Question, as I don't understand: I found three safety data sheets on iodine from three different sources. All three list health hazards from iodine (like inhaled, ingested etc).
How come safety data sheets say iodine is problematic and the article suggests to take iodine to improve health?
"The adrenal glands and thyroid talk to each other all day long (aka the adrenal-thyroid connection). When you experience prolonged, or chronic stress, your adrenals tell your body to conserve energy. This primal function shifts energy away from metabolism, sex drive, and reproduction and towards fight-or-flight functions such as maintaining an adequate heart rate and pumping blood to your brain and muscles. The cortisol produced by your adrenal glands also diverts energy away from your thyroid, which over time can cause the thyroid gland to malfunction.Prolonged or chronic stress can lead to HPA dysfunction." Source: https://drjennarayachoti.com/blog/the-adrenalthyroid-connection-understanding-the-impacts-of-stress-on-your-thyroid-function#:~:text=The%20cortisol%20produced%20by%20your,can%20lead%20to%20HPA%20dysfunction.
Prolonged stress has been instituted with the SALT RESTRICTION directives.
I link the adrenals with low salt/hyponatremia/dehydration. The adrenals manage all emergencies. Dehydration or hyponatremia is an emergency.
Chronic dehydration leads to chronic adrenal management or adrenal fatigue. This is labelled chronic fatigue. SALT turns off the RAAS because salt brings hydration. This allows the adrenals to rest and recoup.
Chronic dehydration brings chronic adrenal management, and this brings stress intolerance, anxiety and panic attacks. Mole hills become mountains. The FIGHT/FLIGHT/FREEZE response prevents critical thinking. Making people very easy to manipulate using emotional triggers.
Our physiology is underpinned by hydration not oxygenation.
Hydration equals SALT plus water.
The salt restriction directives have caused the massive increase in chronic dis-ease.
The body is robust and can heal when hydrated.
Dehydration is our achilles heel.
Salt turns out to be the elixir of life.
We just need to get salty.
read my article: How does salt restriction lead to heart dis-ease and fear based reactionary thinking?
You have no idea how much a lifesaver this is. I’ve always had symptoms of low thyroid however, my blood work says it’s in normal range. I always felt it wasn’t. Cold feet, tired, sluggish, hair loss, difficult to get a little bit of weight off even though my meal planning is phenomenal and I exercise. And I’ve just started the menopausal transition….. my period is getting farther and farther apart so it’s very clear. It’s coming around the corner which is expected at my age being close to 60.
So I took the standard 150 µg a day and nothing really changed.
Then introduce my most recent diagnosis of sleep apnea. Literally 2 days ago.
Sleep apnea affects menopausal women anywhere between 62 and 78%. And it’s also also well known that low thyroid is a common problem with menopause.
So I’ve just ordered my solution because obviously I don’t wanna go down the allopathic route. I don’t have anything in my physical presentation that would , include me to sleep apnea, other than the fact that I am menopausal
So my question is… Knowing that the optimal dosing range between 50 mg to 100 mg a day… And I’m just starting out… What is the sliding scale and increasing the dose?
Should I start out with 15 mg a day for two weeks? And then bump up to 20? And do that for several more weeks?
I don’t want to overload my body, but I also want to make sure that I’ve got the right dosing schedule to get me to the targeted dose that I need.
Of course, I’ve got follow up appointments with the pulmonologist, ENT, another sleep study, yet I already know it’s because of the thyroid. Those appointments aren’t for a few more weeks so hopefully by then I can get myself up in a range where I can actually see on the test I’m improving. It was quite spooky because I was having seven wake ups for hour with an oxygen saturation rate of 70% during the episode, which is not good
There are different approaches used by different doctors when it comes to taking iodine. Some recommend taking all of the associated nutrients for a period before adding or increasing iodine intake. Others just say to start out with a low amount (e.g. 1 drop of 2% Lugol’s (2.5mg)) and slowly increase the amount along with the associated nutrients. The detoxing effects vary widely from person to person, but the salt loading will help a lot with this. If you have Hashimoto’s you’ll probably need to up your intake of iodine to get the antioxidant effect, or the fallout will be very uncomfortable.
