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Seaweed as source of Iodine.Seaweed has been part of the traditional diet of all coastal cultures.
From Japan and China to Hawaii, Wales, Scotland, Iceland and Ireland.
Seen as a valuable product, nutritive, source of salt, for seasoning/fermenting or as medicine. The main differences between land plants and seaweed is that Land plants require a rigid structure cable of withstanding the constant pull of gravity, which marine plants do not need. Instead they do need a flexible structure to accommodate the varying stresses as result of current and wave motion.
Another important fact ,that al life started at the oceans (water), our common origin.
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Because the mineral content of sea vegetables is that high, it might be at the root of most of the healing properties. Several theories have been put forth to explain the ability of seaweed to reduce heart disease and hypertension but the high mineral content of seaweed at the heart, particularly potassium, calcium, sodium, iodine, zink etc.
The minerals in seaweeds are in colloidal form, meaning they retain their molecular identity while remaining in liquid suspension. Colloids are very small in size and are easily absorbed by the body’s cells.
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The Use of Seaweed & Algae as Nutritional Supplements in the Prevention of Chronic Disease.
Iodine and Health

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For eons the people thought to combine the use of the food of the land with products of the sea.
Recent studies clearly indicate that Iodine might be the main reason for it. Iodine is a relatively rare substance in the soil on our planet and most land based plants do not need it. Uptake through the roots of plants more by accident than part of the process. However we and other animals do need it to live, without iodine no life.
The role of iodine clearly outlined in “the publication of “Iodine for Health by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD” (
by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD)
There are two prevailing concepts with respect to the use and amount of iodine needed.
In the west and science, iodine seen from a narrow perspective. It is an antiseptic that disinfects drinking water and prevents surgical wound infections, and the thyroid gland needs it to make thyroid hormones – and that’s it. The thyroid gland needs iodine to synthesize thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3), hormones that regulate metabolism and steer growth and development. T4 contains four iodine atoms combined with 27 other atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, but owing to its large size accounts for 65 percent of the molecule’s weight. (T3 has three iodine atoms.) The thyroid needs only a trace amount of iodine, 70 µg a day, to produce the requisite amount of T4 and T3.
For that reason thyroidologists say that iodine is best taken just in microgram amounts. They consider consuming more than 1 to 2 mg of iodine a day to be excessive and potentially harmful. People in the U.S. consume an average 240 micrograms (µg) of iodine a day. There is growing evidence that Americans would have better health and a lower incidence of cancer and fibrocystic disease of the breast if they consumed more iodine. A decrease in iodine intake coupled with an increased consumption of competing halogens, fluoride and bromide, has created an epidemic of iodine deficiency in America.
In the orient there is an different picture/view. People in Japan consume more than 12 milligrams (mg) of iodine a day (12,000 µg), a 50-fold greater amount. They eat seaweed, which include brown algae (kelp), red algae (nori sheets, with sushi), and green algae (chlorella). Compared to terrestrial plants, which contain only trace amounts of iodine (0.001 mg/gm), these marine plants have high concentrations of this nutrient (0.5–8.0 mg/gm). When studied in 1964, Japanese seaweed consumption was found to be 4.5 grams (gm) a day and that eaten had a measured iodine concentration of 3.1 mg/gm of seaweed (= 13.8 mg of iodine).
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Other evidence adding biologic plausibility to the hypothesis that iodine prevents breast cancer includes the finding that the ductal cells in the breast, the ones most likely to become cancerous, are equipped with an iodine pump (the sodium iodine symporter, the same one that the thyroid gland has) to soak up this element.
Similar findings apply to fibrocystic disease of the breast. The incidence of fibrocystic breast disease in American women was 3 percent in the 1920s. Today, 90 percent of women have this disorder, manifested by epithelial hyperplasia, apocrine gland metaplasia, fluid-filled cysts, and fibrosis. Six million American women with fibrocystic disease have moderate to severe breast pain and tenderness that lasts more than 6 days during the menstrual cycle. |
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Today 1 in 7 American women (almost 15 percent) will develop breast cancer during their lifetime. Thirty years ago, when iodine consumption was twice as high as it is now (480 µg a day) 1 in 20 women developed breast cancer. Iodine was used as a dough conditioner in making bread, and each slice of bread contained 0.14 mg of iodine. In 1980, bread makers started using bromide as a conditioner instead, which competes with iodine for absorption into the thyroid gland and other tissues in the body. Iodine was also more widely used in the dairy industry 30 years ago than it is now.
