Iodine Forte - Phil Richards Performance

Iodine Forte by Phil Richards Performance contains natural sources of Kelp, Tyrosine and Selenium, this is a powerful thyroid booster designed to maintain a healthy thyroid, boost the metabolism and raise energy levels. 

• Iodine nourishes the thyroid gland to maintain a healthy metabolism

• Iodine deficiency may lead to thyroid problems

• Contains Kelp, which is a rich natural source of iodine

• Iodine is essential for a healthy cardiovascular function

• Also increases energy levels

• L-Tyrosine is a direct precursor to Thyroxine, a primary thyroid hormone, as well as Adrenaline and Nor-adrenaline

• Selenium is a component of the enzyme that helps convert T4 to T3 peripherally, so deficiencies of selenium may impair thyroid function and promote hypothyroidism

Containing natural sources of Kelp, Tyrosine and Selenium, this is a powerful thyroid booster designed to maintain a healthy thyroid, boost the metabolism and raise energy levels. 

Containing natural sources of Kelp, Tyrosine and Selenium, this is a powerful thyroid booster designed to maintain a healthy thyroid, boost the metabolism and raise energy levels.

A deficiency in Iodine may lead to thyroid problems, a sluggish metabolism, excess body fat, and low energy levels. Iodine Forte nourishes the thyroid gland and helps improve glucose metabolism, which in turn increases energy levels as well as boosting mood, concentration and productivity. It also helps to burn excess fat. Tyrosine assists in the production of the thyroid hormone, while Selenium plays a vital role in maintaining proper thyroid function. Adequate iodine is necessary for proper thyroid function and every cell in the body depends upon thyroid hormones for regulation of their metabolism.

Get back in the game with Iodine Forte.

The importance of a healthy Thyroid Gland

It is well documented that a diet low in iodine is associated with hypothyroidism or under-active thyroid. The best supply of iodine is from sea salt and seaweed. In Japan, for instance, the daily intake of iodine from seaweeds is estimated to average 3mg per day and thyroid disorders are known to be extremely rare.

Iodine

Iodine is essential for the formation of thyroid hormones, which regulate the body's energy production, promote growth and development, and help burn excess fat.

Iodine in the form of Kelp helps to keep estrogen from binding to the estrogen receptors in the breast. For some patients that have an iodine deficiency, kelp can provide an immediate relief from breast cyst pain.

Kelp is a seaweed that extracts components from seawater and concentrates them in its frond-shaped leaves, making it an abundant source of vitamins and minerals like iodine, potassium, magnesium, calcium and iron.

Kelp is mostly taken for its naturally high iodine content, which helps the functioning of the thyroid gland.  Because of its natural iodine content, kelp has a normalizing effect on the thyroid gland. In other words, thin people with thyroid trouble can gain weight by using kelp, and obese people can lose weight with it.

Kelp has been proven to effectively raise the levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone, the hormone produced by the pituitary gland to stimulate the production of thyroid hormones in the thyroid glands.

L-Tyrosine

L-Tyrosine is a direct precursor to Thyroxine, a primary thyroid hormone, as well as Adrenaline and Nor-adrenaline. Thyroxine has been found to increase metabolic rate and control growth rate. L-Tyrosine is a necessary amino acid in the production of neurotransmitters including epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine. L-Tyrosine also appears to have a mild stimulatory effect on the central nervous system.

Patients with a Thyroxine deficiency have symptoms including excess weight gain, cold hands and feet, and decreased basal metabolism. L-Tyrosine has been found to assist in optimizing thyroid hormone levels, increased mood, concentration, and productivity.

L-Tyrosine is used to treat conditions including depression or mood disorder, poor coping ability, fatigue, low sex drive and low metabolism. It can also improve endurance under stress and is effective as an appetite suppressant. When taken properly, L-Tyrosine can assist a sluggish thyroid and aid the dieter in losing excess, unwanted pounds.

Selenium

Selenium is a component of the enzyme that helps convert T4 to T3 peripherally, so deficiencies of selenium may impair thyroid function and promote hypothyroidism. According to the New England Journal, "selenium deficiency can result in thyroid injury and decreased extrathyroidal triiodothyronine production" (reduced peripheral T3 production.)

Some experts believe that low T3 levels may be characteristic in areas with insufficient selenium. Selenium is the key mineral which protects the body from mercury toxicity.  Remember mercury inhibits thyroid function as well as a host of other bodily functions within the body, how dentists can still put this poison in peoples body everyday and declare its safe is just beyond belief!

What exactly does the thyroid gland and thyroid hormones do?

