Will lower doses of Iodine from Dulse instead of the Kombu be fine? Or do you need the SUPER large doses (2112% daily value of iodine from Kombu when you use 3/4 of a CUP! Thats A TON and causes detox) to get your point across? Dulse has about 200% daily value per tablespoon and I handle that well but does it do any detoxing or just alot slower in lower doses? Thats what I want to know.
Heh..that isn't that much iodine...=/ 1 Iodoral tablet has 8333% of the daily value. Do not be fooled by the FDA's RIDICULOUSLY low daily values. Their values across the board with EVERYTHING is INSANELY low.
Here are some examples so you don't think I am just blowing smoke...
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)75 mg ---I take 6 grams a DAY...That would be 8,000% above their RDA...
Zinc 15 mg ---Andy Cutler says 50-100mg
Fluorine 3.5 mg ---Fluoride is a nutrient!
Vitamin D 200IU ---I take 5000-10,000IU and STILL low
Vitamin E 22.5IU (15mg) ---Andy Cutler says 1000IU+
I'd be careful to take what they say with any weight. They are the ones that allow mercury in the damn amalgams. If they are crooks when it comes to that, then they are crooks when it comes to the RDA.
I did the iodine detox about 14 months ago. I took the 1 tablet my doctor recommended for about 3 months. Then when I began looking into what iodine actually did, I decided to experiment for a while. The curezone iodine supplementation forums were amazing. I did a lot of reading about it before I upped it.
I personally like the iodoral tabs. That way you know exactly what you are taking and you can half them or even cut them in quarters if you need to. This way you know there aren't any contaminates in it either. The lugol's solution is good too, but you can't get the same potency in the solution anymore because the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) banned it. Saying that people were making meth out of it....
I took 2 tablets together in the morning for about 2 months. Even then I noticed the revving of my body. If I took the iodine too late in the day it actually kept me up at night. Then I added another tablet. I took 2 together in the morning, then 1 a few hours later. I didn't want to take 3 all at once.
I stayed on that for a long time about 3-4 months. I told my naturopath about it and he wanted to get my thyroid checked to make sure it was working okay with all that iodine. My levels in fact got BETTER! My morning temperatures went up by a degree!
Now I stay on 1 tablet a day. This way any new bromide, fluoride that enters the body is released immediately. I don't think long term high dose iodine is helpful UNLESS you have had thyroid cancer, breast cancer or a cyst problem. Iodine is anti cancer and anti-cyst. It has been known to help prevent breast cancer.
Part of my "hypothyroid" problem (even with normal labs) is likely stemming from an under active pituitary (secondary hypothyroidism). Most people don't realize that the pituitary makes TSH and most doctors don't know how to treat people properly....I'd rather take iodine as a maintenance dose then Armour.