The iodine saturation process is very individual due to the fact that each individual has different levels of toxins scattered throughout their body that will be kicked loose, and iodine saturation after a long deficiency will start up stepping metabolic and hormonal functions that have been reduced to varying degrees due to deficiency,
It’s a very individual process going through iodine saturation.
I’m not a fan of Facebook, but it’s got a good Iodine group that’s been there for awhile.
Thank you so much, Tim for putting this here! I appreciate you taking the time to fret that out into post it for me. As I’m not on Facebook, the only “social media” I have Substack and Telegram :-)
I forgot to add a did a research of sleep apnea with thyroid… And it’s very clear that low thyroid/underactive thyroid is one of the main causes of sleep apnea!
@terratimes: you may want to consider doing another article about sleep apnea and the link to low thyroid/underactive thyroid. Sleep apnea effect so many people, as you can see from the data above? It affects nearly 75% of women when they are menopausal.
Good call. Iodine deficiency is connected to a vast number of symptoms that the medical cartel can slap a label on and make a fortune off associated drugs, devices, and ‘treatments’. This suppression of information has been a real cash cow for these parasites. Hundreds of millions suffer and die as a result of this criminal activity. And they have the gall to call it ‘Health Care’.
Exactly! And countless of people will suffer. I know of so many women who are suffering in menopause who cannot sleep, and have sleep apnea. And based on the data I read yesterday, 40% of people have sleep apnea have an under active thyroid. And that’s just an under active thyroid! Which means it’s on the lower end of the scale of your blood test, however, it’s not treated. Which never made sense to me because when you have symptoms there should be treatment! Tons of women walking around like zombies not feeling well, not able to lose weight, creasing their cardiovascular risk well because her doctors aren’t listening to them when they say they’re tired, their feet are cold, their hair is getting brittle. Most doctors don’t even look for sleep apnea and menopausal women. And I bet you 1 million bucks most doctor don’t make the link between sleep apnea, under active thyroid need to drastically increase the iodine.
Since iodine is critical for human life to continue, an allergic reaction is a myth. Iodine is an element and is essential for protein synthesis and thyroid hormone development.
Iodine cannot stimulate the immune system and cannot be an allergen. When patients react to iodine-containing products, it is not the iodine, but other parts of the substances that cause reactions. For example, skin irritation from povidone-iodine, is caused by a separate chemical in the solution, such as the povidone or a dye.
Also, misdiagnosed ‘allergic’ symptoms can be a result of heavy bromine detox caused by iodine displacing other halogens.
Thanks so much for posting this article. I've had hypo pretty much all my life, thanks in part to mercury amalgams and one stint involving a quack doctor who's idea of getting rid of acne was irradiating the face (and not covering the neck!) Just have 2 or 3 more amalgams to remove. Anyhoo, I've been supplementing with Lugol's (2 drops so far) and lowered my Levo from 100mcg to 50mcg. Am thinking about using Castor Oil either directly on the little goiter I have or using it the classic way with a pad on the liver. Need to use more selenium and magnesium to round things out. Overall, feel pretty good. Also have Hashi's as well and am managing that as best I can. Also do meditation as much as possible (per Dr. Joe Dispenza) and that seems to help, too.
I’ve been taking 75-100 mg iodine daily since last fall. I battle Hashimotos and RA, among other things. Three months ago, I was able to gradually step down my Armour Thyroid dosages from 90 mg, then 60, then 45, then 22, with no ill effects yet. I’m completely off it now, and have been for two weeks, but I will test in the next one and two months to see what my TSA levels are at.
I also take 400 mg selenium daily with it; 200 mg each morning and evening.
One thing I have also tried, is I combined lugol’s iodine tincture with DMSO, 50/50, and I spread that over my throat—my thyroid and lymph nodes—every morning after my shower, for direct absorption. In the evening, I spread Biofreeze with birch oil stirred into it (birch oil is an anti-inflammatory that both cools, and stinks, like wintergreen—how I hate the smell of wintergreen!) over my thyroid, to address the inflammation. I also run this biofreeze blend onto my hands to relieve the RA pain so I can sleep.
