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On average (and each person is slightly different) anything over 1,100 micrograms, total, can be considered an overdose. This includes the iodine that you get from food.

1,100 micrograms is the same as 1.1 milligrams. A full gram of water, say, occupies a volume about the same as a sugar cube.

So it takes very, very little pure iodine in you to be an overdose. Yet, you cannot live normally without a tiny bit of iodine in your body. That is why table salt comes with a tiny amount of iodine in it.

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