The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
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What is the role of iodine in detoxifying the body?
Dr. Ailey Cohen, welcome to the podcast. Today, you are here to talk about the important role of detoxifying our life. And you're going to help us do that by ranking the worst offenders, the top 10 worst offenders that are toxifying all of us. And more importantly, though, it's a silver lining because there's a lot of things you can do to protect yourself. You're going to rank the top 10 things that we can do to protect ourselves. So let's jump in if you're okay with that. I'm okay. Let's do it. Let's start off with some good news. And that is iodine. Why is iodine something that you're a fan of? And where would you rank it on our tiered system?
Well, iodine is a pretty important micronutrient, and I would probably rank it pretty, I would give it like a C or a B. B, let's do B. Okay, tell us about it.
Why is it important? What does it do to the body? And why is it so important with detoxification?
Great question. So iodine is something that most people haven't really heard about. And it's a micronutrient that protects the thyroid gland. And it actually is not in a lot of the foods we eat anymore, other than, say, some seafood and some seaweed and maybe yogurt, real yogurt, navy beans. But iodine is something the human body doesn't make on its own. We have to get it from food. It's critical for brain development in babies. So babies have to get it from breast milk. But other adults and young children have to have thyroid every day because it washes out every day in order to sit in the thyroid and protect it from a lot of the chemicals that we're exposed to, such as perchlorate for one. And that's in a lot of food packaging, especially processed food packaging.
It's also found naturally in some foods such as farm foods. And it's also on food washes. So it's in the food system of cleaning our produce that we may or may not have control over. So because of these outside invaders that like to stick to the thyroid gland and disrupt its function, iodine protects the thyroid gland. So you don't want to take too much. You don't want to take none or too little. So there's a recommendation I have of about 150 micrograms of iodine as sodium iodide often, even in a multivitamin. It's very protective and very helpful.
For the average person, are they getting natural exposure to their diet? Or are you saying that most people actually might not be getting enough?
Yeah, the studies really show there's lots of nutrients and we can go into that, but there's lots of nutrients we're not getting in modern day time that we needed as evolutionary beings for millions of years. And iodine is just one of those things that we're not getting every day. We're not getting the right amounts. We're inconsistent. We have busy lives. You know, we don't have always the access to foods that we want. So really, it's not even in food. And actually, in the 1950s, it was added to bread as a public health service, knowing that we have such low iodine levels in our food. But no one eats bread really anymore. A lot of people don't eat bread. I shouldn't say everyone. And it used to be in table salt.
It was added to table salt, like Morton's type of table salt. Now a lot of people are having Himalayan sea salt, kosher sea salt, very unprocessed sea salt processes. And there's no iodine in those products. So we're not getting iodine, even though we think we're getting it from salt. We're not getting it from food. It's limited, and it's just something to think about among several others, which is why one of the solutions, besides being worried about which foods and how often, is to really think about even a multivitamin that has the right amount, which is about 150 micrograms of iodine per day.
That's awesome. All right. We're going to get into some of the good stuff in a minute. Sure. After iodine. But we got to talk about some of the worst offenders that are out there. They go back to your new book. You highlight in there detoxify the everyday toxins harming your immune system and how to defend against them. So one of the top things that many people do not understand.
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