| Causes of Thyroid Disease | | | | iodized to make sure population acquire sufficient |
| The main usual causes of acquired thyroid disorders | | | | iodine. Iodine overdose in rare occasions is a problem, |
| are iodine deficiency and autoimmune thyroid disease. | | | | as the thyroid gland stores iodine until it is needed, and |
| Iodine deficiency is in this way most important cause | | | | releases TH in the less functional T4 form, and TH is |
| of hypothyroidism for most of of the the human race, | | | | additionally bound up by transfer proteins in the blood |
| due to absence of iodine in the food regimen and/or | | | | until it is required. Several experts accept as true that |
| high consumption of soy, corn, and brassica plants | | | | continual iodine overdoses leads to autoimmune thyroid |
| (cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, etc.). These plants | | | | sickness, since it seems to be the chief cause of |
| produce natural goitrogens. Goitrogens can be largely | | | | thyroid disorder in industrial countries. |
| eliminated through proper cooking. Inside the U.S., salt is | | | | |