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Essentially all (90%) Goitres are caused by a deficiency of Iodine in the diet, causing the Thyroid gland to grow in an attempt to gather more of this element. Selenium deficiencymay be a contributory cause.

Iodine may be the heaviest element in human metabolism.

it is used to make at least two hormones, and thus may cause different diseases.

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Paracelsus in the early 1500s noted that cretinous children were commonly born to women with goitre. The disease is more common in women, probably because the fetus demands as much iodine as it can obtain.

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