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Kosher salt more bang for your buck in a sense. A little goes a long way for flavor and you don't shake and shake.

If you can spare allot more money sea salts are very good also.

I put my Kosher salt in the cheap glass Parmesan shakers to add flavor keep on on the cooking side of the kitchen and one on the salad prep side.

Iodine IMO is in so much processed food that we get are daily and so it is not a need as it was in the '30's and 40's to prevent Goiter.

My thyroid disease is actually quite famous as President George Bush, First Lady Barbara and their Dog all suffered from early stages of Graves.

Unfortunately my health care was misdiagnosed until the late stages, still have the fatty tissue behind one eye causing protrusion.

I am very grateful to be alive and thriving regardless of thickening of body mass.
Go in for that yearly Mamo and have to redo every time due to hypothyroidism (post Graves) the tissue in that area is so thick it is hard for radiology to read for any abnormalities. But! I make sure I sched. with the non smoking gals the one gal they have nick named "the crusher" always stressed and looking to go out for her nicotine fix, my GOD she will kill you. If you know what I mean. Mispells I just came off of a day off and have to go back on shift at 2am so I am not doing perfect English, rushing.

My youngest daughter has Graves Disease. She has not had her thyroid gland destroyed yet because she has small children and the doctor does not want to do it until she is through having babies. She wants to have one more baby. Her eyes protrude, though not as bad as they did when she was first diagnosed. She goes back and forth from being hypothyroid to hyperthyroid sometimes. She has to have her levels checked periodically. Now she knows the symptoms and gets to the doctor as soon as she notices a change. When she becomes hyper, it affects her heart and she is put on an antiarrythmic medication. I wish she would go ahead and have the thyroid destroyed so that she would be well. I worry about her.

I know what you mean about having smokers work on you. I changed dentists because of that.