Guest guest Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 , You wrote: > > I would very much appreciate your opinion on the theory that a > therapeutic dose of iodine, specifically Iodoral at 75mg per day, has > been scientifically found to increase thyroid problems in the auto > immune disease, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. I'm referring to the writings > of Dr. Datis Kharrazian. That is a substantial dose, about 500 times the recommended daily intake and about 75 times the safe upper limit. Are you sure you don't mean 75 mcg? Many many studies have shown that doses at much lower levels, close to the limit, do indeed seem to aggravate or even bring on Hashimoto's. However, if you are already way down the hypoT road, this may not necessarily be a bad thing. Iodine could accelerate the process, getting you more quickly to a stable, replacement dose. When that happens, the antibodies and peripheral symptoms can go away. That is not a good enough reason to recommend large overdosing of iodine by itself, and 75 mg could induce pseudo allergic reactions. The threshold for these potentially life threatening conditions is around 3 mg per day. If you can get to that dose without an adverse reaction, you are probably safe to go higher. However, I am highly skeptical that any benefits accrue from such massive doses. We have had lots of iodine advocates on this list who think the opposite and recommend up to 100 mg per day. As I said, they have failed to convince me. In fact, I suspect that massive doses of iodine may even be addictive. Chuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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