Iodine and heart disease

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Iodine and heart disease

Post Number:#1  Post by gmdodaro » Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:06 pm

Does anybody have information about thyroid and heart disease?

My recent thyroid tests show
T3: 2.3
T4: 1.4
TSH: 4.67

Whereas when I was taking 25 mg of iodine (as Iodoral) per day:
T3 was as high as 7.1
A doctor advised me to reduce the dosage of iodine.

Now I've found some information that correlates low T3 with heart disease. My current thyroid values are within range of most people, but T3 of 2.3 could be subclinical hypothyroidism.
What is the relation of hypothyroidism to heart disease? I have heart disease that so far has been unresponsive to Pauling therapy. Coronary calcium has climbed from 225 in 2011 to 655 in 2015.

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Re: Iodine and heart disease

Post Number:#2  Post by gmdodaro » Fri Apr 29, 2016 3:35 pm

This is probably the definitive study on the inverse relation of iodine levels and heart disease: http://iodineresearch.com/files/cann_20 ... isease.pdf

Hypothesis: Dietary Iodine Intake in the Etiology of Cardiovascular Disease
Stephen A. Hoption Cann, PhD
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA
Key words: atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, iodine, selenium, thyroid hormones

This paper reviews evidence suggesting that iodine deficiency can have deleterious effects on the cardiovascular
system, and correspondingly, that a higher iodine intake may benefit cardiovascular function.
In recent years, public health bodies have aggressively promoted sodium restriction as a means of reducing
hypertension and the risk of cardiovascular disease. These inducements have led to a general decline in iodine
intake in many developed countries. For example, a United States national health survey conducted in the early
1970s observed that 1 in 40 individuals had urinary iodine levels suggestive of moderate or greater iodine
deficiency; twenty years later, moderate to severe iodine deficiency was observed in 1 in 9 participants.
Regional iodine intake has been shown to be associated with the prevalence of hypothyroidism and
hyperthyroidism, where autoimmune hypothyroidism is the more common of the two in regions with moderate
to high iodine intake. Both of these thyroid abnormalities have been shown to negatively affect cardiovascular
function. Selenium, an important antioxidant in the thyroid and involved in the metabolism of iodine-containing
thyroid hormones, may play an interactive role in the development of these thyroid irregularities, and in turn,
cardiovascular disease. Iodine and iodine-rich foods have long been used as a treatment for hypertension and
cardiovascular disease; yet, modern randomized studies examining the effects of iodine on cardiovascular
disease have not been carried out.

The time has come for investigations of sodium, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease to also consider
the adverse effects that may result from mild or greater iodine deficiency.

Key teaching points:
• Iodine deficiency can cause thyroid dysfunction including hypothyroidism, impaired mental and physical development, loss of
energy, and increased prenatal and infant mortality.
• In recent years, the prevalence of iodine deficiency has increased in many countries that use iodized salt as a dietary source of
iodine.
• The prevalence and incidence of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism has been shown to vary with regional iodine intake. Both
thyroid diseases are known to adversely affect cardiovascular function.
• Selenium interacts uniquely with iodine: selenium-containing antioxidants protect the thyroid against oxidative damage during
thyroid hormone synthesis; whereas selenium-containing deiodinases are involved in both activation and inactivation of thyroid
hormones.

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Re: Iodine and heart disease

Post Number:#3  Post by exitium » Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:44 pm

There is also significant data showing thryoid function as it relates to sex hormones which are also tied to heart disease.

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Re: Iodine and heart disease

Post Number:#4  Post by gmdodaro » Tue May 03, 2016 10:12 am

This is the best information I've found about hormone balance: http://www.johnleemd.com/hormone-balance-for-men.html

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Re: Iodine and heart disease

Post Number:#5  Post by gmdodaro » Wed May 04, 2016 2:52 pm

Here's another article on the correlation of low thyroid function and Coronary Atherosclerosis: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ije/2015/708272/

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Re: Iodine and heart disease

Post Number:#6  Post by ofonorow » Fri May 06, 2016 7:18 am

This is where the Pauling/Rath unified theory helps us to understand. In their view, (and Levy's and others) it is the weakness in the artery that is the root problem in atherosclerosis. The lesion appears and the body furiously tries to patch the arterial wall. In their view, our chronically low vitamin C, leads to inadequate collagen, causing the general weakness.

There are studies that correlate short telomeres, low thyroid (and or low iodine) , too many polyunsatured fats, especially in the absence of vitamin E, low levels of DHEA, and various other factors to atherosclerosis. Since people are generally short on vitamin C, these are potential aggravating factors, leading to a weakness in the arterial wall. Under this view, the strength of the arterial wall is the important factor, which is why vitamin C (and lysine) which promotes our own production of collagen, has such a strong effect.
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