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A Short History of Iodine

Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis

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Do You Have a Goiter?

As long ago as about 3000 BC, Chinese physicians noticed that people who consume seaweed or other foods from the ocean saw their goiters shrink. Hippocrates and Galen made similar observations when they were in Europe and Asia. Until many years later, in the 19th century, at about 1823, there was a French physician who applied dried seaweed and sponges to people with goiters. That yielded a very large quantity of iodine of 165 milligrams or 165,000 micrograms, but it worked. So many people have their goiter recede.

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