Benefits of And History Iodine Supplementation
I am actually blown away by not only the history of Iodine but also the health results I and many of my family members are getting with Iodine Supplementation.
I had no conception about what you are about to read, and you have most likely never heard this history before either.
If you would like to supplement with Iodine (a natural element which our bodies desperately need), it should be undertaken with reasonable consideration of what it does for your body, how much and how often you should take Iodine.
While we can not and should not report Iodine as a miracle cure, (it is an element in the periodic table) just imagine that your body needed something to properly regulate basic functions of your metabolism, energy levels, and a host of other system processes in the human body which are all inter-related in the bigger picture of your health.
Now picture some legal entity such as a government or an influential corporation realizing that withholding this vital element in human health and burying the truth about it’s critical nature to healthy human existence decides to limit the consumption of the substance you need and mock the scientific information of studied and respected individuals in order to cement in place an entirely unsuitable replacement to that of healthy practice.
The Element of Iodine
Treating the symptom and not the cause.
With the advent of new drugs created by pharmaceutical companies that have physiological and psychological effects on the body and mind, they realized that treating symptoms rather than the cause would create an endless flow of demand for products they produce, while treating the cause would put them out of business.
One more reason to believe what scripture says, “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” - 1st Timothy 6:10
Contact me for specific information about Iodine Supplementation so we can answer some practical questions like What, Where and How Much Do I need?, and what other supplements should be taken with Iodine.
A Basic Iodine Supplementation Guide.
(Contact for more details and DO YOUR RESEARCH!)
Start with 12.5 Milligrams to 50 Milligrams per day. 12.5 milligrams of Iodine/Iodide is the recommended daily dosage to keep radiation from absorbing into your body. Consider the fallout from Fukushima.
Selenium minus the Magnesium Stearate
Take this with Selenium (without Magnesium Stearate) 200 Micrograms a day. (Magnesium Stearate coats your intestines and does not allow them to absorb as much nutrient from whatever you are eating. Surprisingly this is why many vitamins seem ineffective in your daily dosage, because many brands of vitamins contain Magmesium Stearate. Read your bottles ingredients or get this specific brand of Selenium online. You can start with one. Possibly boost for a short time with 400 Micrograms a day.
It is evident that taking this combination of Iodine with Selenium helps your Thyroid to properly receive the Iodine it needs to do what it does.
When you take Iodine it will detox you of things like lead, mercury, flourine, and bromine. This involves a reaction in humans called HerxHeimer’s. However this problem is remedied by adjusting dosage down if reaction is to intense and using what we call a “salt push”.
Be Aware of expected Herxheimers Reaction (Detox Effects)
“Typically, the death of these bacteria and the associated release of endotoxins or lipoproteins occurs faster than the body can remove the substances. It usually manifests within a few hours of the first dose of antibiotic as fever, chills, rigor, hypotension, headache, tachycardia, hyperventilation, vasodilation with flushing, myalgia (muscle pain), exacerbation of skin lesions and anxiety. The intensity of the reaction indicates the severity of inflammation. Reaction commonly occurs within two hours of drug administration, but is usually self-limiting.’ “ - Wiki – Jarisch-Herxheimer Reaction
IF YOU FEEL DISCONNECTED, foggy, tired or just plain crappy…do a “Salt Push“. Use unrefined salt (Celtic Salt or Pink Himalayan Salt). I like Celtic better.
Add 1/2 teaspoon of unrefined salt to 8 ounces of purified water (NOT TAP!). Stir and dissolve. Just drink it down. (It won’t make your blood pressure rise… that’s regular salt.) Follow the 8 Ounces of salt water with 12 ounces of purified water. Wait for 30 minutes. During that time you should need to urinate and that is what helps push out the toxins, flushing your kidneys and your liver to properly enable filtering of more toxins. This is a process.
If you have not urinated within 30 minutes then do another “Salt Push” and wait 30 more minutes. Usually by the 2nd salt push things get moving. You should notice that once you clear all that toxic sludge out of your liver and kidneys by urinating, you will feel better usually within a minute or two, because your filtration system is working again. If your reaction is to severe then you need to scale back your dosage to manage the detox reaction.
Dosage of Iodine Maximum
You can max out and have as your goal a daily dose of up to 50 Milligrams of Iodine. It takes on average 6 months to a year of daily dosage to get your body back to it’s needed levels of Iodine in which most people are severely deficient. After reaching that level it’s maintained at whatever you feel comfortable doing. You will feel your body reacting to the Herxheimer Reaction to the toxins. Having proper levels of Iodine and Selenium daily keep the process flowing smoothly, aiding your Thyroid which controls many different functions in your body including weight gain, metabolism, adrenals, inflammation…and many other areas of regulation in the body system.
