[Navy Patriot]

Thanks, now I’m glad I read this thread thoroughly.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A woman down the street from us had a goiter under her chin back when I was a little kid in the 50s. She walked by my great grandfather's house while we lived there (my dad was stationed overseas.)
I wonder if this occurs at all in Asia, with all the salty soy and seafood available...

[spacejunkie2001]

They replaced iodine in our baked goods in about 1948 due to a FALSE report that iodine was bad, and put in bromine, which is a toxic halide that mimics iodine. You have to consume high enough doses of iodine to knock the bromine off your iodine receptors so you can absorb the iodine.

The common though in iodine informed circles is that shell fish allergies and other reactions attributed to iodine is actually bromine detox symptoms.