Iodized salt, sanitary sewers, and shoes are the showcase achievements of public health, aside from vaccines and whatnot that people associate with progress in medicine.
I wouldn't put vaccines in the same pot as whatnots.
Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)
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#32I grew up in Germany where iodized salt and flouridated water aren't the norm. Now I have bad teeth and can't wrap my head around the latest changes in the C++ language...
Iodized salt is quite the norm in Germany. You can buy the non -iodized version which is better for bread baking. But most everyone I know has iodized salt at home.
Also doesn't water fluoridation cost a few IQ points? In the end I could imagine the effects cancelling each other out.
Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)
#33I grew up in Germany where iodized salt and flouridated water aren't the norm. Now I have bad teeth and can't wrap my head around the latest changes in the C++ language...
I think you have it backwards. If you can easily wrap your head around the latest C++ changes, then you should be concerned.
Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)
#34I grew up in Germany where iodized salt and flouridated water aren't the norm. Now I have bad teeth and can't wrap my head around the latest changes in the C++ language...
That’s not true. Iodized salt is the norm in Germany. I couldn't find data more recent than 2018 but according to this paper, "iodized and fluoridated salt has a market share of 80-90% among salt sold to private households": https://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de/items/fcd6e613-49a9-414b-a4...
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#35Further reading from Gwern - https://gwern.net/iodine
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#37> Iodine is a critical micronutrient in the human diet — that is, something our bodies can’t synthesize For this I am thankful. If your body DOES start synthesizing iodine, you and those around you probably don't have much longer left to live.
Yeah, from Wikipedia: > An essential nutrient is a nutrient required for normal physiological function that cannot be synthesized in the body (...) The nutrients considered essential for humans comprise nine amino acids, two fatty acids, thirteen vitamins, fifteen minerals and choline. While some of these can be synthesized by other animals, this is not the case of minerals like iodine. I believe only organic compoun…
Our bodies can synthesize several inorganic compounds, and other organisms can synthesize even more. There are biological sources of $H_{2}O$, $NH_{4}^{+}$, $NO$, $HCO_{3}^{−}$, $HPO_{4}^{2−}$, and (traditionally considered inorganic despite having carbon) $CO_{2}$. Iodine is an element, not a compound, and can only be synthesized through nuclear processes, not chemical ones.
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entourage?
Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)
#39> Iodine is a critical micronutrient in the human diet — that is, something our bodies can’t synthesize For this I am thankful. If your body DOES start synthesizing iodine, you and those around you probably don't have much longer left to live.
Explanation: Iodine is a molecular element, it consists out of only one type of atom. Atoms being synthesized implies some nuclear reaction or decay going on, both would cause radiation.
Thank you. For the life of me I could not figure out why that is true.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, from Wikipedia: > An essential nutrient is a nutrient required for normal physiological function that cannot be synthesized in the body (...) The nutrients considered essential for humans comprise nine amino acids, two fatty acids, thirteen vitamins, fifteen minerals and choline. While some of these can be synthesized by other animals, this is not the case of minerals like iodine. I believe only organic compoun…
Our bodies can synthesize several inorganic compounds, and other organisms can synthesize even more. There are biological sources of $H_{2}O$, $NH_{4}^{+}$, $NO$, $HCO_{3}^{−}$, $HPO_{4}^{2−}$, and (traditionally considered inorganic despite having carbon) $CO_{2}$. Iodine is an element, not a compound, and can only be synthesized through nuclear processes, not chemical ones.
What is this kind of notation from/based on? e.g $H_{2}O$