What you didn't know about iodine but could save your life
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it is not intended to be used as medical advice.
The treatments described in this video should only be
undertaken after careful study of the
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beneficial treatment.
Of all the elements known so far to be essential for human health,
iodine is easily the most misunderstood and the most feared.
Yet iodine is the safest of all the
essential trace elements. It is the only
one that can be administered safely for
long periods of time in high doses, as long
as one understands the basics of this
treatment and knows how to adapt the
dose to his or her needs.
Every individual is unique - so everyone will
have different requirements in regards
to iodine or co-factors.
But how much iodine do we really need? And is it
necessary to supplement this trace
element at all, given the fact, that for
the past few decades our table salt has
been enriched with iodine?
Let's examine the facts! For over 100 years
iodine has been known as a necessary
element for the production of thyroid hormone.
However, iodine is needed in
every single of the trillions of cells
in our body - a fact rarely mentioned in
the medical literature. Iodine is
necessary in the production of other
hormones in the body for a functioning immune system
and has been shown to be a potent antibacterial,
antiparasitic, antiviral and anticancer agent,
with no signs of resistance ever observed.
Without iodine, no life is possible!
Iodine deficiency
can result in mental retardation, goiter
increased child and infant mortality and
infertility. The WHO estimates, that one
third of the world population lives in
areas of iodine deficiency. Iodine can be
found in seawater, in solid rock that
forms when seawater evaporates and in
sea organisms, like seaweed, scallops
oysters, ocean fish etc. If the soil has
an adequate supply of iodine, crops grown
on it and animals fed by it will contain
adequate iodine levels. But unfortunately,
this is not the case in most areas of
the world anymore. Iodine deficiency is pandemic.
It is estimated that nearly
three quarters of the world population
is affected by an iodine deficiency disorder.
Some may think that we should
get enough of this valuable trace
element given the fact that table salt
has been iodized since the 1920s.
Unfortunately the concentration of
iodine and salt is way too low, even
though the RDA - the Recommended Dietary Allowance -
can be met with table salt alone.
The problem is, that the RDA was
only set up to prevent goiter, which it
does very well. But the rest of the
bodily functions will still be severely
iodine deficient. Another problem is, that
iodine from salt only has a
bioavailability of around 10%,
and is only potassium iodide.
On top of that iodide is mostly added to
refined salt - and refined salt as a
processed food, whose minerals and trace
elements have been removed and which has
been subjected to toxic chemicals to
give it its white color and to prevent
clumping. Refined salt can lead to many
health problems and needs to be avoided.
Unrefined salt - grey salt - should be the
salt of choice. Others may think that
they can increase iodine intake by
increasing their consumption of marine
organisms. Unfortunately, due to often
severe contamination of the marine food
chain, this solution is often
counterproductive - while iodine
deficiency might somewhat be corrected,
further toxins, like heavy metals and
pesticides, are introduced into the body.
Why then are we deficient in iodine?
One of the reasons is the already mentioned
poor availability of iodine in table salt,
as well as a declining salt intake by
the population due to health concerns,
which for unrefined salt are entirely
misguided. Another reason is that poor
farming techniques have led to
widespread deficiencies in soil
minerals, amongst others of iodine.
Exposure to many chemicals that inhibit
iodine binding in the body further worsens the problem.
However the most
significant change in iodine status of
recent times occurred with a change in
the food industry. In the 1960s iodine
was added to flour as a dough
conditioner. But ten years later iodine
was replaced by bromine.
Bromine is another halide - also called halogen - as
are iodine, fluoride, chloride and astatine.
This is the periodic table of
elements with the group of halides.
All halides compete with one another for
absorption and receptor binding in the body.
Since iodine and bromine compete with
one another for absorption and receptor
binding, the body can only eliminate
bromine, if there is sufficient iodine
available. If there are a lot of halides
competing for the receptor, a surplus
of iodine has to be provided to the body
to displace bromine from the receptor.