Now iodized table salt is the chief source of iodine in a Western diet. But 45 percent of American households buy salt without iodine, which grocery stores also sell. And over the last three decades people who do use iodized table salt have decreased their consumption of it by 65 percent. Furthermore, the much higher concentrations of chloride in salt (NaCl) inhibits absorption of its sister halogen iodine (the intestines absorb only 10 percent of the iodine present in iodized table salt). As a result, 15 percent of the U.S. adult female population suffers from moderate to severe iodine deficiency, which health authorities define as a urinary iodine concentration less than 50 µg |
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Health comparisons between the two countries are disturbing. The incidence of breast cancer in the U.S. is the highest in the world, and in Japan, until recently, the lowest. Japanese women who emigrate from Japan or adopt a Western style diet have a higher rate of breast cancer compared with those that consume seaweed. Life expectancy in the U.S. is 77.85 years, 48th in 226 countries surveyed. It is 81.25 years in Japan, the highest of all industrialized countries and only slightly behind the five leaders – Andorra, Macau, San Marino, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The infant mortality rate in Japan is the lowest in the world, 3.5 deaths under age one per 1,000 live births, half the infant mortality rate in the United States.
| The brown seaweed contain more minerals and iodine than the red and greens.
The green species only about 10% compared with the brown type seaweeds.
For the red species half the amounts of the brown like kelp and rockweed.

The Japanese and other Asians usually rinse and soak their Kombu and other seaweeds in
freshwater for 10-30 minutes prior to using in miso broth and other cooking ,
which removes about 60% of the iodine (Hazutosi).
The soaking or prolonged rinsing of high-iodine content seaweeds may reduce the risks for
excess iodine-induced disease.
Seaweed capsules contain between 0.7-0.8 gram of seaweed, an easy and low cost source organic bound iodine.
Other option salt replacement by seaweed like kelp and focus. (brown type seaweeds)
Indication:
Icelandic kelp, 8000ppm, Norwegian kelp 6000ppm, Atlantic kelp 2500-4000ppm,
Pacific kelps 1000-1800ppm, Fucus spp. 200-500ppm, Wakame 50-150ppm, Sargassum 35ppm,
and Nori 15 ppm. These are all approximate and will vary considerably by season, location, age, a
and harvest practices.
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Health, Spirituality and Human Consciousness.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Our Bodies and Our Selves Reflect the Natural World
Think of a world dominated by waves or vibrations, the universe connected by an underlying fluctuating energy field, a sea of energy connecting everything and anything, and different from the worldview propagated by science, politics, and the establishment.
Here you never act alone. All of our actions affect others and at the end of the day, or at the end of our life, the only thing any of us really “has” is our effect upon others.
People need to be seen as indivisible from their environment. Consciousness represents the greatest form of order known to nature, and this order helps us shape and create order in the world. The living consciousness is a blueprint and building block, not an isolated entity. The consciousness has the power to heal us, to heal the world, to shape it to be as we wish it to be. Reality is created by each of us only by our attention, at the lowest level in our minds and matter, where each of us creates the world. We have the ability to extend our own coherence out into our environment, simply by the act of wishing to create order.
Wellness/relaxation/addiction
The Holistic approach.
The laws of nature, the seasons, natural cycles, the interconnectedness and dependency of all living beings.
The concept of natural harmony, however, is missing in modern science. There is no soul and spirit. Despite advanced technology, knowledge and science, modern people are becoming increasingly sick, both physically and mentally, are unhappy and lonely. Problems such as mental stress, anxiety, depression and nervous debility are common. These problems, which relate to the mind, have a very negative impact on a person’s life. These days, most of the threats to your health and wellbeing come from outside (nearly all are man-made): living conditions, stress, malnutrition, pollution (air, water and soil), conflicts, ideology, politics, exploitation, aggression, repression, restrictions, corruption, and war.
Your body is an antenna, and your body can’t receive and comprehend the whole message from Universe unless it contains all the trace elements of the Universe. Neither can it increase sensibility. It is not the amount in weight but the numbers present within the body that are important. To be available within the body of humans and animals, the minerals and trace elements have to be chelated or in colloidal forms, a concept known as “bio-availability.” |
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Health, Lifestyle and Ageing
To live much longer and in full health has been humanity’s oldest dream. Every culture has cherished practices to offer the possibility of immortality or very long life. Mental and spiritual regimes, elixirs, black magic, diets, arcane sexual practices, and science enlisted to hold death at bay. People from the earliest cultures to the present have tried to stop or at least significantly slow the process of bodily deterioration. The Biological immortality most sought after a life of youthful vigor without physical limitations. To provide a kind of biological immortality can only be achieved if started at an early age. However, people who are born healthy can grow very old and remain in good health. |
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