I have a different theory, not proven by anyone but ME!

They USED to use Iodine to cleanse food preperation equipment in the states. Included convienence food prepairation. About 10 years ago, they substituted Chlor...something...and prohibited Idodine to be used in the volume it was.

Now MAYBE the Iodine was strong before, but so many of us aclimated to that level that when it was reduced, we went into Thyroid "shock".

A girlfriend and I have tried something. Put about a 50 cent piecs size circle of Iodine on your belly and IF the body needs it it will absorb it. Took me about 10 days to get to the point that there was color there when I woke, or about 8 hrs later.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. Edna St. Vincent Millay