Iodine
Iodine is found abundantly in sea vegetables and plants.
Iodine is a health-promoting trace element that is vital for your body to produce thyroid hormones.
Benefits of iodine supplement
- Supplementing with iodine helps to regulate production rates of thyroxine, T4
- Helps in maintaining healthy thyroid levels
- Promotes a healthy metabolic rate, (rate of chemical reactions in the body)
Iodine deficiency
Iodine deficiancy can lead to some of the most serious diseases and conditions.
Iodine deficiency disorders can produce symptoms of low thyroid function (hypothyroidism) even without abnormalities in measured thyroid hormone levels.
Recent evidence suggests, for example, that iodine deficiency is linked to obesity, cognitive impairment, psychiatric disorders, fibromyalgia, and a variety of cancers.