Re: I'm finally ready to ask a few questions...

As far as the test, I still see my regular MD every year. He is very open minded when I told him I was doing something new (iodine), he said Oh, for the halogens. I was impressed by his reaction.
I had done it for 7 months about 100 mg a day.
His reaction was: As your doctor I have to tell your TSH has gone up, but still in the safe zone (according doctors of course), so my suggestion is not to keep doing it.
I respect him and I don't want to overdo things, so I am now what I for myself call on maintenance about 25 mg a day, since I feel I eat enough bad food that I want to balance out.
From the beginning I have taken minerals daily, just to make sure that I would not get too unbalanced.

It is ok to be sceptical, because I can tell you that not one method is a cure, it is an whole combination of things, lifestyle, cleaning etc.

My suggestion would be to start to read Andreas Moritz book
http://ener-chi.com
and his now closed forum to learn about general health without supplements.
I followed him for 2 years and got off my prescription drugs, brainfog, allergies by cleaning and better lifestyle.

Since then I had to make adjustments and try other methods, again because no method is 100% perfect for everybody.

BTW 73 people read your message and there were just too many questions to try to answer them, besides we only learn from reading and experimenting so may be noone felt they had the answers, you are mixing up a lot of different methods.
So keep reading and experimenting.