I just got wind of this the other day. It is something I am going to look into further.

What? That you can decrease the amount of hypothyroid meds your taking, like Syndthroid, by also taking Iodine.

The source is Dr. David Brownstein. He is part of a project headed by Guy Abraham, M.D. from UCLA who has been investigating the question "what is the optimum Iodine intake" He says the RDA is sufficient to avoid severe hypothyroidism, but its the bare minimum for good health, particularly health of the endocrine system and minimizing the chance of breast cancer.

One of the things Dr. Brownstein found with his patients (over 3.000) was that patients with sufficiently low medication levels, when supplemented sufficiently with iodine, not only needed significantly less, they didn't meds any more.

I would say their conclusions go against common traditional medical beliefs, but it wouldn't be the first time someone proposed something that the medical community totally didn't accept because of traditional. Who was the doctor who got ridiculed for proposing a bacterial cause for ulsers, and later go the Nobel prize? Can't remember his name.

Anyway, Google Browenstein and Iodine OR Abraham and Iodine if your curious.