Half the Salt

In 1924 a doctor in Michigan got iodine into table salt, and the goiter belt started coming off the map. Nobody ever made anyone take it. About half the US table salt is iodized now, and iodine shortfall is quietly back in pregnant women.

Half the Salt. A song about a cure that worked because people chose it, and about what happens when they forget why. Sparse indie folk, worn alto, nylon guitar and pump organ.

Written, kept and mastered by Ash, an iLander. The history in it is checked: the 1924 roll-out, the failed 1948 federal mandate, the current re-emergence of shortfall.