see http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/05/iodine-and-hashimotos-thyroiditis-part-i/

We live in a chemical-dependent society, from the spray we use to clean our bathroom to the gas we pump into our cars. The air is polluted, our water is treated, and our food is genetically modified or tainted with toxic chemicals.

Our medical paradigm is pharmaceutical instead of holistic. How many of us have taken OTC drugs most of our lives, starting with “cold remedies” as children, the common aspirin, vaccines, and drugs for degenerative illnesses. All these chemicals enter our bodies and many of them never leave. They get stored in our tissues.

So the basic idea behind fasting is that digestion takes a lot of energy. When you fast, that energy is diverted into housecleaning. The body dumps toxic material that has been stored. Go a couple days without food, and note how sick you become. You’re not sick because you are starving for energy but because these chemicals are being dumped into the bloodstream for excretion from the body. A couple times I have fasted I’ve tasted drugs I took decades ago.

We’re not machines; our bodies are self-healing. If you cut your hand, the cells will grow anew and repair it. Broken bones knit together. A fever speeds metabolism and kills bacteria, but we fear it and suppress is. A cold is the body’s way of throwing off poisons, but we suppress the “symptoms” with drugs, which halt the cleansing process. When we are sick, we should fast as do the animals, but doctors push us to eat to “keep up our strength.” It’s completely ass backwards.

Pasteur’s theories form the backbone of medical science today. Pasteur taught that foreign bacteria enter our bodies and create sickness. Antibiotics catapulted medical science into its dominant position today. A contemporary of Pasteur, Claude Bernard, taught that “The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.” In other words, a healthy body (terrain) gives no ground to bacteria to proliferate. There is no food for them. Just as a dirty garbage can attracts flies because they find a food supply, a dirty body attracts bacteria. Pasteur on his deathbed is quoted as saying, “Bernard was right; the pathogen is nothing; the terrain is everything.”

Minerals in our body act to channel communication amongst the cells. If your mineral balance is off, your body’s health will be compromised. Here’s a fascinating article that explains much of this: Minerals by Tuberose. The article also explains how calcium to potassium ratio can affect thyroid function.

If you avoid the sun and don’t produce enough vitamin D, then you won’t absorb enough calcium. If you have enough vitamin D and calcium but not enough K2, then the calcium may not be stored properly in the body.

People starting on a quest for health clean up their diet and begin to eat natural foods, which is great. But a body that is burdened with toxins may not assimilate the food properly. Communication amongst the cells may still be hindered. If you are low in a mineral or vitamin, will just eating your daily requirement make up the shortfall?

If you had a home that you wanted to redo, if you wanted to buy new furniture, put up some drapes and paint, wouldn’t you first get rid of the old furniture? Clean the windows and walls? Tear down the old drapes? If you bring in new furniture to a home that is full, where does the new furniture go? Does it get piled in the hallway making movement through the house difficult?

If your body is incapable of producing offspring, I believe the reason is that the body is not healthy enough to grow and sustain new life. Would you want someone to manipulate your hormones to force a pregnancy in a body that is not prepared? I’ve read of some tribes that prepare mothers-to-be six months before conception by cleansing and nutrition.

And ultimately, our thoughts and feelings affect our bodies. Stress will kill us just as surely as poor nutrition will. Worry, fear, anger, hate, all these emotions suppress our immune system and tell our bodies that we hate being alive. Use the Hermetic Principle of Polarity:

Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled. — The Kybalion.

Worry is on the same continuum as faith or confidence or assurance. When you worry, transmute that worry into confidence. Change your vibrational state. Hate is on the same continuum as love. When you find yourself hating, raise the vibration to love. A body that vibrates at a higher level will be healthier than one vibrating at a low level.

I hope this was helpful.

There are sources of iodine other than salt, such as fish and seaweed. I just know so little about it.