IODINE - What they DON'T tell us about this MIRACLE nutrient! UNBELIEVABLE!

Let's branch the discussion then: which solutions for Fukushima related risk work for people without current thyroid issues, and which of those should be avoided by those with current thyroid issues.

That's interesting. This time when I put povidone iodine on my neck and some spilled on my hand, it didn't stain.

Guess it's time to put more on then.

I think I have been to the stopthethyroidmadness.com website - the one run by M.Shoman? There is a lot of good stuff there! I wish I could do the lab tests they offer there, but they are so expensive. I am eventually going to get that book too! Funny about iodine absorbing into the marble sink! I wonder if it could just be that is it disappears because the sink is porous. But even it that were the explanation, you'd think it would leave a stain.

I am so beaten down and disgusted with doctors. I am tired of being shamed by them! Last summer I was very sick for an entire week. Nauseous, upper abdominal pain that would come and go, mild fever, super dizzy, and I had this odd pain at the front lower part of my neck - not my throat, but my neck. It was difficult to swallow, always felt like something was stuck there. Sounds pretty much like thyroid issue doesn't it?

When I got so bad that I was almost passing out, I went to the ER. They did no tests other that H. Pylori! That was negative. To make a long story short, they said I was having an axiety attack! Of course, the explanation for everything. I was NOT the least bit nervous when I went to the ER, I was very calm and relaxed, I was just very ill (hospitals make me feel calm - I suppose because I was once training to be a nurse).

I told them some things I have had going on and made the mistake of telling them I had looked some things up on the internet (on Web MD, medical journals and texts). You know what they said to me? The nurse said "Do you like to read?" "Do you like fiction?" I said "no, I rarely ever read fiction". SO the nurse suggested I read a good FICTION BOOK and proceeded to tell me how relaxing it is just to get lost in a good fiction book. The nerve!

Basically they were implying that I am a hypochondriac. The nurse was trying to explain it to me without saying I was a hypochondriac but he couldn't think of the word he was trying to say. He said "not hypochondriac, but um, uuuh"..... I said "Hypersensitive?" "Yeah! That's the word I was trying to think of!"

GOOD GREIF!!!! Bad sign when I have to pull up old nursing terms I learned in college to help the ER nurse figure out what HE was trying to say! I have seriously been considering a holistic practitioner. Maybe I will go to one if my iodine therapy does not fix my problems. If my hair stops falling out, I will KNOW the iodine is working for me!

Bless you for doing this! I have been planning on doing a thread with the exact info but hadn't gotten around to it...and also sending it to several people who I just turned on to the benefits of Iodine. Now I don't have to do it...I can just send them the info you gathered. I haven't read all of it as of yet though...

Did you mention...that it pain reduction and mood elevation.
If not then you might want to search it out and add it.
I think it was Dr. Mark Starr's interview...I'll try to find it if you like. Anyway on the interview he stated that if everyone was Iodine sufficient that there would be no need for pain medication and antidepressants.

I've been supplementing Iodine and researching it for about 6 months now. The info on Iodine is as important if not more so than that of Vitamin D3.

Anywhoo I've posted on it on various threads but hadn't made a major post like you have done on the subject. There is even some recent video interview's with Dr. Brownstein on the subject due to the radiation scare of late. You might want to search my ID for the info. Or go to his website to get all of his recent blog posts on the subject. You have to sign up for his newsletter to have access though.

Lastly have you seen this website. It is great too! Really Great!

[link to www.iodine4health.com]

To bad Radio active Iodine 131 isn't healthy too...

OP here are some video interviews that Dr Brownstein had with Dr. Mercola recently. Thought you might like to have them here on this thread.

For those interested in Dr. Brownstein's recommendation on taking Iodine on a regular basis or with regards to the radiation issue you can go to his website and sign up for his newsletter....

Then you will have access to his blog posts on the subject plus all his other blog posts...

[link to www.drbrownstein.com (secure)]

this thread is god

Iodine Insufficiency and Cancer - Jorge D. Flechas, MD

That was NOT the video that I posted! That's another interview with Dr. Brownstein! Wierd!

Lets try this again! I don't know if it will work though because I used the correct youtube link the first time

Iodine Insufficiency and Cancer - Jorge D. Flechas, MD

Weird!

Again.

Iodine Insufficiency and Cancer - Jorge D. Flechas, MD

Go eat a big box of iodized salt and finish the job.

Iodine causes weight loss and increases energy, Joan Mathews Larson, PhD

One of the best interviews I've listening to on the benefits of Iodine can be found at the link below.

