Iodine Deficiency (Insufficient Assimilation of Iodine)

Iodine is the fuel of your thyroid — the element that drives your metabolism, regulates your growth, generates your inner warmth. Without iodine your system shuts down. Metabolism slows, energy fades, the body grows cold. From a medical standpoint this is an undersupply — a deficiency of a trace element that must be obtained through food.

But there are people who take in enough iodine and still cannot use it. Their body absorbs it — and cannot process it. Not because the iodine is missing. But because something inside them refuses to take it in. When your body fails to assimilate a nutrient responsible for growth and warmth, a question arises that goes beyond biochemistry: what inside you refuses to grow? What inside you does not want to become warm?