Just a thought - doesn't the typical person's constant exposure to halogens (and goitrogens like soy) make their thyroid take in less iodine? So would that mean that person could handle a higher iodine intake without getting iodine excess problems, since the thyroid isn't actually taking in as much iodine as you would expect?

So maybe I am unusually sensitive to excess iodine BECAUSE I am one of the rare few with quite low halogen exposure.

The elites are putting fluoride in the water to protect you from the iodine they're putting in the milk! (this is a joke)

I've had sleep issues that started in the last few years (I always slept great before that) but I don't remember exactly when the sleep issues started.

Thank you Texugo and @LucH for your replies, I appreciate any help. I certainly don't like having a food intolerance I have to watch out for, it would be much more convenient if I didn't have to worry about iodine!

@TexugoDoMel Because it's well water, my bathing water is also free of flouride and chlorine.

I asked you in the other iodine thread for more info about the antioxidant idea.

Thanks!

@TexugoDoMel

Since I have this iodine intolerance myself, I'd like to fix it.

As I mentioned in my log thread, I think my halogen exposure is a good deal lower than normal due to almost never eating bromide sources, and getting all my water from a well so I get no chlorine, and no flouride from my drinking, cooking, or bathing water.

But how about the weak antioxidant system idea. Is there a way to measure this to determine if I do have a weak antioxidant system? And what should I do about it?

Do you mean I should take Vit C, Vit E, and Selenium and I would be able to handle high iodine? I have in the past taken Vit C alongside my high iodine diet (I didn't know it was high at the time) and I still felt foggy and slow. My diet has been moderately high in selenium for a long time, but perhaps it needed to be even higher?

Or perhaps I have some unresolved source of inflammation. The only things I can think of are:

1. I live in a house that is probably moldy
2. I also eat a lot of grain products (all totally free of additives, bromides, and pesticides - much of it is homemade.)
3. I have some gum inflammation at times.

By the way, here is my experience lowering iodine and feeling better: https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/3760/bloodwork-shows-elevated-tpoab-hashimoto-s-disease

By the way, I just ran across this post:

@TexugoDoMel said in Thyroid Log:

@GreekDemiGod

Iodine is very important but remember that iodine displaces bromide and fluoride and can cause unpleasant symptoms precisely because of this. It's a good idea to adjust the amount of selenium too, as there's a good chance you'll feel unwell when supplementing with iodine if you're deficient in selenium.

Could this explain why I feel lots better with low iodine?

I don't think so, because:

Flouride
I have drunk primarily well water (which is also filtered through a berkey filter) - so this is not fluoridated water. I know there's some flouride exposure from stuff like orange juice when they add water to the concentrate in the factory, but other than that, I'm not getting much flouride. I've drunk almost exclusively water from that well for 4 years, and 50% of my daily water intake was from that well for 8 years before that. So I must be much lower in fluoride exposure than typical.

Bromide
I eat almost exclusively homemade food, almost never any additives, and mostly organic. I hardly ever eat bread that isn't homemade. So I think my bromide exposure is extremely low compared to typical. That has been the case for a good 8 years.

Selenium
Up until recently I've eaten plenty of eggs, meat, some seafood, and brazil nuts (though brazil nuts are probably not the selenium powerhouses people claim) - so my selenium intake has been consistently higher than what is probably typical.

Is it really iodine?
By the way, I just recently tried an experiment where I increased the iodine back up to see what would happen and it made me feel awful, very low thyroid feeling.

@William-Shat I can't explain that, but like half of people who megadose iodine say they got harmed by it.

Iodine excess could be the main cause of low thyroid function.

Explanation video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMMyDX7s5as

For some people, over 200 mcg iodine becomes excessive, which is less than 2 and a half cups of milk.

1 cup of milk has 85 mcg iodine now, but before the 1970's, a cup of milk had 14 mcg iodine. Eggs have gone way up in iodine too.

Before iodine fortification, it would be very difficult for a person to get over 200mcg iodine.

I wrote more details on one of my websites here:
https://endocrinefriendly.com/excess-iodine-milk/

And my experience with lowering iodine: https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/3760/bloodwork-shows-elevated-tpoab-hashimoto-s-disease

Nearly all shelled brazil nuts exported for sale are from Bolivia and Peru, not Brazil. (source)

Data wasn't available on Bolivian/Peruvian nuts' selenium content, but right across the border in Brazil, in the states of Acre and Matto Grosso, brazil nuts only have about 8 mcg per nut and 10 mcg per nut respectively. The brazil nuts in the grocery store are probably from this general region, so they probably only have this much selenium.

It's only in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, probably around Manaus, that brazil nuts have the very high selenium content they're known for, due to differences in the soil. (202 mcg per nut) This is further to the north, a different region than the places our brazil nuts are most likely coming from.

(Source for all the Brazil data)

However, unshelled Brazil nuts are mostly exported from Brazil, and Manaus, Amazonas is the main brazil nut producing region of Brazil, so unshelled Brazil nuts probably do contain high selenium!

So for these many years, my daily (shelled) brazil nut didn't have 175% of the selenium RDA... All along it was probably a mere ~9 mcg selenium, 16% of the RDA!

@Hearthfire Yeah, could be sketchy, but I could believe he's just trying to support his operation and isn't very polished in how he presents his stuff. I mean, I run affiliate sites about health topics and I do my best to be genuine and helpful.