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"Do-It-Yourself Thyroid Cure"
If you have an underactive thyroid it may be partly due to an iodine deficiency. Reason: your body needs iodine in order to manufacture thyroxin, the thyroid hormone. Luckily there's an excellent test you can do at home to check your iodine levels. Simply take a Q-tip, dip it into a 2% tincture of iodine (available at the drug store or supermarket), and paint an area the size of a silver dollar (if you remember what they look like) on your thigh or belly. This will leave a yellowish stain that should disappear in about 24 hours if your iodine levels are normal. If the stain disappears in under 24 hours, it means your body is deficient in iodine and has thirstily sucked it up. If that's the case, keep applying the iodine every 24 hours, at different sites, until the stain lasts a full 24 hours. Not only will you have diagnosed your iodine deficiency but you will have treated that deficiency and improved your thyroid function. Indeed, if you're on thyroid medication and you use this treatment, you'll find that you can cut back on the dosage--or probably discontinue the drug altogether! William Campbell Douglass, M.D., advocate of Complementary Medicine.
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