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I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

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All right, it's part two of our iodine series.

If you haven't listened to the first episode, I recommend starting there. In that episode,

I cover what iodine does in the body, why it's so important, how to test your levels or

understand if you possibly have an iodine deficiency. So that is a very important starting point.

Today, I'm going to be digging more into who iodine may be a good fit for, and then some

considerations you want to have when you are supplementing with it. And then long-term use of iodine.

I got a lot of questions in my Patreon about what do I, how do you use iodine long-term,

you know, dosing, testing, all that kind of stuff. So I will get into all of that.

As always, this podcast is for educational purposes only. I love iodine. I'm a huge proponent of it, but only if it's a good fit for someone. And I think that's the tricky thing is it's a supplement.

You can get it anywhere, right? But that doesn't mean that we should always necessarily take it.

I treat supplements very

carefully no matter what they are. And iodine should definitely be treated with caution because while it can

be very helpful, if you're not a good fit for it, it's going to make you feel worse. So if a lot of

this resonates with you, I would talk with your provider, ideally more functional medicine-based, regardless

of if they're conventional or functional, they may have zero knowledge of iodine.

And they may say that, no, it's not a good fit.

In that case, you could definitely do further research.

I'm sharing, you know, in the first episode, I shared the books by Dr. David Brownstein,

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