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Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

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Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

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Post by mr_toad »

cubefox wrote: post #28
jrootabega wrote: post #13

> 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…

Does respiration count as synthesis?

Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

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Post by burnished »

xattt wrote: post #24
frabert wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I long for the day when my liver can also act as a particle accelerator

The kidneys? A pair of calutrons.

Uhm, yes, is this where the line for the beta test starts?

Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

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Post by davidgay »

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-nati... is a pretty good article describing how a Swiss doctor showed experimentally that adding iodine was a cure for goitre and the associated mental handicaps (Switzerland is highly deficient in iodine in many areas, because glaciers in the last ice age removed most top soil).

Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

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Post by altairprime »

frabert wrote: post #23
jrootabega wrote: post #13

> 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.

I long for the day when my liver can also act as a particle accelerator

smiles in katalepsis

Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

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Post by varenc »

morjom wrote: post #40
SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 $H_{2}O$

Looks like LaTeX syntax.

Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

morjom wrote: post #40
SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 $H_{2}O$

That's TeX. Every time Donald Knuth gets distracted from writing The Art of Computer Programming, he makes another piece of load-bearing infrastructure. (TeX came about because the second edition of Volume 1 didn't look as nice as the first edition.)

Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

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Post by kazinator »

> something our bodies can’t synthesize

Iodine is an element! As such, it cannot be produced by a chemical reaction and so isn't synthesized in any living organism.

It's produced in supernova explosions, by the rapid neutron capture process.

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Post by altairprime »

guspillk wrote: post #36

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Potassium iodide liquid was a fun way to discover what that weird bitter taste in iodized salt is, and to find out that I desire Some Occasionally, after it went from tasting “interesting” to “mr yuck” over about three days and then reverted over a week or two.

Re: Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)

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Post by cubefox »

zwieback wrote: post #12

I 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 has been the norm for a while in Germany...
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