No Researcher Knows So Much About Iodine And Human Evolution As The Italian Dr Sebastiano Venturi

[boris]

Iodine sounds good to me on paper. It improves my sleep and skin quality, but by every other marker (TSH increasing, hair thinning, nail skin disconnecting and receding) I become more hypothyroid when I take Lugol's doses. Perplexing.

How concentrated was the solution? They sometimes have massive amounts in a single drop. Popular solutions have sometimes 30-60mg of iodine in 1ml. These doses are extremely thyroid supressive. Up to 1mg of iodine per day is safe.

 

[MyUsernameHere]

How concentrated was the solution? They sometimes have massive amounts in a single drop. Popular solutions have sometimes 30-60mg of iodine in 1ml. These doses are extremely thyroid supressive. Up to 1mg of iodine per day is safe.

Standard lugol's, 5%, so around ~6mg per drop.

 

[boris]

Standard lugol's, 5%, so around ~6mg per drop.

That's a dose high enough to inflame the thyroid.

 

[boris]

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[Dave Clark]

Well, enough decades have gone by now, that all these people using the amounts Ray says will cause thyroid caner, should be lined up at the cancer clinics. I don't know what to think about the iodine thing, I don't use high amounts, but I don't see enough reports of people using the amounts Ray spoke of that are dangerous having the issues he talks about. This is a confusing subject because you san see the logic on both sides, and you can see evidence of success and failure with high iodine use. I am still on the fence, and erring on the side of caution, albeit I will use high does iodine for acute issues.

 

[nigma]

there are studies showing if you have enough selenium you dont see the supression. liver needs Se to convert t4 to t3

 

[TabulaRasa]

Apparently in Japan, people can eat up to 13 mg on avg of iodine per day.

I’m not sure I completely buy the idea that only up to 1 mg of iodine per day is safe.

Also, apparently iodine that doesn’t get used is excreted from the body.

Also, because most people are deficient, it takes a while to fully saturate the body.

It seems however that there are cases where some people will have negative effects from supplementing higher doses. Symporter issues and stuff. Or maybe a genuine thyroid disease/malfunction.

But from what I’ve read, many people are okay/benefit from higher doses of iodine.