Re: Need help trying to convince sick people they need Iodine, please respond to this anti-Iodine article

This is from a Lecture found on the internet. It gives some information the title is given first. Then a section from the middle of the lecture - dealing with the nascent Iodine used to form T3 and T4.

Lecture 23

Hormones of the thyroid and parathyroid glands, endocrine function of pancreas

Part 1

THYROID GLAND

The hormones of thyroid gland, thyroxine and triiodothyronine, influence the activity of many tissues. They are also crucial in brain and body development. Thyroid is one of the first glands to appear both in ontogeny and in evolution. It appears toward the end of the fourth week of human embryonic development. Colloid is present toward the end of the fourth month.

REGULATION OF THYROID FUNCTION

The function of the thyroid gland is controlled by the thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) which activates the secretion of the thyrotropic hormone by the anterior pituitary. The thyrotropic hormone, in turn, activates the thyroid.

(this is only a small part look it up on the internet to see full details-- I now skip to the part about nascent iodine)

Thyroid Hormone Synthesis

Iodide is first oxidized either into nascent Iodine Io or I3- The enzyme peroxidase is necessary as well as hydrogen peroxide. Then, Iodine is attached to tyrosine which is the precursor of the thyroid hormones. Monoiodotyrosine and diiodotyrosine are formed by tyrosine iodinase.

Then, two molecules of iodinated tyrosine are coupled into T3 and T4. T3 is four times as potent as T4. About three quarters of the iodinated tyrosine never become thyroid hormones. They may be released from thyroglobulin and deiodinated by a deiodinase enzyme. About 90% of hormone produced is thyroxin. The hormones are formed within a globulin molecule in the thyroid and stored as thyroglobuline (MW about 670,000), where there are about 3 molecules of thyroxine and 1 molecule of T3 per molecule of thyroglobulin. About 2 to 3 months of supply is stored in the gland.

( This gives some understanding of why nascent iodine is used in 1 to 3 milli-gram quantities, Also nascent iodine is not impacted by the iodine gate in the thyroid in studies of nascent iodine by Dr. Richard Bleil, a scientist who has studied nascent iodine in depth.)


(The diffusion gradient in the thyroid is for the Iodide ion, I-. Other forms of iodine would not suffer the same problem. For example, nascent iodine, I., and the triiodine radical I3. would not be affected by this Iodide ion gradient, so they would be able to diffuse naturally, and therefore more quickly than the Iodide ion. This suggests that nascent iodine would be more effective than dietary iodine or even an iodide supplement such as Lugol’s solution (a water-based solution of elemental and ionic iodine). While the elemental iodine in Lugol’s solution would probably be able to diffuse naturally into the thyroid, the iodide ion in the solution would face the same diffusion problem as dietary iodide sources requiring active transport to diffuse. ) From Paper by Dr. Richard Bleil

For the reasons above we feel that Magnascent iodine works in the thyroid more easily than some of the other forms of iodine. Less amounts of iodine can be used for better results. John Brookshire magnascent.com

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