iodine is an element that your thyroid uses to make thyroid hormone and that gives you energy.

And if you're low in iodine, if you're not getting enough, as a lot of people are,

you're not making enough thyroid hormone, your energy will be low, your weight might be

creeping up a little bit and you're you're just not going to feel like it's quite like yourself.

That's hypothyroidism. So you need iodine where do you get it? You're at the sushi bar.

You're having your vegan sushi roll, cucumber roll, thisparagus roll. The nori wrap is a great

source of iodine and that's actually true for all seaweed.

Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for giving the show a

listen or a view or a download wherever it is in the world that you are. We appreciate the fact

that you are here. And today, my friend, we will be opening up the doctor's mailbag and leading

things off in our question and answer session will be a question about iodine.

What are the best sources of iodine when you're eating a plant-based diet?

Very interesting to hear Dr. Barnard talk about this and how the average American isn't

getting as much iodine as they once did because we have strayed away from using iodized salt.

And then that brings into the equation, well, what is the right balance of salt in the diet if

you're trying to eat a low sodium diet? We're going to get into all of that on the show here today

as well. But school is in session big time and the professor of nutrition himself Dr. Neil Barnard

also going to be answering a lot of other questions submitted by exam room live viewers.

Questions about vitamin E and whether a person needs to take more vitamin B12 as they get older.

And then when it comes to processed food, how much nutrient value is actually lost when you take

a whole food and you process it? Can you put a percentage on it? We're going to talk about that

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