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Here’s a video excerpt of Dr. Janet Lang’s fascinating lecture about iodine and thyroid health at the WAPF Wise Traditions 2008 conference in San Francisco. I’ll be sharing more videos from the conference every day this week.
You can buy the videos, CDs or mp3 recordings from the Weston A. Price Foundation website. The complete conference [...]

At the WAPF Wise Traditions conference this year, they had a whole series of lectures on iodine deficiency. Contrary to popular belief, iodine deficiency is widespread in America. Iodine deficiency causes all sorts of health problems, including thyroid disease, cancer, and Down’s Syndrome.
Why are so many people iodine deficient? First of all, most of us [...]

I got my heavy metal urine analysis results back. I have very high levels of a number of metals, but I am highest in arsenic and uranium. So high, in fact, that it says I have reached the “tentative maximum permissible limit”.
Both arsenic and uranium are not only highly toxic and carcinogenic, but they are [...]

The day before yesterday, I started charting our temperatures using the new Lumiscope thermometer.
You take your temperature every three hours — around 9, 12 and 3. Then you take the average of those 3 numbers.
Me
Wednesday: 97.7
Thursday: 97.9
Seth
Wednesday: 96.5
Thursday: 96.7
Then you chart it on an Excel spreadsheet I downloaded from Dr. Rind’s website. He explains it [...]

I got my new Lumiscope thermometer yesterday. It was only $6.19. (And I ordered some other things so I got free shipping.)
I’m so happy I got it. I took my temperature right away when it arrived in the mail. We had just come back from a long walk so I figured my temperature would be [...]

Ever since I discovered that I was hypothyroid and iodine deficient, I’ve been digging around on the internet, trying to find a connection between an underactive thyroid gland and iodine deficiency and low milk supply.
I did my best to breast feed Baby Kate but it was not easy. I had to start supplementing at just [...]

I seriously feel like I am dying. HOLY MOLEY do I feel bad!
I started taking iodine drops yesterday. Not a lot. Yesterday I took about 5 grams and this morning I took about 10 grams.
The Japanese traditionally consume about 13 grams of iodine per day. They eat a lot of fish, seaweed, and fish broth.
They [...]

Tonight I’m making fish stock for the first time. I used two carcasses from wild-caught Thai snapper.
Fish heads should be added — they include the thyroids which are full of iodine. And I need iodine since I am deficient.
I actually think most people — even our children — are deficient. I’m looking into giving Kate [...]

I was lazy tonight and didn’t feel like cooking. Seth is still in France — so I made a super easy supper just for me: oysters on the half shell with leftover asparagus and pancetta risotto.
I went to Whole Foods today to pick up some things. My dentist told me he thinks I have heavy [...]

It appears that I have an iodine deficiency and hence hypothyroid, which means I have a low-functioning thyroid gland.
This morning I woke up and the patch on the inside of my arm had faded about 80-90%. It’s almost completely gone now!
From all the reading I’ve been doing, this is very common after pregnancy. There are [...]