Assertion: iodine | /r/HasProperty | needed
Facets:
value: in tissues
type: LOCATION
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
value: to displace the fluoride
type: PURPOSE
value: for the body
type: PURPOSE
value: in the diet
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Like most symptoms of iodine deficiency, this is also related to low levels of thyroid hormones, given that iodine is needed to make thyroid hormones.
text: Iodine is necessary for the proper function of many of the body’s tissues including the breasts, pancreas, brain, stomach, adrenal glands, skin, salivary glands, and cerebral spinal fluid.
text: As iodine is required from the very early stages of pregnancy, you should make sure you have been having enough iodine in your diet for several months before getting pregnant.
text: Iodine is an essential component of the human diet and in fact appears to be the heaviest required element in the diet.
text: In an age of increasing radioactivity and toxic poisoning specifically with fluoride [viii] , chlorine and bromide, and even mercury, iodine is a necessary mineral to protect us from harm for immediately these toxic substances will increasingly flow out of the body in the urine.
text: It is also a necessary nutrient for the body that most of us are deficient in due to all the fluoride being put in drinking water, in all sodas, fluoride toothpaste, etc.
text: Iodine is essential for the life of every cell and in certain glands like the thyroid, breasts, ovaries and prostate glands iodine sufficiency is necessary to protect against cancer.
text: This Food Fact Sheet explains why iodine is needed, food sources of iodine and how much is needed.
text: Iodine is a mineral that is primarily needed for the body to make thyroid hormone.
text: Iodine is needed for your thyroid gland to produce thyroid hormones.
text: Iodine is needed to make thyroid hormone.
text: Iodine is needed to make thyroid hormone, so an iodine deficiency can cause hypothyroidism.
text: You will learn that iodine is necessary to displace the fluoride from your thyroid, is needed to produce thyroid hormone, is absolutely vital for breast tissue and skin.
text: Because iodine is so necessary in tissues other than the thyroid (eg breast, bone marrow, immune system, brain), the iodine levels should be tested by a urine test.
text: Iodine is a trace element that is necessary for the body to produce the thyroid hormone.
text: Iodine is necessary for the body to produce thyroid hormones, which regulate metabolism.