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A Short History of Iodine

Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis

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Iodine Deficiency Is a Big Public Health Problem

If you don't get iodine, an essential micronutrient, bad things happen. Most people have forgotten just what a huge public health problem iodine deficiency was for thousands and thousands of years for humans. Goiters are in large thyroid glands on the front of the neck that you can see as a bulge and sometimes as a huge mass. You'll see in some pictures of goiters that it's as large as a baseball, a softball, or even a basketball - massively disfiguring.

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