Why are Americans so deficient in iodine?

Despite being an essential nutrient, so many people fail to obtain an adequate intake of iodine, even fewer obtain an ideal intake. Yet getting iodine is so easy and inexpensive. But don’t rely on the doctor to tell you how or why, as he/she is too busy planning your next procedure or trying to hand you a drug prescription, since doctors really don’t know how to dispense genuine health. Transcript: Let’s talk about iodine. Now I’ve talked about iodine before. It’s in the Wheat Belly Total Health program. It’s in the Undoctored Wild-Naked-Unwashed program. But I feel like the iodine message hasn’t gotten fully through. In fact, some people doing my program say “I’m not losing weight”, or “I don’t feel good. I’m cold. I’m tired.” Well, part of the solution is to make sure you’re getting iodine. So why have Americans become so deficient in iodine? First of all, virtually all the world’s iodine, is in the ocean. The further inland you live, the less potential you have to be exposed; to obtain iodine. If you live coastally; the food grown coastally, or livestock raised coastally, you’ll have some iodine — and of course if you eat seafood or seaweed, you’ll get more iodine. But the further inland you are, the more potential there is for iodine deficiency — so much so, that where I live in Wisconsin (or Michigan or Illinois or Indiana, Missouri, Ohio) used to be called the Goit...
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