The function of the thyroid gland is to take iodine and convert it into thyroid hormones: thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). Thyroid cells are the only cells in the body which can absorb iodine. These cells combine iodine and the amino acid tyrosine to make T3 and T4. T3 and T4 are then released into the blood stream and are transported throughout the body where they control metabolism (conversion of oxygen and calories to energy).

Nervous Disorders

Brain cells have more T3 receptors than any other tissues, which mean that a proper uptake of thyroid hormone is essential for brain cells to work properly.  So you won’t be surprised to hear that hypothyroidism can cause all sorts of nervous disorders.  Most common is depression.

Thyroid Hormone: Serotonin’s Cousin: Scientists now consider thyroid hormone one of the major players in brain chemistry disorders.  And as with any brain chemical disorder, until treated correctly, thyroid hormone imbalance has serious effects on the patient’s emotions and behaviour.

Most of your cognitive abilities such as concentration, memory, and attention span – as well as mood emotions depend on normal thyroid levels.  Mounting evidence suggest that T3, the most potent form of thyroid hormone, is a bona fide brain chemical.  It is found in the junctions of the nerve cells called synapses that allow neurotransmitters to communicate with each other.

This thyroid hormone also regulates the levels and actions of serotonin, noradrenaline, and GABA, now accepted as the main chemical transmitters implicated in both depression and some anxiety disorders.  Maintaining normal serotonin and noradrenaline levels in the brain depends to a great extent on whether the correct amounts of T3 is available.

Extensive human research has led scientists to conclude that serotonin levels in the brain decrease if T3 is not delivered in the right amount.  Thyroid hormone in the brain has the ability to enhance the production of serotonin in brain cells.  But if the thyroid is failing and is unable to rescue brain chemistry or provide the extra thyroid hormone needed, serotonin will continue to fall, and depression escalates.

Also a deficit of T3 in the brain is likely to result in noradrenaline working inefficiently as a chemical transmitter, and noradrenaline deficiency or inefficiency is, in some people, the chemical reason for depression.

Findings that T3 is very highly concentrated near the junctions between brain cells strongly support the concept of T3 as a brain chemical transmitter that is essential for maintaining normal mood and behaviour. The potent thyroid hormone T3 is found in greater quantities in the limbic system, a region of the brain that regulates mood, emotions, and perception of happy and sad events.

The resemblance of thyroid hormone to other important brain chemicals is also striking: the amino acid tyrosine is an essential constituent both of thyroid hormone and of the brain chemicals noradrenaline and dopamine.

Iodine helps eliminate fibrocystic disease and ovarian cysts, in part, because of iodine’s interaction with estrogen. There are three estrogens in the human body and iodine helps to metabolize the two dangerous estrogens (estrone and 16-alphahydroxyestrone) into a neutral estrogen (estriol).

Hypothyroidism and Heart Disease

According to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a slightly underactive thyroid -- the condition known as subclinical hypothyroidism -- is a major heart disease risk for older women. In the Dutch study, which is being called "The Rotterdam Study," it was found that older women with subclinical hypothyroidism were almost twice as likely as women without this condition to have blockages in the aorta. They were also twice as likely to have had heart attacks.

Dr. Michael Donaldson says, “Iodine stabilizes the heart rhythm, lowers serum cholesterol, lowers blood pressure, and is known to make the blood thinner as well, judging by longer clotting times seen by clinicians.

Iodine is not only good for the cardiovascular system, it is vital. Sufficient iodine is needed for a stable rhythmic heart beat. Iodine, directly or indirectly, can normalize serum cholesterol levels and normalize blood pressure. Iodine attaches to insulin receptors and improves glucose metabolism, which is good news for people with diabetes. Iodine and iodine-rich foods have long been used as a treatment for hypertension and cardiovascular disease; yet, modern randomized studies examining the effects of iodine on cardiovascular disease have not been carried out.”

The heart is a target organ for thyroid hormones. Marked changes occur in cardiac function in patients with hypo- or hyperthyroidism. 

Every cell in the body depends upon thyroid hormones for regulation of their metabolism.

Energy levels and Thyroid Hormone

Thyroid hormone plays a huge role in our ability to metabolise energy from food, the active form of thyroid T3 travels in the blood to the cells and communicates with special receptor sites which transmit chemical messages into the cells to produce mitochondria (energy furnaces).  The more mitochondria cells you have the more calories you burn and the less fat that you will store.

Many people with hypothyroidism suffer from anaemia. This may be because of poor absorption of B12, when abnormal size and shape of red blood cells will confirm this diagnosis.

