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hello everyone welcome this is dr jay cabbs in this video i'm gonna go over seven signs and
symptoms of iodine deficiency but before i do that i will go over the relationship between iodine the
thyroid gland and the relationship between iodine and mitochondria so it will make a lot of sense
why you might have those signs and symptoms and we're going to go over several studies to confirm
uh the popularity of those signs and symptoms with a lot of patient and at the end of the video
i will cover what you should do at whom if you have iodine deficiency so first
the relationship between iodine and the thyroid gland so quickly the thyroid gland is actually
maintain all your organs function so it's located here in the neck you can see it here the purple
look like a butterfly and it's responsible for your metabolism your body temperature
your heart rate your blood pressure your cell production your growth your development
and the thyroid gland very important because it produced the thyroid hormones
that help your body to convert carbs and protein to energy so it's a help regulate your growth or
help for for development so the main uh hormones for the thyroid gland are t43 and calcitonin
i will focus on t4 and t3 because that will help us to understand how important iodine
in relationship to the thyroid gland and thyroid hormones so t4 is actually four atoms of
iodine and t3 is actually three atoms of iodine so your body take the iodine that you get it from
food your body does not produce iodine and bind it to tricine and that's actually formed the t4
hormone and then your thyroid gland is actually deionized the t4 which make take one of the
iodine atom from the t4 to produce the t3 and the t3 is actually the active form that
80 to 90 of your body utilize for metabolism for the function of all your body yt3 is extremely
important because when you think about your body is like a berry if you are running low
on t3 the thyroid hormone it's like you running on five percent of your battery
so you're barely going to make phone calls you will not be able to use a lot of abs because
everything is slow that's exactly what happened when you have low thyroid hormones
your metabolism is going to be low you're going to gain weight you your brain function will be
poor you will have foggy memory you will feel tired fatigue cold hand and feet and that's
because you don't have the enough nutrients or the iodine that's actually building block for the
t3 that's what's significant for the iodine to be uh to be as an important part of our diet because
if it's not included in our diet there's a higher chance you have iodine deficiency so
the other thing we i want to cover is the relationship between iodine and the mitochondria
so mitochondria is organelle that's actually in all of our cells we need to have that it's it's
kind of powerhouse it's like the engine in your car that's the mitochondria we need the
mitochondria because it's actually producing 90 of the energy in the cells it's extremely important
and to show you the importance of mitochondria we have more mitochondria in the cells
that require more action or more activity throughout the day for example
most of our concentration of heavy mitochondria and the cells in the heart because you need to
your heart to pump 24 hours a day seven days a week for the rest of your life to stay alive
for and the second second the great amount of mitochondria is actually in the brain
to help with the brain function so it runs between 200 to 10 thousands of mitochondria
per cell so you're probably going to find the 10 000 in the heart cells and closer to that number
in the brain so why mitochondria is important because it's the engine that's actually make
the car running so let's look at the relationship between the mitochondria and the thyroid hormone
so before we do that mitochondria is actually converting the nutrients that you get it from food
to break it down to turn it to atp and that's the main source of energy for the cells
so that's the main function for mitochondria to take your gas and create energy as happen in
the car engine okay so the first sign and that's related to the mitochondria as tired and fatigued
why because you need the iodine to produce the t3 and actually you need the t3 the thyroid hormone
so your mitochondria can work properly so the mitochondria are dependent on the thyroid hormone
especially the t3 so it's actually the iodine increased your thyroid hormone levels and that
will help to increase your red blood cells and also increase the oxygen level which actually
increase the mitochondria size so that's the indirect relationship to the mitochondria
so if your thyroid hormone is low and that's because your iodine is low your mitochondria
will not function properly and you're going to feel tired and fatigued throughout your body
so the second sign of vitamin iodine deficiency is depression and i personally experienced that
after my second cancer treatment i was very low in iodine and unfortunately the doctors i worked with
no one will test for iodine deficiency and after i did my own test and figure out
why i have the deficiency and start with supplementation i start to feel better
and i start to have more energy feeling feeling better overall
so in this study they looked at low selenium and iodine they found the relationship between that
and actually depression and they found that when they provide iodine supplementation
that the patient anxiety and depression has been decreased and here is a link for the study so and
the other thing that's very common with iodine deficiency is called hands and feet and that's a
very close relationship to the thyroid hormone because your thyroid hormone is actually regulate
your body temperature so if your t3 is low it's not regular it's not going to regulate your blood
body temperature and you're going to feel cold hand and feet so the fourth cause of
or symptoms of iodine deficiency is brain fog and poor memory and they found in the
study information processing fine motor skills and visual problem solving are improved with
iodine replacement actually in and students and school children so when they gave the kids iodine
supplementation their memory improved their fine motor skills actually also improved and that's
