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

Mined Sea Salt is most likely the best bet as far as salt is concerned. In the states the best bang for the buck is Redmond's. It is available almost anywhere, even in bulk at some health oriented grocery stores.

It has a full complement of minerals and is not as harsh on the system as refined "table salt". When I stated that 14 teaspoons of salt could poison a person, I was referring to table salt ... it would likely take more (it could still be done) of the unrefined mined salt to do the same thing depending upon its composition, which will vary some depending on deposit.

Some people have found that just by switching from table salt to an unrefined mined salt their blood pressure stabilizes back into acceptable ranges. So the unrefined salts are much better.

As far as boron is concerned, you will find controversy here as well. Most supplements I believe are at 3mg. I think the citrate forms are more often recommended. Ted at earthclinic.com recommends the borax. I would go to earthclinic.com and read Ted's posts. He is very generous and informative in his posts and I remember one post where he makes a strong case for borax being safe to take as instructed; which is very dilute. I am not sure what to expect in borax other than what I have read in Ted's posts.

Tests for fluoride include blood, bone and urine.

Tests for bromide include urine, and I am sure blood as well... not sure if there are any other tests available for bromide.

This may spur some discussion, bromide and chloride are often hard to distinguish separately in these types of tests.

No specific test for methyl bromide is available... that I am aware of.

The ide/ine issue is one that will be plaguing the Iodine forums indefinitely. I think most people unknowingly / mistakenly / haphazardly, use these terms interchangeably, including myself, and we should not in order to avoid/limit even more confusion than there already is.