Look it up. Iodine is an essential nutrient that our thyroid uses to regulate a whole host of things in the body. Eliminating it opens us up to a whole host of illnesses. There was a huge campaign in the 90s to get people to understand the value of iodine and it was put in all our salt so that people wouldn't have to think about taking it and would just get it whenever we salted our food. Iodine is so powerful it can cure people from radiation poisoning. It's anti-parasitic, anti-fungal, and anti-bacterial. It's like salting your food with chlorine dioxide or any of the other tons of antiseptic medicines they're trying to keep us from ingesting so they can sell us expensive drug treatments.
I was just at Costco and not a single kind of salt they have there says it's iodized. I thought maybe it was just the sea salt but I checked that huge bag of table salt they have and it doesn't say it's iodized either. I have that in my emergency storage and now I'm starting to think it's practically worthless. Sure, salt is good for you, but there's no question that iodized salt is WAY better for you.
Ditch your fucking sea salt. It says right on the label it doesn't contain iodide/iodine, "an essential nutrient." Get yourself regular old iodized table salt and thank me.
It was said adding iodine to salt after WWII raised the national IQ level by about 15 points. It handles radiation poisoning from the isotope of iodine by preventing it from building up in your thyroid. (good iodine vs radioactive iodine) That's a metabolism thing. Also, where do you think your stomach acid, hydro CHLORIC acid comes from? An acid bush? Spicy food?
A lot of stomach and digestive issues come from doctors recommending patients reduce their salt intake. Salt can raise blood pressure but it is not the cause of high blood pressure.
You don't NEED a crust or bark on your steak, you NEED iodine and sodium chloride. Level it out over the day and your blood pressure won't spike if you are of the high blood pressure persuasion.
They only started iodizing salt because they stopped iodating flour.