IODINE BOOSTS LEVEL OF THYROID HORMONES

Unhealthy thyroid gland brings many diseases. It is important to have balance and normal level of iodine. Iodine is chemical element taken from other source because the body can’t make its own. The best source of iodine can be found in seaweeds. Plant and animal-based foods has little to offer when it comes to iodine concentration not enough the body requires. It has important job in the development of central nervous system.

Thyroid gland is responsible for the manufacture of hormones. To be able to make hormones, iodine is the one that carry-out its delicate function. Any iodine deficiency put too much pressure to the thyroid glands. The feedback system in the body pushes the thyroid gland to work harder to be able to restore its normalcy. Swollen neck is the product of iodine deficiency.

Little sources of iodine can be found in banana, green peas, apple juice, lima beans, raisin bran, cheese, prunes, cream-style corn, tuna canned in oil, shrimp, ice cream, macaroni, eggs, fruit cocktail, white bread, milk, iodized salts, yogurt, cod, dairy products and grain products.

Iodine prevents goiter. It has promise in the treatment of fibrocystic breast cancer, diabetes, diseases of the eyes, heart attack and stroke due to hypertension.

Hospital and emergency unit are using iodine to protect the thyroid glands from the effect of radioactive iodides during radiation therapy.

Iodine has potent effect to the skin to kill the germs, reduce the soreness in the moth as side effect of chemotherapy especially cancerous disease.

Iodine is important to purify water to make safe and potable. It is best in the treatment of ulcers arising from diabetes. Iodine has the ability to kill fungus, bacteria and amoeba. Victims of radioactive disaster can be remedied by taking potassium iodide to handle the effect of radioactive materials. It was used as expectorant to prevent cough due to flu.

The side effects of taking iodine overdose are diarrhea, headache, stomach pain, nausea, runny nose, swelling of the lips and face. There is severe bleeding and bruising of the skin. There is severe fever (high body temperature). There is enlargement of lymph nodes.

 It causes allergy and other allergic reactions. There is soreness of gum and teeth due to infection. It brings burning sensation in the mouth and throat. It increases the production of saliva. There is inflammation of the throat. Direct application of iodine causes irritation and skin burn. It worsens thyroid disorders like goiter and thyroid tumor. It worsens the condition of skin rashes.

Goiter can be remedied by the use of iodized salt.

Iodine deficiency results to the following:

Low level of thyroid hormones affects the ovulation period of women that later on may cause infertility. It causes immune disease of the thyroid. It gives high chances of thyroid cancer and other terminal cancers (prostate, breast, ovarian and endometrial).

It causes high blood pressure during mother’s pregnancy period. It causes mental retardation of unborn child. It severely affects the physical and mental growth of children in their stunted development.

Iodine is vital to the proper functioning of thyroid glands. Thyroid gland is responsible in the manufacture of thyroid hormones as assurance that the thyroid gland is in normal condition. Any slip, it may be deficient in concentration or over the required numbers may cause adverse reaction that will results to many diseases the body can no longer handle and give enough protection.  

 Regular intake of iodine can correct the deficiency and restore the level of hormonal imbalance.

THE ROLE OF GARLIC IN HEALTH

Garlic is an important spice in the kitchen. It serves as food appetizer. Without it, the prepared menu lacked its original taste. The history of garlic was used as food and as medicine.

Garlic was composed mostly of water. Each clove has 1 gram of carbohydrates in starchy form contains sinistrin, protein, fiber and fat. It has 17 amino acids, 19 minerals and 5 vitamins, 6 nucleosides or nucleic acid.

The minerals in garlic are germanium, calcium, magnesium, copper, iron, potassium, selenium and zinc. The vitamins are vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, C, choline. The nucleic acids are adenosine, guanosine, uridine, thymidine, cytidine and isosine. The nucleosides was the building block of DNA and RNA.

Generally, is not odorous. It only give pungent smell if it is being crushed or bruised.The sulfur-rich amino acids called Alliin and the enzyme or catalyst called allinase were responsible for the smell as it dissolved in the cells of the garlic.

