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393685 tn?1425812522

What does this awful oil spill in the Golf going to do to Thyroid Patients and Iodine?

Really take a peek and keep up on this situation. Remember our sea is our most natural iodine supplier and if it gets infected as it is, what are we going to do?  We must learn more on how to avoid certain things and also become informed how to still consume iodine properly.

Just a tip we all should stay up on.

Enjoy your day today
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1066426 tn?1330270549
http://iodine4health.com/body/body.htm
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1202943 tn?1347840652
Thanks!
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Info on Iodine:

http://www.vitamins-nutrition.org/vitamins/iodine.html
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393685 tn?1425812522
breast tissue and other cells also require iodine to stay healthy
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393685 tn?1425812522
no its not... just because the thyroid is no longer active or present doesn't mean other glands do not require the mineral.

Our bowels play a huge role in iodine and liver also.

Erica - depending on your condition and where you're at after RAI - Iodine may be very hard to take in. I found at least 3 years after my RAI eating shrimp was horrible for me and I reacted. Until I balanced my entire system with correct hormone I had a tough time.

Now there are days I crave salt - sea food and iodine. My body tells me in a sense whern I need it more on some times than others.
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The only reason to consume iodine is to keep your thyroid functioning...it is the only gland in your body that uses iodine, that is why when they want to kill the thyroid, they starve you or iodine so your thyroid will take up all the radioactive iodine and kill it off.  I have no thyroid, so now I do not need to supplement iodine, I get it in foods, and I can't use it anyway. (TT due to cancer and RAI)
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1202943 tn?1347840652
After going Hypothyroid (due to RAI), are you supposed to consume a lot more Iodine?
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Yes, probably...don't eat gulf shrimp, stick to Alaskan salmon and fish or Pacific Northwest and Atlantic...although the gulf stream may pick up the oil and carry it to the Atlantic.  Good for the Pac Northwest and Alaska fishermen, disaster for the Louisianna fish and shrimp industry...
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393685 tn?1425812522
I'm thinking the seafood will be damaged
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If you have ever driven out by the Great Salt Lake, you will find the Morton Salt plant, the salt is in huge piles and is harvested there...the Great Salt Lake used to be an inland ocean, as did the Bonneville salt flats and Death Valley.  Some does come from ocean water, but much of that goes into commercial uses, like water softening.
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640719 tn?1277140030
It's hard to even hear about what is going on in the Gulf let alone look. It's such a shame and heart breaking to say the least for a number of reasons.
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393685 tn?1425812522
not sure what you mean MANmom.. details?
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Salt mostly comes from salt beds left behind by seas long since dried up...like Salt Lake in Utah.  It probably will do nothing.
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Thanks Stella :)
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