Like iodine pills?
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Iodine is a rare mineral that your body badly needs. Your body is constantly hungry for iodine and will absorb it from food and water.
If you are exposed to radioactive iodine, then your body will absorb it and hold onto it tight. It will stay in the body and release its radiation inside your body continuously for weeks or months.
However, if before you get exposed to radioactive iodine, you take some iodine pills, then your body will be full of iodine, and no longer hungry – so if you eat or drink radioactive iodine, the body will just allow it to go to waste, instead of storing it. You will only get exposed to the radiation until your body pees or poops the iodine out.
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