Iodine supplementation, opinions.

[Nemo]

Hello, i would like to know your opinions and personal experiances about iodine supplementation related to the carnivore diet. Since i moved to sweden i noticed a slight enlargment of my throat, which had me suspect that my iodine intake could have been on a low end compaired to what i am used to since i come from a country with a very iodine rich soil.

I ordered some iodine supplement and will start taking it daily for few weeks just to be able to see if i feel improvments. Overall the rule of thumb with most supplements is that they help only if it's something you are lacking. A gas tank is useful only if your car ran out of gas, if the issue is that you got a flat tire, the gas tank ain't gonna serve you well.

Did any of you felt the need to supplement some iodine with the carnivore diet?

[Bob]

I haven't supplemented with iodine yet, but I've been meaning to. Word is that if you live by the ocean and eat a lot of seafood, you probably get all that you need. But most people are deficient, to the extent that mainstream salt here is "iodized". 

J. Crow's Lugol's Iodine Solution is a popular supplement among carnivores. Dr. Berry often recommends it.

[Nemo]

Lately I was trying to get as many info as possible to the most bio-avaible source of iodine supplementation which happens to be also stable in time. Most of my researches would not favor lugol as prime method for iodine supplementation and that there are forms of the compound that are much more stable to oxidation than the two main forms of iodine provided by lugol. but what i read it is not necessarely true. I read a lot also that cholesterol was gonna kill me and then eventually turn me into a smurf, but i yet have to become blue.

[Orweller]

Start with low doses of iodine. Me and @Bob live in the mid-west, and that is known as the goiter belt. Eat seafood or take iodine supplements. You WILL be deficient if you don't eat enough seafood, no ifs or buts. I take Iodine derived from sea kelp, 450mcg a day. I'll probably increase the dose soon. I do not like mega-dosing anything. 

And yes, if you read on iodine, it's similar on what you will read on saturated fat and cholesterol, that it will kill you and have mere hours to live! Pay it no mind. ALL of our cells need iodine, MUCH like cholesterol. We will die without it. 

[Orweller]

2 hours ago, Nemo said:

Lately I was trying to get as many info as possible to the most bio-avaible source of iodine supplementation which happens to be also stable in time. Most of my researches would not favor lugol as prime method for iodine supplementation and that there are forms of the compound that are much more stable to oxidation than the two main forms of iodine provided by lugol. but what i read it is not necessarely true. I read a lot also that cholesterol was gonna kill me and then eventually turn me into a smurf, but i yet have to become blue.

[Nemo]

25 minutes ago, Orweller said:

Start with low doses of iodine. Me and @Bob live in the mid-west, and that is known as the goiter belt. Eat seafood or take iodine supplements. You WILL be deficient if you don't eat enough seafood, no ifs or buts. I take Iodine derived from sea kelp, 450mcg a day. I'll probably increase the dose soon. I do not like mega-dosing anything. 

And yes, if you read on iodine, it's similar on what you will read on saturated fat and cholesterol, that it will kill you and have mere hours to live! Pay it no mind. ALL of our cells need iodine, MUCH like cholesterol. We will die without it. 

i eat quite some organs which i believe is the reason why i didn't developed a visible deficency (yet) but i also believe that i probably have to start supplementing.

The supplement i bought is potassium iodide (ki) which happens to be more stable than Lugol but slightly less bioavaible. I didn't try it yet since i'm still waiting for the delivery.

About the amounts, i genuinely believe that is really hard to overdose iodine in a healthy subject. If you think about the costal regions of Japan, the daily intake of iodine is not counted in micrograms but in milligrams. It's not rare for it to go above 5mg which compared to the 150mcg is 33 times higher, and yet we are talking about some of the healthiest subjects on the planet. On the other hand we also know that the body tends to react differently to an overload of micronutrient through food compaired to one induced by supplementation.

[Geezy]

I just started taking iodine. Too early to see if I feel anything different though. 
I’ve read that you should be able to get enough if you eat plenty of ocean fish but I don’t and since I won’t use table salt I figured I’d give the supplement a shot.