Widespread Iodine Deficiency Is Lowering IQ

A widespread lack of gestational iodine absorption is responsible for fewer folds (gyrification) in the developing fetal brain.

Iodine is an essential micro-nutrient that is detected in every organ and tissue. It helps alkalize your body's pH, provides your thyroid with the necessary nutrients to produce thyroid hormones, protects against cancer, and is a natural antibacterial agent.

There is a large body of evidence suggesting that low cancer rates in Japan are a result of their substantially higher dietary iodine levels. Iodine has documented antioxidant and anti-proliferative properties.

Iodine's role in gyrification affects the cerebral hemisphere, which is divided into four lobes by sulci and gyri. The sulci (or fissures) are the grooves and the gyri are the "bumps" that can be seen on the surface of the brain. The folding created by the sulci and gyri increases the amount of cerebral cortex that can fit in the skull. This is a developmental process that is a major determiner of a person's potential IQ (intelligence quotient). Fewer folds; less brain matter.

Competing halogens such as bromine, chlorine and fluorine are elected in the absence of iodine; their presence hinders the formation of folds in the developing brain.

Iodine is key to fetal brain development.

These folds are determined in-utero by transplacental thyroxine from the mother. Thyroxine is a brain development hormone made by the thyroid, also known as T4, tetraiodothyronine, or thyroxin, it is principally partially composed of iodine.

A fluoridated, brominated, or chloridated thyroid hormone is an inferior grade hormone, and will not be as effective.

A study has stated that the level of iodine nutrition plays a crucial role in the intellectual development of children. The intelligence damage of children exposed to severe iodine deficiency was profound, demonstrated by 12.45 IQ points loss.

They recovered 8.7 IQ points with maternal iodine supplementation before and during pregnancy. It was found that iodine supplementation before and during pregnancy for women living in severe iodine deficient areas could prevent their children from having an intelligence deficit.

Iodine deficiency affects adults too.

Iodine deficiency also damages adult brains. Even a small deficiency can lower your IQ by up to 15 points.

What you can do.

Start supplementing iodine and (optionally) its main absorption agent, magnesium, ideally taken transdermally (through the skin as a cream).

12.5 mg up to 50 mg of iodine per day is a desirable target, but due to the high levels of environmental halogens, it may be advisable to take more.

• Lugol's iodine or nascent iodine are reliable supplements, as are dietary sources such as seaweed, oysters, eggs, cod, dairy, iodized salt, shrimp, and prunes. Please note that most food crops are grown in soil already deficient of iodine. Some foods (like bread) can have bromine added, which competitively inhibits iodine.


• Chlorinated and fluoridated water should be avoided if possible.


• Bromine: found in pesticides, plastics, some bakery goods, soda, medications, fire retardants, and bromine-based hot tub and swimming pool treatments, ought to be avoided.


• Fluoridated toothpaste and tap water is a big culprit in lowering IQ by competing with iodine in the body as well as having its own toxic effects.

Psilocybin: The Answer To Mental Illness

Psychoactive entheogenic compounds such as psilocybin, which is present in 200 species of mushrooms, is a substance already naturally present in the matter of the human mind.

Of course, entheogenic compounds are suppressed by the pharmaceutical industry "studies" and sanctioned against by the powers-that-be; naturally occurring substances cannot be patented or reliably centralized as they occur in nature.

The decentralization of the human mind.

If entheogenic compounds became mainstream for medicinal use, the very lucrative psychology & counseling industry would go bust (or take a big hit), the huge SSRI drug industry (worth 16.8 billion dollars by 2020) would go under, not to mention that psilocybin can erase the effects of brainwashing by erasing fears and anxiety, boosting empathy and assisting to dissolve negative phenotypical neurological imprints; thus pushing back many years of costly social engineering — the shadow government's worst nightmare is the decentralization of the human mind.

Works like a "surgical intervention".

Yes, really. A five-year study of the drug suggests it could work "like a surgical intervention" for mental illness.

Other psychedelics, such as DMT, also have a similar effect in reforming priorly ingrained neural structures, an article from Reset.me states:

https://youtu.be/EDYctenkgJo

“When any stimulus enters the brain, the brain tries to understand it based on previous experiences,” the video says. “This pattern is like a shortcut, activated every time we face a similar situation.” That’s why trauma or other powerful events can make such an impact when they occur early in life.

The architecture of trauma in the brain.

If you are attacked by a dog as a child, for example, your brain might automatically associate the experience with any canine encounter, causing you to fear dogs for the rest of your life. “We might even react adversely to a distant bark,” the film states. Even if you can logically recognize that every dog is not going to be a threat, your initial reaction could still be one of programmed fear. And if events are repeated with the same result, the patterns only reinforce their connections, building up like scar tissue.

That’s where psychedelics can help. “Ayahuasca hyperactivates the entire brain region where we store and process emotional memory, often uncovering long-forgotten memories,” the video says. “This hyperactivation enables the conscious part of the new brain to temporarily override previously entrenched patterns, allowing new connections to be made.”

Memories can then be reevaluated and experiences addressed with more distance from the reflexive reactions to previous trauma. For example, an ayahuasca journey could allow the person who is afraid of dogs to break the fear’s hold on their brain and move past the negative encounter.

“Ayahuasca users typically describe having emerged with new perspectives on past experiences and deeply rooted patterns of behavior,” the film concludes.

Similarly in psilocybin, brain-imaging studies have shown that the substance targets areas of the brain overactive in depression.

In depressed or traumatized people the connections between brain circuits in the "sense-of-self" region are too strong, the neurology is warped and they become dysfunctional, as the brain is an adaptive organ — under certain traumas it rewires itself into a rut, for some people fetal trauma means they live their lives accustomed to a personality and social attachment style that is maladjusted.

Psychedelics loosen these "sense-of-self", overly self-conscious neural connections and create new ones and/or restore lost connections — psilocybin could provide intense relief and change the neural infrastructure from one of imbalanced self-defeat, to one of renewed balance.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="645"] Psilocybin boosts connectivity in many areas of the brain while slowing down areas associated with depression and stress. Graph illustrates.[/caption]

The Lancet reported that psilocybin mushrooms were able to lift the severe depression of all twelve human volunteer participants, even though they had been struggling with the disease for an average of over seventeen years and despite that fact that none of the subjects had found relief with multiple rounds of standard anti-depressant medication.

This is a powerful substance that has the ability to totally shift human perception.

It's no coincidence that many users of psilocybin often claim to see the world completely differently post-use.

I spoke to one psilocybin user who claimed the following:

"I have social anxiety but now there has been an increase in my comfort level while conversing with other people. I tend to be pessimistic and self-averse, but lately optimism and self-compassion have been major themes in my perception."