is not recommended as it is like throwing gasoline on a fire.

The doctors said that the children — aged 2 and 5 — developed iodine deficiency because their diets lacked salt, dairy products, bread, and other sources of the mineral.