today's meals and Iodine

[Guest guest]

Hi Everybody

I joined the group a while ago but after the initial hello post have just been

reading- what are you supposed to do to improve your levels of iodine?

Just paint it on the skin?

Thanks

Debbie

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Coleen

Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:49 PM

Re: today's meals

 

 

I find this very interesting about the iodine, as my sister just had her

thyroid taken out due to cancer and they're thinking it's hereditary. Can't hurt

-- might help! Can you still buy iodine in a drug store?

 

Coleen

 

<<You know, when I first started eating more healthfully several months

ago, I tried the technique where you " paint " iodine onto a 2 square inch

area of your skin. If it absorbs into your skin in less than 24 hours,

then your body needed that iodine. The quicker the absorption, the

lower your body's reserves. (Now, I'm not a doctor or anything like

that, but I've read this.) Anyway, the first time I tried it, my body

absorbed the iodine in less than an hour. I think in general I was very

depleted of vitamins and minerals due to my poor diet. Yesterday I

tried the iodine thing again and after 24 hours, you could still see the

area I'd painted. It wasn't nearly as dark after a day, but I consider

this a good indicator that my body is getting more of the nutrients it

needs. (As I've read it, the thyroid uses iodine and the thyroid

manages metabolism so it's very important to have good iodine levels.)>>

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I'm the one who posted that. I'm not a doctor or a nutritionist.

 

I prefer to get my nutritional needs met with food. I've heard that

iodized salt isn't so good in other ways so I avoid it, but I use sea

salt and fleur de sel, which contain naturally occurring iodine (though

they aren't iodized). Another way to get iodine is from kelp or other

sea veggies.

 

Plants can be grown in iodized soil, and so can contain iodine, but I

don't know if this is particularly common in the U.S. And of course

there are oral supplements. It is possible to consume too much iodine

so, again, talk to your doctor. :-)

 

Sharon