For the bone marrow to manufacture new blood cells it needs to be at the right body temperature.  The generally low level of red cell production that is, anaemia, which won’t respond to vitamins or iron, but only to thyroid production.

Every cell in the body has receptors for thyroid hormone. These hormones are responsible for the most basic aspects of body function, impacting all major systems of the body. You can think of the thyroid as the central gear in a sophisticated engine. If that gear breaks, the entire engine goes down with it.

There is an old medical saying that just a few grains of thyroid hormone can make the difference between an idiot and an Einstein. It aptly characterizes the thyroid as a quickener of the tempo of life. All of the endocrine glands play remarkable roles in the body's economy.

In terms of immunology, the thyroid gland acts as a gatekeeper: every 17 minutes all the blood in the body passes through the thyroid, where this gland's secretion of iodine kills germs that have come into the body (through absorption of food in the digestive tract, skin injury, respiratory intake, etc.)

Pathogenic micro-organisms, the primary causative agent for disease in the body, are made weaker during their passage through the thyroid gland. With each "17 minute passage" they are made still weaker until most are killed, provided the thyroid has its normal supply of iodine.

Selenium is a component that helps convert T4 to T3, so deficiencies of selenium can impair thyroid function and worsen hypothyroidism.  So if you are on thyroid medication and you still do not feel any better then it could be due to the fact that you have a selenium deficiency which would be very common today with our nutrient deficient soils.

The enzyme thyroid peroxidase, converts T₄ to T₃ and is blocked by mercury in the body, primarily from dental mercury amalgam fillings and thimerosol, a mercury preservative found in vaccinations and other medicines. Genistein and daidzein from soy also inactivate thyroid peroxidase enzyme.

Selenium has an unusually high "binding affinity" for mercury, this means that when the two elements are found together, they tend to connect, forming a new substance. This makes it difficult for the human body to absorb the mercury separately. So when mercury "binds" to selenium, it's no longer free to "bind" to anything else -- like brain tissue. 

Symptoms of Untreated Hypothyroidism (low thyroid hormones) in Adults 

 • Cardiovascular System (slowed heart rate, increased diastolic blood pressure)

• Central Nervous System (decreased concentration, loss of interest and/or pleasure, depression)

• Gastrointestinal Tract (decreased secretion of digestive juices, constipation)

• Musculoskeletal System (muscle stiffness, cramps, weakness, pain, muscle stretch reflexes, muscle enlargement, atrophy, joint pain and stiffness)

• Kidneys (fluid retention and edema)

• Liver (increased LDL cholesterol in the blood, elevated triglycerides in the blood)

• Reproductive System (abnormally heavy menstrual bleeding, missed ovulation, decreased fertility, missed menstrual periods)

• Skin and Hair (thickening and dryness of the skin, dry, coarse hair and/or loss of hair, loss of lateral eyebrow hair)

Symptoms of Untreated Hyperthyroidism (high thyroid hormones) in Adults 

 • Cardiovascular System (increased heart rate, increased diastolic blood pressure, heart flutter - atrial fibrillation)

• Central Nervous System (difficulty sleeping, difficulty concentrating, nervousness, irritability, changes in vision)

• Gastrointestinal Tract (increased frequency of bowel movements, increased appetite, weight loss)

• Musculoskeletal System (fatigue and muscle weakness)

• Kidneys (leg edema)

• Reproductive System (decreased menstrual flow, reduced fertility)

• Endocrine System (enlarged thyroid)

• Other (intolerance to heat, increased sweating, enlargement and protruding of the eyes)

Recommended use:

1–3 capsules with breakfast

Nutritional details:

Servings per conatiner: 30-90 depends on dosage

Servings size: 1-3 capsules

No artificial ingredients

No GM products

No animal proteins

Suitable for vegetarians and vegans

Active ingredients:

Typically per capsule / # RDA%

Kelp 200mg / #

(Providing 2mg actual Iodine)

Tyrosine 500mg / #

Selenium 100mcg / 181%

* Recommended Daily Allowance  # RDA not established

Ingredients:

Tyrosine, Kelp, (HPMC) Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, L-Selenomethionine, Silica, Magnesium Stearate, Potassium Iodide.

Allergen Information:

None

If you are taking any prescribed medication or have any medical conditions always consult your doctor or pharmacist before taking vitamins or supplements.

Keep out of sight and reach of young children.

Do not exceed stated recommended intake.

Food supplements must not be used as a substitute for a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.

If pregnant or lactating, consult your doctor before use.

Store in a cool, dry place.