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Well, hi, everybody. I'm Dr. Group with Global Healing Center. And tonight,
I appreciate you guys coming on and listening to this webinar. We are going
to talk about one of my favorite minerals, which is iodine.
All the stuff that I talk about as far as detoxifying your body, keeping
your body clean, which is great, addressing the root cause of disease.
Reactivating your body's own self-healing mechanism. Normally, when you
look at the amount of toxins that we are exposed to on daily basis through
the air, the water, the food. The list goes on and on.
The chemicals, the heavy metals, the pesticides, the plastics. All of those
are endocrine disruptors. Your thyroid gland is an endocrine gland. And
your thyroid produces hormones and it needs iodine. And when you look at
the amount of chemicals and heavy metals and all of this stuff that's
coming into the body. What happens is that we are severely deficient in
iodine and all these other chemicals, especially the halides which are your
bromine and your fluoride and your chlorine, which were put in the water
supply on purpose to dumb people down in the early 1940s in Germany.
And the chlorine in the water and the bromide in the water, that has a
major effect on the thyroid gland and many other systems in the body. So,
tonight, I want to just share with everybody, my notes that I've been
taking. Some of the research, give everybody a history of iodine. Talk
about what it can do.
I don't like to use the word "problem" at all because I believe everything,
for every situation that's out there, there's always a solution. And maybe
answer some questions. If you have any questions, just type them in and
hopefully I can get to it. But we will be republishing this webinar,
there's going to be a lot of good information on here. So, hopefully,
you'll be able to learn a lot and be able to share a lot as well.
In its natural form, really, iodine is just a gas and it's an element. And
like I said, it's in the periodic table with the halogens, which are
bromine, fluorine and chlorine. And it's a very important trace element
that's required by many parts of our body. People just associate iodine
with the thyroid gland, but really, iodine is utilized by every single cell
in the body. And it's important to get the right type and the proper type
of iodine into your cells.
So, how was iodine developed or how was it discovered? It was actually
discovered in 1811. And it was discovered by a scientist who was
experimenting with seaweed and he was burning the ash and he actually
developed iodine. So, it hasn't even been around that long.
And then, in 1829, there was a French physician, Dr. Lugol, who created
Lugol's solution and anybody that knows about iodine out there knows and
is familiar with Lugol's solution. And when he discovered iodine, he
discovered that bonding it to a potassium molecule made it water-soluble
and it actually unlocked its antiseptic qualities and kind of stabilized
it. And that's why Lugol's solution is potassium iodide.
Around 1860, there was a Swiss physician that found that iodine could be
used to treat goiter. What was happening back in the 1800s, a goiter is
nothing more than a cyst that grows on your thyroid gland. And that was a
very big discovery back in the 1960s. Because later, I'm going to tell you
about our own research in the United States with the goiter belt that was
up around Ohio and Michigan and stuff like that. Where people were
deficient in iodine and everybody was coming down with goiters.
So, like I said, in 1860, he was the one that discovered that it could be
used which led to multiple discoveries or links that iodine is a very
important trace mineral and it can cause major problems in the body if
you're deficient.
In 1924, which really is not that long ago, iodized salt became available
in the U.S. as a means to treat goiter. Because they found that there was
so many goiters along that western belt; Ohio, Michigan and everything like
that. And they actually did a study and they took a group of girls and gave
them potassium iodide and they took another group of girls and didn't give
them anything. And the ones they gave the iodine to, the goiters went away.
So, at that time, the U.S. decided that we needed to add iodine into salt
and make it iodized. So, that was a great discovery, although it was
refined salt, which I highly disagree with. I believe in using a Celtic
salt or my favorite, which is Himalayan crystal salt, which contains all of
the minerals and the nutrients and everything that you need on a daily
basis. And it even contains trace amounts of iodine.
So, what happened, though, later on, is because of heart disease, which is
also initiated with all the chemicals and fluorides and everything else in
the body and the toxic livers and the toxins coming in from all over the
place, everybody started thinking that salt was the main cause of heart
disease. So, at that point, they recommend people don't eat salt. And to
this day, when you have heart disease and you go to the doctor, they're
still going to recommend you don't eat salt.
So, that caused, again, an iodine deficiency at that time. And so, they
actually took the iodine and to this day, a lot of salt doesn't even have
added in it anymore.
Then, kind of another discovery which happened in 1997 was when Dr. Ghent
reported that he saw benefits of iodine with fibrocystic breast disease.
Now, if you notice, it's fibrocystic breast disease because any iodine
deficiency is going to cause a cystic disease somewhere. The iodine is up
taken in the body in every cell, but usually, you see the reproductive
organs. Polycystic ovarian disease, fibrocystic breast disease.
