411: Dr. Alan Christianson on Healing Your Thyroid by Balancing Your Iodine
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/dralanchristianson411
Dr. Alan Christianson (IG: @dralanchristianson) is a naturopathic medical doctor who specializes in natural endocrinology with a focus on thyroid disorders.
He’s a New York Times bestselling author who’s been named a Top Doctor in Phoenix magazine and has appeared on national TV shows and in numerous print media.
Alan founded Integrative Health, a physician group dedicated to helping people with thyroid disease and weight-loss resistance regain their health.
His latest book, The Thyroid Reset Diet, is the focus of today’s conversation.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Dr. Christianson’s unique perspective on treating the thyroid by limiting iodine
- How long does the thyroid store iodine?
- How someone without a thyroid regulates their iodine intake
- Iodine fortification is linked to adults suffering from thyroid disease
- Women have more cases of thyroid disease
- Iodine supplementation in pregnancy does not improve mom's thyroid health
- Iodine deficiency is no longer a modern world problem
- Foods and products that contain iodine
- The difference between conventional vs. organic dairy in terms of iodine exposure
- The Thyroid Reset Diet
- What are the safe upper limits of iodine intake?
- Pink Himalayan salt has 2x the amount of iodine compared to iodized salt
- Spirulina & chlorella contain reasonable amounts of iodine compared to problematic sea vegetables
- The long-term effects of consuming sea vegetables in Japanese cultures
- Why you should add squid steaks to your grocery list
- Processed grain products are high in iodine
- Is gluten having a negative impact on your thyroid?
- Are thyroid antibodies a concern when healing Hashimoto’s?
- Goitrogenic foods wand thyroid disease
- The new evidence about soy & thyroid health
- Consuming soy may prevent the risk of breast cancer
- Common cosmetics that contain iodine
- Iodine vs. iodide... what’s the difference?
- Debunking topical iodine testing
- How much iodine is in your medication?
- Take a prenatal vitamin without iodine
- Brazil nuts are a high source of selenium
- Lifestyle factors are relevant for thyroid health
- Healing thyroid disease: clinical outcomes
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Related links:
Dr. Alan Christianson - The Thyroid Reset Diet (book)
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Dr. Alan Christianson - The Metabolism Reset Diet (book)
Listen to Dr. Alan Christianson previously on TUHP (episode #290)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | So a big made analysis was done in 2019 |
| 0:05.8 | and it pulled together 4,582 studies. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm pretty sure I'm right on that |
| 0:10.3 | to look at that just a few days ago. |
| 0:11.8 | And their consensus was that just there's no effect, |
| 0:14.8 | there's no effect of soy and thyroid disease. |
| 0:17.3 | But in women 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, |
| 0:20.9 | yeah, menopausal symptoms, cardiovascular health, |
| 0:23.4 | bone health, breast cancer, |
| 0:25.3 | and recently we've now got the most definitive |
| 0:28.4 | thought on breast cancer. |
| 0:30.0 | For a while, we thought hot soy is estrogenic, |
| 0:32.8 | maybe makes it worse, who knows? |
| 0:34.7 | So the final study looked at women who had |
| 0:38.3 | hormonally sensitive breast cancer. |
| 0:40.4 | And after treatment, they put them in two groups, |
| 0:43.4 | one group had a rather high soy diet on purpose, |
| 0:46.0 | one group had none. |
| 0:47.4 | And they watched recurrence and they watched death rates, |
| 0:50.2 | you know, just like hard outcomes. |
| 0:52.0 | And those who were avoiding soy had higher rates |
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