In addition to the GAPS diet, to support a weak thyroid (hypothyroid), is careful supplementation with Lugol solution acceptable or would this be discourages?
Many people are deficient in iodine, which is essential for thyroid function. Every one of us has a unique individual need for iodine, so the standard daily recommended allowances are usually not helpful. To test if your body needs iodine (and to supplement it) paint a patch the size of your hand on your skin using Lugol solution or an iodine tincture. The solution will colour that patch of your skin brown. If in 24 hours the brown colour has disappeared (which means that iodine got absorbed through the skin), then your body is deficient in iodine. If you are on the GAPS introduction diet, you can supplement iodine by taking the Lugol solution or by painting the brown patch on your skin every day (choose a different patch of the skin every time). If you are on the Full GAPS diet and your digestion is OK, introduce seaweed: there are many supplements of kelp on the market or other high-iodine varieties of seaweed (such as knotten wrack seaweed or askophyllum nodosum) [Please view the Se
Many people are deficient in iodine, which is essential for thyroid function. Every one of us has a unique individual need for iodine, so the standard daily recommended allowances are usually not helpful. To test if your body needs iodine (and to supplement it) paint a patch the size of your hand on your skin using Lugol solution or an iodine tincture. The solution will colour that patch of your skin brown. If in 24 hours the brown colour has disappeared (which means that iodine got absorbed through the skin), then your body is deficient in iodine. If you are on the GAPS introduction diet, you can supplement iodine by taking the Lugol solution or by painting the brown patch on your skin every day (choose a different patch of the skin every time). If you are on the Full GAPS diet and your digestion is OK, introduce seaweed: there are many supplements of kelp on the market or other high-iodine varieties of seaweed (such as knotten wrack seaweed or askophyllum nodosum) [Please view the Se
