# Kelp Iodine

> Ground oarweed, hand-cut from cold Atlantic water off the Scottish coast and air-dried, in a capsule that still smells faintly of the tideline. Ask your doctor first if you have a thyroid condition.

Price: 14.00 USD · in stock

## About
Break one open and the color tells the story: ground kelp, dark as wet slate, with the faint smell of the shore at low tide. Nothing is added to give it that sea-brine note; it simply never fully leaves the plant.This is Laminaria digitata, oarweed, hand-cut from cold Atlantic water off the Scottish coast in the season when its iodine content peaks, then dried slowly in the open air rather than in a hot kiln. Coastal peoples from the Hebrides to Hokkaido have eaten seaweed as a matter of course for as long as anyone has kept records, long before iodine had a name. Here it comes as a whole food, rather than the isolated potassium iodide sold elsewhere.DetailsGround kelp (Laminaria digitata, oarweed) in capsulesHand-cut off the Scottish coastDried slowly in open airHow to useTake one capsule daily, with a meal. If you have a thyroid condition, ask your doctor first.A small, dark, briny thing that carries the tideline through a landlocked winter.