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All it is, is Kelp. People take it to boost their metabolism. Its supposed to help trigger sluggish thyroids. Most stores have it, drug stores, and certainly any health food store.

GNC DID have it, till it became popular the past few weeks.

I don't think kelp tablets will have enough iodine to saturate the thyroid. IIRC, kelp has elemental iodine, and if you take enough elemental iodine to saturate the thyroid, you'll get a toxic effect. Potassium iodide and potassium iodate are the two forms that are tolerated, and used for protection from radiation. Other countries keep large supplies by their nuke plants, and we should have done so after TMI. (There was a big stink back then because it wasn't available.) The official US policy is that we can fly it in to any location where it's needed (i.e., a nuke plant meltdown), but IMO that's playing it too close to the vest. You need to start taking it immediately, not "whenever they can get around to loading a plane, flying it across the country, unloading the plane, loading the trucks, getting it to 'distribution centers', and fighting your way through the traffic and panicked crowds".