Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about the eight unexpected benefits of iodine.

Now, iodine is this trace mineral.

Now, you don't need a lot of it, but you definitely need the right amount.

And if you don't have the right amount, all sorts of things can happen in your

body simply because every single cell in the entire body needs iodine, not just the thyroid.

Now, your thyroid is the iodine hog. It'll tend to suck up a lot of the iodine that you have

and not leave much for anything else. So just because your thyroid is working and you don't have

any thyroid symptoms

doesn't mean you have ample amounts of iodine. So it's not just about having adequate amounts

of iodine. It's about having enough for all of your cells. And unfortunately, the current

RDAs for iodine are way too low. It's recommended that we need about 150 micrograms

per day, but people in Japan, which have very low rates of breast cancer, ovarian cancer,

prostate cancer, are consuming a hundred times that amount, but it's mainly from

Seacelp because Seacelp is one of the best sources of iodine.

Now, I want to be totally transparent with you.

I do have a Dr. Berg brand Seacelp, and yes, I do have a very strong bias on my own brand

as far as the quality in where it's sourced from.

But here's my point. A lot of people are deficient iodine. And unfortunately, it's just not

in our foods anymore unless you're consuming foods from the ocean like shellfish or sea kelp,

like seaweed, et cetera. Now, there's a really simple way to determine if you're deficient

in iodine. Simply go to your local drugstore and get a little bottle of iodine and some

cotton balls. Okay. And then what you do is you take a little iodine, put it on a cotton ball,

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