If you’re on the path to living healthy because you want to live younger longer by exercising, eating a well balanced diet and watching your weight, you still may be poisoning yourself with toxins. That slice of whole grain bread covered with heart healthy spread could be a culprit. The reason is the bromide content of the bread. Bromide has a negative affect on the absorption of iodine. Iodine is necessary for your thyroid to function properly.
Hypothyroidism, a disease that causes the thyroid to produce a low amount of hormones to run the body’s metabolism, occurs if you have too little iodine in your diet. While you may ingest enough iodine, that doesn’t mean the body gets the benefit of it. Your body has receptors for iodine but bromide also attaches to the same receptors. If you have bromide in your system, it acts like a bully, crowds out the iodine and attaches to the receptor not allowing the iodine to attach. Low iodine means low hormone production. The result on your body may run the gambit from dry skin to weight gain to mental conditions.
Bromines are part of the bread making process in commercial bakeries. Not all commercial bakeries use bromines in their products. Those that do say the bromine in the batter makes the bread elastic and able to hold onto bread hooks. In other words, it makes the production easier and cheaper, but at a possible cost to your health.
Don’t give up bread and think you’re safe from the effects of bromine products so you’ll live younger longer. It’s found other places too. Those delightful fresh strawberries shipped in from California contain bromine. It’s from the methyl bromide pesticides used on the strawberries. A twenty-year study on fruit found in stores shows that more pesticides and fewer vitamins are in the fresh fruit you purchase than there was twenty years ago. Of course, not all strawberry growers use methyl bromide.
Other places you’re liable to find bromines are in carpets and other household fabrics with fire retardants. If you’ve ever heard of someone getting new carpet or moving into a new home and then experiencing personality changes or illness, it might be from the bromine in the carpet. Of course, there are other chemicals also found in new carpet that cause similar problems.
Soft drinks contain bromine. Common drinks like Mountain Dew, Fresca and other drinks with a citrus flavor have brominated vegetable oils. Your hot tub or pool may be another spot you absorb bromines. It’s in the treatments to keep it clean. There’s even bromine in nasal sprays and other medications. One example of an over-the-counter medication had to change its formula is Bromo-Seltzer. The Bromo is Bromo-Seltzer was bromine. The company quit using bromines in their product in 1975.
Not only do bromides crowd out iodine, they also build up in the system and cause problems that range from severe psychiatric symptoms such as depression or paranoia to skin rashes, abdominal pain, fatigue, cardiac arrhythmias and even a metallic taste in your mouth. Statistics indicate that between the years 1920 and 1960, bromine toxicity accounted for at least 20 percent of all admissions to a psychiatric facility or ward.
What can you do to prevent bromine poisoning and live younger longer? If you have a pool or hot tub, avoid chemicals and use an ozone type of treatment. Also, make certain you purchase organically grown fruits and vegetables. Avoid most soft drinks; even if you don’t drink citrus flavored drinks, there are other harmful ingredients in soft drinks. Make certain that your environment, whether a car or building, has adequate ventilation to remove any vapors from treatment. Finally, use as many chemical free personal care products as you can. These few changes can make a huge difference in your family’s health and you’ll age slower while living younger.
Have a fun and successful day,
Vida
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