I am copying my posts from this thread in the Other Topics forum because I believe it is so valuable, and relevant for people pursuing their health freedom naturally.

Hey everyone... this presentation explains some stunning stuff about the importance of iodine in our health. You will have to turn the volume up quite alot as it too quite to hear at normal levels.

[video.google.com]

This is a must read for everyone.
Truely profound information on iodine and our deficiencies in it, especially in regard to heavy metal toxicity and detoxing, which apparently everyone is afflicted with now days.

[curezone.com]

[www.curezone.com]

Ok.. it is 2 am in the morning here, and I just got up because I wasn't feeling that tired, and I have been experiencing some amazing things using Iodine YES IODINE global.

Now, the history that you may be interested to know, is that I have been on organic raw food for about 20 months or so, with the prior several years beomg on high raw with juices, and the last 6 months or so on nothing but fruit and veges. Very low fat, no salt, no spices, no condiments etc, although I have made exceptions periodically eating some cooked veges with occasional condiments. So the last 6 months have been very pure.

So I learned a little about Iodine treatment, and have come to understand that it ISN'T toxic to us, as the medical profession have been indoctrinated to premote, and is actually just the opposit. I started a regime about 3 weeks ago taking around 10 - 15 mg a day ( NOT RECCOMENDED BY YOUR DOCTOR ). The first thing that happened is I got sick, yep, I had flu like simptoms. I developed a very slight sore throat, but mucus started pooring out of me, and I got very fatigued.

I was half way thinking that I was just sick, even though I haven't been sick in a good 3 years since going raw. The next thing I noticed was that I seemed to be getting real "dumb" ( lack of focus, inability to hold thoughts, exteme introverted behaviour etc ). Then one morning at around 3 am I was thinking about some stuff I had been reading that talked about thyroid malfunction, and how a bunch of the symptoms I was experiencing happened to line up with hypothyroidism.

What I had heard ( from clinical studies ) is that Iodine is a critical element in the thyroid function, and that almost everyone is deficient in it. I had also read and heard that our bodies can handle WAY more of it in its seperate form than what we are lead to believe. So I decided it was worth a shot, and got up and went and had a dose of it, about 15 mgs. Oh.. this was after taking a break from it for about 4 - 6 days on suspicion that it was making me sick.

Wham !!! Instant effect. I went back to bed, and about 5 to 10 minuites later I started experiencing "symptoms". The first thing that happened was that I started having adrenaline rushes. This was scary ! What made it worse, is that I my mind went into over drive on all the bad things that may be possible, and overdose was high on the list. I started to panic, the adrenaline was surging. I rushed to the computer and started frantically looking up Iodine overdose, and what its effects were etc.

What I found out was somewhat amazing, the first sight told me that I needed to counter an overdose starting by consuming milk or flour and water. So I immediately started drinking some milk. This eased my panic and adrenaline rushes fairly quickly, although they did keep coming back. I kept on looking on the net, the second sight I found was invaluable. It was the one I have posted a link for, and contains a forums for people who are, and have, used Iodine treatment. I found it from a thread with a queary about overdosing from someone like myself.

The responces were something like this : Many of us have experienced the symptoms that I was experiencing and much more, also much worse... some of them even went mental and were commited for a period of time. They went on to say that 15 mgs is no where near an overdose quantity, and that a few of them are taking as much at 100 mgs a day. Further, that the symptoms I was experiencing ARE NOT THE IODINE.

They are the symptoms of ( the heavy metals such as bromide !!! ) getting dislodged from my cells due to a particular effect that Iodine has with them when present in ones body chemistry, and flooding the blood and excretory systems. These people have actual experience with this, it has been clinically tested and found to be true, and there are protocols developing to facilitate the detoxifying and expelling action in this procedure.

One such protocol is called a salt push, whereby the individual takes a large amount of salt, such as half a teaspoon, disolves it in water and consumes it, followed by about 16 ounces or more of pure ( filtered of impurities ) water. This apparently has many actions, of which I am still to learn, but the main one being that it forces the bromide ( possibly the other metals too, I haven't researched it enough to know ) out of the body.

So I started doing this right away, and the effect was that I urinated alot, and the panic attacks and adrenaline surges stopped. Over the next week and a half I have continued to take Iodine at around 6 mgs a day and introduced vitamin C at 2000 - 3000 mgs a day, and alot of salt. I have had strong reservations on the salt due to passed experiences with it and have considered it toxic, but I am starting to change that view due to its effects now, and what I am learning.

I was inspired to get up and write this because of what has happened over the course of about 3 weeks or so since I started taking Iodine. The first thing was sickness, with a crisis that I have mentioned. The symptoms that I have had were, mucus, fatigue, diarrhea, emotional despondency ( fear, introversion,depression, mental fog and inability to concentrate, severe lack of intelligence ). After the crisis, these have all steadily improved, although the diarrhea has persisted ( in a controllable fashion ) and my sweat has started to smell a bit ( this is unheard of for me ).

As of two days ago when I played volleyball for 3 hours or so, I had boundless energy, even though I still have some mucus coming out. I am noticing an ease and willingness to be outward socially, my energy is only increasing, and I'm feeling a mental clarity which rivals anything I've ever felt before. All this even though I am still taking Iodine !! You can put all of this down to placebo, or imagination etc, except that I am not the only one and far from it.

People are healing from all sorts of conditions including cancer etc using Iodine treatment. THIS HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED. I invite you all to explore this... It is some truth which has been kept hidden from us, and knowledge of it is only beneficial if approached critially without prejudice. The door is open.

