More than 100 years ago, Americans were becoming deficient in the mineral iodine. It was causing problems like swelling in the neck—called a goiter—which signals that the thyroid had become inflamed ...

Ever since manufacturers began adding iodine to salt in the 1920s, deficiency in this trace element has been relatively rare. And that's a really good thing, considering that iodine is an essential ...

When you think of iodine—the chemical element that helps your body produce thyroid hormones and regulate energy—you probably associate it with table salt. That’s because back in the 1920s, researchers ...

Editor's Note: The following is part of a class project originally initiated in the classroom of Ball State University professor Adam Kuban in fall 2021. Kuban continued the project the 2023 spring ...

One of the main roles for the mineral iodine is to help manufacture thyroid hormones. And once upon a time in America — especially in the Great Lakes region — there were many cases of goiter, an ...

Exposure of the fetus to low levels of thyroid hormones for extended periods during pregnancy can lead to irreversible brain damage and potential delays in neurological and behavioral development.

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We conclude that the reference interval for 24h IU is 14–30% in our population, which had spent its entire lifespan with iodine supplementation. This is lower than that recorded in a Swedish euthyroid ...

Iodine is essential for proper thyroid function—and your thyroid gland does a lot. It regulates your metabolism, supports your heart and nervous system, and impacts basic bodily functions, like ...