dr sherri tenpenny is an osteopathic physician from cleveland ohio her team of physicians and acupuncturists as osteo med to focus on four specialized areas including biomedical treatment of autistic and vaccine injured children as president of the board of directors for the washington d c based nonprofit the american association for health freedom dr tenpenny is an outspoken advocate for free choice in health care including the right to refuse vaccination let's go to warm iowa into welcome for dr tenpenny it's interesting how to come to this meeting and i'm very honored to be here i've been doing integrative medicine one nine hundred ninety four when my business partner and colleague dr de fronsac died of cancer at the age of thirty two and when dave died i said well gee i needed to get back to my osteopathic roots and do more preventive and holistic medicine and not just patch people up in the e r for which i'm board certified emergency medicine and i did that for about twelve years interestingly enough the first conference that i attended was one by dr dietrich langhart about oral dental things and that was the very first introduction into integrative medicine that i did which i subsequently been and found out that was quite a dive into the deep into the pool and what i found from that meeting was that i thought my first thought was that dentist really hold the keys to the to a healthy body literally in their hands and most of their training i just about digging holes and filling them with toxic wastes so it's so neat to be here with a group of people that kind of understand that and know that there are other ways to health and be present in this group i feel like i've sort of come full circle to the initiation of what my  what my first introduction into integrative medicine was so i was asked to speak on the topic that i present frequently about iodine and there's there's several other topics that i talk on quite frequently that many of you may know but this is one that i that i do a lot for the men for the medical associations will there be a camp about iodine in the under utilized element that this is in our health so just to give a backdrop just of where the halogens live on the on the periodic table of  elements you can see that there's fluorine and chlorine in bromine and then this great big moloch and that's here and just for relationship that's where the mercury molecule sits on the periodic table so as this one is missing you can absorb all of these much smaller ones into the body and that's some of the things that we're going to talk about in one thousand nine hundred ninety the world health organization estimated that twenty eight point nine percent or almost a third of the global population of the world is iodine deficient that eleven point two million had overt cretinism and forty three million had mental impairment due to lack of iodine many of those are in third world countries and in demick sort of areas therefore i had on deficiency diseases is the leading cause of preventable mental retardation in the world which i think is really quite profound we don't have it so much here we're going to talk a little bit about why that is but that there still are some borderline problems that are not assessed from a from a full evaluation i got really interested in this whole topic of iodine probably in two thousand and four when i read this paper by come up with that title because what does that really mean my breasts heard around my periods and it was published in the breast journal and it was a very very well written paper and documented the fact that i deficiency was so it impactful on the health of breast tissue i subsequently went down the entire pathway of looking at all the associations between iodine breasts desire disorders i dine and firey disorders and the associated link between low iodine low low thyroid fibro breasts disease and other disorders of the breast in that the missing link was iodine i subsequently full pulled over four hundred papers from the conventional medical literature that date back as far as one thousand nine hundred seventy six that these associations have been known and either overlooked or ignored or simply not talked about very much and after i read that paper i stumbled across this it was put out by the national cancer institute that said that the incidence of breast cancer increases with age and that as you as we get older that the lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is one in eight women this was put out in two thousand and two and sense that time i've read many more papers that are talking about the incidence of breast cancer becoming maybe one in four in some places even one in three it's like what's the underlying cause of that is it just that people have bad luck or is there something that might be missing and that despite nearly one hundred years of i deny salt i don't deficiency still exists in the u s because usually when i start talking about this talk that's the first thing that comes up but we use iodine in our salt and so doesn't that really take care of it it really doesn't in that in the me show you why that when the first enhance study the national health nutrition examination survey took place between one nine hundred seventy one and one nine hundred seventy four it found that two point six percent of u s citizens were iodine deficient that was back in the seventy's when they repeated that study with an enhanced three came out was convicted between one thousand nine hundred eighty one nine hundred ninety four it found that that eleven point seven percent of all citizens were i deficient now that's a pretty big increase when you consider a global population in this country of what about three hundred million people now we're getting close to that number and that's a large percentage of our population that is overtly iodine deficient and this doesn't even could take into consideration the people who are have low i dine or just mildly deficient iodine in that sort of syndromes that they might get with that these are overt i deficiencies so why is iodine deficiency increasing if we have it and i salt where else do we get i find that we may not be consuming it anymore and may be contributing to the deficiency well we cut down on our salt consumption whether it be i deny salt or not i had a nice salt because of all the things about high blood pressure we shouldn't be taken in salt it's really