also confirming the relationship between the iodine and the thyroid gland and the development
and the growth and also the relationship between it and the mitochondria that you have a lot of
mitochondria in the brain but if you don't have enough iodine to produce enough steroid hormone
your mitochondria will not work properly which your brain function will be affected indirectly
so the fifth uh signs and symptom is weight gain why because as i mentioned iodine is extremely
important for the thyroid hormone and the thyroid hormone is actually regulate your metabolism
which means converting food to energy so if you don't have enough iodine in your system
or enough thyroid hormones your body is not going to convert food to energy it will go to
be uh it will turn to fat and you will gain weight and that's uh the other relationship
to weight gain the sex reason is compromise your immune system so let's look what this study said
iodine is essential for required for the function of all organs we already know that so they
found that it enhances the immune system improve trafficking which is actually the movement of the
white blood cells in your system and the iodine help with clearance of infection so when you have
infection you need to clear those infected cells or kill them and actually i'm going to go over
this in other video the mechanism how iodine kill or destroy infection like viruses or bacteria and
also how iodine can destroy cancer cells i will go over that in other video so it's support to
processing of reproduction because when you have infection you you need a lot of white blood cells
you you need a lot of like natural color cells to destroy the viruses or the microbes or the
um or the viruses or the cancer cells so your body actually deplete a lot of
these and need a lot of production of those white blood cells to fight those infection um
a pathogen and one of the function of the iodine is actually help your
body to produce more of those white cells that will fight the pathogenic cells or pathogenic
objects so the last reason and that's very personal to me because i'm a cancer survival twice
it's actually they found when they looked at women with the breast cancer they found there is absence
of iodine in the cancer cells absence or low very low iodine and they found the iodine required by
the mammary cells the tissue for normal function and that could increase your risk of having breast
cancer thyroid cancer or other different type of cancer as i said we'll go over the mechanism
of iodine and how it can destroy cancel cells in other video um so it's uh it's uh so let's summer
up uh when you have iodine deficiency that will decrease your thyroid hormone especially the t3
that you need it for metabolism and that's will lower your metabolism which means you lower your
energy levels so you can have uh you will feel tired fatigue and also it will increase your
weight the other uh issue with iodine deficiency is it's decreased the mitochondria of function uh
and also that indirectly will cause your energy to be low your memory will be poor
and lastly it affects your immune system when your iodine is low your immune system
is compromised and that's increase your risk of cancer and infection like viruses or bacteria
so what should you do if you have combination of these if you have combination of these
there's high chance you have iodine deficiency i have another video i answer why i have iodine
deficiency because i go over the diet if you not having certain food in your diet there is
a very high chance you have iodine deficiency i deny salt it's evaporating that's not a good
source of iodine so feel free to check that other video in my youtube channel but you need
to understand that in healthy body there's 13 vitamins 16 minerals there's over 50 hormones
and 40 neurotransmitters and when you have deficiency in any vitamins or minerals that's an
indicative of imbalance in your system and also it's never from my personal experience after my
cancer treatment and from my personal experience with treating patients i never seen a patient
that has one deficiency only it's very common when you start to have symptoms like cancer or
compromise immune system with gain foggy memory or depression or photo and fatigue it's extremely
common that you have combination of vitamins mineral deficiency sometimes hormonal imbalance
so the only way to figure out why you have those symptoms because a lot of these symptoms overlap
with a lot of several vitamins and minerals we have to do a proper evaluation to figure it out
so how to treat iodine deficiency one of the things we need to know how much iodine
you need and to do that we have to look at the lab the lab is not very sensitive so we have to
really look very carefully when we interpret the lab because we have to look at the iodine level
the thyroid levels and other vitamins and mineral levels simultaneously so i usually recommend
iodine supplementation you have to take it with other mineral because if you don't the iodine
going to be toxic to the cells and i will go over that in other videos um dosage is extremely
important especially if you have deficiency if you need a hundred milligram of iodine that's
for example and you taken supplement uh that has five milligram that's way low than what your body
need you're not going to feel any difference it's not going to make any difference to your symptoms
so those is extremely important that's why we have to really look uh at your lab and be very
specific about the dosage in relationship to what deficiency you might have forms there are
several forms of iodine there's ones actually toxic to the cells i don't recommend it to
patient so we'll go over that in other videos but one of the things you can do actually right
now is take advantage of ask aster it's a free online medical evaluation the software it takes
about five minutes and the software will guide you through a possibility of vitamins mineral
deficiency and what kind of steps you might you you need to take to really uh figure out the main
root cause of the symptoms you are experiencing so if you have any question leave it in the comment
section below and i will answer it in a future video and i will see you soon make sure to like
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