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Iodine is added to table salt in a lot of countries in the world. Why is preventing "physical" diseases ok, but mental diseases not?


You can still buy many kinds of salt without iodine, it's easy to opt out.

Additionally, when you talk about mental "diseases", things get a lot more iffy. We have a terrible understanding of the brain, our diagnoses for those diseases are literally check lists, without any proper tests, many people would rather have their natural mental performance than a modified version of it, which is what something like this would force you into whether you like it or not.




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