The *** take up a tremendous amount of iodine. The uterus, all the
glandular systems. And not only that, iodine is needed by the immune system
because the white blood cells need iodine to fight infection. So, it's not
only associating iodine with the thyroid, but more or less, associating it
with every single cell in the body. And we're all familiar with metabolism
and how if your metabolism is slow, then you're going to have a really hard
time losing weight and burning fat. Or if your metabolism is fast, you're
going to burn fat a lot faster.
Well, when you look at that, you want to understand a little bit more about
the thyroid. So, a lot of people always say "What is the thyroid," you
know? The thyroid, if you look up here in your neck, right at the base of
your neck is a small gland. And that produces metabolic hormones. These
hormones are what controls your energy levels.
The thyroid is controlled by your pituitary gland. Your pituitary gland
also regulates hormone, testosterone, growth hormone, DHEA. Your pituitary
gland is a major gland, just like your pineal gland is. And also, those
glands are affected with specific antagonists or chlorine, fluoride.
Fluoride, especially, which calcifies the pineal gland and also prevents
iodine from being absorbed into the actual thyroid gland.
But the pituitary gland actually releases thyroid-stimulating hormone,
which is TSH. And that tells the thyroid gland to produce thyroxine, which
is T4 or T3. And that's just thyroid hormone with four iodine molecules or
thyroid hormone with three iodine molecules. So, iodine is the base
molecule of thyroid hormone and the thyroid needs iodine to produce it.
But what happens is nowadays, with so much hypothyroidism going around and
people are diagnosed with hypothyroid. They're put on Synthroid, etc.
Synthroid is basically T4. And Synthroid T4 is inactive. When it's
released, it's inactive. Actually 80 percent of the T4 is activated by the
liver, the gallbladder, the bile ducts and actually the kidney itself.
That's why it's necessary for the liver and gallbladder to be functioning
properly.
Because if you're on Synthroid and you can't covert that T4 and you can't
activate that T4 because your liver is congested, it's fatty or your
gallbladder is gone or your gallbladder is congested or you have
gallstones, the bile ducts are messed up. Then, it's going to be hard for
you to activate that T4. And you might think you're doing good; you might
think that you're taking this Synthroid and everything else and you're
still not getting results.
Like I said, 80 percent is going to be converted in the liver, in the
gallbladder and the bile ducts. And then, you have 20 percent of your T4
that's going to be converted in the kidneys.
Now, a lot of times, people are deficient in salt, too. Because, really,
the body is made of 80 percent, 90 percent water. All living substances are
composed of 80 to 90 percent water. And really, the inside of our body is
nothing more than salt water.
So, if your kidneys aren't working properly and you have a real acidic pH
and you're having problem, then you might also have a problem converting or
utilizing that T4 and get that conversion in the kidneys.
Another mineral that's really important to look at, while I'm thinking
about it, is selenium. Because selenium is also necessary to convert T4 to
T3. So, it's important that you supplement or get enough selenium in your
food. Or if not, if you are taking an iodine supplement to supplement with
selenium.
Iodine is great to take with minerals. You really need a good array of
minerals and pure, clean water when you take iodine. Just like seaweed.
Kelp supplies iodine. And what does kelp grow in? It grows in seawater. So,
it's a perfect example of how nature simulates what's really going on
inside your body.
So, just to talk about some health benefits of iodine. Mental retardation,
low IQ levels is one of the main things in children that you look at. And
mothers need two to three times the amount of iodine during pregnancy. And
this is a huge problem. So, if you know somebody that's pregnant or even
trying to get pregnant, I highly recommend that you put them on a good form
of iodine, because it affects the fetal brain development and it affects
emotional health and many other things.
One of the things I like using iodine for is the fact that it helps
detoxify heavy metals. And it makes water more soluble. It helps eliminate
toxic metals like mercury, lead and then, of course, it also helps
decalcify the pineal of fluoride and it also helps detoxify other metals
and detoxify the built-up fluoride and bromide from the thyroid gland.
So, usually, what's been reported is about 12.5 to 50 milligrams of iodine
will increase the urinary excretion of lead and mercury. And usually, that
happens even within 24 hours. But when you're pulling metals out of the
body, you want to make sure that you're very hydrated. And even when you do
take iodine, initially, you might even go through a healing crisis. And a
healing crisis is just headache and fatigue and everything. Just what your
body starts to slowly eliminate all those toxins.
Another benefit of iodine is it's a co-factor for insulin. So, we're not
talking about curing diabetes or anything like that by giving somebody
insulin, but is something that every diabetic person should take a look at.
And whenever diabetics make good lifestyle changes and get enough iodine,
well, most of the time, their insulin functions better.
