Iodine is one of the nutrient that our diets becomed deficient in, between the soils being depleted by modern agriculture techniques to the fact that western and European diets don't generally include a lot of foods high in iodine.
It is a common practice to add iodine to salt in order to prevent diseases like goiter, tho if you are like me a bit of a health nut you might have chose to reduce the amount the salt you eat for health reasons. Beside that even if you eat iodize salt it might not be enough for you to don't develop goiter but not enough to maintain your body functioning at an optimum level.
Iodine is not important only for your thyroid but it also plays a role in protecting you from radiation like the one caused by nuclear central meltdown and bombs but also microwaves like the ones emitted by your cellphone and wi-fi routers, as it is one of the most important thing to help you heal from electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
It helps you to detoxify from other halogens like fluoride, chlorine, bromine. That unfortunately now are very abundant in our environment from various foods like bread and soft drinks to tap water. It is also in plastic, clothes and new furniture you can actually smell the bromine is that specific smell that you feel when you buy something new.
People that are deficient in iodine have lower iq's, and mother that are deficient while pregnant have children with a 20-30% lover iq. It was proven to offer protection for various forms of cancer and even revers it.
It is one of the best thing I did that improve my mental clarity and energy, if you have any mental health problems you can't really go wrong with iodine. Unless you have thyroid problems.
I wouldn't rush to the pharmacy to buy some iodine supplement, as we are design to get our nutrients from the food not from pills, supplements are the last measure when it is absolutely impossible to get it from food.
In my opinion the best source of iodine is algae, there are a various chinese and japanese foods that include algae as an ingredient like miso soup for example. We are not used to eat algae they have a very strong smell and specific flavor this might be the only downside of algaes.
Fish is another food that contains iodine but unfortunately is one of the highest source of mercury in people's diet today. The amount of mercury in algae is miniscule close to zero, because algaes alre low on the food chain, as toxins concentrate the higher you go on the food chain.
