Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

The Surprising Truth About Iodine and Health - Dr. Alan Christianson

25 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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This is a short transcript excerpt from the YouTube video "The Surprising Truth About Iodine and Health - Dr. Alan Christianson" (uploaded by Joy Kong, MD). In this excerpt Dr. Alan Christianson states that ~85% of his patients appear to have suboptimal thyroid function, notes that iodine may influence thyroid cancer risk but that there is no data showing iodine changes existing thyroid cancer, and asserts research indicating roughly 60–80% of adults with autoimmune, overt, or subclinical hypothyroidism can fully reverse the disease through iodine regulation.

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About 85%.

Roughly 60–80%.

He states there is no data showing that changing iodine changes existing thyroid cancer.

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85% of the people coming to me seems like the thyroid is not optimal. So we know, for example, that iodine may be a factor in developing the risk for thyroid cancer. But there's no data saying that changing iodine changes existing thyroid cancer, for example. But we do have pretty good data saying that in the case of known autoimmune hypothyroidism, overt hypothyroidism, subclinical hypothyroidism, and autoimmune hypothyroidism, that roughly 60 to 80% of adults of the study stand to fully reverse the disease by iodine regulation.