Amazoniac
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Broadening the range based on extreme intakes tends to make the person imprudent with dosing, it distorts the perception of what's reasonable. For example, 1-2 drops is a difference of more than 6 mg of iodine, but since we're now discussing grams of iodine, it looks like nothing. You must've odserved that drops vary in size, it's challenging to know what you'll be getting when working with large factors such as the content per drop here.The relative safety of gram doses, which I have never advocated for or been interested in taking, makes me feel quite safe with milligram doses. I've dosed as high as 20 drops (125mg) once per week in 2017, and, while it raised temperatures and helped me focus, I struggled to stop talking once I started and exhibited less patience. I took breaks in between and prefer 1 or 2 drops a few times per week now, especially during the cold months. My 100ml Lugols 5% solution is over half empty and I've drunk all save a portion which was applied to my scalp to successfully regrow hair on a 2-3 cm2 bald spot. The last time I was a patient in a hospital was salmonella typhi (gram negative bacterium :/ ) poisoning 13 years ago.
It's good that you don't have to micromanage your supplements for being robust in your tolerance, but we can't use it to diagnose: only after megadosing finding out who reacts adversely. With that reframing people are prone to start from what you judge to be a conservative amount, and although in cases of having the typhoid inflammed the person usually reacts badly to low doses as well, extreme amounts will be a shock without having a chance to grasp how the next increment should affect and if it's there will be proper adaptation. By the time they realize that it's not a competing halogen detox, there could be significant damage.
Potassium iodide was a mere solubilizer for iodine in Lugol's formulation, what are you after? If it's to improve in one way or another, we all want it, and if iodine delivered the harm-free promise as you proponents imply, why would there be opponents born out of experience? Since there are susceptible people involved that can be compromised, we have to be more careful with it.
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