the sodium that we're concerned about but we take out all of the salt because of the fears in the concerns about hypertension there's eggs are a good source of by the and we decrease it consumption because we're so concerned about cholesterol and i think that eggs get a really bad rap i mean they're a wonderful food they're a wonderful whole food and that i do believe that the eggs have gotten a really bad rap in terms of elevating cholesterol because there are a lot of other things that elevate cholesterol not just eggs we don't eat fish anymore and that's another good source of iodine because we're so concerned about and all the different fish we don't really have access to and i don't think anybody in this crowd really has a great big appetite in a big serving of seaweed and kelp at dinnertime on their plates and so we don't have a lot of sea vegetables and i personally think that a lot  or a lot of the low breast cancer incidents reporting that comes out of japan that the japanese the taiwanese and some of the chinese having the lowest levels of breast cancer in the world i really don't think i personally don't think that that has a lot to do with the amount of soil that they take in which is what we've been told i really think it has a lot to do with how much i had they taken because they have a large appetite and diet with a lot of c vegetables and sea animals they're living on an island particularly in japan where the salt from the ocean particularly the iodine because it's actually a gas falls under their soils they have higher concentrations of iodine in their soil and so the women there have a much higher level of iodine endemically and that's actually been shown in some of the research studies and when those women in japan move to the united states and we see that there increase of breast cancer goes up i think that a lot of that has to do with what we're talking about here that there i had dying of consumption goes way down and then we've got very do a lot of soil depletion here in the united states in the minerals are decreased by accelerated deforestation and soil erosion food grown in iodine deficiency regions are do not provide enough time for people in livestock living in that area and there's an acute i die deficiencies in the soils around the globe and particularly around the great lakes basin and for those of you that grew up around that area you know back in the twenty's they actually call that the belt because the soils are so depleted and you know we do now get the vegetables and fruits that shipped in from all parts of the country but things in that area are still really quite depleted there was a study that was done back in the in the early eighty's and i apologize i don't remember who it was that did this but they laid a map of the iodine deficiency around the great lakes area and they put a a simultaneous lee super imposed a map of the of the of the incidence of breast cancer in those areas and there was a huge overlap and you'll see as we go through this a little bit more of the relationship between iodine and breast self so how much i do we really need i mean that's really been a discussion that i think needs to be brought into the forefront with more research that hasn't really been completed for all these years and i'm going to show you that we have i had there's this a short history of i don't sufficiency not deficiency but this is a short history of how much i don't do we really need i don't efficiency is a risk factor for going to has been known since at least eight hundred twenty and in one nine hundred sixteen dr david marine conducted trials in akron ohio which is he looked at two groups and i believe there were somewhere between eight hundred and twelve hundred girls in each one of the groups and in one group they were treated with potassium iodide the other group was non treated and they followed them for set for several years and the treated group that had the potassium iodine only two of those girls had developed oysters and in the control several years later after one nine hundred twenty four when they started using i deny salt there was an epidemiological study that concluded that if less than five percent of a given population used i had a nice salt and that less than five percent of that population developed a boy or the amount of iodine was sufficient for the body and it was just left at that from the early one nine hundred thirty s it really hasn't gone on from there sense that time the only impact of iodine that anybody ever talks about or discusses is the thyroid and it's been determined that the thyroid needs about one hundred fifty micrograms per day for adequate functioning and that's all that's ever talked about if you talk to an endocrinologist i mean that's what they say you know i don't fire it i don't fire right they forget that  necessary for many other parts in the rest of the body and this in the other thing that's really important about that study is this was overt iodine deficiency is all that was considered the impact of mild to moderate i deficiency was not a consideration then or now and today the r t a for a total body iodine load has never been determined even though the the iodine is important for many other tissues in the body that i'll show you in a minute there's never really been any any studies that have been done to develop and determine what the r t the total r t a it requirement is for the body so how does i get into the tissues i mean it can and i mean this is just a passive diffusion i mean how do we get it in there well on the surface of the thyroid there is this glycoprotein called the sodium iodine simple order are and i asked for short and what that does is it help is it imports the iodine or the iodine that's in the circulation or something that we've eaten into the thyroid and then makes  thyroid hormone from there interesting only enough and i asked for the simpler has been found on many different tissues in the body disproving the previously held view that it is a thyroid specific protein and it's what the end i us does as pumps the idea into the other cells of the body and this came from and a can in the chronology review that is very thorough the so for the rest of the body then i asked for the simple order mediates active iodine transport into the following tissues pancreas liver and the and i wanted to make a yellow highlight up there because this is a dental conference and