Iodine – a vital and often overlooked trace mineral
Do you remember scraping your knee as a child, and your mum painting that brown liquid on it? That would have been Iodine. It might have burnt, but it was doing a great job of cleaning and disinfecting the wound.
Iodine is necessary and crucial for the thyroid gland in producing the thyroid hormones, which are taking care of our metabolism. But Iodine is playing a role in a lot of other vital processes in the body. In fact, the ovaries have the second highest concentration of Iodine in the body after the thyroid gland.