2 nutrients you are missing, Iodine and Magnesium

Good post,

Recently started taking iodine droplets in water

Started taking Calcium / Magnesium / Zinc supplements as well when I realized my diet doesnt have much of any of that

Also started taking D3 after my blood work shows I was low in vitamin D

Also started drinking fiber "shakes" in the morning with psyllium husk and wheat dextrin for high cholesterol.

Also quit drinking caffiene altogether

After doing all that, wow what a huge difference! feel 1000 times better overall.

I've been taking 250 mg Magnesium daily (in a complete mineral supplement). The RDA is 400, but I eat at least 3 eggs a day and enough meat that I figure I am good on magnesium. Eggs supposedly have 200 mg of magnesium. One of the rare decent food sources of mg.

The Japanese diet is around 40 to 50 times more iodine than the US RDA. They have a much lower incidence of cancer and heart disease than the west, and have a slightly higher IQ on the whole.

I take 3 to 4 drops of Dr. Lugol's 2% iodine solution in a glass of water.

Before that, I was trying the Polarpure water purifier which has iodine crystals in a little mesh cage inside of a glass jar that holds about 2 ozs of water. Pretty clever device that you fill with water, wait a half hour, in which time it forms a saturated solution, then that couple ounces of water is dumped into a 1 liter water bottle and if you are in the wilderness you leave it sit for a half hour for the iodine to kill any pathogens in it.

The Polarpure seemed to be a bit more effective, but not sure why.

It was a pain to use though, because of the time needed to saturate the solution, and also the seller quit selling them. So I switched to Lugols which only takes a couple seconds to put the drops into a glass of water.

Iodine is a strong oxidizer and it also tends to want to leave the container. So the rubber on the eyedroppers may not last more than a year or 2. (I bought a few spare glass eyedroppers from Amazon to replace them when they go bad.) And whatever you store next to the bottle will get a brown stain on any paper labels. I've been taking it for about 9 years now.

An iodine deficiency is the primary cause of breast cancer, so take it regularly. I buy iodoral from amazon.

The other point I would make with regard to iodine.

It is a halogen and competes for uptake in the body with the other halogens (chlorine and Bromine) in particular.

The US is one of the few if not the only country that chlorinates its drinking water.

That chlorine will compete with iodine for uptake into the body.

Same with Bromine, which is used as a "dough conditioner" in your bread.

There are different opinions out there on how much iodine should be eaten depending upon who you talk to.

I am of the opinion that the empirical evidence of Japan's markedly better brain and body health speaks for its self.

The US RDA for iodine is about 1/40th of what it should be.

And we should seriously look at removing chlorine and bromine from our diets.

The fastest way to absorb magnesium and reverse deficiency is through the skin.

Magnesium oil is made with Magnesium Choride

Just buy a 10$ bag of ancient minerals brand Mg. Chloride

Mix some crystals in pure water

rub onto the skin

if you get any red itchy bumps that is the sign of magnesium deficiency

It goes away quickly and MG Oil is the only known way to quickly reverse deficiency

Mg. Threonate is good for the brain but expensive

[link to www.polarpurewater.com]

Too little iodine can cause a goiter.

Too much iodine can also cause a goiter.

The other point I would make with regard to iodine.

It is a halogen and competes for uptake in the body with the other halogens (chlorine and Bromine) in particular.

The US is one of the few if not the only country that chlorinates its drinking water.

That chlorine will compete with iodine for uptake into the body.

Same with Bromine, which is used as a "dough conditioner" in your bread.

There are different opinions out there on how much iodine should be eaten depending upon who you talk to.

I am of the opinion that the empirical evidence of Japan's markedly better brain and body health speaks for its self.

The US RDA for iodine is about 1/40th of what it should be.

And we should seriously look at removing chlorine and bromine from our diets.

The other point I would make with regard to iodine.

It is a halogen and competes for uptake in the body with the other halogens (chlorine and Bromine) in particular.

The US is one of the few if not the only country that chlorinates its drinking water.

That chlorine will compete with iodine for uptake into the body.

Same with Bromine, which is used as a "dough conditioner" in your bread.

There are different opinions out there on how much iodine should be eaten depending upon who you talk to.

I am of the opinion that the empirical evidence of Japan's markedly better brain and body health speaks for its self.

The US RDA for iodine is about 1/40th of what it should be.

And we should seriously look at removing chlorine and bromine from our diets.

same with fluorides they add to the water - competes with iodine

If you need Magnesium its important to look for the compound "Magtein" Magnesium Threonate. Its absorption is nearly 100% whereas regular magnesium isn't absorbed enough to really be beneficial.

All the Magnesium you buy at the store is basically wasted. I take 2 scoops of Magtein daily. I used to get bad migraines and they didn't stop when I took the pills. When I started Magtein it literally cured me.

