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Anyone
knows what would be the symptoms - long term and short-term effects - of such
an overdose? >>>>>
    Doc Don gave a very good discussion as to possible ill effects.  I want to add that when one is thinking about radioactive iodine to kill the thyroid, things are not always as they seem.
   
  In his book, "Solved the Riddle of Illness" by Stephen Langer, he mentions that some kinds of Vitamin C deficiency can cause a form of hyperthyroidism, so some of the people that have their thyroids removed, only have a nutritional problem.  
   
  I had my wife's Vitamin C tested, and it was not measurable.  Mine was below the expected range, so Vitamin C deficiency is likely to be much more common than thought.  
   
  Not to mention there are medications that can slow down hyperthyroidism.  Inderall, for example, inhibits conversion of T4 to T3, therefore making hyperthyroidism less problematic, and also in some cases making people hypothyroid who were not before taking Inderall.  
   
  There are also foods that can slow down the thyroid, like the cabbage family.  
   
  As for Dr. Michael's comment that Mercola's website or Trudeau claim the medical establishment is the third leading cause of death, I suspect it's the leading cause of any death that's not natural.  There are medical errors, infections picked up from hospitals, misdiagnosis or lack of diagnosis by physicians, bad drugs, ill effects of drugs that are covered up, and probably many more bad things that we can't even conceive.  
   
  Skipper 
   
   
   





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