Sat, Sep-12-09, 09:39
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Plan: VLC 4 days a week
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BF:
Progress: 58%
Location: Québec, Canada
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Iodine deficiency is very common in America...
Iodine deficiency is very common in America. We are told that 1 mg of iodine per day is the maximum anyone should intake ( ref). But the healthiest people on earth intake much more Iodine than this per day!
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The safety of therapeutic doses of iodine above the established safe upper limit of 1 mg is evident in the lack of toxicity in the Japanese population that consumes 25 times the median intake of iodine consumption in the United States.
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http://www.thorne.com/altmedrev/.fulltext/13/2/116.pdf
This could explain most of the subclinical hypothyroidism affecting 40% of the population and contributing to the obesity pandemic.
Should we all supplement with something like Iodoral ?
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