for over 20 years, I feel like I am missing something too.
I eat way too much sugar, but am relieved that I don't eat animal's or their by-products. Hoping this Iodine corrects something.

there are a number of people in this forum who follow the principals of weston price, who demonstrated that a diet high in the fat soluble vitamin such as A and D could provide for excellent teeth, bone and connective tissue health. the best sources of those vitamins are meat, and specifically organ meats. price believed that A and D were the "activator" vitamins. he believed they were the vitamins that allowed you to fully utilize the minerals you consumed. bone broths is another item price studied and found to be of great benefit.


http://www.westonaprice.org/


however, there are other forum participants here who are vegetarian and/or vegan, so there are many different types of diets represented here.

vegans are inadvertent omnivores. the slugs on the backside of the salad probably have a lot of Iodine in them.