It is understood that the soil that is inland and away from the sea is very deficient of iodine. It has all been washed away to the rivers which lead back to the ocean. Ohio and many other states around the Great Lakes Region are known to be in the area of the country known as the "Goiter Belt" of America. How do you know that the trees you get iodine from are not also iodine deficient? Wouldn't you have to first add iodine to the soil in order to, then, get it from the trees to use in your herbs? If this is so, it may be an expensive propositon. This, then, would mean that such a product would sell on the high end.