Chris Masterjohn

So if you don't have enough protein,

you're not going to have good thyroid function.

If you don't have enough iodine, you're not going to have good thyroid function.

So those are the step one basics of the 101 of the nutrition that I need to have good thyroid hormone.

You can supplement with it, but again, I always believe in food first.

The...

There are many things that can be rich in iodine, but it's highly dependent on the soil.

So a potato, for example, from one part of the United States could be 100 times richer than a potato from another part of the country.

So that's a problem.

Seafood is reliably high in iodine because—

The rainfall just facilitates the minerals just falling into the ocean.

So it's, you know, a lot of the places that are low in iodine, it's because the pattern of evaporation causes the iodine to evaporate into the clouds.

But then, like, the cloud pattern goes around some mountain and it never drops back down on you.

And so you get these areas of the country where they're just on the wrong side of the mountain and they just get, you know, progressive decline in the iodine.

So I do think that it's good for people to eat sour.

just some seafood.

Because if you eat one or two pieces of fish per week, for example, or you eat a little bit of seaweed every day, that's going to cover your bases.

Whereas if your food comes from one area, you might be able to get enough iodine just eating whatever you want.

And in another area, you won't.

I personally