ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS & THYROID HEALTH6 Facts To Know About How Toxins Affect Your Thyroid

Our planet is awash in environmental pollutants that adversely affect our health

Soil is often deficient in key minerals, too – iodine and selenium in particular

Increasing our risk of developing diseases

such as diabetes, cancer & dementia

Having profound negative effects on

body chemistry & hormone synthesis

Thyroid is a key gland known to suffer

serious effects from pollutants

Thyroid is important because it’s primarily

responsible for regulating metabolism

Six facts to know about environmental

toxins and healthy thyroid function

Iodine, an essential nutrient found in

iodized salt, seaweed and seafood, is a key

component of thyroid hormones T3 & T4

Iodine deficiency compromises thyroid

hormone production and leads to disease;

deficiency also linked to breast cancer

Bromine has no known nutrient value,

but will impede thyroid hormone synthesis when iodine status is low

Arsenic, a toxin sometimes found in fish

and rice, competes with selenium and impairs thyroid function

Mercury, a heavy metal toxin found in

dental amalgams, seafood and vaccinations,

binds selenium and reduces thyroid function

Iodine deficiency up fourfold over the past

40 years. Nearly 74% of healthy adults

may no longer consume enough iodine.

- Gunton JE, Hams G, Fiegert M, McElduff A. Iodine deficiency in ambulatory participants at a Sydney teaching hospital:

is Australia truly iodine replete? Med J Aust. 1999 Nov 1;171(9):467-70.- Hoption Cann SA. Hypothesis: dietary iodine intake in the etiology of cardiovascular disease. J Am Coll Nutr. 2006

Feb;25(1):1-11.

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