If you are unfamiliar with DMSO, it is a potent anti-inflammatory that needs to be diluted, and it must go on very clean skin. It will pull toxins right in to your bloodstream otherwise.
Also, thank you for this because you’ve demonstrating your own experience when we actually address our nutritional needs, we can get off of our medication’s.
I’m in the process of doing the same as well… I had a very stressful period. Period. Where I had high blood pressure and I was put on an ace inhibitor. And then I started reading what they do, and apparently, their potassium sparing! So their whole role is to increase your potassium levels… And I looked at my diet and realized I didn’t have enough.
So I increase my potassium to 3000 mg per day, although the recommendation is 4700 and for me that’s a lot of food… And I was able to cut my ace inhibitor in half! Now on the lowest dose.
And now I start feeling more tired and worn down, because I am pretty knee-deep in menopause… Which means I’ve increased my protein intake which means I need to increase water… And then realize I was tired because I didn’t have enough sodium on board. Because my diet is pretty clean, I don’t eat processed foods, I live mostly off of nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables, meats, butter, yogurt, SKYR… And there’s not a lot of sodium in that.
So then I added sodium and I’m feeling better! And then I realize I forgot to take vitamin C as I take collagen, I was starting to have more muscle cramps, so I got back on the vitamin C in my gosh I feel so much better.
So the muscle cramps, muscle pains are gone. Blood pressure is in really good control. Still feeling tired… And it was an absolute blessing to see this article because I realized that I’m not taking an iodine. Because menopause affects the thyroid
So thank you all not only for these articles but also for your comments because I’m learning so much
I’m sorry to hear what a rough road you have been on—can certainly relate! —but I am ELATED to read how far you have come, rebuilding your body and your life, as you learn about, and respond to, your design with honor. My prayers are that you would take back everything that is *rightfully yours*—you did the hard work to learn it and work it out— for your own body.
Thank you for this! My energy levels have had a complete dip as I’m transitioning deeper into menopause… I haven’t taken selenium and God knows how long, and I’ve only been taking that ridiculous 150 µg of iodine. So I’m gonna order some of those drops and kick it up and notch.
Thank you very much for the article; I learned a lot. Time to start 'working' with iodine...I remember when I was a little girl, as soon as we used to reach the beach of the Baltic Sea my Grandmother would tell me, 'Kiddo, take deep long breaths, relax...take in iodine'...Oh, Grandma...
So it follows that a larger than prescribed dose of iodine daily will help the body to eliminate the bacterial & fungal parts of the bio tech we are all harbouring... This would make perfect sense for the reasoning behind making it an unpopular mainstream supplement!
I started taking Detoxadine iodine supplement a few months ago.
Try boron solution as well. One teaspoon of borax in 1l of distilled water. Have one teaspoon of solution daily, then twice daily. Antifungal, kick the flouride out
This is so interesting. Honestly tldnr but saved link because what a reference.
Finally found an iodine supplement I like and benefit from as general sense of well being.
Surprised and dismayed it is not talked about more. But, what can I say. Seeking wellness is a lifelong journey.
Good information is not only time consuming to find. But learning to connect with one’s body is where it has to begin.
So true.
Question, as I don't understand: I found three safety data sheets on iodine from three different sources. All three list health hazards from iodine (like inhaled, ingested etc).
How come safety data sheets say iodine is problematic and the article suggests to take iodine to improve health?
Please, help me understand. Thanks
You need to help yourself to understand by doing your own research on iodine. If you’re not comfortable taking it, don’t take it. Cheers
Fascinating!
https://ninelife.ie/products/nascent-iodine-2-strength-1oz-pure-by-ancient-minerals?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjNS3BhChARIsAOxBM6oFlo1b7ysEdVCKYoWSzM0w41hpDo74zjxSkCl3I6xMM5IeyaCGpNcaAkrdEALw_wcB
Yes!! It isn’t just about the thyroid!!!! Agree!!!
