{"id":8276,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/iodine-_\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:57","slug":"iodine-_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/iodine-_\/","title":{"rendered":"Iodine:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scs.illinois.edu\/~mainzv\/HIST\/awards\/OPA%20Papers\/2007-Swain.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.scs.illinois.edu\/~mainzv\/HIST\/awards\/OPA%20Papers\/2007-Swain.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard Courtois <\/a>(1777-1838) in 1811, iodine is a trace element, essential to (human) life, found in rocks, seawater and some types of soil. &nbsp;Sea fish and shell fish are also good sources of iodine, and it can be found in milk in the UK. &nbsp;It has an important biological function in that it is used to synthesize thyroid hormones that act on gene transcription in the process of regulating the basal metabolic rate. &nbsp;Some of the recommended amounts of iodine in food &nbsp;are as follows, given in micrograms (mcg): 1-3 years: 900 mcg, 4-8 years: 300 mcg, 9-13 years: 600 mcg, 17 years and older: 1100 mcg, pregnant\/lactating women 14-18 years: both 900 mcg, pregnany\/lactating women 19 years and older: both 1,100 mcg. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"iodine_deficiency\">Iodine deficiency<\/a>, Metabolism<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered by Bernard Courtois (1777-1838) in 1811, iodine is a trace element, essential to (human) life, found in rocks, seawater and some types of soil. &nbsp;Sea fish and shell fish are also good sources of iodine, and it can be found in milk in the UK. &nbsp;It has an important biological function in that it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/iodine-_\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iodine:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}