Specifically buy iodized salt and mostly cook/season with it or get some supplements.
Specifically buy iodized salt and mostly cook/season with it or get some supplements.
TLDR; Iodine deficiency is still a major problem in the modern world, even in 1st world countries.
Archive: https://archive.today/4HBmI
HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42868718 HN Arcive: https://archive.today/Us1Jq
From the post:
>Iodized salt is so commonplace in the U.S. today that you may never have given the additive a second thought. But new research finds that humble iodine has played a substantial role in cognitive improvements seen across the American population in the 20th century. Iodine is a critical micronutrient in the human diet — that is, something our bodies can’t synthesize that we have to rely on food to obtain — and it’s been added to salt (in the form of potassium iodide) since 1924. Originally, iodization was adopted to reduce the incidence of goiter, an enlargement of the thyroid gland. But research since then has found that iodine also plays a crucial role in brain development, especially during gestation.
TLDR; Iodine deficiency is still a major problem in the modern world, even in 1st world countries.
Archive: https://archive.today/4HBmI
HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42868718
HN Arcive: https://archive.today/Us1Jq
From the post:
>>Iodized salt is so commonplace in the U.S. today that you may never have given the additive a second thought. But new research finds that humble iodine has played a substantial role in cognitive improvements seen across the American population in the 20th century.
Iodine is a critical micronutrient in the human diet — that is, something our bodies can’t synthesize that we have to rely on food to obtain — and it’s been added to salt (in the form of potassium iodide) since 1924. Originally, iodization was adopted to reduce the incidence of goiter, an enlargement of the thyroid gland. But research since then has found that iodine also plays a crucial role in brain development, especially during gestation.
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