Another thing that people really don't know about the benefits of iodine is
the fact that it is a powerful antimicrobial and antiseptic. I personally
take it; I barely ever get sick, but my kids sometimes go to school.
They're around a bunch of vaccinated children, they're always coming down
with something. The conditions over there, the air quality is bad. All of
that stuff.
So, one of the good things about iodine is that it's a great antiseptic and
it was used in the early 1800s and early 1900s for people that any type of
bacterial infection. That was basically their antibiotic is just dosing up
high on iodine.
And to this day, there's no bacteria virus, any type of microorganism that
can survive or adapt to being in an iodine-rich environment. So, it does
help to protect yourself, your immune system from invading microorganisms.
And this another trick that my wife loves to do, is iodine is incredibly
good for anti-aging and the skin. If you just take some good iodine, a
nascent iodine and a glycerin-based. I wouldn't do this with alcohol
because alcohol is very dehydrating to the skin.
But glycerin in itself, vegetable glycerin. I'm not talking about animal
products, but a good USP-certified vegetable glycerin with the iodine with
it, like the detoxyadine that we developed. And you take a small amount and
you rub it under your eyes, over here by your crow's feet. You rub it on
your face, any part of your skin.
And it takes a while because your skin is seven layers deep and you're
going to have to slowly start repairing it. But if you do it for a long
period of time, we've seen dramatic results. Even better than the $500
facial toxic chemical-based facial anti-aging creams that are out there,
which are nothing more than plasticizers and everything else. They just
fill in the wrinkles and make you think that you're looking younger, but
it's actually causing cancer because of the toxic chemicals in that and
sunscreens as well.
So, it's great for skincare, I would highly recommend it. Cuts, burns,
stuff like that, it's a great antiseptic. So, you just can't go wrong with
that.
Another benefit of iodine is the fact that it helps to elevate the pH in
the body. Not only myself, but if you're watching this, you know something
about natural medicine. And you've probably searched all over the Web,
you've educated yourself. You know about the acid alkaline balance in the
body. You know that when the body becomes acid, that's when disease starts
to form.
You know that when you eat live, raw, good foods, that your body becomes
alkaline. And that, in an alkaline environment, you're able to resist
disease more. Iodine actually helps raise the pH of the body, which is
another great benefit to it.
Iodine, we touched on it for women's health, but it's extremely important.
Because when I was seeing patients and we have people that call all the
time. Mostly women, because women pay way more attention to their health
most of the time than men do. And it's a humongous problem out there with
the fact that women are suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome, PCOS,
fibrocystic breast disease, fibromyalgia, uterine fibroids. Any type of
these cysts in these fibroids.
The ovaries actually have the second-highest concentration of iodine in a
woman's body. When they're deficient, the cysts form. So, basically, if
there's no iodine in the thyroid; if it's saturated with fluoride, you're
not taking iodine in through the body. Then, the cysts form in the ovaries
and especially around your menstrual cycles. For the ladies that are
listening, if your *** become tender, that's a sign that you have
iodine deficiency.
Cold hands, cold feet, low body temperature. If you're always cold, that's
another sign. Puffiness around the eyes is another sign. A tongue, when
your tongue feels like it's too big for your mouth and you have a problem
talking, that's another sign of iodine deficiency.
Brain fog, low energy in the afternoon, all of these things. We'll go into
some more symptoms that you can look for to see if you have an iodine
deficiency soon.
But breast tissue is also a huge sponge for iodine and iodine is
concentrated in the *** as well. There was an article here that I
wanted to read to everybody. From 1993, it was recommended that women take
3,000 to 4,000 micrograms a day to promote healthy ***.
Now, that's a huge difference considering the fact that the RDA; our
trusted FDA and U.S. government who gets everything right, actually says
that we need 150 micrograms per day of iodine. That is extremely low levels
of iodine.
How they came up with that number was, they looked at when they added
iodine, they made iodized salt. And they looked at the minimum amount of
iodine that would prevent a goiter from forming. And that was 150
micrograms a day.
Personally, now, especially with Fukushima, especially with the chem
trails, especially with all the stuff that's coming down on top of us. The
radiation, iodine, the radiation from Fukushima. The radioactive iodine
131. We need to protect and saturate our thyroid even more.
I usually take 40 milligrams, which would be 40,000 micrograms, which
sounds like an incredibly high number a couple of times a week. But in the
case of a nuclear or exposure to radioactive iodine 131, it's recommended
that people take 120 milligrams a day for six to seven days to protect our
thyroid if they're in direct proportion or a direct area where they're
going to be affected by that radioactive 131.
