Too Much of a Good Thing - Iodine: 1 mg/day + Can be Bad for You, But the Dangers are as Individual as the Benefits
Seafood is an excellent source of iodine, but many people get most of their iodine from iodized table salt. I assume you would have expected me to forget that I promised to do my very best to turn the "too much of a good thing" article on selenium I wrote a week ago into a series, right? Well, you obviously don't know me well enough, then, because here's installment #2 of this new series. One that is closely related to #1, but was significantly more difficult to write. Why's that? Well, if you took a look at the literature discussing the effects of iodine supplementation on thyroid function, you'd know why it was ... well, "complicated" and not exactly unambigous to say the least. Learn more about your thyroid , T3 , and T4 at the SuppVersity Green tea messes w/ your thyroid hormones TSH alone is not a good measure of thyroid health Fructose prevents decline of T3 while dieting T2 has thyroid-suppressing ef-fects as T3 & T4...