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Too Much of a Good Thing - Iodine: 1 mg/day + Can be Bad for You, But the Dangers are as Individual as the Benefits

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Seafood is an excellent source of iodine, but many people get most of their iodine from iodized table salt. I assume you would have expected me to forget that I promised to do my very best to turn the "too much of a good thing" article on selenium I wrote a week ago into a series, right? Well, you obviously don't know me well enough, then, because here's installment #2 of this new series. One that is closely related to #1, but was significantly more difficult to write. Why's that? Well, if you took a look at the literature discussing the effects of iodine supplementation on thyroid function, you'd know why it was ... well, "complicated" and not exactly unambigous to say the least. Learn more about your thyroid , T3 , and T4 at the SuppVersity Green tea messes w/ your thyroid hormones TSH alone is not a good measure of thyroid health Fructose prevents decline of T3 while dieting T2 has thyroid-suppressing ef-fects as T3 & T4...
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Iodine Induced Reduction in Hepatic Deiodinase Activity Leads to Hypothyrodism and the Accumulation of Liver Fat That May Eventually Pave the Way to Diabesity

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While us Westerners think of goitre mostly as a result of iodine deficiency, the Chinese have learned by hard that the opposite is about as likely - goitre in response to iodine in the drinking water is a huge health problem in certain parts of the country (Zheng. 2000) As colorful as the web may have become, it is still full of paradigmatic black-and-white thinking: The world is either black or white and if you browse the blogosphere, it would appear that iodine would certainly belong to the white part of our world. That in exactly those people who are often referred to as an example of the multitude of beneficial health effects, namely the Japanese, a high intake of iodine has repeatedly been shown to be associated with low thyroid function and even full-blown hypothyroidism, on the other hand, is something you will probably not learn from the tons of unreferenced stuff you'll find on the Internet about how good, if not essential it was for your health to take copious amounts...
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Mother's Day Special: 13+ Things Science Has To Tell Us About the First "VIP" in Our Lives

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Tell me that's not you! (img. Geeks.Pirillo.com) While the risk of birth has decreased by 99% in the course of the 20th century, from approximately 850 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 1900 to 7.5 in 1982, it is - at least in the US - stagnating ever since (2002 data from the CDC; cf. Chang. 2002). This does not just mean that the Healthy People 2000 objective for maternal mortality of no more than 3.3 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births was not achieved during the twentieth century; it does also mean that your mother - irrespective of your and her age risked her life for you, the very moment you were born. And I am pretty sure that regardless of whether she's had the chance to do just that again, she'd be willing to sacrifice her life, if that would save yours. This alone would be worth cherishing what she has done and hopefully is and will be doing for you on at least one day of the year! Now, science is a pretty impersonal business and using questi...
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