it means that - and the Iodine docs say as much - when people are in the end game of Iodine deficiency and have been deficient for decades, elemental Iodine is necessary to achieve mitigation and correction of the commensurate diseases. dr brownstein wasnt getting anywhere with women with FBD and Iodide only. he corrected this by going with Lugols instead.
my opinion is that they simply didnt use enough Iodide in the first place. and 50mg of Lugols is not enough either, as they have slowly learned and corrected. cant blame them for this. they are still major pioneers in iodine supplementation and they have not been dissuaded thus far from continuing in that direction. godspeed to them all and god rest dr abraham.