Iodine deficiency in the body

According to official statistics, 90 percent of Moscow school students suffer from a lack of iodine. If we talk about adults, their situation is hardly much better. However, there is no official statistics. But it is known that there is a shortage of iodine in 3/4 of Russian lands.

But it has long been known that a shortage of iodine can cause mental retardation. This in due time was very correctly pointed out by Ivan Bunin, once seeing, as a child, an unusual picture, signed thus: "Meeting in the mountains with a nerd."In Bunin's opinion, it was a prophecy, because throughout his later life he had to meet with a huge number of nerds! Naturally, this sarcastic remark of a mature man is not committed to those unfortunate idiots who suffer from a lack of iodine in the mountains. By the way, an interesting fact. Disorders in the thyroid gland are observed in millions of people on our planet.

What are the reasons? For today they are perfectly investigated. The smallest part of the thyroid gland contains iodine-containing protein thyroglobulin. Therefore, it needs iodine, as in the air. If a person lives in an area that is rich in iodine compounds, eats food and drinks water, saturated with iodine, then it is not worth worrying about. Lack of iodine in the body causes the development of thyroid gland diseases.

Mechanism of iodine deficiency.

The thyroid gland performs the regulation of organs and tissues, determines how much they are functionally active and ready for metabolism. It is primarily responsible for the amount of thyroid hormone produced, which is responsible for the development and growth of the child. In adults, this hormone regulates metabolism. In addition, iodine has a harmful effect on bacteria, viruses, microscopic fungi, for this reason, the blood passing through the thyroid gland is cleared from penetrating pests.

The thyroid gland is an organ with very intense circulation. If the blood is too little thyroxine( iodine-hormone), it is a signal for the hypothalamus. As a result, she gives the body the command to increase the formation of hormones. And how to do this if iodine is not enough? Here, and the failure of the hormonal system is formed, and it eventually begins to increase the number of cells. As a result, the thyroid gland increases, a goiter is formed, gradually compressing the throat and compressing vessels. According to the latest information received, the relationship between the factor deficiency in the body of iodine and impaired blood circulation of the brain was determined. If the time is not taken, the functional disorders in the brain will become degenerative - so-called. Endemic cretinism. It manifests itself in mental inferiority, paralysis of legs and hands, and deafness.

But even such severe consequences of iodine deficiency can be avoided. For example, in China, any woman who marries must take a certain portion of iodized oil, which provides the female body and the body of the unborn child with this microelement for the whole year. Indeed, just in the period of intrauterine development the child should receive the right amount of iodine, so that unhealthy thyroid work does not cause complications. If the intake of iodine per day is on average less than 20 mcg, then the risk increases that iodine deficiency in the body will occur, which will lead to iodine deficiency.

To protect yourself , children need to take 100 mcg of iodine daily, which the body receives with food, and adults - 200 mcg. To live a lifetime, a person needs 5 grams of iodine - some teaspoonful!

However, on the territory of the capital, iodine intake per day is 80-90 μg per person, and in the region it is equal to 40-50 μg. Because of this deficiency, the thyroid gland is increased in 20-30% of Moscow schoolchildren and about 40-50% of regional schoolchildren.

The fact is that the consumption of iodine-rich marine products, in particular perch, decreased by 4 times. The consumption of milk and meat, in which iodine is much more than in plants, also decreased. However, it is plant food that is the basis for the Russian people. To this "work" and widely distributed vegetarian ideas, which is especially bad for children. With a small deficit of iodine in adults, the vital tone falls, the person becomes inactive and sluggish.

It is difficult to predict thyroid function. In the case of the same lack of iodine, the disease may begin to develop - the production of excess hormones, i.e. thyrotoxicosis. Often people who suffer from this disease are characterized by frequent palpitations, thinness, increased arterial pressure, tachycardia, insomnia can be observed. On the one hand, why does such a metamorphosis happen - when the cause is one, iodine deficiency leads to the opposite reaction of our thyroid gland?

Recent research into thyroid disease, which was conducted at the University of California, says that certain biologically active substances in food interfere with the production of its hormones. Their lack includes feedback, which causes the formation of goiter. Among such natural products include soybeans, selected varieties of cabbage, for example, Brussels, turnips and swede. However, a negative "goiter" effect is possible when they are predominant in the daily diet.

Work shchitovidki long been unknown, her work was considered almost mystical. In fact, this is the most subtle mechanism of our body. In ancient times the thyroid gland was considered the place of the soul's settlement. Maybe that's why the sign of female attractiveness is roundness, some swelling of the neck in the thyroid gland. For example, Greek sculptors painted the goddess of fertility Geru with a slight curve of the neck. For today, doctors have diagnosed her - the starting stage of goiter. Also depicted on the canvases of Rubens and Maria de 'Medici.