Table salt, even if it claims to have iodine often has none, the american iodine intake is incredibly low to almost non existant. When we grew iodine was in bread and all kind of things, now they use bromide which tricks the thyroid but in the end doesn’t work the same and is behind a ton of health issues in this country.
People in the U.S. consume an average 240 micrograms (µg) of iodine a day. In contrast, people in Japan consume more than 12 milligrams (mg) of iodine a day (12,000 µg), a 50-fold greater amount.
The dose required to truly protect a person from radiation (at least in the thyroid area) is 130-mg.
If anyone here things they are safe because they eat shrimp a few times a week or plan to add a little extra salt they are truly delusional.
The Japanese get thier iodine from Kelp mostly, which also is heavily contaminated with Arsenic. Most brands of iodine you get at health food store are from kelp and have healthy doses of arsenic. Also, they are too low in amount to truly protect a person.
I recommend, if you need to keep some around, Iodoral, it’s not from kelp, and potent enough to protect you, and it’s production is controlled.
http://www.optimox.com/pics/Iodine/opt_Iodoral.htm
“...now they use bromide which tricks the thyroid...”
There was a freeper on another thread talking about this. And that the “allergic reaction” to iodine that some folks have is really a detox of the bromide. Not meaning to dismiss the seriousness of the reaction - but just the source of it. Which I wonder, if one can wean themselves off the bromide, then their reaction will go away.
Another freeper mentioned that the medical iodine used in tracer tests which some are allergic too (such as my wife), is not the same as taking iodine in your food. That seems to be confirmed, as my wife doesn’t have reaction to seafood, etc.
I wouldn’t worry about Japan, but when thinks calm down will probably buy a bottle of iodide or iodine. (One is slightly better than the other). Just on the off-chance of a dirty bomb or accident in our area. The nearest nuke plant is 200 miles downwind so that is not a concern.
At Chernobyl, the thyroid problem in children was the main thing they saw, and only within a few hundred miles of the site.
“The dose required to truly protect a person from radiation (at least in the thyroid area) is 130-mg....”
True, However, I read somewhere that children near Chernobyl did okay on quite a bit less. IIRC it was something like 35 mg???? (I wonder if they were rationing it?). But still would need supplements.
“The dose required to truly protect a person from radiation (at least in the thyroid area) is 130-mg....”
True, However, I read somewhere that children near Chernobyl did okay on quite a bit less. IIRC it was something like 35 mg???? (I wonder if they were rationing it?). But still would need supplements.