can you use iodine supplements safely assuming you can at all?

Background - I've been having GERD type symptoms and difficulty swallowing recently.  I found a lump below my adams apple a few weeks ago which changes when I swallow.  For the last year I have been eating lots of kale and lately found out I have been using sea salt with no iodine, and avoided milk for about a year.  Really I think my iodine consumption was low.

 

I researched and found when you have a goiter, if it has been under a year or so, you can fix it with iodine supplements sporadically.

 

I checked into iodine.  I found the daily recommended value is 150 micrograms per day.

 

I looked for supplements and found some that range from 100% to 8,666% per pill.  Doesn't that quantity kill thyroid function with a lone dose?????

 

Secondary - every thread I've seen about this topic goes like this:  Opening post:  "hey guys, iodine supplements are awesome, I feel wonderful."  After this, you get to a post that is like "hey guys, I think I messed up my thyroid function."

 

Have been eating eggs and using iodized salt recently.  Comments according to anyone who has experienced this earlier?

I would not take any iodine supps without first getting my Thyroid hormone levels checked. Once you do that, you can proceed as necessary. But not before. 

 

Also if you get the iodine drops instead of the pills you can dillute them down to very low levels of iodine. 

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Yeah......I also use iodine drops after checking.

I take this kelp supplement occasionally:

https://natureslife....andic-kelp.html

225mcg per tablet.

 

My rationale is: Japanese people eat kelp every day, so if I take a pill of it once in a while, it has to be safe, no?

 

Edited by smithx, 23 May 2020 - 05:59 PM.

Selenium has a role to play in iodine supplementation and thyroid health (Selenium and the ThyroidSelenium and the Thyroid, PMID 26313901).

 

I have read that it makes iodine supplementation safer.

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100% take selenium

I abused iodine in the past and became allergic to it. Later on I became allergic to carnitine and coq10 by taking high doses. Since then I’ve not been able to take them for over 7 years now, even though I take pretty much every other essential nutrients in my stack.

These past 4 days for the first time ever I started supplementing 200mcg selenium (life extension super selenium complex). I’ve finally found my missing nutrient. I have no tiredness throughout the day, I’m emotionally stable as a rock, I can easily wake up when the alarm goes off, and my libido is way way up, same with erectile hardness. I feel like a new man to say the least, and like I said I pretty much supplement every other essential nutrient.

This 4th day I took sea kelp and ALCAR (both of which I have been allergic to for many years now) and I could tolerate them just fine.

Also note when I caught covid 19 it hit me the hardest out of my wife and father, I was off for a full month and recovery was extremely slow. There’s now a study of a clear link to the severity of coronavirus and selenium deficiency.

Also I got these benefits from selenium supplementation alone, but since today I tested and was able to tolerate iodine again (in the form of sea kelp), I will be adding sea kelp to my morning stack again.

And don’t let anyone tell you sea kelp isn’t a good form of iodine, because I was highly allergic to iodine, I can tell you I could not tolerate even 1 sea kelp tablet without the adverse side effects iodine would cause me.

Selenium is a 100% mainstay supplement for me, it has literally life been changing. Not sure why I never took it before, I guess because it was a trace mineral I thought chances of being deficient were low. Guess that’s not the case for me, or maybe the U.K.

Edited by Jesus is King, 09 August 2020 - 10:36 PM.