[www.optimox.com]

[www.curezone.com]
Peace... Light.

..I wasn't too concerned about iodine, but going thru some of the links it looks like vegetarians may be at risk if they avoid iodized salt and processed foods, sea food and sea weed, and maybe conventionally iodized fertilizers, and even if they live in coastal areas because iodine does't neccessarily make it's way into the soil and into plant foods.

From a recent study in Australia:

CONCLUSION: Our results confirm the existence of inadequate iodine intake in the Australian population, and we call for the urgent implementation of mandatory iodisation of all edible salt in Australia.

[www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

..it's got me checking..

OK...my sources say our daily iodine needs are 'very small' (I don't have the exact figure).

Here are some natural sources of iodine, ie natural as found in our foods, rather than extracted,( ie isolated from the other chemicals that were present in the food that would all work synergistically):

Yes, sea veg (although don't eat excessively, as it's thought that that can in itself, in very large quantities, cause or contribute to thyroid problems).

PLUS:

spinach
kale
lettuce
cucumbers
carrots
bananas
watermelon
pineapple
strawberries
peaches
bananas
grapes
sesame seeds
mushrooms

Debbie
I am aware of a cartel like institution which regulates what the medical community are educated with in order to keep the funds flowing. It is not within their interest to make people well, as the medical establishment = big money.

If you want the real story you have to do your own research. It is now extencively documented that only the doses of iodine that are in sufficient quantity ( which are warned against by the medical profession ) have significant effects on our healing. If you read the material that I have linked and you will discover this. Here is a post made in the Other Topics forum :

riverhousebill Wrote:
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> I know a few old timers in the Merchant Marines
> Tankers and Freighters,
> and have heard it said by them, when in India or
> distant ports, to keep
> from getting sick from the foods and waters,
> they would put a drop of
> iodine in their drinking water one time for a 5
> day port call.
> They said it was common pracice and worked.

and my reply...

That is real interesting River, and from my experience it doesn't seem surprising. It is my opinion, and probably that of a lot of people on this board, that the immune system while functioning properly is easily capable of dealing with any foreign entities present within the body. The immune system is compromised by many factors today, but a large one is the presence of heavy metals in our system, and the absence of key nutrients that are vital in its functioning.

It is my understanding that the ingestion of iodine effects both of these factors in a major way. The first being that it has synonymous molecular binding properties with the heavy metals, and displaces them from their bonds in our cells. The second being that it is used intencively by the thyroid, which regulates all the areas of our immune and hormonal system. So given how much it aids the immune system, it seems reasonable that it would provide added protection to poisoning etc.

Another point of note is that potasium iodide is used in areas that are effected by radioactive poisoning due to the role that iodine plays. When the body has enough natural iodine present within it, it no longer absorbs or binds to the radioactive isotope of it.

Here is an artical written by a nurse right back in the 1920's who accidentally discovered how powerfull an iodine tincture is in allowing burn victims to heal.
[www.curezone.com]

..Nutritiondata.com does not track iodine as far as I could see, and sources vary of course, but in the US, according to the following, of fruits and vegetables only potatoes rate as a significant source of iodine.


U.S. RDA of Iodine - 150 MCG*

Fruits and vegetables that contain 10% to 24% of the U.S. RDA of Iodine per serving:

Potato - 1 medium (148g)

[www.produceoasis.com]

.. in the US I guess the assumption is that about 97% of the population is getting their iodine from seafood, meat/dairy, iodized salt, supplements, etc.

Personally, I'm getting a minimal amount from a multi supplement and a potato now and then, and am more motivated than ever to get into the habit of collecting seaweed (and will try not to go overboard on this).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/2009 08:27PM by loeve.

Hi Loeve
I would invite you to watch the first google video link that I have posted. It is presented by a Dr David Brownstein who has a practice somewhere in the U.S. I can't remember the location, and it is his clinical experience, that of something like 500 patience that he tested in a pilot study to ascertain the iodine levels in the populace at large, something like 90% of them proved deficient. Potatoes may indeed contain Iodine when grown in rich organic conditions, but I would be willing to bet that ( although I may be wrong )

a) In most instances they are not,

b) that you will destroy they absorbtion ability of it through cooking, ( or at least impair it ),

c) It doesn't garauntee that the individual consuming them has the supporting nutrients necessary to metabolise it and,

d) Even if all of these requirements are met, that it wont be enough to have the detoxing properties of iodine treatment therapy.

I am totaly into getting my nutrients from foods... believe me !! But after what I have experienced personally after being raw for so long ( including drinking a variety of green juice including wheat grass ). I feel that everyone could benifit from using this therapy. I am not suggesting it is the only way, I think that one could possibly detox themselves by growing their own foods, fasting, and consuming more green juices and less other kinds of food than I have done. Or a combination of these things, especially when considered over a longer period than I have been raw.

But like I say, why not use something that is so effective and positive that has no negative aspects past dealing with the detoxing effects ? The stats that some of these Dr's are finding in their tests indicate that if potatos do indeed supply an adequate amount, then somehow the U.S citizens are still not getting it.

Dear Lightform,

I usually not write here , only learn from the topics, but i must thank you for posting this video. I think it` a life-saver. We already ordered our iodine drops

Leila

Leila
I am honoured to have been of service to you . I am posting all this stuff because I can see just how valuable it is, and am gratified that it has helped someone. Thankyou so much for looking !