So you’ve read that excessive amounts of iodine can irritate your pores and provoke acne. So what do you do? Avoid excess iodine, right?

But iodine shows up in a motley of unassuming locals as Jean Carper, points out in Food Your Miracle Medicine. For instance, Recommended Daily Allowance, RDA, of iodine for adults is 150 mcg, but one cup of milk has 88mcg of iodine, that’s over half of RDA. One egg has 24 mcg and a slice of American cheese carries 16 mcg of iodine. And content of iodine in some fast food meals has exceeded RDA by as much as 10 times.

Just because excess iodine may provoke acne does not mean you want to ex it out our your diet. Poor iodine intake can result in Goiter, an enlargement of thyroid gland, and Cretinism, which causes dwarfism and mental retardation

Foods that contain large amounts of iodine include:

Here is a funny story an ENT resident told me sometime ago. It happened in the1st City Hospital in Moscow, Russia. It is actually a very good hospital in terms of staff experience. Though buildings are 100 years old. Doesn't matter.

So, resident is on-call. It's midnight. Ambulance rolls in. A man: U-U-U, M-M-M. Something metal is sticking out of his mouth.

OK. It turns guy was at home. Probably drinking.

Those stories about Russians and vodka are partially true.

Partially.

For example, I don't drink at all, even beer. Just don't drink. Though, Russians are different. We all are.

I knew some guys who drunk 3 bottles of vodka a day for week straight. Those stories about American colleges, where a student brags that seven people drunk a box of beer and vomited half night, are nothing.

Kids.

Russia is Land of Extreme.

Russians drink in company usually. It is considered not healthy to drink alone. Should be three.

Americans have their parties. Russians have their parties.

It's cold in Russia, you know. People are genetically healthier. So they can trash their bodies. To equalize.

Then they talk about soul, self-respect, and world-wide problems. About Africa, for example. Or about importance of Daosizm for international culture. The place of a human in Universe is also a favorite topic. Long night talk.

Again, not everybody drinks vodka in Russia. I don't. Never did. My father doesn't. My grandfathers and relatives don't'.

I heard Putin also doesn't drink much. Some wine during American visits. He prefers judo. That man in hospital maybe was sober.

Anyway. In a company he bet he can put a light bulb into his mouth. This is why I say: Maybe.

So, bulb gets in. It's it.

Stuck.

It turns: it is easy to put a bulb into mouth, but it is difficult to get it out. The muscles locked in. Trismus. (Trismus is condition when your masseter muscle spasms. It happens in people with tetanus. Masseter muscle is muscle that clench your jaws).

I actually do not know how to explain it exactly.

It seems there are some anatomical and physiological reasons.