Posted by Barbara Cat on April 22, 2003, at 11:16:11
In reply to Re: TSH, posted by noa on April 22, 2003, at 7:39:59
I haven't tried this one myself but plan to. You get a bottle of liquid iodine from a pharmacy. Get a Q-tip and paint a 1" square on an inner thigh. If the iodine is significantly absorbed, i.e., brown color turns much lighter, then body doesn't have enough metabolically active iodine which is needed to make thyroxine. If this is the case, paint different areas of inner thighs, inner upper arm areas each 24 hours until iodine stays the same color indicating that enough has been absorbed. I read this in a few alternative medicine sources and perhaps higher blood levels of iodine might not be the whole picture, but it would be interesting, eh?
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