Vitamin C When You Get A Headache
While we are regulating our intake of Iodine and our detox of toxic items like lead, mercury, flouride and bromide from our bodies it’s important to keep up on your vitamins. If you get a headache take vitamin C, and certainly take whatever else your doctor recommends for headaches, (whatever you makes you comfortable). You should not have to change that (although it is just treating the symptom of pain rather than the cause.
Cleanse Boost with NAC (N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine)
Continuing to clean out the filter is a top priority and you can boost that process by taking NAC (N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine) a powerful anti-oxidant amino acid and a precursor to the critical antioxidant glutathione. Guta thione exerts a variety of protective effects, including detoxifcation and intracellular defense against oxidative stress. Substances know to reduce glutathione status are acetominophen and alcohol. Take one NAC tablet 1 to 2 times a day, preferably on an empty stomach with fruit juice or as directed by your physician.
If all this information is stressing you out than take a Sub-lingual Vitamin B Complex with B12 to reduce the stress. It’s important that if you try this whole system of natural supplements that you make sure you follow these directions and precautions consistently for a considerable amount of time and that you pay attention to what your body is telling you. Certainly you can ask your doctor’s advice, but they may know less than you about the real world application of Iodine Supplementation to your general health or Thyroid health.
DO WHAT WORKS! You be the judge.
I can only tell you what it has done for me and my family and friends. I am 41 years old. In recent years I have been tired all the time. I started implementing this process of natural supplements and my energy level went ballistic. We have since implemented this entire process within our family and we are seeing amazing results as we work daily in our backyard garden full of energy and focus. NUTRITION IS MEDICINE. And that means more than just crappy fast food, or over-processed food. It’s important to know how and where your food is grown. I am a firm believer in growing your own food to eat and we are finally getting serious about producing those vegetables and fruits ourselves.
My wife Dori can tell you that her Rheumatoid Arthritis “Symptoms” (diagnosed at age 35) were treated under Western Medicine whose standard protocol is the treating of symptoms rather than causes of sickness in the human body. The doctors are trained to prescribe medications to alleviate symptoms rather than asking “WHY is this happening to my body?” or “What am I missing in nutrition that is causing my symptoms?”
Dori’s Story
Dori has gone from daily medications of “Anti-inflammatory” (Etodolac), “Malaria Medication” (Hydroxy-\Chloroquine) and deluges of Steroids (Prednisone) to get a “flare of inflammation” under control…to an immediate removal of Steroids from the first time Iodine was ingested. Dori literally had a reaction (Herxheimer’s?) to the Steroids in her system, that flushed her cheeks and face red. Usually you back off steroids slowly but this was an immediate and positive change in the health of her body regarding “flaring rheumatoid symptoms”. When the flare goes down the pain goes away. Iodine makes the flare go down, along with the other supplements mentioned above.
Since then in a matter of 6 to 8 weeks, not only was Dori feeling better and having more energy and strength but she was also not having flares after normal “triggers” of “too much work in one day”, or “too stressed out”. Normally a flare would set in and she would be down for a few days to weeks or longer. But having removed gluten from her diet as well and working towards a more vegan diet (devoid of animal by products including, dairy and meat) which keeps fat content low in her system she has created a much more healthy environment of food including food we grow ourselves as mini farmers. We are all eating this way now. Cheese is a delicacy not a main course. (Everyone loves cheese and we have it rarely…it can be done).
This removal of gluten coupled with all the supplements that go along with Iodine Supplementation has created an environment so healthy and energized in Dori’s body that she has gotten off of the Etodolac and the Malaria Medication (HydroxyChloroquine) completely and steroids are becoming a distant memory. She goes back for a doctor visit soon to see her “rheumatoid specialist”. She will be sharing what she has been doing and her results as well the as the results of other family members.
There is a much deeper history here about the nature of “auto-immune” diseases, as being caused by a “protozoal” infection. Something like a combo between fungal, viral, and bacterial that seems to elude the immune system while under certain treatments, such as eliminating fat from animal by-products, which apparently creates a perfect environment for this strange Malaria-like bug.
Fats are consumed in large quantities and then the infection grows faster causing a flare of the “protozoa” which in the case of rheumatoids manifest in the joints causing pain and inflammation to the point of needing serious drugs to mask the protozoa or trick the immune system into not attacking the rheumatoid’s own body in the joints. The Malaria Medication and Steroids are what suppresses the immune system for the purpose of stopping the symptom caused by the “protozoal” infection. So if we got rid of what makes the protozoa happy and multiplying in the body then we can deal with the problem instead of masking the symptoms of pain and inflammation.