Hi Terra
You may like this excerpt:
"The adrenal glands and thyroid talk to each other all day long (aka the adrenal-thyroid connection). When you experience prolonged, or chronic stress, your adrenals tell your body to conserve energy. This primal function shifts energy away from metabolism, sex drive, and reproduction and towards fight-or-flight functions such as maintaining an adequate heart rate and pumping blood to your brain and muscles. The cortisol produced by your adrenal glands also diverts energy away from your thyroid, which over time can cause the thyroid gland to malfunction.Prolonged or chronic stress can lead to HPA dysfunction." Source: https://drjennarayachoti.com/blog/the-adrenalthyroid-connection-understanding-the-impacts-of-stress-on-your-thyroid-function#:~:text=The%20cortisol%20produced%20by%20your,can%20lead%20to%20HPA%20dysfunction.
Prolonged stress has been instituted with the SALT RESTRICTION directives.
I link the adrenals with low salt/hyponatremia/dehydration. The adrenals manage all emergencies. Dehydration or hyponatremia is an emergency.
Chronic dehydration leads to chronic adrenal management or adrenal fatigue. This is labelled chronic fatigue. SALT turns off the RAAS because salt brings hydration. This allows the adrenals to rest and recoup.
Chronic dehydration brings chronic adrenal management, and this brings stress intolerance, anxiety and panic attacks. Mole hills become mountains. The FIGHT/FLIGHT/FREEZE response prevents critical thinking. Making people very easy to manipulate using emotional triggers.
Our physiology is underpinned by hydration not oxygenation.
Hydration equals SALT plus water.
The salt restriction directives have caused the massive increase in chronic dis-ease.
The body is robust and can heal when hydrated.
Dehydration is our achilles heel.
Salt turns out to be the elixir of life.
We just need to get salty.
read my article: How does salt restriction lead to heart dis-ease and fear based reactionary thinking?
by clicking on my blue icon.
You have no idea how much a lifesaver this is. I’ve always had symptoms of low thyroid however, my blood work says it’s in normal range. I always felt it wasn’t. Cold feet, tired, sluggish, hair loss, difficult to get a little bit of weight off even though my meal planning is phenomenal and I exercise. And I’ve just started the menopausal transition….. my period is getting farther and farther apart so it’s very clear. It’s coming around the corner which is expected at my age being close to 60.
So I took the standard 150 µg a day and nothing really changed.
Then introduce my most recent diagnosis of sleep apnea. Literally 2 days ago.
Sleep apnea affects menopausal women anywhere between 62 and 78%. And it’s also also well known that low thyroid is a common problem with menopause.
So I’ve just ordered my solution because obviously I don’t wanna go down the allopathic route. I don’t have anything in my physical presentation that would , include me to sleep apnea, other than the fact that I am menopausal
So my question is… Knowing that the optimal dosing range between 50 mg to 100 mg a day… And I’m just starting out… What is the sliding scale and increasing the dose?
Should I start out with 15 mg a day for two weeks? And then bump up to 20? And do that for several more weeks?
I don’t want to overload my body, but I also want to make sure that I’ve got the right dosing schedule to get me to the targeted dose that I need.
Of course, I’ve got follow up appointments with the pulmonologist, ENT, another sleep study, yet I already know it’s because of the thyroid. Those appointments aren’t for a few more weeks so hopefully by then I can get myself up in a range where I can actually see on the test I’m improving. It was quite spooky because I was having seven wake ups for hour with an oxygen saturation rate of 70% during the episode, which is not good
There are different approaches used by different doctors when it comes to taking iodine. Some recommend taking all of the associated nutrients for a period before adding or increasing iodine intake. Others just say to start out with a low amount (e.g. 1 drop of 2% Lugol’s (2.5mg)) and slowly increase the amount along with the associated nutrients. The detoxing effects vary widely from person to person, but the salt loading will help a lot with this. If you have Hashimoto’s you’ll probably need to up your intake of iodine to get the antioxidant effect, or the fallout will be very uncomfortable.
The iodine saturation process is very individual due to the fact that each individual has different levels of toxins scattered throughout their body that will be kicked loose, and iodine saturation after a long deficiency will start up stepping metabolic and hormonal functions that have been reduced to varying degrees due to deficiency,
It’s a very individual process going through iodine saturation.
I’m not a fan of Facebook, but it’s got a good Iodine group that’s been there for awhile.