to show you that i know is really important for saliva and when i hear patients that come in a lot and they talk about that second syndrome the dry eyes dry mouth all those things i really look really hard for an iodine deficiency the two things that i found that works really well for that in women is i look for an eye to eye deficiency and most of the time that i find it and when they've got that got dry eyes or a really dry mouth they need to have some iodine the other thing that works really well is a little protest from cream and if women are already you singapore just around cream they have a little bit just a little bit that's left over on their fingers and they put it around very lightly underneath their eyes on that very thin skin that's right underneath their eyes just that little bit of protest around brings in some some waster into those t ues and that can help a lot with dry eyes so these are some of the other organs in the body that are required to have iodine but we don't even know how much because all we know is the hundred fifty micrograms for the thyroid now in addition to iodine and this is something that i've come across when i was doing putting together some research for this particular talk and some other things that i've been working on is that i've started thinking of solenn human iodine a sister molecules i don't get one without the other i really think that they're really really important for a lot of reasons t forty three in the in the in the periphery so t s h goes down and stimulates your thyroid hormone or your thyroid to make tea for tea for floats around up there in the bloodstream and it ends up going into the cells it's activated at that level by a sele  dependence i mean it's the tea three that is what drives your engine so without the solenn am that doesn't happen very well when you have when you see a patient and you decide that they may be so lenny and deficient for a variety of reasons maybe you've ordered a blood test sometimes we think of celeb as being a big anti cancer anti oxidant sort of mineral and so we add solenn him in and if you're adding selebi i'm only in and you're not aware of whether or not the patient is iodine deficient this is something that can happen that enzyme increases in the cells and starts transporting more t three into the cell which drops to four in the blood stream which conventional doctors or those that aren't aware of this will start thinking that the salon is making that person be replace the t four so the t four drops and everybody thinks the patient is becoming hypo thyroid and they're really just use a lemon iodine deficient the t s h will go up because it's trying to capture whatever iodine happens to be floating around out there so we'll see this combination of low tea for an elevated t s h which by definition we often think of that is hypo thyroid ism but if you take a step back from that really what they are is soul and iodine deficient in the large percentage of the patients so when you see these two things together and this came from the journal of in the chronology in one nine hundred ninety seven so this information's been around for a while that prolonged to sell any of deficiency coupled with iodine deficiency may lead to tissue hypothyroidism and impaired brain function that's really important stuff or those two substances going together i don't use the halogen and i don't is the mineral and how important they are for all other areas of the body so the reason for that is we've already talked about it a little bit thyroid gland in the process of all those steps of making fire right hormone one of the by products of that is hydrogen peroxide that's just as one of the by products of it what celeb does it acts like a little sponge and d d and takes away that hydrogen peroxide so when a lose weight they go they switch from that to the i'm feeling really anxious and really hyper and and i can't sleep at night in just really really really feeling anxious that swinging back and forth is very indicative of hashimoto's so here's a real pearl to kind of think about even mild solenn deficiency can contribute to the diff it to the development of autoimmune diseases in the thyroid and there are many articles in the conventional medical literature this is just one of them that was recently published in two thousand and six thyroid all those things kind of all coupled together and there have been many reports in the conventional literature that says that just by adding solenn iyam that forty percent of patients with with hashimoto's disease will recover their in their their antibodies will go away and they will recover just from solenn iyam so we've talked about a lot of the things that the slim does so what's the relationship between low iodine and breast path ology because this is a real passion of mine we do a lot of breast tomography in our office and we have an entire program that we're we've put into place and i so appreciated the first presenter this morning talking about the dental amalgam connection with the breast path ologies a that was really great and we're going to be using more of the porfirio test and looking at that too in when we see patients that come memory tissue so this is stuff that's been around for a long time at that they see that when when the tissues start to to lose their their substrates to keep them healthy they start to degrade and break down and i know that for myself seven osteopathic physician you the one of the tenets of the basic principles of osteopathic medicine is that the body has the ability to heal and repair itself when you put the missing biochemistry of missing a physio at the biochemistry back in so we look at biochemistry first because all those biochemistry things are what are necessary to run your physiology and if you have adequate biochemistry good physiology that peels off into that you need good structure function relationships and osteopathic principles are about structure function relationships like many of the chiropractors are our school and i explain this to patients by saying if you've got a door hanging on a cricket on a door jam it's the fizz it's not going to work very well so you've got you have a structure function relationship when the doors crooked it w swing very well you straighten out the structure and that function of the door can work really much better so you've got structure function relationships so instead of just saying