Iodine Anyone? page 241

[sbhikes]

Oxide, I started taking 50mg of potassium iodide back in August after reading on Protein Power that iodine was good for you and after reading somewhere that it was recommended to take that much for a month (I can't remember where I read that). That was my starting dose. I did not have any side effects at all other than it felt like I was a lot warmer at night a few hours after taking it. In retrospect, that could have been from taking Vitamin D, not iodide. Eventually I reduced the dose to only 25mg for no reason other than to save money. I was never quite convinced taking iodide did anything at all. Recently I bought iodoral which has both iodine and iodide and I take 25mg a day of that. That means I'm taking even less potassium iodide than I did before. Only the iodine portion of it is new to me. Iodide is what is in salt, not iodine. I guess iodine is the more active ingredient because a month later I have an itchy rash. I suspect iodine is the cause of my rash since it is one of only two things new in my life. The other new thing is the electric company installed a "smart meter" and it's inches from my head as I sleep. I'm not sure rash is a side effect of smart meters.

[sbhikes]

Oh wait, it turns out that rashes in some people ARE reported after smart meter installation. Hmm.

[Gwynn]

Oh wait, it turns out that rashes in some people ARE reported after smart meter installation. Hmm.

My friend just moved into a house that has a smart meter. She is getting rid of it ASAP. She has a friend who I have never met who attributes a lot of her health problems, including heart problems, to the time a smart meter was installed at her house.

[sbhikes]

I think the smart meter would explain why the rash appears like it came from one direction. It's located on one side of my body. I'm going to check where the meter is located relative to my sleeping position. I'll try foil on the wall and see if that helps. I told my partner I wanted to opt out of the smart meter but he didn't believe they were a problem. It was installed only a few days before I got my rash. See? The horror stories aren't always about iodine.

[LynneF]

Oxide,

In response to issues you raise:

1. I have personally met two patent holders of iodine treatments. I didn't understand why they patented something that's been used for 150 years in the exact way the Iodine Movement uses it. I asked one of the doctors who published on iodine deficient rats getting tumors in the 1950s (not a typo!) why he couldn't get the information out there. He explained that there was a moratorium on iodine research in humans due to an erroneous concept called the Wolff Chaikoff Effect. This is explained in Dr. Brownstein's book. I urge you to read it. It will answer all your questions. Others, like Dr. Michael Schacter have published on the W-C and have reverified that the W-C Effect is bogus.

2. The 150 mcg dose of iodine was the dose thought to prevent Goiter. That recommendation came before the 1970s when bromide fire retardant chemicals became widely used in our furniture, carpets, electronics, etc. Bromides purge iodine from the receptors. So 150 mcg cannot withstand the bromide assault. 150 mcg is an outdated recommendation.

Also, I would not accept the RDA dosing on anything. You need to search back and see the origin of the information. The FDA believes the Japanese (who are one of the longest lived populations in the world) are poisoning themselves with iodine and the American iodine requirements are correct. Do you see a flaw in this logic?

Anyway, I appreciate the opportunity to address all scepticism. I was sceptical myself in the beginning. I arrogantly thought if iodine was so good for the breasts I would have heard about it. I gave myself two weeks to review iodine the medical literature. Then I needed a couple more months to research. Then I needed a year to review medical books from the 1800s. Then I looked to the medical anthropology and archeology findings of seaweed-based medicines going back 15,000 years.

I started researching in 2005-2006. I am still researching. You cannot review the preponderance of evidence for seven years and read thousands of patient and doctor reports and still take 150 mcg.

Good luck with your research,
Lynne

[Gwynn]

I think the smart meter would explain why the rash appears like it came from one direction. It's located on one side of my body. I'm going to check where the meter is located relative to my sleeping position. I'll try foil on the wall and see if that helps. I told my partner I wanted to opt out of the smart meter but he didn't believe they were a problem. It was installed only a few days before I got my rash. See? The horror stories aren't always about iodine.

Right, there's plenty of topics with horror stories involved, LOL! BTW, the friend of my friend had already ordered a correct meter, I need to find out if she ever got it installed.

[sbhikes]

Speaking of flame retardants, this article was in the Los Angeles Times the other day. Shit like this makes my blood boil.
Chemical makers fan the flames of fear - Los Angeles Times

[oxide]

Thank you all for the responses! To be honest, this thread simply didn't have enough scientific support to make me feel comfortable. I couldn't tell if it was legit, or if it was another wacky Interent thing, like those "one weird tip that phoneix mom discovered to keep off belly fat" ads. But now it's all starting to look a lot more legit.

I looked up the W-C effect, only on Wiki. My science deals with things and not people, so I don't have experience with ethics. But according to wiki, the W-C effect only lasted 10 days. Meanwhile, women are living for years with endometriosis, dealing with months of chemo, and having the breasts cut OFF permanently. But they won't research iodine treatment because it may or may not cause an effect that lasts 10 days??? Damn.

[curtisjeser]

Consistently such as sea veges diet program should deal with iodine needs. I meltdown up nori linens on top of my soups a several times per weeks time, and I also use raw dulse flakes in place of sodium regularly.

[Grizz]

Consistently such as sea veges diet program should deal with iodine needs. I meltdown up nori linens on top of my soups a several times per weeks time, and I also use raw dulse flakes in place of sodium regularly.

Curtis,

You are correct, they should give us the required iodine, but they don't. We live in a sea of toxic halide chemicals that displace iodine from our cells every day. Toxins like Bromide in our food, Fluoride, chlorine in our water supplies are constantly stripping iodine out of our bodies.
Iodine deficiencies & dosages

Dr. Brownstein now recommends 50mg of iodine daily with required supplements to keep us iodine sufficient,
Details in this file:
http://tinyurl.com/iodine-references
Click on the table of contents to navigate.

Seaweed is not recommended because it is also toxic and contains arsenic. We recommend Lugols Liquid Iodine and iodoral iodine capsules, both available from Amazon.Com.

I suggest that you read this document to catch up with the rest of our members:
http://www.freegrab.net/Iodine%20update.htm#section1

Grizz