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So you've posted that stupid green text here 20 times and now you're an expert on iodine deficiency. You know which supplemental iodine sources cut it and which don't. You know fluoride and boron compete for uptake. You know all the ways not getting enough iodine is fucking us up.

Ok.

How do you know if your iodine supplementation has actually succeeded in raising your levels to the ideal range? Does it go beyond just "I feel better"? Is anyone actually getting lab work done? And, if so, what labs?

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ㅤ I just have to know if I'm getting enough iodine.

So you've posted that stupid green text here 20 times and now you're an expert on iodine deficiency. You know which supplemental iodine sources cut it and which don't. You know fluoride and boron compete for uptake. You know all the ways not getting enough iodine is fucking us up. Ok. How do you know if your iodine supplementation has actually succeeded in raising your levels to the ideal range? Does it go beyond just "I feel better"? Is anyone actually getting lab work done? And, if so, what labs? ㅤ ㅤ *I just have to know if I'm getting enough iodine.*

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[–] • 10 pts

Rub a drop of lugols solution on the inside of your elbow. If it takes hours to disappear, you are likely sufficent in iodine. But if it disappears in less than an hour, you are likely deficient.

[–] • 3 pts

Thanks. A real answer to the question wow!

[–] • 3 pts

BTW, I took op's advice years ago. I cannot tell the difference between evaporation and absorbtion. Sweat or bathing will remove it as well. I am highly skeptical of this advice now.

Be advised, if you have Hashimotos disease, the most common cause of hypothyroidism in the western world, iodine will make it worse.

If you have actual thyroid dysfunction. Find a doctor to get you a complete thyroid panel.

Boron is good for you, can legit detoxify brain glands, and is a vital bone building block - bromine is what you were thinking of.

https://youtu.be/GV0QR-irkbk

[–] • 1 pt

Good point on the faults of this skin test.

You're right about Boron/Bromine. I mixed that up. Bromine - something they put in enriched grain products?

idk, from what I've gathered here I'm taking a very high dosage of iodine, so I may just get some labs to confirm it's time to dial it back.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

was my answer... insufficient?

[–] • 2 pts

I don't know. Now I'm going to have to feed your answer to another user until they die to find out.

[–] • 3 pts

Keep taking more until it makes you sick, then roll it back 20%. Good luck.

[–] • 5 pts (edited )

Um, no. You can trigger permanent thyroid conditions with this advice. It accumulates in your system and by the time you feel symptoms of overdose, it can be too late, especially if you are taking ridiculous amounts.

Take 1 drop of 2% iodine per week - which is 2,500 mcg of iodine over 7 days, or about 350 mcg daily. This is slightly more than 2x of the "recommended" 150 mcg per day. You don't need more than this. If that feels like too much, dial it back. It's best taken daily, so dilute the 2% iodine in a glass of water and sip it daily until it is gone at the end of the week.

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah, never listen to any advice canbot gives, he's been wrong on many takes. He really just says stuff without ever having done any real looking into it.

[–] • 2 pts

define sick.... Also what about drinking celtic sea salt in combination to reduce sickness/ encourage detox as mentioned in that one article everyone always links?

[–] • 0 pt

It was a joke, don't do that.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

have a friend take a ton of iodine until he dies. Then dial it back until you have produced a master race of human breed.

You are welcome.

[–] • 1 pt

The image said 2 drops per day with salt. I skip the salt because fuck that and do 4 drops. I also don't think about cocks because I'm not a faggot like OP

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

That's way too much iodine. A drop of 2% iodine is about 2,500 micrograms of iodine and potassium iodide. Two drops is 5,000 micrograms. Four is 10,000 micrograms. 150 micrograms is the recommended daily intake. You can go higher than this, but not taking 10,000 mcg daily. That's more than 4x's what japs get in their diet. You are overdoing it.

[–] • 4 pts

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Nips intake ~10x 2 drops worth of Iodine ...

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Nips intake ~10x 2 drops worth of Iodine ...

4chan. Nice research moron.

Japs injest 1,000-3,000 micrograms daily but they've evolved to handle it. The majority comes from seaweed seasoning, with some from seafood.

That's 1 drop of 2% iodine daily (2,500 mcg), assuming you are a jap and it's your ONLY source of dietary iodine, not 20 drops. Your number is literally 20 times too high for the japanese.

Fail gradeschool math? Can't read? Are you twenty people living in Japan?

No?

Then you don't need that much fucking iodine.

Where is the real anticlutch?

[–] • 0 pt

A few years ago I took Lugol's 10% daily at a high number of drops. It's totally safe.

I remember looking up what overdosing on iodine was and the nr. of drops was ... a couple hundred of drops or more.

You're very safe to take 1-3 drops a day long term. I used to add one drop to 6 liters of drinking water for my family. If it didn't change the taste so much, I'd add 10 drops (daily drinking water)

[–] • 0 pt

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much

[–] • 1 pt

Don’t supplement. Eat lots of red meat and seafood. Dont eat brassicas or almonds and avoid fluoridated water.