Iodine is well tolerated to pretty high levels.
The body excretes what it doesn't need.

Wrong. Please stop lying to people. You have no idea what you're talking about.

I'll share a few things I've discovered that will help improve your health.

The Western diet is very deficient in iodine and magnesium.

I used to have 20:550 eyesight. Could see close up, but walk 10 ft away and you were just fuzz. Then I hit 45 and lost my adaptive eyesight (the lens becomes rigid and unable to change focal point).

Started the iodine to try out a Polarpure water purifier to see how bad the taste was. Made a liter of water with it. Well, it tasted wonderful. So I made another liter of iodine water the next day. It was hot weather and it was so refreshing.

After 4 days of doing this, I noticed my brain fog lifted.
Polarpure method was a bit of a pain in the but, so I switched to Dr. Lugol's since that involved just putting a few drops into a glass of water. Then I noticed a zinging like pain in the front of my eye every so often. Apparantly that was the lens becoming mobile again. Now I can see up close perfectly, and also my distance vision has gotten way the heck better. The optometrist thought I must had lasik. The amt of iodine I take is roughly the equivalent of what the Japanese get in their seafood rich diet.
(The US RDA is far too low, and the iodine in salt is just enough to keep you from developing a goiter).

Iodine is water soluble and runs to the sea. Depleted inland areas are referred to as the "goiter belt".


The other nutrient we are short on is magnesium. This is vital to heart health. All I can say is take a supplement with the RDA for magnesium. I discovered this when I had a physical and the doc ran an EKG and told me my heart rhythm was screwed up.
Was getting PVCs etc.
I did a little reading and found that magnesium is essential for a healthy heart beat. Not enough in food unless you eat 10 lbs of meat a day. Started taking a supplement pill. went back to the doc and insisted he redo the EKG. Clean as a whistle, no more PVCs. And I could feel the improvement as well when I exercised.

Hope that helps some people.

Is it not hard on the liver or kidney taking so many vitamins???

Should we not get these vitamins from natural sources...

As opposed to getting them from "pharma companies"???

I've stated my bases and references. I would ask you to do the same. I've recommended the intake amounts consistent with the healthy Japanese diet, which has resulted in A longer lifespan and greatly reduced risk of cancer and heart disease.

The fastest way to absorb magnesium and reverse deficiency is through the skin.

Magnesium oil is made with Magnesium Choride

Just buy a 10$ bag of ancient minerals brand Mg. Chloride

Mix some crystals in pure water

rub onto the skin

if you get any red itchy bumps that is the sign of magnesium deficiency

It goes away quickly and MG Oil is the only known way to quickly reverse deficiency

Mg. Threonate is good for the brain but expensive

I still have a couple bottles of the stuff around somewhere, gassing off and turning something brown I'm sure. :)

I've been taking 250 mg Magnesium daily (in a complete mineral supplement). The RDA is 400, but I eat at least 3 eggs a day and enough meat that I figure I am good on magnesium. Eggs supposedly have 200 mg of magnesium. One of the rare decent food sources of mg.

The Japanese diet is around 40 to 50 times more iodine than the US RDA. They have a much lower incidence of cancer and heart disease than the west, and have a slightly higher IQ on the whole.

I take 3 to 4 drops of Dr. Lugol's 2% iodine solution in a glass of water.

If you fill the glass bottles with water, the offgassing of iodine goes to almost zero. A much better way to do it for long term storage, as long as the bottles are in a location that will never go below freezing.

They are selling PolarPure again. Even Amazon has it, and Amazon is pretty strict about selling raw iodine related products.



Be a little bit careful thinking the "Japanese iodine intake" study is ideal for good health. I looked into that a bit a while ago because I kept seeing it referenced on iodine related websites, and if I remember correctly the Japanese study was flawed. Something to do with them accidentally using the wet weight stat for kelp/seaweed to calculate the iodine consumed on average instead of calculating the iodine content from the dry weight stat of the kelp/seaweed consumed (which is the standard way of reporting nutrient/mineral amounts). Basically, they way over calculated the iodine intake average.

I do agree with you that iodine is good however, and the RDA is likely way too low in the US, but I think 1-2mg/day is likely the ideal range for most people. That's still 8x the current RDA if I remember correctly. 12-50mg or more, like some websites online tout, is likely damaging long term. Too much can cause permanent thyroid issues over time. If I personally take more than about 3mg per day, I start to gain weight like crazy. Like +10 pounds per month withut any other dietary changes. Every body is different. Selenium is also very important if you are taking hiher than normal levels of iodine, because it helps keep excessive levels of iodine from damaging healthy tissue.

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One egg only contains about 6mg of magnesium, so if you eat 3 eggs a day that's only adding about 18mg of magnesium to your diet.