Hi Sergio, I think it might be a good idea to try an iodine containing supplement and just start at the low dose and work up. It depends on the amount in the supplement or lugol's, because some lugol's are much more diluted than others.

The one I have is 250 mcg a drop, and this is pretty low in comparison with other ones. Some kelp can provide around about 250 - 300 mcg of iodine per 1000 mg of kelp. It can vary. Usually it'll state on the bottle somewhere how much iodine is available in each tablet of kelp.. I am not sure of the ideal dose for each person. I would not go overboard and starting taking more than 1000 mcg, but keep it around the doses already mentioned perhaps and work up from there. I would not take over 1500 mcg per day personally unless under guidance for therapeutic reasons.

You'll usually know when you've taken too much, apparently you get moisture in the nose, or leaking a bit from the nose. When that occurs, you're saturated and need to stop for about a month and try again on a lower maintainance dose.

Some even only use a drop of lugol's twice a week (but this is less diluted one). So I am not sure how much it must provide, probably quite a lot.

Sometimes the symptoms can feel hyper, you can have a transient reaction to it from overstimulation, or detox symptoms. Or you can get some brain fog and tiredness etc.

It is hard to know how you'll react. I don't see any reason whatsoever not to have extra iodine with amalgams. Mercury displaces much needed iodine, and it's wise to supplement with those things (like selenium and zinc etc). Iodine does not pull mercury from amalgams, it just competes with it inside the body, because mercury will get in where iodine should be. And you need more iodine to offset some of this.

Same with essential fatty acids too, mercury depletes these as well.