So, if a woman's thyroid or if a men's thyroid is iodine deficient, her
***, her ovaries; everything is going to be deficient. And it's no
surprise that the medical literature has found correlation between thyroid
disease and breast disease and sub-par thyroid function. And even the
leading cause of breast cancer.
What really upsets me is the fact that everybody is going on these walks
for breast cancer and all this stuff and donating all this money. When
they're not addressing the root cause of these problems, all they're doing
is putting a Band-Aid on the symptoms. And hopefully, you've taken the time
and effort to read my book "The Green Body Cleanse," because that's going
to tell you about the root cause of all disease instead of just the
symptoms of disease.
So, another thing iodine deficiency can affect is the structure and the
function of the breast tissue. You know if you're breastfeeding or you're
trying to get milk in there, it can also alter that. And the fact that the
cystic *** end up being very painful.
And, actually, there has even been correlation that cystic *** may even
lead to breast cancer. There was a study in 1967 by the Journal of American
Medical Association that found breast cancer in mice was linked to iodine
deficiency. The National Health and Nutrition Survey from 1971 to 2000
showed iodine levels had dropped 50 percent from 1971 to the year 2000.
Think about this: how many thyroid disorders, how much breast cancer, how
much prostate cancer, ovarian cancer? All of that has increased since
iodine has been taken out of everything and bromine has been replaced into
it.
The fact is, there's no more iodine in the soil. I have this argument with
people, they're like "Will I get iodine through the food I eat?" "No, you
do not. You are deficient in iodine." The whole world is pretty much
deficient in iodine unless you live right next to the ocean and you eat
seafood all day long.
So, there was a research that took place between 1975 and 1989. And 1,300
patients were examined with breast pathology and found that iodine improved
40 to 70 percent of pain fibrosis symptoms. That was a survey.
There was another in 1995 where histological changes in breast tissue can
be reversed by iodine. And 1996, there was a study, rat studies
demonstrated that iodine suppresses the formation of breast tumors.
1996, "*** have a relatively large capacity for iodine uptake." Iodine
absorption, 1997. "An incorporation into tissues occurs in the same ductal
epithelium as the majority of breast cancers." "Over 60 percent of women
may experience fibrocystic changes. These changes may respond to 3 to 4
milligrams a day of iodine taken for three to four months."
How expensive is iodine? Not nearly as expensive as having breast cancer,
that's for sure. So, you're telling me that the world's best scientists,
all this money that's going into the cure for breast cancer and all these
women need to do is take 3 to 4 milligrams of iodine a day and their breast
cancer is gone? It just makes no sense.
So, how can we ignore how vital and how important iodine is for pregnant
and nursing women, too? If you're a woman, which we talked about
earlier...even if you're pregnant, you need two to three or four times the
amount of iodine than you need when you're not pregnant.
Iodine deficiency has been directly associated with miscarriages,
stillbirth, pre-term delivery, cognitive problems. It can impair the fetal
brain development. Even mild iodine deficiency during pregnancy can be
detrimental.
So, iodine deficiency just is affecting everyone. In 1990, the World Health
Organization estimated a third of the world population is iodine deficient.
And that situation hasn't even improved. That was in 1990. I think that,
right now, we're looking at 75 percent, at least, of the world's population
is iodine-deficient.
A National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a massive survey that
examines current health trends; the first study in the early '70s found
that 2.5 percent of citizens were iodine-deficient. Now, up to 75 percent.
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism warned that these
numbers extreme iodine deficiency and doesn't include mild deficiencies.
And the reason why I'm actually looking and giving you these real studies
is so you don't think I'm just making this up. Because a lot of people will
look at videos sometimes and they'll be like "Oh, yeah. He's just saying a
bunch of stuff, he's just making it up."
But I wanted to actually have these studies on there. And I will post all
these studies, too, to the followup to this webinar. So, everybody can
actually see and read and they can go track it back themselves, because it
doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how easy it is to heal the
body just by cleansing it and giving the body what it needs.
It's just like the medical profession that tells you; it's just like high-
cholesterol, heart disease, all that stuff. Every single thing that you
look at; it doesn't matter what degenerative disease that you have, it's
all caused by too many toxins coming in and not enough toxins coming out.
There are a couple things, though, that I do want to talk about that will
kind of affect and block small amounts of iodine. It's not something
serious, but if you are taking iodine, you want to watch out for eating a
lot of cruciferous vegetables with the iodine like cabbage and kale.
Because those do have goitrogenic compounds and that can block small
amounts of iodine. It's probably not the biggest problem. But you do want
to look out for that and this isn't coffee, by the way, this is water.
I always drink, which is another great, easy and inexpensive remedy, just
like iodine. This is distilled water with organic, raw apple cider vinegar.