The two compounds alinase and alliin mixes together once the garlic is being crushed. They released a highly reactive pungent compound called diallyl thiosulfinate or allicin that gives protection to the body against harmful bacteria. As the allicin is being manufactured, it started to decay. This is the time that it unleash a barrage of many other compounds formed and participated in the complex sequence of chemical interaction and reaction.

Garlic aided and induced the capacity of the killer cells in the body to destroy tumor cells, virus-infected cells and other foreign invaders to protect them to establish colony to damage healthy cells.

It stimulates the activity of the macrophage, a phagocytes that has the ability to engulped foreign substances. It stimulates the function of the immune system influencing the T-lymphocytes to respond to lymphokines and mitogen.

It was found to lowers blood pressure by inhibiting the enzymes. The enzyme catalyzes the conversion of hormones for the purpose of regulating the blood pressure to normal level. A sulfur compound in garlic called ajoene is responsible to dissolve blood clots in the blood vessels by making interruption to the process where the platelets and fibrin are working together to form a clots to the circulatory system.

It has progressive nature to reverse and control atherosclerosis. It inhibits the enzymes to initiate cholesterol synthesis that will result to the reduction of the level of low-density lipoprotein and increase in high-density lipoprotein levels.

Garlic found to have anti-tumor property that inhibits the enzyme activity of the cancer cells putting them non-viable. It blocks carcinogens to damage and destroy tissues that may result to the formation of cancer. It then blocks a secondary carcinogen that will promotes the activity of primary carcinogen. The stimulation of the immune system was the reasons it can defend against tumor.

Garlic is very effective in the control of the disease-causing germs. Because of its anti-bacterial property it controls against gram-positive, gram-negative and acid-fast bacterial organisms. It becomes a germ fighter against viruses, protozoa and fungal infection and parasites.

If the immune system ability to defend is enhance, it work properly to its highest peak of shielding damaging micro-organisms and free radicals.

Liver is very sensitive and can easily reactive of any chemical substances and contaminants it can get in the environment. With garlic it can protect the liver from the damage due to hazards taken from outside sources. Ionizing radiation is very damaging to the cells but garlic has the ability to give full protection and preserve the healthy cells from being destroyed.

The pungency of garlic doesn't matter. The most important things is that it has many benefits we can use to solve, help and treat the disease that keep on bothering us.

Garlic is available anytime, anywhere even in our own kitchen. Using it in our food preparations as spices in one good points that our body is protected from the threats to maintain healthy life.

BONES: THE PILLAR OF THE BODY

Our bones is the structure of the body. It is the foundation where our skin, flesh and organs took hold. We cannot live without it. It all depend on it. If some of its part will break or has fracture, we became incapacitated and has less flexibility to move. There were many people without hands and legs because of the accident. Some bones were damaged and removed. This is how important the bones supports our entire human system.

We have to protect them. Give them the necessary nutrients to make it strong and healthy. This is their food, this is their life. They needed calcium to fully function in their respective role to let the organs of the body to cling to them.

Giving this minerals has beneficial effect to all system of the body. There was an interrelationship and cooperation between the body structures to that of all organs handling and absorbing minerals. It builds good bones, perfect teeth. It is useful in blood clotting. The transmission of nerve impulses depend on it. It regulates heart rhythm for a normal pulse beat. It is considered as a living tissue always on the go. It has a build up process by increasing bone production.

During our middle age years, bones started to weaken. It became the disease of the bones called osteoporosis. If it weakens, imbalance occurred affecting body function. It continues to deteriorate as a person aged more. Calcium become the important source of preventing bone loss.

-Exercise is always an important activities to keep the body (bones and other organs) healthy.
-Avoiding too much protein helps calcium to absorb to the bones.
-Along with calcium, vitamin D is his partner to decrease the risk of fracture.
-Life-long dietary intake is the main requisite to help slow bone loss.

Where calcium be found? It is there in all dairy products, in fruits (orange) and vegetables (spinach, green peas), and many others. It gives our body time to continue their build-up process. Calcium is the key to good health. Let's give it to them.