A low-iodine diet is prescribed before diagnostic radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) tests and before radioactive iodine treatments. The RAIU test is an imaging scan used to check thyroid health.

After trials showed that supplements of iodine could prevent goitre, iodised salt was rolled out commercially in 1924, starting in grocery stores in Michigan. By the 1940s, the goitre belt had ...

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While many of us might be familiar with iodine’s association with our thyroid, it might surprise you to know that this essential mineral also has an effect on the female hormone oestrogen.

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