Sat, Nov-16-02, 20:47
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Posts: 59
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Plan: combination
Stats: 315/263/200
BF:>50?/39/25
Progress: 45%
Location: Tampa, FL
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Heard of this? Topical iodine absorption to detect iodine deficiency?
This is from a post from the coconut oil yahoo group from today:
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Hi everyone With all of the interactions of soy and thyroid and the
resulting negative effect on metabolism, I would like to share a simple little home test I found 3 days ago in Dr. Rowan's newsletter. It is about Iodine and whether or not you are deficient in it. To say the least, I was excited to learn about it.
All you have to do is get a bottle of 2% tincture of Iodine--available for about $1.00 for an ounce bottle at any
grocery, drug or dept. store. Paint a 2 inch square on your abdomen or inner thigh. If it is absorbed in under 24 hours, it indicates an Iodine deficiency. You will know if it absorbed as there will be no stain left on your skin. If it takes the full 24 hours, you are OK. It is a simple little tool. He also suggests that if you ARE deficient, that you keep doing the test until it does take the full 24 hours for the stain to disappear. By doing this your are correcting the deficiency. I flunked mine flat--it has taken only 12 hours for my stain to disappear for 3 days
in a row.
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Has anyone come across this in their review of information regarding the thyroid?
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