Re: miscarriage

The issues are :

1) on the one hand, the official RDA of Iodine was proposed around 1980 to be at 150 micrograms per day.

2) On the other hand, each slice of bread back around 1960 had about 150 micrograms in it, and there are a bunch of doctors with evidence that the body' needs much more than 150 micrograms per day, more like 30-50 milligrams.

3) Nevertheless lots of folks have had healthy babies with no Iodine supplementation.

4) We know that Iodine causes the body's own detoxification mechanisms to be more efficient.

If I were in your situation, I'd make sure I had three nice cycles prior to conceiving. Then I'd go light on the Lugol's, like perhaps 2-3 drops per week.

One quesiton which would need to be answered is, just how much is appropriate to ingest during pregnancy. I have no experience in this, but based on all of what I've read my gut feeling is that the best answer resides somewhere between the 30-50 milligrams recommended by Dr. Abraham's coterie, and the 1980 RDA of 150 micrograms per day. If it were me, I would likely take just one or two drops of Lugols per week while pregnant. More like one drop per week, all while avoiding all of the poisons in modern foods. That way, I would be getting more iodine than the base amount, but not too much.

Then again, what is too much ? We've never heard of "iodine babies", i.e., babies whose mothers took too much iodine while they were pregnant. It could be that iodine babies are geniuses, or it could be that nobody has yet identified excess iodine as the cause of some birth defect which exists. Personally, given that bread contained 150 micrograms per slice in the 60's, I'd ask my self how many slices of bread a typical pregnant woman would eat in a week back then. If she ate one sandwich per day, that would be about 2 milligrams per week of iodine, which is about a third of a drop of Lugols. If she ate the equivalent of six slices of bread per day, then she would have eaten the equivalent of one drop of Lugol's per week.

You've got to sort these issues out for yourself.

If it were me, I'd clean myself out real good for about three cycles, then give it a little rest of about a month and then go at conceiving. At that point, it should be easy, provided you've eliminated all other dietary poisons.










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