Bromine is a toxic substance that has no
use in our body and binds to iodine
receptors in the breast and is a known
carcinogen to the breast. In contrast, iodine is known
for its anticancer properties. Replacing
iodine with bromine in flour made a bad
situation worse. Iodine deficiency has
accelerated and it is now being
competitively inhibited from binding to
its own receptors. Unfortunately bromine
cannot only be found in flour, but is
used everywhere and industrially
produced goods - as flame retardant it can
be found in textiles, carpets, mattresses,
cars, electronics, and is also found in
pesticides - the list goes on and on. So
not only is our intake of iodine
inadequate, but on top of that our body
is poisoned by bromine and other halides
like fluoride in drinking water or
perchlorate through, which compounds the
problem. Today 100% of the
population that is tested for bromine
levels tests positive in the high range.
Generally speaking there are two
different forms of iodine - iodine and
elemental iodine. Elemental iodine is not
very soluble in water, but a french
physician by the name of Jean Lugol
found in 1829, that potassium iodide
added to water increase the solubility
of iodine. He started to treat his
patients with "Lugol's solution 5%"
which holds his name to this day.
Today we know that different tissues
respond differently to the two forms of
iodine: The thyroid gland for instance
primarily utilizes iodide, while breast
tissue prefers iodine.
The anticancer effect of iodine is
mostly based on the iodine form, whereas
the iodide form (the one available in
table salt) is much less effective. This
means that iodine sufficiency is best
achieved, when we use both iodine and
iodide, as can be found in Lugol's solution.
What does iodine exactly do in our cell?
Iodide is transported into the cells
via a transport molecule called the sodium-iodide symporter or NIS.
After it enters the cell, iodide
undergoes two important processes:
oxidation and organification.
Oxifidation occurs through the interaction of
hydrogen peroxide or H2O2 with thyroperoxidase or TPO and effectively transforms iodide to iodine.
This step is
very important for the body's ability to
utilize iodide. If the production of
hydrogen peroxide used for the oxidation
of the iodide is not tightly controlled,
it can lead to damage of the thyroid
tissue and to the possibility of forming
antibodies against thyroperoxidase - a condition called Hashimoto's disease,
the most prevalent form of
hyperthyroidism or low thyroid function.
One element crucial in this process is
selenium - another trace element most of
us are deficient in. The next step in the utilization of iodine is called organification,
which means that iodine becomes
part of cholesterol, fats and proteins.
While the RDA of iodine is sufficient to
produce enough thyroid hormones, it takes
about a 100x the RDA to produce
proteins like delta-iodolactone, a key regulator
of programmed cell death,
called apoptosis, and cellular growth,
both implicated in the formation of cancer.
For over 60 years it has been
known that iodine concentrates in and is
secreted by the mammary gland.
The breasts are one of the main
storage sites for iodine and is
necessary for the development and
maintenance of normal breast tissue.
Several investigators have posited, that
iodine deficiency is a causative factor
in breast cancer and fibrocystic breast disease.