And raw apple cider vinegar, I always put it in my water because it
contains the mother, it contains living enzymes, everything you need.
And it's great; you get used to the taste and it's great for the body. I
mean, it just enhances the water.
So, talking about some other endocrine gland disruptors. Pesticides,
herbicides, such a big problem. Because most of the food these days is
heavily sprayed, you have a genetically modified situation. Then you have
roundup, which is Glyphosate, which is an extremely toxic chemical. These
are all sprayed on the foods.
Now, what happens is your endocrine glands or your hormone-producing glands
are exposed to these pesticides and these chemicals. And that also causes
an iodine deficiency and it also causes the initiation of disease-causing
compounds, they're endocrine disruptors.
You have soy, which has high estrogen in it. And so, a lot of these
disruptors cause a malfunction in your hormones. That's what we're talking
about, really, here is with a lack of iodine, you're talking about
disruption of hormones.
Now, a couple other things that can affect iodine absorption and
utilization: antidepressants. Did you know that most antidepressants and
antipsychotics out there are flouride compounds? I mean, fluoride is coming
at us from every single direction and there's a reason for that, too.
Because there's no money in healthy people, there's only money in sick
people.
So, beta blockers, birth control pills, estrogen mimickers, antidepressants
are those you want to look at. If you're on any of those things, mostly,
for sure, you're blocking your iodine uptake. We talked about bromine,
toxic halides. We talked about chlorine, we talked about fluorine. Those
have a similar structure to iodine and they compete for the receptor sites.
So, if there's fluoride going around in the bloodstream by your thyroid,
whoop. It's going to take it in and it's going to be stuck right there
because it's almost exactly the same as iodine is. How do you get that
fluoride out? You don't. If there's iodine coming around after you take it,
then the iodine will actually draw some of that out. It could take a month,
two months or whatever, even longer, to bring all of that bromide and that
fluoride out of your system and start replacing your thyroid with healthy
iodine.
There's a lot of iodine supplements out there, too, that are in an alcohol
base. But an alcohol-based iodine is an endocrine disruptor and a hormone
disruptor, too. Because alcohol, itself, is an endocrine disruptor. And I'm
going to talk to you about that a little bit later on, as well.
You're going to find in bromine in all of your breads. You're going to find
bromine in the sodas; Mountain Dew, stuff like that. You're going to find
it in a lot of processed, packaged foods that are going to have bromine in
there. Because it's a natural insecticide agent and they put it in flour to
keep the bugs out of it. So, you want to make sure that you switch to all
organic products; organic flours, organic breads, although I do recommend
non-grains and non-GMO. And try to learn more about or just read the labels
and see if it has bromine in it.
But chlorine, for example, too. It's in the tap water, it's in all of our
systems. Pools, you swim in pools, they use bromine in pools, they use
chlorine in pools. They don't need to use that. I mean, there's way to keep
the water clean without poisoning it.
So, I mean, we're just saturated with these and chlorine and the by-
products, these are all these halogens, these toxic halogens, are directly
linked to birth defects, cancer, reproductive problems, sterility. Why do
you think so many people are having problems getting pregnant these days?
I never had a problem with people coming into my office that had been to
all the top specialists in the world saying "Oh, you need IVF and you need
all this stuff to get pregnant." No, you don't. All you need to do is clean
out your body. I put them on an intestinal cleanse, liver and gallbladder
cleansing, chemical and heavy metal cleansing, parasite cleansing.
Next thing you know, their body is clean. They get rid of all these
chemicals that they're exposed to outside. On the inside, they're home and
they're pregnant. And guess what? They have a healthy baby, too, because
they don't have all of that contaminant in there.
But perchlorate is another thing that we're finding in breast milk right
now, which is an endocrine disruptor. And that's an industrial chemical and
it's used in rocket fuel, airbags, fireworks. It's literally contaminated
areas around military bases and it's now in the food supply.
I was in the military and my heart goes out to the military personnel that
are being contaminated, especially overseas with all the uranium and all
the chemicals and that the military gives to them. I try to help them as
much as I can whenever they call me up.
One of the things that most people don't know is 83 percent. 83 percent of
organically-grown lettuce and conventional lettuce from the southwest
United States contains significant perchlorate. So, that means you could be
getting organic lettuce and you're going to be contaminated.
The entire lower portion of the Colorado River is contaminated with
perchlorate. And that Colorado River, the whole lower portion provides
water for 20 percent of the nation's crops and over 10 percent of the
nation's livestock. 90 percent of the U.S. winter lettuce supply is grown
in areas irrigated by this river. And is grown in perchlorate-rich soil.
Which means you think you're eating organic, but you're really not.