[link to curezone.com]

thanks a bunch op

excellent thead

GLPrs: "Iodine is essential for brain function and intelligence" (hint, hint) -- hey just joking ;-)

Iodine deficiency is one of the three most common nutritional deficiencies, along with magnesium and vitamin D. (Mercola: [link to articles.mercola.com]

I take an iodine product from www.wellnessresources.com called Iosol Iodine. I would like to recommend Byron Richards' website at [link to www.wellnessresources.com]

He (and Mercola) wrote that too much Potassium Iodide can actually interfere with the ability of the thyroid gland to absorb iodine.

Here follows a quote from part of Byron Richard's report on his product Iosol Iodine:
"What is the dose of Iosol Iodine?
The most commonly used dose of Iosol Iodine is 1 drop of the preparation in a few ounces of water, taken once a day. Each drop has 1.8 mg of iodine or 1200% of the governments recommended daily value.
Many people take 1-5 drops of Iosol Iodine per day, using enough to feel warmer and more energetic.

Caution: We have received numerous reports of people taking 25 mg to 50 mg of potassium iodide-containing supplements each day, typically in the form of Lugols or Iodoral. I do not support the use of this protocol as the form of iodine used is inferior and the chance of congesting the thyroid with insoluble potassium iodide is elevated - a needless risk to take for any person trying to improve their health. I have never had any trouble helping people balance thyroid function on far less iodine intake, especially when synergistic thyroid support nutrition is used."

The Nobel laureate Dr. Albert Szent Györgi (1893—1986), the physician who discovered vitamin C, writes: "When I was a medical student, iodine in the form of KI was the universal medicine. Nobody knew what it did, but it did something and did something good. We students used to sum up the situation in this little rhyme:

If ye don't know where, what, and why
Prescribe ye then K and I"

The standard dose of potassium iodide given was 1 gram, which contains 770 mg of iodine.

Dr Albert Szent Gyorgi took a gram of Iodide a day til his death at 93.

I prefer to listen to the team of doctors who have been involved in the Iodine Project for about 10 years...Dr's Abraham, Flechas & Brownstein. Their recommendation is 6.50 to 50 mg a day until full body saturation is achieved.

[link to www.iodine4health.com]

my multivitamin says it has 100% daily allowance for iodine.



also, in the camping section of any store you can find iodine tablets for water purification.


im going to check the farm supply store for batodine

The daily allowance is just enough to prevent you from getting a goiter...that is all!

i'd say so its like 150 micrograms...........

Maybe people will come around on iodine/iodide the way they have on Vitamin D. You don't hear any new research saying the high doses of Vitamin D are a big mistake, not at all. Most likely in a few years people will be more aware of iodine deficiency as a major contributor to disease states and supplements will be more available, as will information.

Someone in a post above said the three most common deficiencies are

Vitamin D
Magnesium
Iodine

They are critical for so many functions but especially for brain function. Magnesium deficiency can produce psychotic states, depression, anxiety and suicidal tendencies.

I tried this today!
Wow

Sprry. The money is in Chemo, not Iodine.

Apricot pits are what Laetrile is made from. Laetrile breaks down to cyanide compounds in the body, which at low levels have shown anti-cancer properties.

[link to beyondthecurtain.wordpress.com]

This is great info. I have a question.

It says at higher dosages you need to do 'salt loading' and take companion nutrient.

What does this mean?

1st lets take salt loading:

Salt Loading (sea salt) helps the body get rid of Bromide.

Bromide is in everything today (carpets, computer, some drinks, you name it)...they even took Iodine out of bread and put in Bromide (I think it is thickener or softener or something) Anyway...Bromide like Iodine is Halogen. When there is not enough Iodine in the body Bromide will sit on the receptor sites where the Iodine should be.

When you salt load it helps the body get rid of Bromide.. (Again, bromide has to be removed for Iodine to take up residence) Bromide will attach itself to the chloride in the sea salt and then make its way to the kidney for removal.

Bromide is a nasty detox...so salt loading makes detoxing bromide much less difficult. Also giving the body days off helps with the bromide detox as well.

This one gets more complicated in that when I started searching there is a lot to read and take in...but the short of it is that the doctors at the Iodine Project number one thinks that Iodine should be used in an overall wellness program and two these nutrients either support the thyroid or support your body to detox and heal.

The companion nutrients are:
Selenium
Vit C
Magnesium
B Vitamins

Here is one link that talks about companion nutrients
[link to curezone.com]
Another:
[link to www.breastcancerchoices.org]