i must admit, the birdshot pattern of the info of the last couple of days and the shear amount of info has me a bit overwhelmed trying to synthesize it all into a coherent thought. i spent a lot of time thinking about it while i was driving today.

i have been after fluoride for years as an all out assault on human health, mine in particular. i never worried as much about clorine and was fairly unaware of bromine. now, if the info that yelrah posted is correct, the first three need to be avoided in order to re-seed the body with iodine. fluoride, i have avoided like the plague. chlorine, i avoid but with less vehemence of purpose. i have been avoiding bromides in my diet simply by avoiding prepared foods.

still, i am not getting a big picture in my mind of just how serious, and widespread, this HIS is. i am getting a real kick out of supplementing Iodine right now. i had two big bottles of potassium Iodide at one time and i think i tossed them. the only thing i have is the atomadine. i asked at wild oats tonight what Iodine supplementation they had, and all they had was fortified kelp. just that one item in the whole store.

i also keep thinking about the link tom supplied from the gov.

"Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine reports that average U.S. Iodine daily intake ranges from approximately 0.5–1.0 mg"

where is this iodine coming from? i dont think big macs or crunchy gorditas have a lot of iodine, do they? how big of a lie is this?

just like with the campaign to cut out fats, the low sodium fad, it seems to me, ensures iodine deficiency in most people.

i am right there with TCF, i dont like supplementation. i like eating foods that supply my nutrients abundantly. if americans really are getting a miligram per day of iodine in their diet, just how much grazing in a day does one need to do to get that? and when one eats that much, absorption has to be a problem.

i want to know more about iodine and oil. i guess i need to play with this some more.

another thing, since i am rambling. the problem people are having with iodine supplementation doesnt have to be all about the iodine. i am already convinced there is no such thing as iodine allergies. the problems that do occur can easily be a lack of something else in the body, or an overabundance of something, or just an over-reaction to this element by an already dysfunctional system in some way. i think of vit B supplementation - one cannot supplement one of them without causing an imbalance of the others. i am also thinking, like with neo, that adverse reaction to iodine may be the result of the other halides already present in abundance in the body.

ok, i'll quit for now.