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Tammy: No, I meant MILLIGRAM. I was taking
100 MG of iodine per day for nearly a year (maybe over a year, can't exactly remember now) and obviously, I DID NOT DIE. After I chelated and detoxed, I had nothing but GOOD EFFECTS FROM IODINE. I've heard a lot of stories like mine. Iodine is frequently used to cure painful fibroids in the breast, and there is some evidence it can work for uterine fibroids. Uterine fibroids is why I was taking the gigantic dosage. It helped but didn't cure, so I cut back the gigantic dosage when I seemed to have reached a peak efficacy for that problem. Iodine kills bacteria, so too much for too long can have an effect on the gut. That's another reason I cut back.
Yes, iodine solution can be caustic. That 20mg/drop solution I used to use will burn your skin and should not be used as a topical. But if you take a few drops in a capsule, with a glass of water, it's fine. Further, Lugol's in the lower concentrations (5% or 2%) has been used for decades to disinfect cuts and scrapes. When I was a kid Lugol's was the go-to for disinfection. It burned like all hell so we were all glad when Bactine came out and became the norm for disinfecting our skinned knees and stubbed toes, but nobody every died from putting iodine on an open wound (even if they might pass out from the pain
). Quite the opposite, in fact. It prevented a lot of infection and blood poisoning.
I do agree with you that buying iodine from a random seller on ebay is probably not a good idea. But good liquid iodine from a reputable seller (J. Crow is my current favorite) or tablets branded as Iodoral is just fine. It's also fine to put the same high-quality Lugol's solution on your cuts that you ingest as a nutritional supplement. Human race has a long history of eating the same things they use for medicine. Garlic and alcohol are both good cases in point.
As noted above (and I can't stress this enough) most people have too many other metals and toxins in their body to have a good reaction with iodine right off the bat. This is why mainstream is so down on it now. People take it, get sick, and blame the iodine. But it's not the iodine. It's the other stuff stored in tissues that iodine stirs up and helps mobilize for excretion, like bromide and mercury. The worse your reaction, the larger your toxin load. I had a pretty bad reaction when I first tried it, and had to chelate and do a very clean diet for several months before I was able to tolerate it. But once I was able to take it, I noticed benefits almost immediately. And again, all my thyroid hormone values improved.
Iodine is necessary for us to be healthy. The RDA for iodine is only what's necessary to prevent goiter or death. RDA says nothing about how much we need for optimal health. Because of all the seaweed they eat, Japanese people on a traditional ethnic Japanese diet regularly take in *at least* 12.5 mg/day of iodine, and some communities have been studied and found to take in much more, closer to or exceeding my gigantic dosage. Japanese on an ethnic diet are also much healthier than Americans. IMO that's pretty good evidence that iodine is not "poison".
Interestingly, you pretty much can't get Lugol's/iodine in drugstores any more. You can get iodine's cousin, betadine, but that stuff IS poisonous and should not be taken internally. Even though betadine and iodine are about the same color, and can both be used for disinfection, they are vastly different substances and shouldn't be confused.
Also worth noting is that mainstream believes a lot of the same things about iodine that they believe about folate, methylcobalamin, and other things that we know around PR to be very safe and effective. But a lot of people get sick and have reactions to folate, mB12, LCF, etc., when they first start taking them. They can get extreme potassium deficiency which can really harm them. There is a period of detox and tweaking the regimen with other necessary nutrients, and then many find they can take them and feel better for it. This is pretty much the case with iodine. But mainstream would have us believe that the first reaction means these things are bad for us. That's not the case.
Bottom line is that iodine is NOT the scary beast mainstream medical establishment has made it out to be. But if everyone wants to buy into that, it's fine with me. If you don't want to take iodine, or don't want to take it beyond a certain dose, please don't. I'm not exhorting *anyone* who doesn't want to take iodine to start doing it.
But I hope no one expects me me not to share my own experience with iodine just because they happen to think it's "poison". I don't share that belief, and that ain't gonna happen.