So, for the water, there's a couple of solutions you can do. If you have
the money, I don't have any ties to any of these companies by the way.
Pelican water system is pretty good to have for the whole house and you can
put it in. It's probably going to be somewhere around $10,000, but you
don't even have to start with that. You can look online for fluoride under-
sink units, filtration units, shower head units that are going to take the
chlorine and the fluoride and all this stuff out. And those are just the
solutions that you can do to reduce your exposure to it on a daily basis.
And do not drink tap water. I mean, when you go to restaurants, it might
cost you a little bit more money, but just buy the spring water in a glass
bottle. Do what I do, get distilled water. You can make your own distilled
water. You can make five gallons of distilled water a day with a Durastill
counter-top distillation unit. You get the glass five-gallon things.
That's what we have, that's what all the employees here at the office
drink, distilled water. We all put apple cider vinegar in it and we don't
have any chlorine, we don't have any fluoride in the water and we have all
the healthy nutrients in there.
Like I was saying earlier, until the early 1970s, even bread contained
iodine. And then, for strange reasons which we don't know about, all of a
sudden, bromide replaced iodine. Who knows? I don't know why. But bromine
is a toxic substance and has zero nutritional value.
Dr. Brownstein, he's like the guru on iodine. I recommend you read his
books if you have a chance. He tested thousands and thousands of patients
for iodine deficiency and he tested them for bromide, too. Every single one
of them tested for high bromide levels. Bromine, in itself, can cause
hypothyroidism.
Whenever the bromine was introduced into the food supply and into the sodas
and the soft drinks and all that stuff, the increase in hypothyroidism shot
up. And one of the most toxic pesticides, actually, is methylbromide. And
then, you have polybrominated biphenyl ether compounds, which are your fire
retardants.
Now, isn't it strange how the European Union has banned most of this stuff,
but the United States still keeps it in the water supplies. I mean, the EU
has banned fluoride, it's banned a lot of the bromine, it's banned a lot of
these toxic chemicals. You start seeing all the genetically-modified foods
being banned everywhere.
People here in the United States need to wake up and actually do something
about it. People are waking up, actually, it's really good. But I mean, the
public water supplies and the toothpaste and they even have nursery water
to give kids fluoride. I mean, people are mixing their baby waters; there's
medical doctors and pediatricians that are recommending people mix nursery
water, which contains fluoride, in with their soy baby formulas.
Fluoridated water never prevented cavities. The largest fluoridated water
study took place in the 1980s and it involved 39,000 children. And it was
determined that cities with fluoridated water had no difference in tooth
decay from the cities that didn't.
There is tons of research out there on the Internet that proves fluoride is
damaging and it that it never did anything. And the best way to avoid
fluoride is just avoid all the dental products. Don't even have those in
your house, don't shower in the water. But the good news is iodine can help
you detoxify those halides and protect yourselves from the damage of
fluoride and all those other compounds.
So, we knew that iodine deficiency really had the cause for goiters. And we
really tried, in the 1920s, to determine how much iodine was required and
that's what I was talking about with the goiter belt, right around Akron,
Ohio. And with those girls that were given potassium iodide and the other
girls that were given none and then the researchers concluded that 150
micrograms of iodine a day was necessary to prevent the goiter.
They also found that that was the bare minimum to prevent severe iodine
deficiency. With the research that we've been doing and with all the
information that we have on there, we know that, like I said, every cell in
the body requires iodine. It's necessary to address. And there hasn't
really been any studies out there that suggest what level of iodine is
actually toxic to you.
But we do know this. I thought I was going to talk about some of the
symptoms of iodine; here's some of the main symptoms of iodine deficiency.
Number one, you might start feeling little nodules on your thyroid. That
might be the beginning signs of a goiter forming.
Mental imbalances. If you have brain fog, if you're starting to feel
depressed for no reason at all. All of a sudden, you go from being calm to
having anxiety, panic attacks. You have hypothyroidism or you've been
diagnosed with hypothyroidism.
Fatigue. Fatigue is one of the biggest things of iodine deficiency. Usually
around 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon. Weakness. You might be starting to
become weak, I was talking about the tongue earlier, the cold hands and
feet, the dry skin. Insomnia, if you're having problems sleeping at night.
Hair loss, if you're starting to see hair loss, that could be a sign of
iodine deficiency. Fibrocystic ***, ovary cysts. We talked about
depression. Immune system problems. If you feel like you're getting sick a
lot and you're not getting better.
Slow metabolism. Everybody has a hard time losing weight. If you're just
trying different things and you can't seem to lose weight, most likely, you
might have an iodine deficiency.
