Environmental Toxins & Thyroid Health
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ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS & THYROID HEALTH6 Facts To Know About How Toxins Affect Your Thyroid
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Our planet is awash in environmental pollutants that adversely affect our health
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Soil is often deficient in key minerals, too – iodine and selenium in particular
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Increasing our risk of developing diseases
such as diabetes, cancer & dementia
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Having profound negative effects on
body chemistry & hormone synthesis
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Thyroid is a key gland known to suffer
serious effects from pollutants
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Thyroid is important because it’s primarily
responsible for regulating metabolism
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Six facts to know about environmental
toxins and healthy thyroid function
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Iodine, an essential nutrient found in
iodized salt, seaweed and seafood, is a key
component of thyroid hormones T3 & T4
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Iodine deficiency compromises thyroid
hormone production and leads to disease;
deficiency also linked to breast cancer
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Bromine has no known nutrient value,
but will impede thyroid hormone synthesis when iodine status is low
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Arsenic, a toxin sometimes found in fish
and rice, competes with selenium and impairs thyroid function
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Mercury, a heavy metal toxin found in
dental amalgams, seafood and vaccinations,
binds selenium and reduces thyroid function
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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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Learn more by watching ZRT’s webinar on Thyroid Health & Environmental Toxins
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