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so you don't see iodine deficiency in animal eaters unless they are eating halter amounts of animals and lots of super healthy vegetables and roots that's obviously i'm being facetious here right because like unless they're eating a lot of kale and salads and things like that
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humans definitely need iodine and there's iodine in meat there's iodine and organs and i think that it's often been incorrectly calculated if you look at iodine levels in indian organs they're wildly disparate like depending on the study so i think we need more research to say how much iodine is actually in liver how much iodine is actually in red meat because i think when people say there's no island or meat like uh where does the lion from you know where do other animals get their iodine from because they have thyroids too right there's a lot of carnivorous animals that don't eat any seafood and they're not ionizing efficient so where are they getting well yeah there's plenty of iodine in animal foods but if you look at the analysis whether it's the usda or whoever's done this it's pretty shoddy and it's widely all over the place so the rda from iodine today is 150 micrograms and so you can get some of that from sea salt i think someone did the analysis with redmond and it was like 10 grams of remnant salt a day almost gosh it's 150 micrograms of iodine a day with that salt um and i could compare i'm not sure how the iodine in redmond compares to the iodine and like melatonin but there's actually a pretty robust amount of iodine in muscle meat and organisms and iodine deficiency is the result of goitrogens it's the result of compounds like sulforaphane and other isothiocyanates that are going to steal iodine or compete with ionic level thyroid
i've never seen someone eating reasonable amounts of meat get iodine deficient unless they were doing something that significantly inhibited their iodine absorption and uptake at the level of the thyroid like tons of broccoli because we know that the isothiocyanates in that whole family kale collard cabbage chard etc the entire brassica family those are going to inhibit the absorption of iodine level of thyroid that's one of their main mechanisms of toxicity