Boost Your Iodine Levels

I wrote an article about adrenal fatigue recently and I mentioned the importance of taking iodine.   Thinking about it I realized I should expound more on the many great ways to get iodine into your diet and into your life.

Sea vegetables are an excellent source of iodine and other trace minerals.  Sea kelp is available as granules you can sprinkle on your food.  I like to add it to soups.  But you can also put it on your salads, casseroles or any other dish that you like.  For your convenience kelp also comes in tablets and capsules so you can just take it with your other daily supplements.

Another fun and delicious way to get your iodine is with tasty snacks.  Seaweed crackers and nori treats are available online and in your local health food stores.  Asian or Thai markets are another great resource to find products made with seaweed.

Dried fish or fish sauce also have good amounts of iodine In them.
Iodine boosts your metabolism and keeps your thyroid in good shape.   Which also helps your immune system and  can help you lose weight.  Or gain weight if you need it.

I think getting plenty of iodine is not just important for people with thyroid issues.

Everyone can benefit!

Spanish Fish Stew that will Boost Your Metabolism

Here is a delicious stew that is also pure medicine.

A century ago in England a doctor figured out that when he gave

his elderly patients, who were feeling poorly, thyroid

sandwiches, they felt years younger.

I don't know about you but I am not planning on eating those

sandwiches anytime soon. Yuck! Besides, how would you make

them? I know that some people also take raw thyroid in pills

and I also have done this.

This is actually even better than that because it has all the

nutrients from the head of the fish, not just the thyroid.

That's very important since we need all of it. So it is full

of iodine and many other goodies. Besides, wouldn't you much

rather eat gourmet food than just pop pills?

Spanish Fish Stew

1/4 cup olive oil
2 medium onions
3 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 stick celery, finely chopped
1 green pepper, finely chopped
1 large can plum tomatoes
1 1/2 teaspoons dried red pepper flakes
1 bay leaf
4 cups fish fumet (recipe follows)
Salt and freshly ground pepper
2 pounds fresh wild red snapper, cut in 3 by 2 inch pieces

Heat olive oil gently in a deep saucepan. Add onions, garlic,

celery, and green pepper and cook a few minutes until

transulucent on medium heat. Be careful not to burn the

garlic.

Add tomatoes, red pepper flakes, bay leaf and fish stock and

cook for about 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Add red snapper and cook covered for 5 minutes.

Recipe modified from "The Mediterranean Kitchen" by Joyce

Goldstein (mine is more like a cajun redfish courtboullion)

Quick Fish Stock

Just a nutritious as stock made with heads and carcasses of

fish but without all the hassle.

1 cup bonito flakes (Asian markets and online)
2 quarts cold water
1/4 cup vinegar

Put all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to boil. Skim.

Lower heat and simmer 2-3 hours. Let cool and strain. Use

right away or freeze for later.

Fish stock recipe from "Eat Fat, Lose Fat" by Dr. Mary Enig and

Sally Fallon of the Weston Price Foundation

I serve this stew by ladling over a multi-grain cereal (Kashi

pilaf also works great) that I have previously soaked several

hours in 2 tablespoons raw vinegar and then cooked in the rice

cooker.

I hope you try this. If you serve it without the grain it is

truly low carb.

Everyone needs to take good care of their thyroid and I can't

think of a more tasty way to do this!