Ohfor: re Calling all iodine mavens! "too much" iodine??

Ohfor,
thanks so much for your thoughtful and well-worded response. I love
to read your posts. I surely know what you mean about the highly-educated
being "just like us average people." It takes a maverick to really
think outside the box, which is why I love hanging out here on the CZ.
It seems to me that many folks here have that rarest of qualities in
this day and age, the ability to think for themselves, which sets them
apart from the rest, whether highly educated or not. I too have family
who have advanced degrees; most, in fact. Only two are in the sciences;
a third relative (my mom's brother) passed away when he was in his 50s
from metastasized cancer. He was a Ph.D. and an M.D., a Rhodes scholar
to boot, who was on the faculty at Harvard (how is that for credentials),
a physical anthropologist. That didn't keep him from dying of a
degenerative illness. As MH is fond of saying, the higher the education,
the more brainwashed and believing in the medico-industrial complex.
My first cousin (Ph.D., chemistry)
is undergoing stem cell therapy and chemo at the Mayo
Clinic for multiple myelitis. My dad's first cousin, who is in her
late sixties, just had her thyroid removed, of all the horrors,
and suffered terribly post-surgery as her parathyroid was affected and
she was not assimilating calcium and had all the attendant symptoms.
She literally could not think. She most recently had a benign tumor
removed from her chest cavity, but they could not know if it was
cancerous or benign till they went in. She had internal bleeding in
her leg, and they tried to give her the wrong medication while she
was in the hospital (Mt. Sinai, NYC). She had it all marked with
identification when she went in--this is what she had brought with
her--and when they gave her her meds, she saw that it was not what
she had brought along with her. She refused it. But with all of that
she suffered a great deal; it was her 2nd surgery in about 5 months.
She isn't a Ph.D. but does have a Masters degree. I can't see that
she is going to be able to live a long life, without a thyroid.
It's almost as though you have to lose your whole education,
if you got one, and start over, tabula rasa, to get REALLY educated.