[–] • 0 pt

Just eat sea weed. Nori is good on rice.

[–] • 0 pt

Rice is for peasants. There’s a reason the Mongols beat the Chinese civilization. Fresh beef actually has a surprising amount of iodine. A few clams or sardines a week will cover it as well. Most nutritional deficiencies in history were from people eating plants and not meat. The ONLY sea vegetable I suggest to EVER eat as a chef, geographer and avid fisherman who knows how polluted the oceans are and Asian sourcing really works, should come from Maine. There’s a specific brand that should be easy to find online. Plus it supports American fisherman and sustaining some of the best ocean America controls. A lot of nori sheets used in sushi comes from polluted water which may even be radioactive. But no matter how much idodine you ingest, fluoridated water will hijack you anyways.

[–] • 0 pt

A lot of nori sheets used in sushi comes from polluted water which may even be radioactive.

I have a geiger counter and several brands of Nori. Their radiation level is not higher than the background level of radiation where I live.

[–] • 0 pt

Brassicas are so healthful, though. Is it really worth avoiding them? Plus... No cabbage? Why even live then?

[–] • 1 pt

Cabbage... Found the Russian.

[–] • 1 pt

Ferment the cabbage first. Fermented cabbage is gtg.

[–] • 0 pt

I like it that way best.

[–] • 0 pt

Brassicas literally are bad for your thyroid. Look it up. Brassicas and almonds literally poison your thyroid. Not making this up.

[–] • 0 pt

I will look it up, but let the record show I'm dubious.

[–] • 0 pt

It’s not healthy. More like it’s not that unhealthy. If you look at nutritional density by the numbers in actual data tables of all foods….red meat is almost all you need. Eggs. Shellfish or small oily fish. Plants are nothing compared to animals foods. Like nothing. Most humans that ever lived in time never ate cabbage and were far healthier and fit specimens. There’s a reason Northern Europeans and Central Asians average heights and IQs are larger than most of the planet. Agriculture came much later to them. All that crap we hear is mostly marketing and propaganda. Throughout most of history urbanized people could not reliably get meat into cities until the last hundred years so people became riddled with disease living shorter biological lives living off plants.

[–] • 1 pt

There is a lab test that checks it. I don't know the name of it or the test code number but what I do know is that it requires you to pee in a jug for full 24 hours then you send that jug in to get it tested for iodine and what it's testing is the total amount of iodine you're urinating out.

[–] • 0 pt

Ok, well that does help. I'm not going to go to Lab Corp and ask for the piss jar iodine test, per se. But if I order labs and they ask me to pee in a jug over 24 hours I'll know I'm over target.

[–] • 1 pt

Get a gallon of water. Ten drops of Lugol 5. Drink a cup (200ml) a day. Two if you havent taken any iodine supplement in a week or more.

[–] • 0 pt

While I do appreciate the dosing recommendations, how do you actually evaluate whether the regimen you're taking is working?

[–] • 1 pt

You will be taking roughly 5 times more iodine than stipulated as the normal maximum. High enough to matter, low enough to not overdose your thyroid and give you hyperthyroidism long-term.

[–] • 1 pt

Would like to know what supplement your taking, dosage amount and your preference on how you take it. (Mix with water, take with meal, etc.)

[–] • 1 pt

Iodoral 12.5 mg tablet 5x/week with meal. (It says it's 5 mg iodine and 7.5 mg iodide as potassium salt).

I have no idea if this is a good regimen or not. I would think the best way to measure would be to test my own iodine levels.

[–] • 1 pt

Thank you

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

That's way, way too much fucking iodine! They are suggesting 83 times the recommended daily amount of iodine. 150 micrograms is the recommended daily amount. They are suggesting 12,500 micrograms daily! You will end up with a thyroid condition or worse.

150 micrograms daily is low, but not that low. The japs get 1,000-3,000 micrograms daily, but they've evolved to handle higher levels of iodine in their diet because they've been on an isolated island eating seaweed and fish forever.

You need to do more reading. Don't take advice from this thread. It's full of idiots.

350 micrograms daily is plenty. You won't be deficient with that amount as it's more than 2x the recommended 150 mcg daily. That's 1 (one) 2% iodine per WEEK (2,500 mcg in a drop of 2% iodine).

[–] • 0 pt

Just eat seaweed sometimes. It's not hard. You don't need a lot.

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

Yeah, but how do you KNOW you don't need a lot? Did you add a small amount of seaweed to your diet and then measure your iodine levels before and after?

[–] • 0 pt

I'm not sure how accurate the tests for blood level of iodine is, but the best way to find out if everything is in order with Iodine levels is to consult an Endocrinologist as they can see if your hormone levels are optimal as well and suggest your Iodine intake. Find one that focuses on naturopathy, of course.

I generally take 1 or 2 drops of 5% Lugol's solution and it makes me feel good. Not sure how I would feel if I took to much.

[–] • 0 pt

What if you took too much iodine?

But I didn't take too much iodine?

Yes, but how would you feel if you did?

But I didn't take too much. I don't understand the question

[–] • 0 pt

maybe pee on a ph strip?