I posted yesterday about how to find out if you are deficient in iodine. Now, let’s say that you find that your body needs iodine. What do you do?   Dr. Natasha said that you can keep painting iodine on your skin and let your body absorb it as it needs it.   I say, it probably doesn’t hurt to focus on eating foods that are naturally rich in iodine. Note that I said naturally rich, not foods that are supplemented with iodine. The great thing about our body is that if we need iodine rich foods (and we’re not full of “bad bacteria” and yeast), our body will crave…

I have heard mixed messages about iodine from different doctors and medical studies. There is a massive amount of research available on what can happen in the body when a person is deficient in iodine. If you are not getting enough iodine, you could face: Thyroid Dysfunction Grave’s Disease Thyroid cancer Impaired intellectual and neuromotor development Mental impairment Osteoporosis Difficulty in getting pregnant and staying pregnant Loss of pregnancy (stillborn baby) Low birth weight Neurological damage to your baby (mental retardation, etc.) Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (S.I.D.S) Increased risk of breast cancer, endometrial cancer and ovarian cancer Depression Increased risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease   And yet, when I…

Several weeks ago, we found out that Farm Princess is severely allergic to peanuts. The doctor mentioned that more and more people are becoming allergic to peanuts, and I asked him why that is. He said that there are two thoughts on this subject: 1. It is because of the way we process nuts in our country (I will cover that in another post) 2. It is because of the Hygiene Hypothesis