What causes Iodine deficiency?
One of the most dramatic symptoms of iodine deficiency is a goiter, which is a visibly swollen thyroid. A study done in Michigan almost 90 years ago looked at 66,000 school age children of whom 40% had a goiter. In 1928, after iodized salt was put into the diet of most Americans, 75% of all those children with goiters were cured. However, Table Salt is not the most efficient way to receive iodine because once the salt is exposed to air for a month or so it loses its iodine content. Furthermore, “low salt” food items have been replacing salty foods because of the risks of high blood pressure attributed to salt in adults. So we teach our children not to get a “taste for salty foods”. For our children, we know that fluoride has its benefits and its risks. What is too much, what is not enough? But fluorinated water also competes with iodine for the same receptors, making it even harder to maintain healthy iodine levels even as you brush your teeth!. And, according to Dr Douillard, the bigg
