MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show June 4, 2024 01:43:00
Weren't getting enough iodine on our own. many people had deficiencies. people were having thyroid problems. the part of the body that takes in iodine. if you have an iodine deficiency, that causes thyroid-related problems which can be very serious health consequences. once they starting adding it to table salt it had a big public effect. thyroid problems related to iodine deficiency plummeted. that's why our table salt is iodized to this day. causes no harm and lots of good. and so even if you don't know much about how minerals work in the body, because we have all been eating iodized table s...