In message  <[log in to unmask]> Thyroid writes:
>                       RE>>Help!!!                                  =
> 4/18/97
>
> You should be aware that kelp is loaded with iodine.  High intake of =
> dietary iodine in an individual with mild autoimmune thyroiditis (the =
> most common cause of hypothyroidism) can lead to far more severe =
> hypothyroidism and growth of goiter.

Please explain this.  I had come to believe that it was *low* thyroid that was
the problem that tended to be related to *hypo*thyroid, and that high thyroid
was related to *hyper*thyroid.

KM