If you live at the coast, and paranoid

[salinen]

I may be mistaken(and some nice du'er will correct me), that you could nibble on different seaweeds at the shore. I spend time at the tidepools photographing the critters that live there, and occasionally I pick and eat a small leaf of seaweed. I hear it has natural iodine.

Is this good, bad, idiotic, or other, advice?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Go get some nori at the supermarket

tastes better

[tabatha]

2. Nope, seaweed has iodine in it.

I would prefer seaweed to KI pills.

I probably have enough iodine in me because I have consumed spirulina and chlorella in food, drinks, pills, etc.

The drink called "Green Machine" has spirulina and chlorella. But I don't drink that much anymore, because of the high sugar content.

At health foods, one can buy varieties of seaweed. One shop I visit has shakers with granulated seaweed to sprinkle over food.

[Webster Green]

3. I just went and bought some nori and some ganulated kelp.

I'm doing heavy doses of the kelp.

[jpak]

4. Seaweeds concentrate radio-iodine from seawater so that's not an option

and - you would have to consume a *hugh* amount of kelp to ingest enough iodine to saturate your thyroid.

Like a hay bale's worth or more.

[yawnmaster]

5. I would go to the beach and collect all the kelp you can now before it concentrates any...

radiation. There are many places you can store it. In your bathtub and shower or perhaps in hefty bags in the garage.
Once could put it in a blender and then freeze it (of course once you put it in a rubbermaid container!).
Or even hang individual lengths from the ceiling as in your garage and let them dry!

Seriously, people take the iodine pills to put a fairly large amount in the bloodstream so that the thyroid has a higher chance of using the clean iodine than the radioactive isotope of iodine. You might have to eat a large amount of seaweed.
check out the doses of the iodine tablets suggested and then search for the iodine content of seaweed.
I suspect (but am not sure) that you need lots of seaweed, and before it absorbs any radiation itself.

but the amount of rad expected on the west coast is negligible.
you'll damage your health more by worrying about it (cortisol) than the actual radiation.