>>11735036 lb
Read the rest of my post, skittlenipzatits.
>>11735033 lb
Kinda. The thyroid concentrates iodine for use in hormone production and as such will concentrate Iodine-131, which is a radioactive isotope of … I believe it is plutonium fission.
Iodine tablets saturate the thyroid with normal iodine ahead of a nuclear event to prevent it from taking up large amounts of radioactive iodine that will be absorbed through the lungs.
You would need to chug several kilograms of iodized salt to match a single iodine tablet, if memory serves.
https://www.thyroid.org/iodine-deficiency/
However, when the body is defficient in iodine, the thyroid will swell and this creates the condition known as goiter (so I was a bit off). It was the reason why most salt is iodized - which is to say has iodine added to it.