Additional Iodine sources

You people need to EDUCATE yourself.
This is OLD NEWS but will answer ALL your
questions before you waste precious time or money.

Iodine is useless for protecting your thyroid, you need KI. (Potassium Iodate)

a couple of sources are listed in my post here:

[link to www.ronpaulforums.com]

another is: [link to beprepared.com]

As to getting it locally, your best bet is a chemical supply house, if you have one in the area. Sometimes surplus stores carry it and in some areas there are survival stores.

If you get the raw chemical, instructions on how to prep the solution and take it are in the chapter I pointed to in the article on protecting your thyroid in the above post.

As to mail order chem supply places, see my blog post. Note that elemental can take months to ship.

[link to www.ronpaulforums.com]

There are other chem supply houses - google them. Some will not sell to the public.

IOSAT (one of the brand names for KI) is available via mail order at least from CVS. Local drug stores probably don't have it, but worth a call. Just ask for the right thing.

[link to www.cvs.com]

Amazon is sold out but has other KI products:
[link to www.amazon.com]

It looks like a lot of people are thinking the same thing as to getting some.

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You can't take potassium iodide for months on end.

Ideally, buy potassium iodide now,
and monitor radiation levels by looking at real-time monitoring networks such as this and this.

Don't take iodide (at this strength) unless and until elevated radiation levels hit your area.

Whatever you do, don't take more than the recommended dosage.
The Centers for Disease Control and the FDA recommend:

* 130 milligrams for adults

* 65 milligrams for children

for each 24 hours that one is exposed to radiation.

Anything LESS is NOT going to protect you.
READ UP!

looks like the links aren't working....or perhaps they're sold out already.

Povidone-Iodine "Betadine" is just as good.

Studys were done on it. [link to www.ki4u.com]

$6 a bottle at walmart for equate brand. Just face it that pills will be very hard to find/buy right now.

I live in Nevada, I have my povidone-iodine ready!
Also It probably wouldn't hurt to help saturate your body right now with more iodine supplements from kelp, seafood ect. No it wont help with SHTF, but if taken over a 10 day period it help maybe 5-10% along with full strength dose of iodine

I was told not to take any calcium or dairy products because the radiation would fuse to your bones. Do you know if this is true?