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You can do this way cheaper than that. I use Lugols (which is not a brand, but a formula for elemental iodine mixed with potassium iodide) You can even make it yourself. There are youtube videos about it. I use the J.Crow brand bought from their website, unless I see the Amazon listing ships from J.Crowe. One bottle lasts me a long time. If you starting low, the 2% is adequate (one drop = 2.5mg, if you are starting higher, you can get the 5% solution (1 drop = 7.5mg) You just put it in water and chug it. If your brazil nuts are from Brazil, one a day is enough. If they are from some other place, they will have almost no selenium. The amounts can vary widely nut to nut. But one a day seems to be safe, and the lower amount ones will balance out the the ones that have ridiculously high milligrams. I kind of mix it up with nuts sometimes and a 200mg selenium capsule other times and skip days here and there. Why 200mg? Because that is what my functional doc suggested and it hasn't caused any issues. Or you could do a smaller amount, 50mg or 100mg. Pink salt and vitamin C I use anyway.
I have found spending some time in the facebook groups helpful as I was researching. Iodine for Beginners (Michah Coffey) kind of concentrates on the low and slow theory. Iodine protocols (Brian Haviland) is more general. Both reference Brownstein. Both groups are very responsive with information and suggestions and how to use the co-factor supplements. There is also UK group headed by a naturopath named Roderick Lane, Thyroid Care group. He will actually help you with dosing by looking at your weekly patch test (you post a picture of your wrist after painting it with iodine and then reporting how long it takes to fade), and has occasional livestreams where you can ask questions. I think he starts people right off at 50mg and moves them up from there if I remember correctly. He wants you to use 15% Lugols (which I don't think you can buy in the US) and an expensive liquid selenium though. I kind of gather info up from multiple places and adjust my own protocol according to my understanding of what my particular situation warrants. Hopping around through some of these will give you a much better idea on how you can do this in your budget and without making it too complicated.
Here is a website with lots of info you can poke around in without joining any of the groups. (This is a site connected to the low and slow group)
https://whyiodine.com/faq-cat/getting-started/
You do eventually get to a maintenance dose, but always need to keep an eye on selenium. We get almost none in our food supply because soils are so depleted of vital minerals. Those, vitC and magnesium are kind of the baseline co-factors in my plan. For a reference point: it takes a year at 12.5mg to achieve iodine replenishment and saturation. You can get there faster at higher doses, but may run into more detox symptoms along the way. Those are from the halides that have taken the place of missing iodine---mostly bromides, we are bombarded with it daily, but also fluoride and chlorides.
Still hanging below LIW. I have some catching up to do on your posts!
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