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The Iodoral comes as a small tablet, scored in the middle to break in half easily. If you would prefer drops, Lugol's is the equivalent of Iodoral, containing both iodide and iodine.
I've taken it with food and without, and honestly didn't see any difference, so my preference is with food. However, I do not take vitamin C at the same time, to avoid the C oxidizing the iodine.
So it dropped some more...doctor left a message for me to see an endo...but she hasn't responded for my request to supplement w/the Nascent or Iodoral.
I prefer the Iodoral or the Nascent be w/out the potassium...
Will it state that on the bottle? Should I order it off Amazon, or do you think my local health food store would carry them? They should, right? I want to make sure it's fresh.
Sometimes low T3 can result from a problem converting from the inactive T4. This is where the selenium comes in.
The iodide form is generally as potassium iodide. I think there is a product by Terry Naturally called Tri-Iodine that contains potassium iodide, sodium iodide, and iodine. I haven't seen an iodide product that was all sodium iodide.
The Nascent iodine does not have potassium. I use the Heritage Store brand. With Nascent iodine the mg per drop is very small so you will need a lot of drops to get to 12.5 mg.
So it dropped some more...doctor left a message for me to see an endo...but she hasn't responded for my request to supplement w/the Nascent or Iodoral.
I prefer the Iodoral or the Nascent be w/out the potassium...
Will it state that on the bottle? Should I order it off Amazon, or do you think my local health food store would carry them? They should, right? I want to make sure it's fresh.
Thx.
Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!
WE lose ~150ug of I each day, but table salt in the US is iodized and a tsp contains 400ug. It's difficult not to get enough.
Excess Iodine suppresses thyroid function.
You should make yourself aware of a couple things: a normal test value is NORMAL. "hi normal vs low normal" doesn't mean anything. Normal is normal.
Free T3 levels don't really have much meaning: It's thought that T4 is made in the thyroid gland and travels to the cells where it is used. Inthe cells, one of the I's is knocked off to yield T3, thought to be the real "active" form." ...Measuring Free-T3 in the serum is kinda like measuring coal spilled on the street as a dump truck travels to deliver coal from the mine to your furnace.
BTW- the first thing to do about your 2.2 FT3 is ..repeat thetest to verify. If it really means anything, your TSH would be high. If your pituitary doesn't think you're low, then you shouldn't either.
That is all conventional mainstream medicine's line, and is the opposite of what Dr. Brownstein and other iodine-literate doctors have found through their research and practice.
hellothere, someone started a thread over in supplements about iodine and I'd be interested to know about how and why you started taking it. I've gotten very interested in it since I got my breast cancer dx and wish I'd known sooner. A lot sooner.
It's commonly taken for hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer. There may be a link between the two cancers.
Since someone recently revived this thread, I'll add my experience with iodine, as a Hashimoto's thyroiditis patient.
The Bernstein book (mentioned earlier) was recommended to me, so I read it, and started supplementing with iodine, but this threw my antibody levels off. Either Bernstein recommends too much, or he failed to mention, that selenium is key, or maybe he did mentioned it but I missed it.
I quit iodine for a while a few years until someone I was working with online said she was a thyroid patient too, and had good results with iodine. That was when I found out, that selenium was an essential part of the iodine-supplement regime. So I "prepped" my thyroid in advance of starting iodine (in the form of kelp tablets) this time, by taking selenium for a week or two, then adding tiny amounts of iodine, bits of kelp tablets, to be cautious. The first test results I got after that indicated that my thyroid was loving it; all levels improved, including antibody levels. So I increased the dosage a little more, and have stayed at that level, taking around 120 mg. of selenium daily, and around 300 micrograms of iodine (per kelp tab).
This, in addition to a homeopathic thyroid supplement I've been taking for about 20 years, that was the only thyroid remedy, that didn't cause my antibodies to spike. Prescription thyroid of any kind was not helpful. Make of that what you will.
You can experiment with this, to find the supplement combination that helps you best, by getting your thyroid tested twice/year. Insurance will cover that, if you have a positive diagnosis for thyroid disease.
Stabilizing the thyroid levels and bringing antibody levels down to within normal range, however, doesn't cure thyroid disease. I haven't had any magical improvement in hair thickness, either. But my body temp finally came up to normal after starting that homeopathic remedy, as did my blood pressure. Both had been abnormally low all my life. And my LDL cholesterol, which had always been stratospherically high, dropped down to a healthy level with that homeopathic remedy, too.
Bear in mind, that all thyroid cases are different. Not everyone has the same symptoms, or reacts the same way to remedies.
There's a good book on treating thyroid by a nurse who contracted Hashimoto's, and cured herself of it. She says about 1/3 of cases can be successfully treated. If I find it, I'll post the title here.
I feel very good about the 1 drop of Iosol I've been taking for years...it's both iodine/iodide and 1 drop gives me 1.83mg ... this seems to work for breast health, thyroid and all over body tissues.
I eat some seafoods but certainly not a lot. I need to go out of my way to get salmon and other fish.
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