I recommend adding kelp, or wakame (a seaweed) to your diet especially when supplementing with lugol’s iodine. I also recommend selenium and Vit C. Why???? Because the iodine found in kelp is bound to a protein, and this is the form of iodine that is used by our thyroid! Also, all those symptoms like acne, skin eruptions, mouth and gastric irritation, brassy taste, or an increased salivation occurs from all forms of iodine supplements that are not protein-bound. These symptoms will not occur from protein-bound iodine. Sooooo, I think it is better to add seaweed to your iodine supplementation because it may bind to the protein thereby making it perfectly absorbable. YES, I think it is way better to get your iodine from “…natural unprocessed sea salt (Celtic Salt), seafood, kelp and egg yolks than it is to get it from processed iodized salt.” "YES" for iodine, for sodium, and for all nutrients known and unknown. There are no nutrients that occur alone in nature, right? I feel that isolating nutrients takes the nutrient out of its context and therefore out of nature. If we isolate iodine, then we have nothing more than a drug and not a nutrient. All of our nutrients exist within a complex of a multitude of other nutrients, and they are allsynergistic with each other. “We can quantitate and replicate each component of a nutrient complex. We can neither quantitate nor replicate synergy in nature, in food.” Mariana Fletcher Baxter
“SYNERGISTIC effect; Synergistic simply refers to two or more vitamins and mineral working together to accomplish the maximum amount of good from vitamin intake. For example, calcium should be taken with magnisium for the calcium to reach the bone cells. Calcium needs magnesium to accomplish its synergistic good. Just as prayer and meditating in God's Word compliment each other, so do vitamins and minerals.” http://www.actsion.com/Body-RBC.htm