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25 Post author: Emile 04 June 2012 07:54PM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 04 June 2012 11:40:33PM *  5 points [-]

My understanding was that iodine helped with early brain development in children for areas with severe deprivation and poverty diets, and that this was easily vanquished by iodized salt (even if you buy sea salt, you would get iodine from meat and iodized salt in prepared foods). So I haven't worried about going out of my way for it myself, but have been keen on promoting it in regions with widespread goiter and non-iodized salt in Africa and South Asia (and hostile to rich country non-iodized salt for effects on children and pregnant women).

Comment author: gwern 05 June 2012 12:55:07AM 5 points [-]

My current understanding is that 'early' here is turning out to be very early indeed; the window of opportunity is basically pregnancy. This is very bad for my hopes of using it in an adult (myself).