In a message dated 1/7/2005 12:01:11 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
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>Thyroid meds contain iodine
>
for real?  synthroid, armour, levoxyl and such?  or did you mean thyroid
supplements?  i've never heard of armour, which i know contains t1, t2,
t3, t4 and calcitonin, containing iodine.  >>>>>
Sure. As a matter of fact, the T3 has 3 atoms of iodine per molecule, the T4
has 4 atoms of iodine per molecule, and T2 has 2 atoms of iodine and so forth.
The iodine is bound to a larger group of other atoms, but to covert T4 to the
active T3, an iodine atom needs to be taken off and released elsewhere.

Doc Don

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