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Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

In this video, we're going to talk about iodine.

I'm going to really increase your awareness on this vitally important trace mineral.

Trace minerals are those minerals needed in very small amounts, but the problem is there's no

RDAs or requirements yet for trace minerals, only for the bigger minerals like calcium and vitamins and things like that.

Trace minerals are those minerals needed in very, very tiny amounts, usually in micrograms, not milligrams.

But iodine is definitely needed because the function of iodine supports the brain function in a growing infant.

Without enough iodine, that child could be mentally retarded.

All cells need iodine, so not just the thyroid.

The reproductive organs need iodine, including the breast, the uterus, the ovaries, the prostate, the testicles.

We'll get more into that in the next section, but the point is that if a female has very large breasts,

they need more iodine to support those breasts.

Okay, iodine is also used to help detoxify heavy metals.

So if you're consuming a lot of shellfish and you're getting mercury and things, if you have enough

iodine in your system, that will help you detoxify it.

Iodine is needed to reduce the need for insulin, so it's involved in diabetes or slowing down diabetes.

It's involved in stabilizing blood sugars, and I'm just kind of showing you some other things

that people can do if they're diabetic and they consume some iodine.

It could take a big stress off the whole mechanism with blood sugars.

And of course, one of the most important things for iodine is the control of metabolism through the

thyroid. So if there's not enough iodine, your metabolism could be shut down by at least 50 percent

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