WATER & the 4 Steps to Thyroid Health

Today we are going to discuss a health issue that is so important and that pervades all of our lives, and is effecting our children, their health and their growth.

First, to understand this issue fully, we must discuss the thyroid gland. It sits right here in front of the neck. Spiritually, it’s a light blue color, and related to self-expression and activating the will, or choosing to act in accordance with Divine Love.

The thyroid gland creates thyroid hormone,

which modulates your metabolism and your energy levels! Too little thyroid hormone is called “hypothyroidism,” which affects millions of people. When your thyroid is not functioning well, you can experience:

• weight gain
• feeling tired
• weak or drained all the time
• sleepiness
• constipation
• dry skin
• body aches
• heavy periods in women
• feeling cold all the time.

So it’s obvious that we want to take care of and nourish our thyroid glands.

The mineral that sits at the center of your thyroid hormone is IODINE.

So your thyroid gland needs that iodine to make plenty of thyroid hormone, so you can feel energetic and strong, and have a strong metabolism to be able to control your weight effectively.

So do we just take some iodine?

Yes, I think we should all supplement our iodine. I use Atomic Iodine, but there’s more to this story first!

Avoiding 2 important chemicals is just as important as supplementing with iodine.

There are two players that are competing with iodine for the receptor sites on your thyroid gland, and they are fluoride and chloride, or chlorine. And guess what else?! They are BOTH found in our water system! BOTH!

That means they are in your:

• bottled drinks like sodas and beers
• fountain drinks
• tea,
• coffee
• sodas
• juices

When you cook with tap water, it’s going into your foods- when you brush your teeth, it’s absorbing through the mucous membranes in your mouth- when you shower, it’s even absorbing through your skin! It’s everywhere!

Chlorine/chloride in your water

When the city governments purify the water, they use chemicals that break down into chlorine by-products called perchlorates.

Perchlorates go flying into your thyroid gland, competing for those binding sites and pushing iodine away, not letting the iodine get in there and turn into beautiful thyroid hormone.

There are many other by-products, pharmaceutical drugs and nasty heavy metals in the water contributing to cancer and having other hormonal imbalancing effects. To learn more, explore this article from Dr. Mercola.

Flouride in your water

So much has been written about fluoride! It is a very controversial chemical that is added to the public water system in many parts of the world, especially the United States. This debate’s a dinosaur, been raging for over 50 years- so let’s just discuss the most important things that pertain directly to your health:

The US CDC says that fluoride helps to prevent cavities. So they just put it in everyone’s water. Ridiculous.

Even if it did help, that does NOT mean that the government can subtly control us and just put it in the water so that everyone is exposed to it!

We are human beings with basic freedoms, and you must be allowed to make the decision whether you want to expose yourself and your children to fluoride or not, and YOU decide how YOU want to prevent cavities in your self and your family.

Now, I would say NO WAY to flouride- and here’s why-

1. First, and most important, it competes for Iodine in the thyroid gland. It prevents the iodine from binding, pushing it away and starving the thyroid gland of iodine, making it unable to make enough thyroid hormone!
2. Fluoride also causes dental fluorosis– which are white marks on your teeth, and actually weakens teeth! My son suffers from this, and it can affect children (and adults) socially and emotionally.
3. Fluoride gets absorbed into your bones, making them weaker.

Bottom line- We do NOT fully understand the consequences of constant long-term fluoride exposure, and I avoid it like the plague!

So what do we do?

1. Get an “RO” (Reverse Osmosis) system for your drinking water. That will take everything out of the water, including the fluoride and chlorines. See links and details below.
   1. Another option is to drink natural, alive spring water. You can bottle the water yourself, and usually it’s free! Find a local spring here. Learn more about water here.
2. Get a stainless steel water bottle and drink your purified water throughout the day, instead of any tap water, water fountains, bottled drinks, or fast food fountain drinks. I use this for myself, and this one for the kids. They both have no plastic at all!
   1. Please don’t use tap water for your baby formula! The baby’s thyroid is vital to normal growth and development for every organ, including the brain! Use any purified water you can get your hands on instead. Please!
      1. Here’s a stainless steel sippy cup for babies.
3. Supplement your iodine. Again, I use Atomic Iodine; you can also use kelp, seaweed, or other mineral supplements. Do this in cycles to keep your thyroid full of beautiful iodine.
   1. Make sure you get your thyroid hormone levels checked, and monitor them. There is such thing as too much iodine, also, so you want to check instead of guess. The most common marker is the TSH. The lower it is, the more hormone your thyroid is secreting. I recommend that you keep your TSH between 1 and 2.
4. Stop using fluoride toothpaste! I like toothpaste that has baking soda, which is alkaline, which is the opposite of acid, so it prevents bacterial growth and acid formation. Or make your own for dirt cheap. On the other hand, the fluoride in the toothpaste absorbs through the mucous membranes in your mouth, and what’s even worse is that kids tend to swallow while brushing their teeth!

What about when your kids are at school?

Well, it is very inexpensive to install high quality water filters to all of the water fountains. All you need are these inline water filters, and a plumber. These will take out all of the chlorine and toxins, but will not get the fluoride out.

Show your school this article, and ask for a fund to be started. Tell your friends, have everyone donate, and get it done! That’s what I did!

Your other option, of course, is to buy a stainless steel water bottle for your children and have them fill it up, bring it and leave it at school. Write their names on it with huge black marker!! This is great because you can use your home RO system water, which is also fluoride free.

Sugars, sweets and cavities: What we really need to be doing

The bacteria in your mouth, like Streptococcus mutans, live off of SUGAR!

These bacteria eat the sugar and create an acidic environment on the tooth, which breaks down the enamel.

So, instead of eating the sugar and then trying to cover it up with fluoride, and then trying to make up for the negative effects of fluoride on your thyroid gland- just start from the beginning and don’t eat the sugar that causes the cavities in the first place!

If the sweets and sugar drinks are there, you- and your family- are going to eat it!

The most important thing you can do for your kids teeth is DO NOT BRING HOME the sugar drinks, sodas and sweets. If there’s any left in the house, throw it away! Stop buying it! No more sugar! There are no shortcuts to living healthy.

Obviously, floss and brush your teeth twice a day.

Water systems: Reverse Osmosis removes everything.

Fluoride is a tiny molecule, and so the only reasonable way to get fluoride completely out of the water is to use Reverse Osmosis, or an “RO” system. RO systems can run anywhere from 200-600 dollars, and can be installed under your sink. I personally use Multipure filters- the one I use is here.

Another option is to get an RO system from Home Depot or Lowes, which is what I used to have. They’re about $200 – $350.

Another option is to ask your plumber to put one together for you himself. Either way, you’ll need a plumber to install the system for you, unless you’re good with that stuff. 😉

Mercola has reasonable options here, but they only remove 40-60% of the fluoride. You have to go with reverse osmosis if you want everything out.

Getting an RO system is a no-brainer investment for your health

and for the health of your family!

It’s the most important step you can take, so do it. 

Now, for the whole house:

If you can afford it, you can get a purification system that will take everything out except for the fluoride, since it’s such a tiny molecule. My plumber put together a system for us for a few hundred dollars. If I can get links to those filters, I will post them here, I promise.

We did that so we could feel confident showering and brushing our teeth with that water. Remember, the chemicals in the water are absorbed through the mucous membranes in your mouth, even if you don’t swallow any of it, and through your skin when you shower.

This is one of my most important messages!

Following these guidelines WILL transform your body and your energy! And most importantly, do the same things for your kids, please! Help them grow healthy and strong.

Cheers!

Love,

Dr. Moses  🙂

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