This current supplementation being done with diet modification of “gluten-free” has enabled to Dori to kick these body controlling pharmaceuticals completely to the curb. We see all those around us having good results with these direct actions of adjusting what they input for nutrition and what they try to detoxify from the body.
This is just Dori’s testimonial. I hope to get quite a few more from those who are loving the results and will make those available soon.
IODINE on the Table of Elements
The History of Iodine – Wiki
Iodine was discovered by French chemist Bernard Courtois in 1811.[22][23] He was born to a manufacturer of saltpeter (a vital part of gunpowder). At the time of the Napoleonic Wars, France was at war and saltpeter was in great demand. Saltpeter produced from French niter beds required sodium carbonate, which could be isolated from seaweed collected on the coasts of Normandy and Brittany. To isolate the sodium carbonate, seaweed was burned and the ash washed with water. The remaining waste was destroyed by adding sulfuric acid. Courtois once added excessive sulfuric acid and a cloud of purple vapor rose. He noted that the vapor crystallized on cold surfaces, making dark crystals. Courtois suspected that this was a new element but lacked funding to pursue it further.
Courtois gave samples to his friends, Charles Bernard Desormes (1777–1862) and Nicolas Clément (1779–1841), to continue research. He also gave some of the substance to chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), and to physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836). On 29 November 1813, Desormes and Clément made public Courtois’s discovery. They described the substance to a meeting of the Imperial Institute of France.[24] On December 6, Gay-Lussac announced that the new substance was either an element or a compound of oxygen.[25][26][27] It was Gay-Lussac who suggested the name “iode”, from the Greek word ιώδες (iodes) for violet (because of the color of iodine vapor).[22][25] Ampère had given some of his sample to English chemist Humphry Davy (1778–1829). Davy did some experiments on the substance and noted its similarity to chlorine.[28] Davy sent a letter dated December 10 to the Royal Society of London stating that he had identified a new element.[29] Arguments erupted between Davy and Gay-Lussac over who identified iodine first, but both scientists acknowledged Courtois as the first to isolate the element.
More Wiki Iodine Information Here
Check Out Iodine’s Role In Biology – Wiki
Iodine is an essential trace element for life, the heaviest element commonly needed by living organisms, and the second-heaviest known to be used by any form of life (only tungsten, a component of a few bacterial enzymes, has a higher atomic number and atomic weight).
Iodine’s main role in animal biology is as a constituent of the thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). These are made from addition condensation products of the amino acid tyrosine, and are stored prior to release in an iodine-containing protein called thyroglobulin. T4 and T3 contain four and three atoms of iodine per molecule, respectively. The thyroid gland actively absorbs iodide from the blood to make and release these hormones into the blood, actions that are regulated by a second hormone TSH from the pituitary. Thyroid hormones are phylogenetically very old molecules that are synthesized by most multicellular organisms, and that even have some effect on unicellular organisms.
Thyroid hormones play a basic role in biology, acting on gene transcription to regulate the basal metabolic rate.[citation needed] Total deficiency of thyroid hormones can reduce basal metabolic rate up to 50%. Excessive production of thyroid hormones can increase the basal metabolic rate by 100%.[citation needed] T4 acts largely as a precursor to T3, which is (with minor exceptions) the biologically active hormone. In amphibian metamorphosis iodine and thyroid hormones exert a well-studied experimental model of apoptosis on the cells of gills, tail, and fins of tadpoles.[38]
Iodine has a nutritional relationship with selenium. A family of selenium-dependent enzymes called deiodinases converts T4 to T3 (the active hormone) by removing an iodine atom from the outer tyrosine ring. These enzymes also convert T4 to reverse T3 (rT3) by removing an inner ring iodine atom, and convert T3 to 3,3′-diiodothyronine (T2) also by removing an inner ring atom. Both of the latter are inactivated hormones that are ready for disposal and have, in essence, no biological effects. A family of non-selenium-dependent enzymes then further deiodinates the products of these reactions.
Iodine accounts for 65% of the molecular weight of T4 and 59% of the T3. Fifteen to 20 mg of iodine is concentrated in thyroid tissue and hormones, but 70% of the body’s iodine is distributed in other tissues, including mammary glands, eyes, gastric mucosa, fetal thymus, cerebro-spinal fluid and coroid plexus, arterial walls, the cervix, and salivary glands. In the cells of these tissues, iodide enters directly by sodium-iodide symporter (NIS). Its role in mammary tissue is related to fetal and neonatal development, but its role in the other tissues is partially unknown.[39]
More Wiki info here
Benefits of And History Iodine Supplementation
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