Re: My adrenal stress profile report

[Guest guest]

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You may be confusing the skin test with the Abrahams (Optimox) loading

test. In the latter, you take a big slug of iodine orally and then

measure how much appears in the urine. The assumption is that if less

comes out than went in, your system really wanted to hold on to it. The

problem is that there are other ways for iodine to leave the body than

through urine. The skin test mainly measures iodine evaporation rates, a

crude way to gage humidity. Both " tests " have been thoroughly discredited.

Chuck

[Guest guest]

Sheila,

You wrote:

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> Do we know of any iodine test that IS accurate?

There are accurate urine assays. However, the Abraham's loading test

purports to measure " iodine deficiency " by measuring iodine in urine

after ingesting a large dose. The assumptions are wrong, not the urine

test.

Chuck

[Guest guest]

Sheila,

You wrote:

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> So what is the name of a test that has been credited Chuck? We keep

> talking about those that have been discredited - what iodine test do we

> ask our doctors to do - or can we do a credible test ourselves.

There is no credible test to measure what the Abraham loading test

purports to measure, because it is at least in part the very premise of

that test that is not credible, the idea that we all need many tens of

milligrams of iodine every day to be healthy. The currently preferred

urine assay for iodine (which the loading test incorporates) measures

iodine (iodide) by its catalytic effect on ceric ions. The technical

name is the Sandell–Kolthoff reaction.

This test is widely used to map iodine deficiency in countries with

iodine deficient soil. The catch is that everyone except for people

associated with Optimox think that iodine deficiency goes away with a

daily intake close to the RDA of 0.15 mg. If they measure that much

iodine production in your urine, you will be within the reference range

for that test. Unless you have reasons to suspect you are getting much

less than the RDA, there is no point in taking the test.

Dunn JT, Crutchfield HE, Gutekunst R, Dunn AD. Methods for measuring

iodine in urine 1993:18-51 International Council for Control of Iodine

Deficiency Disorders The Netherlands.

There is also a radioactive iodine uptake test that measures where

iodine goes in the body. However, this is used to diagnose other

problems, such as cancers that concentrate iodine. You would need to

suspect such a problem to justify that test as well.

Chuck

[Guest guest]

I know! More surprising to me was the admission of a major " iodine doc "

who has promoted them for decades that they are " no longer

recommended " . No admission that they were well known to be bogus all along.

I think I have had some confusion between an iodine loading test and a

thyroid uptake test...

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> The skin test mainly measures iodine evaporation rates, a

> crude way to gage humidity. Both " tests " have been thoroughly discredited.

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> Chuck

[Guest guest]

Thank you Chuck

Sheila

> Sheila,

> There is also a radioactive iodine uptake test that measures where

> iodine goes in the body. However, this is used to diagnose other

> problems, such as cancers that concentrate iodine. You would need to

> suspect such a problem to justify that test as well.

>

> Chuck

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