Iodine and Sleep

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I started iodine painting a few days ago, and I noticed that my skin

appeared to absorb the iodine at a considerably accelerated rate while

I was sleeping.

The first day, I painted a 1.5x1 " patch on my belly around 7pm. When

I went to bed at 10, it did not appear to have changed, but when I

woke up it was gone. Upon waking and seeing it gone, I painted a 2x2 "

patch (all the rest of the patches are this size) around 6 or 7am, and

by the evening, it seemed only a little lighter, but when I woke up it

was gone.

Usually I eat dinner at 6pm and sleep 10pm to 6am. The night before

last, I didn't eat until 8pm and didn't get to bed until 11:30pm, and

woke up at 5:30 am. I had iodine painted the previous morning around

6am, yet even after going through sleep this day, it was still present

and distinctly orange in color on my skin!

Since the patch was still there, I didn't paint again until after

work, when it was finally gone, around 3:30. This was yesterday.

Yesterday, I ate around 5:30pm, went to bed at 8pm and got up at 6am,

and the painting was gone.

If you compare the previous two days, in one case, when I got only six

hours of sleep, it took at least 24 hours but less than 34 hours for

the patch to absorb. Yet on the following day (today) when I slept

for 10 hours, it took at least four hours but less than 15 hours to

absorb.

A possible interpretation of the first day mentioned in the above

paragraph would have been that I had brought myself up to a certain

level of sufficiency, so the iodine supplementation became less

necessary. But the experience of the second day mentioned in the

above paragraph suggests that this is not the case and that sleep is

the operative factor.

There are a few possibilities I can think of off the top of my head:

- during sleep, prolonged fasting precludes obtaining iodine from food

stores that have not been fully digested

- during sleep, thyroid hormone elevates in order to break down energy

that can not be gotten from undigested food stores

- during sleep, detoxification pathways or other cyclical metabolic

processes are activated that use iodine

The first one seems unlikely, because in the last two days, I had the

same amount of total fasting between meals. In one case, my meal was

bumped up two hours, but I did not snack in between, so I just moved

two hours of fasting from during the beginning of sleep to before

dinner. This might affect my ability to detox during sleep, but

wouldn't affect the total time I had to go without a dietary source of

iodine.

The second one may or may not be true. I'm sure it's well known

whether thyroid hormone goes up or down during sleep but I didn't try

to look it up. The third one seems likely to me.

Chris

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