well gee the body just sort of like breaks down and deteriorates and that's just what happens when you get old you know we really want to look at those underlying biochemistry physiology and anatomy associations and this one's been around since one nine hundred sixty s and want to show you a few more of those and this is one that kind of breaks my heart when you think about those connections of all of those women at least one  possibly going higher that could have had these sort of things elements added back into their system to make them healthier maybe those statistics would be wouldn't be so bad in one nine hundred seventy six epidemiological data suggest that the relationship between regions of known endemic goiter known to be related to low iodine increased breast disease and that's and was in the lancet nine hundred sixty seven in cancer causes control in two thousand so those are a little bit more recent things in seventy nine it was shown that esther a die all treated rats leads to pathological changes in the breast tissue including cystic changes peri ductile fibrosis and lobular heiser hyperplasia and those are in well in rats in the who were iodine deficient when you put more estrogen in there and whether the estrogen is birth control pills h r t bio identical hormones you know estrogens from the environment when there's low iodine there it increases breast path ology just by definition that's a bit around for a long time then fibrosis symptoms over over that period of time that's huge and it's something that should be common knowledge and not something that i got to dig out of old medical journals somewhere i mean this is something that we should be knowing and should be using there was a studies that were ninety five ninety six and ninety seven that showed the history logical changes can be reversed in the breast tissue with introduction of iodine rat studies demonstrated that iodine suppresses the formation of breast tumors and then this one is really important that iodine absorption organic ation occurs in the same doctoral ep with celia where the majority of breast cancers occur if that's being absorbed in the same place and that's deficient and whatever else  causing those tissues to break down environmental chemicals mercury lead arsenic i mean there was a paper that came out just recently that showed that what there's two hundred or more than two hundred known chemicals that are in breast milk now they say that they've determined more than two hundred chemicals are laid into the bre to have healthy breasts we keep talking about one hundred fifty micrograms for healthy pyrite what about healthy breasts well breast tissues actually like a sponge for iodine and studies have shown that a minimum amount of iodine to protect the breast from five or cystic disease and cancer is twenty to forty times more than needed to prevent avoider and other words the breasts need some instead of one hundred fifty micrograms and need somewhere between three thousand and four thousand micrograms a day for healthy breasts that came from an article from  three so again this is information that's been around for a while and there's no r t a for the body we need to figure that how to identify these breast tissue the incidence of fibrocystic changes among women is reported now to be more than sixty percent of women have fibrocystic disease in their breasts and we define that either by lumpy breasts dense breasts tender breasts around your period or actual cystic changes that you can actually eat that can actually be seen on ultrasound about five percent of those are considered to be risk factors for bird developing breast cancer and that these changes respond in reverse in the presence of three to six milligrams or three thousand to six thousand micrograms a day taken for three to four months and that was from dr kessler original paper that caught my attention and said and taught me to lead me down this path to do more research in this area it's like wow in three to four months we can reverse all that reverse all those things that i just showed you that is astonishing people need to know about this so what about i don't in the salivary glands well we found that there's a sim porter on the thyroid has also been found salivary glands i don't concentration and salivary glands can reach twenty thirty to forty times that seen in plasma  smoke so it's really about the cigarette smoking where they get exposed to that and it hits iodine going into the gland and i think contributes to a lot of the dry mouth syndromes so what about concerns about excess iodine you know we were always so afraid that we might go above  tchaikovsky if you take too much iodine it will shut down the thyroid and if you shut down the thyroid then you end up with more problems and you started well that was what that was that was what the report came from one nine hundred forty eight that they said this critical high threshold was known as the increased iodine will shut down the patient they can be hypothyroid and you cause all kinds of problems the particle that we all kind of missed all of us dr types kind of missed was that the very next year they came out with another study that said that the maximum of  inhibitory effect of iodine was about fifty hours so in a two day period of time there's a self mechanism the skate mechanism that starts and i had in the fire i takes off and starts running again on its own we missed that because association for health freedom and all the different stuff that i've done and i just think that everybody needs to get active just everybody needs you need to pick something you're passionate about whether it's the mercury filling issue whether it's vaccines whether it's the environment whether it's animal rights any whatever it is get get it get really involved with it and what can you do about it find an organization and get involved get involved because these really are life and death issues in these mandatory things that are happening to our environment are really upon us and we need everybody to get active right now we still have a right to choose we may not always because w when we give government the power to make medical decisions for us we in essence accept the state owns our body and he said that a long time ago and i think that we need to be vigilant about that a lot of you guys talked about state medical boards and things like that get out get active get involved and