Iodine Deficiency 3: Why Test for Iodine?

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Iodine Effects Neurophysiology and Hormone Levels

Interesting side note, just out on the web and found the first evidence of clear “iodine plagiarism.” Flattered a little bit that others are reading my material, irritated that they don't understand the importance of full attribution, just on the personal copy path of cut and paste. Take a look just under the guy with the tattoos at this blog and see if you see it differently than I do. Feel free to leave a comment, I may be missing something… interesting: no info on the author.

Now back to business:
Understanding iodine deficiency disorder is not a small side item for the cretin concerned crowd.  Iodine has much to do with brain development from the fetus on, and may be relevant in some ADD, hypothyroid, and developmental delay issues.

Check out this note from an article on ADD Hypothyroidism and Iodine:

It is well known that maternal hypothyroidism during pregnancy can result in severe neuropsychomotor defects in the child, including a 150-fold increase in cerebral palsy expectancy (5). Fetuses do not begin to produce their own thyroxine until well into the pregnancy, and useful data regarding fetal thyroxine levels until mid-gestation was not well researched. Until recently, it was widely believed that maternal thyroid hormones do not cross the placental barrier, as the placental membrane contains tyrosyl ring deiodinases, which would be expected to break down the hormones and so prevent transfer (6).

and then:

In order to determine whether mild hypothyroidism in general – and iodine deficiency in particular – during pregnancy leads to ADHD, Dr. Vermiglio and colleagues at the University of Messina, Italy performed a ten-year study of pregnant women who lived in a moderately iodine deficient area (area A) and compared their children to those who lived in a marginally iodine sufficient area (area B). In astounding results, 11 of 16 area A children were diagnosed with ADHD (ADHD+ve), compared with no diagnoses from the 11 area B children.

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