Especially, it affects your mind. You might think of something and then you
forget. And then, you're still trying to think about it and you're just
having a hard time. You have those forgetful moments.
I get the question "Can you take too much iodine?" And what happens, it
just really depends. There's certain tests out there that you can do. One
of them is the iodine loading test and that's where you don't take any
vitamins for four days. Your endocrinologist can do that for you, your
natural healthcare practitioner can do that for you.
If they don't know who to send you to or don't know how to do the testing,
then there's plenty of people online or you can find or call some different
ones. And basically, you urinate in a cup, you take no vitamins for four
days. You urinate in a cup, then you take 50 milligrams of iodine. You
capture the urine for the next 24 hours to see how much iodine is excreted
and how much your body is absorbing.
If you put 50 in and 40 comes out, you're probably saturated. You have a
good iodine if you put 50 in and 5 comes out, that's usually what happens
with most people. You're severely deficient.
Right now, like I said, I just believe that everybody can use iodine. I
haven't had any situation where someone has taken...I actually had a mother
call me the other day with a four-year-old. She walked into the kitchen and
she saw the whole bottle, 1 ounce of Detoxadine, which is the product that
we manufacture, sitting next to her four-year-old son empty on the floor.
Now, I have kids and I'm sure a lot of you guys have kids out there, too.
That would be pretty shocking for me, if I was taking an iodine supplement
or something else and I walked into the kitchen and I saw my son sitting on
the floor with a whole empty bottle next to him.
But the good news is, nothing happened to the son. He probably just
saturated his thyroid with iodine. He was probably iodine-deficient anyway.
But it just goes to show you that anything else, if that would have been
anything else. You can take anything from a drug store. And if you take
half a bottle of aspirin; if you take half a bottle of any over-the-counter
thing and you will die, you know? So, iodine is extremely safe and usually,
your body will excrete any of the leftovers that you might have.
There's natural foods that are also really rich in iodine. And right now,
with the Pacific Ocean being contaminated; the Atlantic is the best. If you
can find seaweed from the Atlantic Ocean, that's going to be a good source
of iodine. Kelp, arame, kombu, wakame.
Seaweed, a quarter-ounce of dried seaweed is about 4,500 micrograms.
There's really not that many sources of iodine. Although, I do also
recommend Himalayan crystal salt. We talked about it a little bit and when
you take in Himalayan crystal salt, you do get a little bit of iodine.
And it's good for you. Like I said, it's got 84 different minerals in it.
There are a lot of different types of iodine supplements on the market. We
get that question all the time. "What's the best type of iodine to take?"
There's so many of them out there. There's colloidal iodide, there's
colloidal iodine, there's Lugol's. There's super-saturated potassium
iodide, there's the nascent iodine.
Because of that, it led me to do in research into what is the best form of
iodine. And I'm going to go over some of those things in a little while
with you in the benefits and why I recommend taking an iodine in a glycerin
base.
But it's also important to take a look at your body and your diet, in
general. We talked about avoiding soy, avoiding gluten, avoiding trans
fats, junk foods, refined sugars. Just switch over to an organic diet.
Yes, we're finding high levels of toxins and chemicals and stuff in organic
food because we know the air is polluted and the water is polluted. Under
the National Organic Program, by the way, you can water your crops with tap
water or water from rivers, like they do the Colorado River.
On our farm, we have pure, clean spring water that we use to water our
herbs and everything with. But it just goes to show you that it can be
organic and it can be watered with tap water and still be organic.
So, what I wanted to go over now with you is just some of the differences
because there's different companies out there that are saying different
things about iodine and theirs is the best and it's in an alcohol base and
it's better than glycerin and alcohol holds more iodine.
And basically, what it boils down to, and I actually wrote an article about
vegetable glycerin iodine versus alcohol-based iodine. Here's the thing,
for absorption purposes, alcohol has a drying and puckering effect that
negatively affects the absorption.
Glycerin, on the other hand, is completely opposite. It's a humectant and
it moisturizes and hydrates to promote iodine absorption. Glycerin,
actually when you put it in the mouth, triggers salivation to supply the
necessary enzymes for absorption. Alcohol doesn't. Alcohol actually dries
up the saliva in the mouth and so, it's detrimental.
As a preservative, glycerin and alcohol, they have different preservation
mechanisms. Glycerin gently encapsulates the substance into its molecular
matrix and it preserves the characteristics of it.
Alcohol has a harsh de-naturing action and it actually alters cell
structure and renders vitamins, enzymes and other beneficial constituents
inert or not even any good. And anybody will tell you, alcohol is
dangerous. We talked about it being an endocrine disruptor in itself.
