Re: Iodine Loading Test -- Help with interpreting results please

[Guest guest]

Kennio, you ask a great question. Once you get the results back on the iodine tests (spot urine, iodine loading), how do you figure out what they mean?

Would you believe that this is the first time anyone has reported their results on these tests and asked this question? I'm very glad you brought it up because we should all know how to do this. Unfortunately, this is new territory for me, too. So I'm hoping that people who have experience with this will respond.

Where did you get your tests done? Did you get any information from them beyond what you told us? If not, contact them and ask for more information. [i will also contact Flechas with any specific questions after the group has discussed this issue for a few days because I really want the group to have this information.]

Here is some information from Flechas' article on interpreting the loading test:

"III. Interpretation of results and recommendations

"The lab measures how much of the 50 mg load is excreted in the urine over a 24 hour period. An example here would be, if excretion is 5 mg over the 24 hour cycle, then the individual absorbed 45 mg in their body.

The human body can hold up to 1500 mg. The largest quantities are present in fat tissue and striated muscle. The largest concentrations are in the thyroid, ovary, liver, lung, adrenal gland, and heart. Twenty percent is in the skin. Every organ evaluated contained significant amounts of inorganic iodine.

"Once whole body sufficiency is attained following orthoiodosupplementation, 90 percent or more of the iodine load are excreted in the urine. If a patient has not taken iodine in significant amounts prior to this test and the test shows greater than 90 percent excretion, one then needs to consider that this individual has a sodium/iodide symporter defect.

We now have done over 7,000 tests. A major symporter defect is detected in about every 2,000 tests. If this defect is present, special considerations must be given to try and get the defect repaired. A complete nutritional program is recommended. We have previously reported improvement of a cellular transport defect for iodine following Vitamin C supplementation."

Flechas also discusses the common ranges for the test in the US population:

"IV. Data collected so far from the U.S. population

"Out of 4,065 tests, less than 1 percent of patients excreted 90 percent or more of the load....

"The mean iodide output in the 24 hour urine collection was 19.8 mg.

"In seven to eight percent of the patients evaluated, the amount of iodide excreted was less than 10 percent of the iodine/iodide load....

"In men 1 in 682 attained 90 percent sufficiency while in women 1 in 337 did the same.

"As the patient’s age increases, percent excretion decreased with a mean of 17.7 mg.

"Recent studies have been reported showing a relationship of iodine deficiency during pregnancy and ADD. Based on the iodine loading test on 16 to 35-year-old females, we found that 18 percent had urine iodide output in a 24 hour urine of 10 percent or less, evidence of severe iodine deficiency. "

The following two charts show typical results of the loading test for men and women:

The above information is all from The Iodine/Iodide Loading Test http://www.vrp.com/art/1797.asp

Great questions, Kennio!!! Thanks for initiating this discussion.

Zoe

RANGEUrinary spot iodide 0.04L >0.149 24HR urine loading iodine/iodide I & I loading 28L >44 I & I Saturation 56L >90Can someone give me some feedback on these results? How does it look?

[Guest guest]

Thanks! I did not get that info on interpretation of results. That is what I

wanted to know; averages and such to see where I fall. I got the test done

through a urinalysis bought online at VRP.com. The analysis was done at

Flechas. I would like to know how you all compared in results. Are you severe

or moderate like me? If you are severe has the iodine been more shocking to

your system...like drops of water on a red hot pan. I know when I add highly

absorbable magnesium to my mag depleted body, it was a jolt that kinda a scared

me.

Ok, so now I need to get 2 bottles of Iodoral (180ct) and take 4 a day in two

divided dose, right? Retest in 3 months. How likely is it that this is going

to be hard to do? I will find a doctor to test my thyroid every month.

--- Zoe & <ZOEA@...> wrote:

> Kennio, you ask a great question. Once you get the results back on the

> iodine tests (spot urine, iodine loading), how do you figure out what they

> mean?

>

> Would you believe that this is the first time anyone has reported their

> results on these tests and asked this question? I'm very glad you brought it

> up because we should all know how to do this. Unfortunately, this is new

> territory for me, too. So I'm hoping that people who have experience with

> this will respond.

>

> Where did you get your tests done? Did you get any information from them

> beyond what you told us? If not, contact them and ask for more information.

> [i will also contact Flechas with any specific questions after the group has

> discussed this issue for a few days because I really want the group to have

> this information.]

>

> Here is some information from Flechas' article on interpreting the loading

> test:

>

> " III. Interpretation of results and recommendations

>

> " The lab measures how much of the 50 mg load is excreted in the urine over a

> 24 hour period. An example here would be, if excretion is 5 mg over the 24

> hour cycle, then the individual absorbed 45 mg in their body.

>

> The human body can hold up to 1500 mg. The largest quantities are present in

> fat tissue and striated muscle. The largest concentrations are in the

> thyroid, ovary, liver, lung, adrenal gland, and heart. Twenty percent is in

> the skin. Every organ evaluated contained significant amounts of inorganic

> iodine.

>

> " Once whole body sufficiency is attained following orthoiodosupplementation,

> 90 percent or more of the iodine load are excreted in the urine. If a patient

> has not taken iodine in significant amounts prior to this test and the test

> shows greater than 90 percent excretion, one then needs to consider that this

> individual has a sodium/iodide symporter defect.

>

> We now have done over 7,000 tests. A major symporter defect is detected in

> about every 2,000 tests. If this defect is present, special considerations

> must be given to try and get the defect repaired. A complete nutritional

> program is recommended. We have previously reported improvement of a cellular

> transport defect for iodine following Vitamin C supplementation. "

>

>

> Flechas also discusses the common ranges for the test in the US population:

>

> " IV. Data collected so far from the U.S. population

>

> " Out of 4,065 tests, less than 1 percent of patients excreted 90 percent or

> more of the load....

>

> " The mean iodide output in the 24 hour urine collection was 19.8 mg.

>

> " In seven to eight percent of the patients evaluated, the amount of iodide

> excreted was less than 10 percent of the iodine/iodide load....

>

> " In men 1 in 682 attained 90 percent sufficiency while in women 1 in 337 did

> the same.

>

> " As the patient's age increases, percent excretion decreased with a mean of

> 17.7 mg.

>

> " Recent studies have been reported showing a relationship of iodine

> deficiency during pregnancy and ADD. Based on the iodine loading test on 16

> to 35-year-old females, we found that 18 percent had urine iodide output in a

> 24 hour urine of 10 percent or less, evidence of severe iodine deficiency. "

>

>

> The following two charts show typical results of the loading test for men and

> women:

>

>

>

>

> The above information is all from The Iodine/Iodide Loading Test

> http://www.vrp.com/art/1797.asp

>

> Great questions, Kennio!!! Thanks for initiating this discussion.

>

> Zoe

>

>

>

> RANGE

> Urinary spot iodide 0.04L >0.149

>

> 24HR urine loading

> iodine/iodide

> I & I loading 28L >44

> I & I Saturation 56L >90

>

> Can someone give me some feedback on these results? How does it look?

>

>

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