brigadierbarty
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I'm surprised this has never come up in the Peat world.
(this is my first post so I can't link the source, but if you go to google scholar and search "iodine milk bread" it's the first hit)
Using the average value, 2 quarts of milk would give you about 900mcg of iodine. At the upper end of the samples tested, you would be closer ₁200mcg. This is well in excess of what Peat has said can cause problems, and I agree with him on that point. His view on iodine expressed here is not controversial:
(again can't link)
I'm surprised this study is not more well known in the alternative health world, and in the acne world, so I've been trying to spread it around. I don't know how many of you have experimented with iodine, but acne is a well known side effect and I can tell you even low doses of iodine caused problems for me, including cystic acne. My suspicion is that this is the real reason milk causes acne in so many people, like in that thread about the bodybuilder with acne. All those explanations about IGF this and DHEA that blah blah have always struck me as nonsense.
In case you're wondering, it's because they use iodine to sterilize cow's udders. I think there is a lesson here about how very basic things are so often overlooked by both mainstream and alternative medicine, with both sides making things up as they go along. So many doctors say diet has nothing to do with acne, which is obviously wrong. And so many in the alternative health world will come up with excuses like "detox" and whatnot. One guy in that bodybuilder thread even accused the bodybuilder of faking the acne.
Does anyone know if Peat has addressed this? To my knowledge he hasn't. I'm also wondering if there are any low iodine milk sources out there, and what alternatives to milk we could use.
U.S. dietary iodine sources have not been assessed recently. A survey of iodine content in...18 brands of cows’ milk...was performed between 2001 and 2002. All cows’ milk samples had at least 88 μg iodine/250 ml, ranging from 88–168 μg (116.0 ± 22.1 μg/250 ml).
(this is my first post so I can't link the source, but if you go to google scholar and search "iodine milk bread" it's the first hit)
Using the average value, 2 quarts of milk would give you about 900mcg of iodine. At the upper end of the samples tested, you would be closer ₁200mcg. This is well in excess of what Peat has said can cause problems, and I agree with him on that point. His view on iodine expressed here is not controversial:
A dosage of 150 mcg (micrograms, not milligrams, e.g., ug not mg) is a safe amount of iodine. There are excellent references describing the effect of a moderate iodine excess (even below a milligram per day) on the thyroid. An iodine deficiency can cause hypothyroidism (rare now), but so can an excess. Iodine deficiency is an unusual cause of hypothyroidism, except in a few places, like the mountains of Mexico and China, and the Andes.
(again can't link)
I'm surprised this study is not more well known in the alternative health world, and in the acne world, so I've been trying to spread it around. I don't know how many of you have experimented with iodine, but acne is a well known side effect and I can tell you even low doses of iodine caused problems for me, including cystic acne. My suspicion is that this is the real reason milk causes acne in so many people, like in that thread about the bodybuilder with acne. All those explanations about IGF this and DHEA that blah blah have always struck me as nonsense.
In case you're wondering, it's because they use iodine to sterilize cow's udders. I think there is a lesson here about how very basic things are so often overlooked by both mainstream and alternative medicine, with both sides making things up as they go along. So many doctors say diet has nothing to do with acne, which is obviously wrong. And so many in the alternative health world will come up with excuses like "detox" and whatnot. One guy in that bodybuilder thread even accused the bodybuilder of faking the acne.
Does anyone know if Peat has addressed this? To my knowledge he hasn't. I'm also wondering if there are any low iodine milk sources out there, and what alternatives to milk we could use.