If there is not enough dietary iodine, the thyroid swells up in an effort to make more hormones, a condition that is called hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid). The swelling is called goitre. Important iodine facts. 1  Iodine deficiency in pregnancy causes a severe form of retardation in the child called cretinism. 2  Until well into this century, iodine deficiency was a serious problem in the western world. 3  To solve the iodine problem, salt producers began adding iodine to table salt around 1924.
What is IPT? Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) is an effective alternative cancer treatment. It uses a combination of two traditional drugs â insulin and a chemotherapy drug. Some decades ago it was discovered that cancer cells had highly active insulin receptors, making them âsugar hungryâ.
A phenomenon that is often used to. explore such changes at the level of the neuron is termed long term potentiation. Long term potentiation (Figure 1) is an experimental method in which axons coming from one. part of a rat's hippocampal formation, the entorhinal cortex, are stimulated many times in. rapid succession, which leads to an increase in activity in another part of the hippocampal. formation, the dentate gyrus.