Coolie said:
I just hope that when this thread is dead and buried it doesn't encourage people who find it in the future to simply take liquid Iodine which is poisonous. Although I'm sure the posters above mean well, it's not clear they are talking about specially formulated supplements, so this is for health and safety.
This statement is PATENTLY FALSE. Misleading statements like this scare people off of what is a safe, essential, and effective mineral. I'm sure @
Coolie "means well" (that is, he's not being deliberately misleading) when he says this, but in reality he's the one who doesn't know what he's talking about. Buying into mainstream dogma about alternative therapies never did anyone any favors, let alone people on this board.
That said, as noted above, iodine can make people sick if they don't approach it right. It made me sick until I detoxed properly. It's very important to start low and go slow with iodine, and to educate yourself and research how to ameliorate symptoms. Anyone trying iodine may (like me) also need to detox and back off before trying again if there is a bad reaction. Iodine stirs up other metals/minerals in the body (mercury, bromide, fluoride, etc.) so when these become liberated from tissues and begin circulating in the bloodstream before being excreted by various routes of elimination, a person can get very ill. Some small segment of the population may be too full of these toxins to ever use iodine...it may not possible for them to detox enough to ever tolerate it. Side effects from taking iodine can be bad. But again, it's not the iodine that's poison...it's the stuff iodine is mobilizing in the body that is causing the problem.
In fact, rather than poison, iodine is an essential mineral that
we fall ill and die when we don't get enough of it.
Also, iodine is one of the best protectors against radioactivity, especially protecting our delicate thyroids.
It's such poison that the U.S. Federal government wants to have 14 million doses ready to go in case of emergency
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportu...35272c80ad292aeb9d1ba7&tab=core&tabmode=list&
If iodine were poison I'd probably be dead, as I was taking 100mg/day of super-super saturated iodine (20mg/drop) for nearly a year. But instead of dying, it just made me feel better. After I detoxed, I experienced nothing but good from iodine. I'm still taking it every day, although at a much reduced dosage. I reduced the dose because the large dose, while not harming me, wasn't doing what I wanted it to do (I was using it for a specific health condition), so it was a useless expense to keep the dose that high.
Further, the health improvements I've experienced in the last 4-5 years started precisely when I began exploring how to use iodine. Recovering my health has been an ongoing journey, with many different supplements and therapies playing a valuable part. Iodine was my starting point and still is a foundational supplement for me.
Some "poison", huh?
P.S. I've never used any special type or formulation of iodine. Just your garden variety stuff that anyone can buy over the counter. Right now I'm using Lugol's 5% liquid or the same potassium iodide tabs the government ordered in the link above, which are available to everyone, without prescription. The liquid has the added advantage of being able to use it to disinfect any cuts I get. I pop a few drops in my juice and one on my cut. Bada-bing! Instant health!
Is that "clear" enough?