My Walmart brand (Equate) does. 150mcg, which is the USRDA. Dunno what I get in my diet. This article provides in-depth info and serving sizes for each of these food sources of iodine: Dried seaweed 16mcg to 2,984mcg Cod 99mcg Plain yogurt 74mcg Iodized salt 71mcg (this is for 1/4 tsp, so 1/2 tsp about has you covered) Milk 56mcg Fish sticks 54mcg Black eyed peas 50mcg White bread 45mcg Shrimp 35mcg Liver 32mcg Baked turkey breast 30mcg Boiled eggs 24mcg Canned tuna 17mcg Canned corn 14mcg Dried prunes 13mcg Strawberries 13mcg Cheddar cheese 12mcg Raisin bran 11mcg Apple juice 11mcg Lima beans 8mcg Bananas 3mcg Green peas 3mcg
Joy we have lots of iron in our well water but don't know about iodine. I know we also need more filtration now a days though.
I have lugols solution in stock but providone was what was recommended to us for this. I used it on my horse once for disinfecting. And we used it in udder wash for the cows...
I get the NOW brand of kelp, @Marie Mallery , and I get it on subscription from Amazon. I take one twice a day.
I don't know about Iodine in well water, but all I read the soils are Iron Deficient, iron is not put back in the soils and everything comes from the Soil.... When I started back in 1999 to "fix my thyroid" I came in contact with Dr. David Williams and his deal was 1.83mg of Iosol which is one drop and a little water daily and that is what I've been taking for years, BUT as I said I slacked off and now I question what is going on with body coldness, too cold .....ah, the Iodine....
Ok thank you, I may try it after I do more research to see if I need it, I had iodine poisoning 30 yr ago from too many dose's for gallbladder surgery, I kept putting off after taking med.
I keep a spreadsheet with supplement notes in it. When I last looked at iodine, I noted that the most you wanted to take in a given day over a period of time was 1,100mcg. But there is no real research done on most of these things. Most of the medical sites say something like "Safe for adults to take up to xxxmg/day for up to 4 months," because long-term studies do not exist. (See anecdotal case at the bottom of this comment.) Because iodine directly affects your thyroid, I decided that getting tested before supplementing was prudent for me. The thing about kelp & seaweed is you need to be careful where it is sourced. I was recently reading a Consumer Labs (CL) article (behind a paywall) echoing the commonly cited upper daily limit of 1,10mcg 0f iodine. They tested seaweed snacks and found they contained 66.5 mcg to more than 18,000 mcg of iodine per serving! In addition, all of the products contained the heavy metals lead, cadmium, and arsenic at levels often exceeding tolerable upper intake levels. Among the dried seaweed products they tested, four out of six exceeded limits for iodine and/or heavy metals. There are caveats to this stuff. For example, inorganic arsenic is the most toxic form...so not all "arsenics" are created equal. CL recommended GimMe Organic Sea Salt Premium Roasted Seaweed (67mcg iodine per serving) and Trader Joe's Roasted Seaweed with Salt (85mcg iodine per serving.) But Trader Joe's pushes the acceptable upper limits of lead and cadmium. Keep in mind this article addresses seaweed snacks, not the kelp & seaweed you prep meals with, which can have similar issues. The article also said that you only absorb about half as much iodine from seaweed as you would from a potassium iodide supplement. I don't know why the supplement is more bio-available. And supplements won't contain heavy metals. Anecdotal high iodine case from the CL article Measurable issues were caused after only 11 days of high supplementation
That is great @John Brunner. I think iron is also linked to proper thyroid function and there might be other stuff that they don't know about yet.
CL prevents you from using Copy/Paste...you gotta Print Screen. I lifted a wall of text. Did you take time to read what the high dose of iodine allegedly did to that woman in only 11 days? There are things I tend to be hyper-conservative with. For what use?
See? I knew you never listen to me. You can do a skin test to see if you need or don't need iodine with it. You put some on your tenderest skin areas: belly, inner thigh, inner arm w/o sun exposure... Put a dressing over it to keep it from staining your clothes or rubbing off. If you need iodine, it will be gone in less than 24 hours. You can keep applying until it stays unabsorbed. At this age, I worry more about too much iron.
I'm sorry, dear. Did you say something? Actually, I saw what your naturopath recommended. I don't understand. How can you tell if it has been absorbed...Betadine leaves a stain. Are you saying the would be no stain? And I hate to be a skeptic, but have you encountered this method elsewhere? edit to add: So Betadine is an acceptable form of iodine to do this with?
Yep I read the blurb you posted. It is what sometimes comes from people relying on supplements without proper knowledge. The povidone iodine/ Betadine can be used for all kinda of skin injuries and cleansing (Betadine scrub). It can also be used to clean you hands if you have been exposed to infectious agents. I suggested that everyone have a small bottle around to clean skin injuries and infections.