Here’s a link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/684447178316701
Here’s the protocol recommended by the group leader:
The Iodine Protocol
50mg Iodoral or Lugol’s solution(may start with 12.5mg)
Iodoral is easier on the stomach (tablet form)
3000-5000mg of Vitamin C (more may be needed to detox Bromine)
This should be spread out throughout the day
Some people take as much as 10,000mg a day although that is not common
This should not be taken directly with Iodine as they are known to react and the iodine becomes “cancelled out”
300-600mg magnesium (glycinate, citrate are recommended by the community, however I prefer taurate as it crosses the Blood brain barrier more readily)
200-400mcg selenium (selenomethionine is preferred by many)
This one is the most "finicky" and you may benefit from selenium testing prior to starting The Protocol
500mg Niacin (B3) twice a day (NOT niacinamide). Start lower to avoid flush
100mg B2 three times a day.
½ teaspoon of unprocessed salt (I prefer Celtic Salt) added to diet. (can be used twice a day)
Helps with Bromine detox
Cheers
Tim
By the way, I ordered my LUGOLS iodine last night I am so excited I can’t stand it. It should be here in three days!
Thank you so much, Tim for putting this here! I appreciate you taking the time to fret that out into post it for me. As I’m not on Facebook, the only “social media” I have Substack and Telegram :-)
I forgot to add a did a research of sleep apnea with thyroid… And it’s very clear that low thyroid/underactive thyroid is one of the main causes of sleep apnea!
@terratimes: you may want to consider doing another article about sleep apnea and the link to low thyroid/underactive thyroid. Sleep apnea effect so many people, as you can see from the data above? It affects nearly 75% of women when they are menopausal.
Good call. Iodine deficiency is connected to a vast number of symptoms that the medical cartel can slap a label on and make a fortune off associated drugs, devices, and ‘treatments’. This suppression of information has been a real cash cow for these parasites. Hundreds of millions suffer and die as a result of this criminal activity. And they have the gall to call it ‘Health Care’.
Exactly! And countless of people will suffer. I know of so many women who are suffering in menopause who cannot sleep, and have sleep apnea. And based on the data I read yesterday, 40% of people have sleep apnea have an under active thyroid. And that’s just an under active thyroid! Which means it’s on the lower end of the scale of your blood test, however, it’s not treated. Which never made sense to me because when you have symptoms there should be treatment! Tons of women walking around like zombies not feeling well, not able to lose weight, creasing their cardiovascular risk well because her doctors aren’t listening to them when they say they’re tired, their feet are cold, their hair is getting brittle. Most doctors don’t even look for sleep apnea and menopausal women. And I bet you 1 million bucks most doctor don’t make the link between sleep apnea, under active thyroid need to drastically increase the iodine.
There has been a war on the thyroid for lots of decades now.
We have stopped consuming sea salt and use manufactured salt .
Sea salt has iodine and minerals that our body needs .
If you drink water, put pinch of sea salt which hydrates you better.
All well & good but what if you're allergic to iodine?
Since iodine is critical for human life to continue, an allergic reaction is a myth. Iodine is an element and is essential for protein synthesis and thyroid hormone development.
Iodine cannot stimulate the immune system and cannot be an allergen. When patients react to iodine-containing products, it is not the iodine, but other parts of the substances that cause reactions. For example, skin irritation from povidone-iodine, is caused by a separate chemical in the solution, such as the povidone or a dye.
Also, misdiagnosed ‘allergic’ symptoms can be a result of heavy bromine detox caused by iodine displacing other halogens.
Thanks so much for posting this article. I've had hypo pretty much all my life, thanks in part to mercury amalgams and one stint involving a quack doctor who's idea of getting rid of acne was irradiating the face (and not covering the neck!) Just have 2 or 3 more amalgams to remove. Anyhoo, I've been supplementing with Lugol's (2 drops so far) and lowered my Levo from 100mcg to 50mcg. Am thinking about using Castor Oil either directly on the little goiter I have or using it the classic way with a pad on the liver. Need to use more selenium and magnesium to round things out. Overall, feel pretty good. Also have Hashi's as well and am managing that as best I can. Also do meditation as much as possible (per Dr. Joe Dispenza) and that seems to help, too.
