Re: Re:Iodine safety

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Thanks for your post . I do indeed use a great deal of iodized salt,

interspersed with sea salt.too. I like them both. I am extremely heavy

handed with the salt shaker and having to take 3 kinds of blood pressure

meds no doubt proves it. I do no however eat canned foods - my veggies are

fresh, some grown (land) in my back yard in pots in the summer months

and the others brought fresh, not canned - at grocery stores. I don't use

frozen dinners, or frozen meat dish (meatloaf, braised beef, etc.) - - I

use fresh meats. Maybe thats why I'm so heavy handed on the salt???

Anyway there are a number of seasoning options now in the grocery store and

I have pretty regularly been using McCormacks Mediterranean Sea Salt blend,

which I use on MOST of my foods now - its delicious. I have no clue if this

is iodiized , but certainly I will check.

I would never take such huge amounts over the RDA as shown below. I find

that extremely scary.

Thanks again for the info below. With the info I'm accumulating, I'm bound

to get warmer soon!

Duffy

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:31 AM, <res075oh@...> wrote:

> In addition: You probably get enough in your diet unless you're in a

> third world country or one of the other locations where the soil is

> iodine deficient and you eat locally grown foods. If you use iodized

> salt you probably get a lot from that.

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> I read recently that we typically get about twice the RDA in our diets

> in the US; I don't know how valid that is. Further, I read that

> toxicity starts for some people in the range of 800 or 900 mcg/day. The

> quack iodine sites recommend 50,000 or 100,000 mcg/day; that quantity

> has never been found in a typical diet anywhere on earth throughout

> history so it's not a very well thought our recommendation. There is

> absolutely no credible studies anywhere that support such a need.

> Besides, some people [only a small percentage] would die if they take

> that much. However, many people take that much or at least a lot more

> than RDA and do not die or even seem to have too many negative

> responses. OTOH many on the iodine lists report symptoms of iodine

> toxicity and are told that they are experiencing something else;

> " bromine detox " for example, or some other BS.

>

> Luck

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> > Posted by: " Chuck B " gumboyaya@...

> > <mailto:gumboyaya@...?Subject=%20Re%3AIodine%20safety>

> > gumbo482001 <gumbo482001>

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> > Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:48 pm (PST)

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> > Duffy wrote:

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> > > Is there any amount of iodine which is safe to take....

> >

> > Depends on what you mean by " safe. " Studies have shown that any

> > significant supplementation, on the order of the RDA or 0.15 mg, will

> > increase the incidence of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. The threshold for the

> > haptan anaphylactoid reactions is about 3 mg per day.

> >

> > Chuck

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