I usually buy the salt that says “this salt supplies iodide a necessary ingredient.” But yesterday I accidentally bought one that says “this salt does not supply iodide..” which always makes me wonder… if iodide is a necessary nutrient why would salt be sold without it.. and explicitly state that ???
Anyways, I’m basically wondering if it’s bad enough that I should go out and buy the salt that supplies iodide. I know it’s not a life or death ordeal but I’m just now beginning my ✨caring about what I put in my body✨ journey so if this salt will only give me all the bad components of salt without any good ones, I’ll go get another one.
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Just to give you one example, people undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer sometimes undergo radioactive iodine treatment. But before they can do this, they must starve the body of iodine for a period of time so that when they do eventually take in the radioactive iodine, it goes straight to any remaining (possibly cancerous) thyroid cells and kills them. This means no iodized salt.
Like others have said, iodine was added to salt as a way for people to get this important nutrient. It does not naturally show up in salt like that.
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