No, I think they were right; at least, your question suggests you think I am pessimistic on an issue different from the actual issue I am pessimistic on.
My understanding was that iodine helped with early brain development in children for areas with severe deprivation and poverty diets, and that this was easily vanquished by iodized salt (even if you buy sea salt, you would get iodine from meat and iodized salt in prepared foods). So I haven’t worried about going out of my way for it myself, but have been keen on promoting it in regions with widespread goiter and non-iodized salt in Africa and South Asia (and hostile to rich country non-iodized salt for effects on children and pregnant women).
My current understanding is that ‘early’ here is turning out to be very early indeed; the window of opportunity is basically pregnancy. This is very bad for my hopes of using it in an adult (myself).
Do you think the large scale rollout studies were wrong too?
No, I think they were right; at least, your question suggests you think I am pessimistic on an issue different from the actual issue I am pessimistic on.
My understanding was that iodine helped with early brain development in children for areas with severe deprivation and poverty diets, and that this was easily vanquished by iodized salt (even if you buy sea salt, you would get iodine from meat and iodized salt in prepared foods). So I haven’t worried about going out of my way for it myself, but have been keen on promoting it in regions with widespread goiter and non-iodized salt in Africa and South Asia (and hostile to rich country non-iodized salt for effects on children and pregnant women).
My current understanding is that ‘early’ here is turning out to be very early indeed; the window of opportunity is basically pregnancy. This is very bad for my hopes of using it in an adult (myself).