Months ago I did an iodine loading test which was, to put it lightly, not the highlight of that particular 24 hours but once it is over and done with it all seems pretty easy. The company I used made mailing it in a breeze as all you had to do was put a tiny amount of the 24 hour collection in a tube, place that in an envelope, call FedEx and leave it at your front door. So off it went and last week I finally had a doctor appointment and got to hear the results. A normal person who needs no supplemental iodine would excrete about 90% (+) of the ingested Iodoral which is all very precisely measured at the lab (I don’t know how and don’t care).

My test results showed an excretion of 74%, which simply put means I am not a total disaster but I do need supplemental iodine. As I have hypothyroidism any lack of iodine makes my thyroid work at less than full capacity, so I feel like finding out was well worthwhile. Lack of iodine in your system can contribute to dis-ease and many experts in the field of breast cancer feel low levels of iodine make women particularly vulnerable to breast cancer. When Iodine isn’t present we cannot detox such things as Bromide and Fluoride and they get stored in our bodies where they can feed wild little cells.

My functional medicine man and I have agreed that I will take 2 12.5 mg tablets of Iodoral per day for three months and then I will repeat (I so want to write re-pee, so there you go it is out there) the test and see how my levels are at that time. In addition to Iodoral I use one or two scoops of Boku Superfood every day in my morning smoothie. Boku Superfood has kelp in addition to all kinds of greens, cocoa powder, etc. My FMD felt that the kelp I was ingesting was indeed adding much needed iodine just not enough to get my excretion level to 90% or better. A person can add iodine to their diet by eating scrumptious things like sushi and shrimp in addition to Boku Superfood.

I am hopeful that getting more optimal levels of iodine in my body will assist my thyroid and I will share an update in two months. In the meantime I am also working at balancing all my hormones with bio-identical hormones and taking supplements that strengthen my thyroid because I feel that if I feed my body what it needs it will function at a higher level and dis-ease will be but a distant memory.

We’re so glad that Boku Super Food helps Kris!

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