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It depends on your diet and where you live: iodine supplement is needed if you don't consume any seafood and live in the area with iodine-poor soil (usually in the mountains). Otherwise you should be fine.

Unless you're Asian, you aren't getting enough Iodine. This is especially true today with the amount of radiation in the atmosphere due to wireless devices. Make sure you get a quality supplement though, or you're just wasting your money. Thorne and Now both make good iodine supplements.

Eat some shrimp. I grow/eat a lot of broccoli sprouts for the sulphorophane but that depletes iodine so is my excuse to splurge.

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Do you get enough iodine from your iodized salt? Does your iodized salt
contain any iodine at all?

We have an iodine crisis in good part because of the iodized salt scam. The outdated government recommendation (RDA) states that an adequate amount of iodine can be consumed from less than the 250 mcg supposedly contained in a half teaspoon of iodized salt. But they never factored in current bromide pollution purges iodine.

They never factored in that iodine “evaporates” from salt containers. Or that the form of iodine in salt doesn’t absorb well. The myth that you can get enough iodine from iodized salt has now been debunked by scientists.

So, how much iodine do you absorb from iodized salt?

No one really knows, because misleading information has created a three-part information scam. Whistle-blowers must challenge the current government iodine guidelines because they’re based on inaccurate information and disproved assumptions that are harmful. The report, Iodine Nutrition: Iodine Content of US Salt by Dasgupta et al,
discusses the “Iodine Gap.”

The gap refers to the amount of iodine that’s supposed to be in iodized salt and what amount can actually be measured by the time you use it. The researchers also point out that salt is a poor food product to fortify because chloride which is a halogen, competes with the iodine, making it less effective.

Scam 1. The average gram of iodized salt is thought to contain 0.075 mcg. But that measurement is taken at the factory. By the time the salt reaches the grocery store half of the iodine in the sealed container has “vaporized,” or as scientists would say, the salt “sublimed” into the air. Once you get the salt container to your kitchen and open it, whoosh, more iodine escapes. The longer you keep it, the less iodine remains. Iodine in salt is unstable. Dasgupta et al. report it takes between 20 and 40 days for an opened container of iodized salt to lose half of its iodine. How long have you had that iodized salt in your pantry?

From a bit of reading, it seems it might be a good idea to eat a lot of seafood and seaweed.

Rancid clams to the rescue!

Natural food sources of iodine
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/iodine-rich-foods?source=patrick.net

kinda off-topic - I also started buying potassium iodide radiation tablets, which are a much higher dose - 130mg dose for radiation vs ~130 mcg dose for the daily value. I recall during the fukushima radiation leak event, these tablets were impossible to get because everyone suddenly wanted to buy them, just like masks and covid. So I started keeping them on hand, buying a fresh batch every 5-10yrs or so, to prepare for a possible future radiation exposure. Not that they give you immunity or anything, but they might help in some scenarios, and are very cheap from a per yr and lifetime cost perspective.

Hircus says

during the fukushima radiation leak event, these tablets were impossible to get because everyone suddenly wanted to buy them

If only that were so. I bought potassium iodide powder almost the moment that news broke. Talked about it on my mostly conservative trade forum. People there just lost their shit. It was the STUPIDEST thing any of them had ever heard of! Didn't matter to them as people in specific parts of the Rockies were reporting detecting high radiation in rainwater, and ultimately the highest concentration of airborne radioiodine reported in North America was at a station just miles downwind from my location (and near Disneyland incidentally.) This was stupid of me, and also, opportunistically, liberal for some reason!

I only ever took tiny doses, way beneath the "emergency radiation dose." Mine came as bulk powder. It should be still as good as it was then, if anything some of the natural radiopotassium within has decayed and made it even healthier than before.

We recently purchased some Pitcher Plant extract. Not a lot, but enough to treat my whole family in the event of smallpox. Probably won't ever have to use it, but only cost my $16 dollars, and those assholes dropped more than enough hints to make me nervous.

Lack of iodine might explain the cretinism that seems so common lately.