Re: pre-iodine~ blessed cretins

My heart goes out to you Zophie~ and I believe that your daughter is an angel:)

Yes, I believe that iodine will help! It has been reported that iodine supplementation DOES improve intellectual function in children. I am sure that you know that autism has many causative factors, it is also a theory that iodine deficiency is a possible causative factor of autism. info on that here:

http://curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=1177122

Are you acquainted with Jenny McCarthy's story? :

http://www.generationrescue.org/

Improved iodine status is associated with improved mental performance of...     RR by wombat   4 year  864  Iodine Supplementati

Ban wombat from   THIS Forum  Un-Ban wombat from   THIS Forum wombat Improved iodine status is associated with improved mental performance of schoolchildren... PM wombat     email wombat Date: 11/11/2008 7:40:47 PM   ( 4 year ago ) Hits:   864   Size: 4993 char.     Replies:   1  URL:   http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1297711 Status:       RR [Message recommended by a moderator!] Edit Disallowed ... in Benin. This is interesting, shows that improved Iodine status is associated with improved intellectual capabilities, regardless of initial iodine status. follow link for complete text: http://tinyurl.com/c8dbn59 abstract~ Background: An adequate iodine supply in utero and shortly after birth is known to be crucial to an individual's physical and mental development. The question of whether iodine supplementation later in life can exert a favorable influence on the mental performance of iodine-deficient populations was addressed in various studies, but with contradictory results. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the effect of an improvement in iodine status on mental and psychomotor performance of schoolchildren (7–11 y) who were moderately to severely iodine deficient. Design: The study, which was originally planned as a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled intervention, was carried out in an iodine-deficient population of schoolchildren (n = 196) in northern Benin. As the population began to have access to iodized salt during the 1-y intervention period, the study population was split post hoc—on the basis of urinary iodine concentrations—into a group with improved iodine status and a group with unchanged iodine status. Changes in mental and psychomotor performance over the intervention period were compared. Results: Children with increased urinary iodine concentrations had a significantly greater increase in performance on the combination of mental tests than did the group with no change in urinary iodine concentrations. Conclusions: An improvement in iodine status, rather than iodine status itself, determined mental performance in this population, which was initially iodine deficient. These findings suggest a "catch-up" effect in terms of mental performance... & a few key points... ...This study showed that improvements in urinary iodine status in the study population reflected significantly improved mental performance on a combination of tests. Children whose urinary iodine concentrations were basically unchanged during the intervention period showed less progress in performance, even though their iodine statuses as measured by several variables were, on average, better than those of their improved counterparts both initially and at the end of the study. These findings indicate "catch-up," ie, improvement toward full potential as a result of iodine supplementation... ...The improvements in test performance found in the present study were most pronounced on the exclusion test and the colored progressive matrixes, suggesting an improvement in general abstract reasoning. Improvement was also seen on the test for verbal fluency, in agreement with the results of a study in Malawi in which improved verbal fluency was one of the most pronounced effects of iodine supplementation (9). Because all the tests used, except the colored progressive matrixes, have a time limit within which a response must be given, these findings may indicate improvement in the level of task performance, improvement in speed of task performance, or both... ...Improved attention or concentration may facilitate improvement in mental function (21). According to Tiwari et al (27), iodine-deficient children are slow learners with a concurrent low "motivation to achieve." These authors ascribe poor performance to neurologic impairment and to a paucity of psychological stimulation. In hypothyroidism, mood disorders—including depression, social withdrawal, and paucity of speech—are common phenomena (28). Thus, it may be that poor performance under conditions such as those of our study reflects a general state of apathy, accounting not only for a lack of motivation but also for other factors important in cognitive functioning, such as attentiveness and concentration... ....Because of the current considerable rate of progress in universal salt iodization, further research in this field is increasingly difficult to carry out. However, constraints in iodine supply and metabolism, both in individuals and in population groups with insufficient access to sources of iodine, will continue to call for better insight into the relations between iodine status and mental functioning. Although our study showed that restoration of impaired psychoneurologic processes is to some extent still possible in schoolchildren, many questions remain. Is there an age threshold beyond which restoration is no longer possible? Are different aspects of cognitive functioning restored at different speeds? Which iodine variables are most closely associated with changes in cognitive functioning? This study was not designed to answer these questions. However, it does indicate that mental performance of iodine-deficient children is positively influenced by iodine supplementation, whether through the use of iodized salt or the administration of iodized oil.... Add To Favorites! Alert Webmaster & Moderators Already alerted!  Already alerted! 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