Re: When urinary iodine levels go down after beginning Iodine

Lynne,
Thanks for the added background on supplements, reposted here for the record:

"I'm always surprised about how dosage can vary. Some people seem to have good aborption and some don't. There was a woman who came back with an Iodine loading test of 10%. She should have been absorbing 90%. That means she completely absorbed most of the Iodine from the loading test 50 mg she took at the beginning of the test. What great symporters. So she was just Iodine deficient, she didn't have oxidized symporters.

And there is another woman who had three different cancers and she got her iodine saturation up in about a year to 90%. Some are still struggling after two years to hit the 70%..

So it's hard to find any hard and fast rule for dosage. We can make recommendations for really sick people but in the last analysis, they decide to take what they want. The real mystery is why we get some people that are so bad at absorbing and a minority that are so good. They really need to be studied."

Completed & restructured chapter on supplements here:
http://tinyurl.com/Iodine-Supplements


Many thanks to everyone who have contributed to this !
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