Some studies have shown that
iodine has the ability to block the
progression of cancer in the breast
tissue some countries such as Poland
Switzerland and Russia have been found
to have high rates of breast cancer
associated with localized pockets of
iodine deficiency the Japanese
population which consumes a large amount
of iodine by RDA standards have
remarkably lower levels of breast
endometrial and ovarian cancer item was
also found to have suppressive effects
under development and size of mammary
tumors and rats it also is important to
ensure adequate iodine levels and young
women before they become pregnant
because the normal development of the
fetus requires adequate amounts of
iodine in utero deficiency has been
associated with a range of problems in
children including ADHD lowered IQ
depression or height and bone maturation
and decreased neonatal survival rates so
how much iodine do we have to provide to
our bodies every day for its optimal
health clearly the RDA and even
multiples of that seem dreadfully
inadequate one of the world's leading
iodine researchers the late dr. guy
Abraham has shown that the required
daily intake of iodine necessary for
maintaining adequate iodine levels is at
least 13 milligrams the equivalent of
slightly less than a hundred times the
RDA if you have a massive halite
toxicity problem or if you're suffering
from chronic disease like cancer thyroid
problems autoimmune disease or chronic
infections like Lyme disease you might
need substantially more than that
the following protocol is a suggestion
on how to ingest iodine and cofactors
which will help control symptoms of
bromine toxicity once you start to
dislodge that from the receptors a
crucial first step is adequate hydration
make sure to drink non fluoridated water
either by using a distiller or by
reverse osmosis first thing in the
morning we recommend to drink a glass of
warm water with approximately half a
teaspoon of unrefined salt to help the
body get rid of hey lights with your
breakfast take one drop of 5% lugal
diluted in water you might want to add a
few drops of apple cider vinegar to
increase the taste the dose of lugol's
can slowly be increased over the next
few weeks to reach anything between four
to eight drops per day as a rule
overweight people require more iodine
one drop of 5% lugol's is the equivalent
of six point 25 milligrams of iodine if
you struggle to ingest lugol's solution
diluted in water an alternative are
tablets called iodoral which come in
12.5 milligram strength the downside is
that they are rather expensive if you
increase the dose too fast you might
experience signs of bromide toxicity
such as T muscle aches runny nose fever
diarrhea and brain fog among others if
that happens simply skip the iodine for
two days and resume in gesture at a
lower dose you will have to titrate the
dose to the requirements of your body if
you skip the iodine be sure to continue
all the other measures to help you
toxify your body with the iodine take
selenium do not exceed 200 micrograms
per day if you suffer from chronic
medical problems it is advisable to take
other cofactors to aid the body coping
with the stress of detoxification 100
milligrams of vitamin B
you and 500 milligrams of vitamin b3 can
make a world of difference in such
situations vitamin C is another valuable
cofactor but it should not be ingested
at the same time as iodine as the two
partially neutralized each other wait
for two hours after ingestion of the
iodine before taking vitamin C in
general a dose of 2 to 4 grams per day
seems adequate in the evening or late
afternoon have another glass of warm
salty water to aid detoxification and
you might want to take some magnesium
before going to bed preferably some key
lated form like magnesium glycinate or
magnesium malate many concerns have been
voiced chiefly among the medical
establishment about the safety of iodine
or the lack of it one of the concerns
heard most often is that high doses of
iodine might induce hypothyroidism the
low functioning of the thyroid gland dr.
Brownstein a leading authority on iodine
and author of the seminal book iodine
why you need it why you can't live
without it has treated thousands of
patients with iodine and this problem
has been very prayer true initially the
thyroid tests TSH will rise which might
lead a doctor to suspect low thyroid
function but in the presence of normal
thyroid hormone levels t3 and t4 this is
not the case it also is a transient
phenomenon after six months of iodine
supplementation the levels tend to
return back to normal in fact
hypothyroidism is associated with low
iodine levels which will get better once
iodine stores are replenished another
concern is the exact opposite the
induction of high thyroid function or
hyperthyroidism again this is even rarer
and only happens in a so-called
autonomous nodule or toxic goiter
thankfully a very rare disorder giving a
high dose of iodine is actually a method
to die
knows a toxic nodule which needs to be
removed surgically another concern is
allergy to inorganic iodine / iodide
which again is exceedingly rare most
so-called iodine allergies are allergies
to certain components of iodine dye used
in medical imaging and usually don't
cross-react with inorganic iodine do
children need iodine as well the short
answer is yes for children to have
adequate iodine levels is even more
important especially in regard to brain
development however their dose needs to
be adjusted to their age and weight in
any case before you embark on this epic
journey be sure to inform yourself this
is a treatment adequate for you I cannot
emphasize enough dr. Bronstein's book
mentioned before which addresses all
aspects of this wonderful and cheap
treatment it would be ideal if you were
able to find an iodine knowledgeable
health care provider in the region where
you live so that he can monitor and
assist you and finding the right dose
and ward off unpleasant symptoms once
you start using lugal solution you will
be amazed at the effects it will have on
your body and your mind it might take a
bit of fine-tuning but it's well worth
the effort
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