In fact, some who now recognize that Iodine may have many benefits argued against kelp due to Iodine toxicity...
This is not an all inclusive posting of those who argued about Iodine toxicity from kelp... just a few to illustrate my point.
NOTE: we all live and learn, I love these people and more importantly they are my teachers... do NOT pass judgment for we have all made these errors in the past and will most likely make more in the future.
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Also note that if memory serves, some of the more heated debates about iodine toxicity from kelp were hidden/deleted.
"And in the case of the thyroid Gland, if it does not get some Release of the Electrical Energy from Iodine, yet if it has all else, it may not function, because of the lack of this one need of iodine!
And there are a Lot of people in this world who may have this problem!"
One of my posts a year ago taking atomidine AND kelp at the same time...