Most salt in food is not iodinized. A lot of people are avoiding table salt because of hypertension. It doesn’t just prevent goitres. Your body uses it to make thyroxin, T4 (4 iodine molecules) Then when your system requires energy, a catalyst (can’t remember name) causes one iodine molecule to separate making it T3, the active form. There is a lot at play biochemically. Most people who suffer from illnesses including depression have digestion issues and even though they consume the nutrients, it doesn’t get into the system. There are so many factors. Everyone needs to be treated independently, not as lab rats for big Pharma.
Indeed few foods have the good amount of iodine to make the difference, seafood is by far the top, cod liver being a real good sourse for it, some fruits and vegetables diary products have the right kind of iodine to support thyriod functions. the FDA recommendation of 225 mcg daily is way under what the rest of the world does, Japanese consume around 10 to 12 mg daily and they have very low thyroid issues among its population unlike in America I quoted wrong 70mil it's about 20 million people in America with thyriod issues me being one of them.
I've read a article about the big pharma problems and there quite huge. I had no idea that if you add up the profits of big pharma to the GDP of 183 countries big pharma come in at 15 apolling indeed. here's a little about the issues and this being about anti depressant at that go figure.
If the FDA isn't on the 'take' from 'Big Pharm' they sure ought to be. Take for example some expensive popular antidepressant medications, an April 2002 study in the Journal of American Medical Association compared the effectiveness of Zoloft, St John’s Wort, and a placebo and found that the placebo treated patients had the highest rate of remission of symptoms at 31.9%, and Zoloft’s 24.8% was barely better than the rate of remission with St John’s Wort of 23.9%.
The FDA’s own records on Celexa (citalopram) show the agency knew the drug to be ineffective when it was approved, and the agency based its approval on 2 marginally positive studies out of a total of 17 conducted.
Also, let's look at Pfizer's Celebrex, an
expensiveanti-inflammatory that was pressed upon the medical community as being, unlike Ibuprofin, '
gentle to the stomach;' In fact, it was not. The research was cherry-picked to support that conclusion, they released short term positive data, and witheld
very negativelongterm data. It was as harsh as Ibuprofin on the stomach, yet was not as effective, but Pfizer's marketing moved full steam ahead with their deceptive marketing blitz against other, generic anti-inflammatories. Their income was $51.6 billion. They were hit with large punitive damages a few years later by the FDA, but these fines
are tax-deductibleso the FDA has the option of raising the award to offset the tax windfall.
80% of the Doctor's today remain proscribing Celebrex to their insured customers, because the false advertising was never retracted, and not given a blerb by the FDA on the inside page of the Lancet. Pfizer Stock continues to climb in value.
And big pharma gets doctors to perscribe such crap by giving the doctors, discounts, kick backs, golf trips and all kinds of perks to push their drugs.
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