According to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), these are the recommended levels
of daily iodine intake during pregnancy and lactation:
The World Health Organization recommends 250 µg / d
of daily iodine intake, however, in the US, our diets usually provide enough iodine so check with your doctor to see if you need additional supplementation.
Not exact matches
As most salts can be low in
Iodine, I have added the natural
Iodine - rich dulse flakes to the Himalayan salt — adding the mixture
of these two in your
daily diet can assist in absorbing the 84 minerals and trace elements and is wonderful for our hydrating process.
Austrian researchers have used a worldwide network
of radiation detectors — designed to spot clandestine nuclear bomb tests — to show that
iodine - 131 is being released at
daily levels 73 per cent
of those seen after the 1986 disaster.
The
daily recommended intake
of iodine in the UK is 140 µg / day and just over half comes from dietary sources other than milk / dairy products.
Currently I take the following supplements
daily and some
of them every other day: Lugol's
Iodine (for breast / general health), Celtic Sea Salt, Vitamin C (1500 - 2000 per day), B - Complex (1 - 2x a day), Magnesium Citrate (400 - 600 mg)
daily, Vitamin E, Omega - 3 Fish Oil with CoQ10, 5 - 10 mg
of DHEA, Milk Thistle, Rhodiola Tincture / Liquid (for adrenal health), Trace Minerals.
One thing I do almost
daily is take a drop * from an eye dropper *
of Iodine in water.
I also ran into an article suggesting that selenium helps the body use
iodine better, and it happens that I'd been eating Brazil nuts
daily on a regular basis for about as long as I'd been eating that seaweed, and just 3 Brazil nuts have about 70 %
of the total RDA for selenium.
Iodine, while somewhat controversial in high dose applications (> 3 mg
daily), is essential for the production
of thyroid hormone, and when used with selenium, can play an instrumental role in recovery.
Caution should therefore be heeded before adding supplemental
iodine to the regimen of any patient with thyroid autoimmunity, since, «Iodine intake modulates the pattern of thyroid diseases, even in cases of slight differences in intake and doses below 150 μg daily recommended for preventing IDD»
iodine to the regimen
of any patient with thyroid autoimmunity, since, «
Iodine intake modulates the pattern of thyroid diseases, even in cases of slight differences in intake and doses below 150 μg daily recommended for preventing IDD»
Iodine intake modulates the pattern
of thyroid diseases, even in cases
of slight differences in intake and doses below 150 μg
daily recommended for preventing IDD» (9).
Natural Factors Fresh Kelp Extract is an effective way to meet your body's
daily requirement
of iodine and essential trace minerals.
The
daily minimum requirement
of iodine for survival is 150 micrograms.
I'm also taking the proper doses
of B12, Turmeric with no bioperin
daily, Algae based Omega 3's, D3, basically everything but an
iodine source which I am working on.
Also, supplement a low dose
of iodine (near the RDA)
daily and get her tested for hypothyroidism.
A healthy, balanced diet, especially one that includes foods that are a good source
of iodine, should provide the minimum amount
of iodine your body needs, which is 150 micrograms
daily (conversely, exceeding 400 micrograms
of iodine per day can produce negative outcomes).
For Westerners unaccustomed to including seaweeds in the diet, a small
daily supplement
of kelp in tablet or powdered form is a good idea, but don't overdo — excess
iodine may also cause thyroid problems.
The most recent study I could find:
Iodine content in bulk biomass
of wild - harvested and cultivated edible seaweeds: inherent variations determine species - specific
daily allowable consumption, Food Chemistry (2018)
As an example he points to the Japanese whose average
daily intake
of iodine is as high as almost 14,000 mcg per day due to their diet which is rich in sea weeds!
The refined extracts in Sea -
Iodine are obtained from the pure waters of Iceland and Nova Scotia, supplying more than 667 % of the Recommended Daily Value of natural i
Iodine are obtained from the pure waters
of Iceland and Nova Scotia, supplying more than 667 %
of the Recommended
Daily Value
of natural
iodineiodine.
Well, since average
daily intake
of iodine of much healthier Japanese is as high as 14,000 mcg, it looks like we need much more than the recommended 150mcg
of iodine a day.
CONCLUSION: To lower the incidence
of autoimmune thyroid diseases in predisposed subjects, a
daily iodine supplementation seems to be superior to high - dose weekly administrations.
The amount
of kelp contained within Good Green Stuff is approximately 60 mg, and the total
iodine content
of Good Green Stuff from kelp and marine algae is around 154mcg - equivalent to the
daily dietary recommended intake for adults, but less than the recommended intake for pregnancy and breast - feeding.
They advised against the ingestion
of iodine or kelp supplements containing in excess
of 500 mcg
iodine daily, and noted that ingesting more than 1,100 mcg
of iodine per day (the tolerable upper limit) may cause thyroid dysfunction.
If you're eating lots
of cruciferous plants on a
daily basis, make sure you're also getting enough dietary
iodine from fish and seaweed, since cruciferous vegetables may be linked to thyroid cancer in those who are already
iodine deficient [25].
For example, just 1 tbsp
of dried dulse (a type
of seaweed) contains 500 %
of your
daily recommended intake
of iodine.
Make sure you optimize zinc and supplement a low dose
of iodine daily.
Kelp has the highest amount
of iodine of any food on the planet and just one serving offers 4 times the
daily minimum requirement.
In one
of your interviews you said we need 20k - 50k mcg
iodine daily but most supplements provide only like 400 mcg.
I started taking 288mcg
of liquid
iodine (Bioceuticals brand)
daily.
if we only need 150 micrograms
daily and something as simple as eating 4 ounces
of cranberries has 400 / mcg
of iodine... How is it that «The amount
of iodine in natural food is not enough.»
The good news is that there are many popular foods with
iodine, all
of which are easy to incorporate into your
daily diet.
Many doctors would say that it's nearly impossible to consume enough goitrogens to become a real problem unless the foods highest in this plant chemical — turnips and rutabagas — are eaten
daily, as a staple and in the presence
of iodine deficiency.
Research shows that, on a
daily basis, a minimum
of approximately 70 µg
of iodine is needed to produce T3 and T4 hormones in the thyroid gland every day.
Treatment options include a variety
of daily, lifelong medicines to keep the condition under control and / or a more permanent remedy in radioactive
iodine therapy.
If it's mild — just a few blackheads or specks
of dark skin discharge — washing the area
daily with dilute antiseptic soap such as chlorhexidine (non-dental brands like Hibiclens or Nolvasan) or
iodine (Betadine) until it's cleared up, will be enough.
The study shows that «half a litre
of milk would provide 53 %
of and 88 %
of the
daily recommended intake [
of iodine] from organic and conventional milk respectively.»