I agree AND disagree (of course :) Re: 30-150 MG of iodine from a few teaspoons of kelp? NO WAY?! Re: Which Iodine source is the best?

>>"Am I understanding that you are advising others to eat seaweeds that have spent their life floating in an ocean of poisons & toxic chemicals...in order to get enough iodine? Foods taken out of the ocean (sadly) are no longer "natural" at all :("

I think the same could be said for those taken out of most soils and the air that we breathe :-( <<

I agree that virtually all foods taken from the soil are toxic. However, I have to wonder about the "percentage of poisons" differential.

Where we have produce grown 'organically' (which of course, is by no means perfectly free of toxins), we at least have produce grown in soil that has not had any chemical poisons & pesticides sprayed on it.

Then we have the ocean. Each state in America dumps -at my last research- between 8 and 350 TONS of chemical waste into the waterways MONTHLY (and this is only America, this does not count the countries with even WORSE chemical dumping...such as DDT and other industrial polluntants that are not prohibited by our sad lil' EPA).

I would reason/think, that something grown in a bathtub of chemicals, poisons, heavy metals and industrial waste (that is used as a trash receptacle for everything known to be a poison to mankind) would stand FAR more of a chance of high levels of toxins that produce grown by organic farmers.

The thing that concerns me most in the kelp/iodine issue, is that folks are taking "mega" doses of kelp/seaweed as a HEALING MODALITY (hoping to displace chemical bromine, chloride and fluoride and to prevent incurable diseases). It just seems to this ole gal, that fishin' plants out of vastly & intensely polluted/poison ocean and putting them in our bodies to try to heal them, just can't be the best possible pathway.

Here's to our health! (and our frustration!!)

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