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Benefits of Iodine

Hello . This is Jinny , the pharmacist .

Did you know that iodine is an essential nutrient that is likely to be deficient worldwide regardless of the health care level of each country ? Iodine is a mineral that is abundantly contained in seaweeds such as kelp and seaweed, and is a nutrient that is easily deficient depending on eating habits .

Iodine is required to synthesize the thyroid hormone thyroxine, and its deficiency can cause goiter, so it is widely known as an essential nutrient that contributes to thyroid health . Thyroid hormone is involved in energy metabolism by controlling the body's metabolic rate, and is important for the development of the central nervous system by promoting mRNA and protein synthesis .

However, iodine has various benefits besides thyroid health . Today , I would like to introduce the various functions of iodine, an essential nutrient, through a thesis .

The immune system plays an important factor not only in basic health, but also in tumor progression or regression . Research on the relationship between iodine and immune regulation has been continuously accumulated since the 1980s , and naturally , academic studies have been conducted to determine the relationship between iodine supplementation and anti-tumor immune response .

In 2019 , BMC Cancer published a paper reporting the results of in vitro and in vivo observations of the effect of iodine on human breast cancer cell lines with high metastatic potential .