Foodie Only Eats Fancy Salt, Suffers Iodine Deficiency

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Eric Lund
Oct 7, 2021 7:00 PM EDT

As dumb as it seems, it is possible to suffer from a nutritional deficiency while maintaining a full-time job in a developed nation. Using big pink salt makes us feel cool, but it's also important to remember that there's a very real reason decided to add iodine to table salt decades ago. By all means eat the fancy pink salt, but for real, you need some iodine. For some dietary drama, here's an educational tumblr thread that kicked off after a vegan girl got served a real burger.

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    Font - r/tifu - Posted by u/SmartPhallic 22 hours ago TIFU by only using fancy foodie salt for 7 years I moved to a new city 7 years ago, and as a matter of course got a new, better paying job. When stocking my new house with groceries, I thought "I'll buy the nice Himalayan pink salt this time." Over time I diversified my salt selection to include Maldon flakes, kosher salt, and diamond crystal, but left the Morton's behind. As the years went by I gained a bit of weight but nothing shocking, my
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    Font - Fast forward to this spring and I had a thyroid function test come back abnormal. My doctor wanted to put me on thyroid medication immediately but I started doing a bit of my own research and we agreed to do a retest in 3 months. I switched to a multivitamin with Iodine included and put the Morton's salt back in my pantry. 3 months later I've lost 15lbs, my hair looks like Fabio, my skin has cleared up and I don't hurt every morning. Went back in for a test and my thyroid hormone has retu
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    Font - NoiseProvesNothing 22h - edited 19h Congrats. I'll just add for people who don't know, that Morton's (and other table salts) are usually iodized (iodine added). The fancy salts are not. And the salt that's in processed foods is generally not iodized, either. So you can have a very high sodium diet with almost no iodine.
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    Font - MistressPhoenix · 20h Iodine was specifically added to salt around 1924 to combat some serious health problems associated with iodine deficiency. Morton was the first company to add iodine on a national scale, which is why they are still associated today in people's minds with iodized salt, even though most standard white table salt found in stores today has an iodized option. So, yes, iodine is very important and the easiest way, in the US, to add it to your diet is to use iodize salt. I
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    Font - starliner2000· 21h I had a doctor randomly mention this effect a few years ago when we were taking about nutrition and millenial eating habits. It is in fact a real thing. 94 Reply Share SmartPhallic OP - 20h Definitely a millennial thing it seems. My doctor dismissed it out of hand. He was like, "what, this isn't a third world country, I'm sure you get plenty of iodine." Turns out no, I don't.
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    Font - ArltheCrazy - 21h Going to look into this. Been using kosher and sea salt for years. Good on you for advocating for your own health. 204 Reply Share SmartPhallic OP · 21h I follow bon appetit and Serious Eats, Kenji Lopez-Alt, etc... I love cooking and eating good food... Just never thought about kosher salt not having iodine in it.
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    Font - bythelightofthefridg · 16h This happened to my sister! But she wasn't using fancy salts. The morton's without iodine is like, 20 cents cheaper. And she's cheap af.
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