Re: my2cts

yes, a fascinating subject... found this some time back:

http://scholar.ilib.cn/Abstract.aspx?A=dxqy200102022
"Iodine in plants is from atmosphere and soils, but it is still uncertain that which one is the main source under the various conditions. Iodine content in soils is not determined by the Iodine content in the parent rocks but their weathering offspring’s absorption and preservation of the Iodine of the dry and wet precipitation from atmosphere. Because it is difficult in analyzing iodine in plants and atmosphere, there are lots of puzzles in the geochemistry of iodine and the causes of IDD development. A possibility of certain speciation of iodine vaporizing and accumulating at the low altitude atmosphere from the soils is proposed.
No IDD occurs in the region where plants have the ability to absorb the iodine from low altitude atmosphere."

There was a short discussion a while back questioning how the Black-Walnut tree was able to absorb iodine especially in areas where the soil was shown to be deficient of it. Trapper had brought up the possibility that iodine may come from the sun...

//www.curezone.org/forums/am.asp?i=866533

Pondering over this I considered for a moment that perhaps the half-life of iodine-131 [8 days] yielded nonradioactive iodine to be left in the enviornment until i researched this possibility. It decays into Xenon-131 instead.

The maps of iodine deficient soil and the regions where walnut trees flourish seem to overlap only slightly in southern Michigan, northern Ohio, Indiana & Illinois and southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, (all goiter belt states), all of Iowa and parts of eastern Texas and Nebraska.

Walnut tree range in U.S.


Regional map of Iodine deficient soils.

Soils derived from granite seem to be generally deprived of minerals in general. Hard to say what soil samples (farm or forest) were used to determine the map. But from the map above you can imagine (except for Texas & California) where the line of glacier had dropped down from the north.

Isn't there a test one can do at home with vitamin C to help determine whether the walnut hull contains this trace element? If not, then I suppose it would be wise to find out where your Black-Walnut hulls are harvested from, to be more or less certain as to whether it contains iodine.

Later I found this article that may be written by Kimberly Balas herself. Scientist turned author/journalist [i believe] Too bad it is from an unpublished study:

http://www.treelite.com/NF/2006/Parasites.pdf
"A second major use of Black-Walnut is for thyroid problems and other conditions involving lack of iodine. Black walnut is one of the few land plants that is rich in iodine. Besides nourishing the thyroid, the iodine contributes to black walnut’s antimicrobial and antiparasitic actions. Microbes don’t like iodine-rich environments.

Kimberly Balas chose black walnut as a placebo for an unpublished study she participated in on fibromyalgia. Part of the reason why the study didn’t get published was because the black walnut outperformed the actual drug. (Not a good choice of placebo, huh?) In subsequent clinical work with clients client with fibromyalgia, Kim found black walnut to be a consistently effective remedy, but didn’t really understand why until she learned from Dr. Brownstein, author of Iodine: Why You Need It, that iodine helps cure fibromyalgia."

The iodine from the sun concept still intriques me some... into the mysterious as you can see.
ciao for now...