Thank you TT for the most detailed and complete discourse on Iodine short of a Dr. David Brownstein book.
I knew a good deal of what you covered, but learned much also concerning this health protective vital mineral from this essay of yours.
Godspede.
I’ve been taking 75-100 mg iodine daily since last fall. I battle Hashimotos and RA, among other things. Three months ago, I was able to gradually step down my Armour Thyroid dosages from 90 mg, then 60, then 45, then 22, with no ill effects yet. I’m completely off it now, and have been for two weeks, but I will test in the next one and two months to see what my TSA levels are at.
I also take 400 mg selenium daily with it; 200 mg each morning and evening.
One thing I have also tried, is I combined lugol’s iodine tincture with DMSO, 50/50, and I spread that over my throat—my thyroid and lymph nodes—every morning after my shower, for direct absorption. In the evening, I spread Biofreeze with birch oil stirred into it (birch oil is an anti-inflammatory that both cools, and stinks, like wintergreen—how I hate the smell of wintergreen!) over my thyroid, to address the inflammation. I also run this biofreeze blend onto my hands to relieve the RA pain so I can sleep.
If you are unfamiliar with DMSO, it is a potent anti-inflammatory that needs to be diluted, and it must go on very clean skin. It will pull toxins right in to your bloodstream otherwise.
Also, thank you for this because you’ve demonstrating your own experience when we actually address our nutritional needs, we can get off of our medication’s.
I’m in the process of doing the same as well… I had a very stressful period. Period. Where I had high blood pressure and I was put on an ace inhibitor. And then I started reading what they do, and apparently, their potassium sparing! So their whole role is to increase your potassium levels… And I looked at my diet and realized I didn’t have enough.
So I increase my potassium to 3000 mg per day, although the recommendation is 4700 and for me that’s a lot of food… And I was able to cut my ace inhibitor in half! Now on the lowest dose.
And now I start feeling more tired and worn down, because I am pretty knee-deep in menopause… Which means I’ve increased my protein intake which means I need to increase water… And then realize I was tired because I didn’t have enough sodium on board. Because my diet is pretty clean, I don’t eat processed foods, I live mostly off of nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables, meats, butter, yogurt, SKYR… And there’s not a lot of sodium in that.
So then I added sodium and I’m feeling better! And then I realize I forgot to take vitamin C as I take collagen, I was starting to have more muscle cramps, so I got back on the vitamin C in my gosh I feel so much better.
So the muscle cramps, muscle pains are gone. Blood pressure is in really good control. Still feeling tired… And it was an absolute blessing to see this article because I realized that I’m not taking an iodine. Because menopause affects the thyroid
So thank you all not only for these articles but also for your comments because I’m learning so much
I’m sorry to hear what a rough road you have been on—can certainly relate! —but I am ELATED to read how far you have come, rebuilding your body and your life, as you learn about, and respond to, your design with honor. My prayers are that you would take back everything that is *rightfully yours*—you did the hard work to learn it and work it out— for your own body.
My best to you ❤️
Thank you for this! My energy levels have had a complete dip as I’m transitioning deeper into menopause… I haven’t taken selenium and God knows how long, and I’ve only been taking that ridiculous 150 µg of iodine. So I’m gonna order some of those drops and kick it up and notch.
Sorry that should read mcg selenium, not mg!
Thank you very much for the article; I learned a lot. Time to start 'working' with iodine...I remember when I was a little girl, as soon as we used to reach the beach of the Baltic Sea my Grandmother would tell me, 'Kiddo, take deep long breaths, relax...take in iodine'...Oh, Grandma...
Excellent info share. :)
So it follows that a larger than prescribed dose of iodine daily will help the body to eliminate the bacterial & fungal parts of the bio tech we are all harbouring... This would make perfect sense for the reasoning behind making it an unpopular mainstream supplement!
I started taking Detoxadine iodine supplement a few months ago.
Try boron solution as well. One teaspoon of borax in 1l of distilled water. Have one teaspoon of solution daily, then twice daily. Antifungal, kick the flouride out