Re: Neck pain after starting iodine supplementation

Can you back up your claims?

Why dump the D? My vitamin D levels were at 16ng/mL when taking 2500IU, I need it to keep my levels right, my country isn't very sunny and I don't expose myself too much to sun.

And why would 100mg be safe and not 1mg? Any proof of that?
I'm taking 1mg because that's the intake of japanese people between 1-3mg, if they did that for centuries it's certainly safe...
On the other side, no one has ever done 100mg long term, I want you to know that I'm not trying to cure Breast Cancer or something very serious, I'm just taking Iodine to cure my Iodine deficiency induced hypothyroidism which is the reason of me being overweight.

As for the selenium, I took it but each time I take selenium (200mcg) it shuts down my thyroid and I have no bowel movement in the day, I dropped it when I noticed that the day I take selenium+iodine my BMs shuts down and when I take Iodine alone they come back.
And I need BMs to lose weight, if I don't have them I gain back what I lost.

This is for the experience part, for the scientific part, I have read several studies saying selenium cause weight gain and slows down the thyroid by eliminating H202 which is necessary for T4 synthesis and without T4 you get no T3.
Here's the study :
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/133/11/3443.long


"Although a role for selenium in thyroid hormone metabolism has been known for some time, this appears to be the first report of dietary selenium altering energy metabolism in humans. The increased TSH in the high selenium group and the body fat loss in the low selenium group indicate that these were physiologically important changes in thyroid status. "

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