Alcohol has a long history of being a solvent. Mostly because it has such a
low cost and a lot of people have used alcohol to make tinctures. However,
glycerin and again, I'm talking about vegetable glycerin, is a natural,
nontoxic food substance that extracts more constituents than grain alcohol.
For example, if you were to do an extraction of an herb or iodine or
whatever in glycerin and do it the right way, you would be able to extract
probably close to 70, 80, even up to 90 percent of the constituents of that
herb. If you were to do that herb in an alcohol extraction, you're going to
be only extracting 40 percent of the herb's materials.
Now, for me, I would want all that stuff working in unison. It's the same
way with the iodine. It's not easy. You can't just put iodine crystals in
glycerin because that can be extremely dangerous.
We literally spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to create this
production of even using some of the top physicists to be able to stabilize
the iodine compounds into the matrix of the glycerin to where they're
released, the free iodine is released whenever it comes in contact. A true
nascent form or atomic form instead of the diatomic form which makes it
more easily accessible and absorbed into the body. Glycerin is actually one
of the most hungry iodine compounds in existence and it's the solvent of
choice for whoever demands it the most.
Another thing, it's got better micro-encapsulating properties. Alcohol and
I'm just reading these from actual texts. "Alcohol is a harsh and rigid
solvent that disrupts cell membranes in DNA." "Glycerin has unparalleled
micro-encapsulating qualities that fully capture complete constituents and
compounds in its matrix. This reduces ingredient inversion, evaporation."
Alcohol evaporates, glycerin doesn't. "Precipitation and it slows redox
reaction."
Now, this is big because personally, I don't want my kids having alcohol.
Or my pets, for that matter. Alcohol is an intoxicant and is not
appropriate for children. Children lack the enzymes necessary to convert
alcohol to sugar, so alcohol is extremely dangerous for children.
Functionally, glycerin is far more gentle and safe. And my kids take the
iodine and the glycerin and they do great on it. Actually, it improves
their brain function and since I started giving them iodine, they've
actually become smarter, retained more, have a better memory. I honestly
think that my kids were iodine deficient, too.
Vegetable glycerin has a good taste to it. Alcohol has a horrible taste if
it's in an iodine product. It burns your mouth, it turns your tongue
purple. It is very harsh to take.
Another thing is that vegetable glycerin iodine is better for people who
want to maintain balanced blood sugar levels. People that are going through
AA, people that are recovering alcoholics. The body metabolizes alcohol
into sugar, which can aggravate diabetic conditions and it can upset weight
loss efforts. So, glycerin converts to sugar very slowly and doesn't cause
blood sugar spikes.
The alcohol-based iodine is prone to evaporation, sublimation, oxidation.
And studies have demonstrated that this effect can happen as early as six
months after production.
I'm not sitting here saying "Buy my product. Blah, blah, blah. Iodine is
bad in alcohol," whatever. Iodine is great. If you have access to iodine no
matter what, it's going to be better if you take it in whatever form it's
in. Except for the raw form, of course, because that's extremely dangerous.
But any form of nascent iodine is going to be fairly good for your body.
I'm just giving you the pros and the cons between alcohol-based and
vegetable glycerin-based and vegetable glycerin-based preserves the stable
atomic bond longer and it doesn't break down and change over time.
Alcohol iodine can contain ethanol. Grain alcohol, which can be made from
corn, which can be genetically modified. It's the same alcohol in alcoholic
beverages. Alcohol is toxic to the liver and can be problematic for
children. Vegetable glycerin, safe for everybody.
I was talking about pets, too, and how safe it is for pets. Let me tell
you, pets are coming down with hypothyroidism. They're coming down with the
same degenerative diseases that we are because people are feeding their
pets the wrong foods.
They're feeding their pets all the toxic meat and everything else. And if
you just type in "Hypothyroidism in dogs," "Hypothyroidism in cats,"
"Hyperthyroidism," most of it is due to an iodine deficiency.
If you have pets and that's the problem, iodine can be a good solution for
you. Just make sure you take it in a vegetable glycerin form.
Also, iodine and glycerin is used, actually glycerin's use itself dates
back as far as the 1800s. When it was used to keep wounds hydrated, but
free from air contact. And the Russians were known to spread a thin layer
of glycerin on their face to protect their skin against the cold when they
went out in the winter and the military and everything like that because
their water wouldn't evaporate, so they would just put a thin layer of
glycerin on their skin. And it's so gentle and hydrating, that it's even
been used during eye surgery to keep the eyes moisturized.
So, I know we're running out of time here. It's 8:53, we have a few more
minutes. I hope that I've been able to cover a lot of the information about
iodine. A little bit of the history, a little bit of the uses of it. I
didn't cover the fact that, just kind of looking at my list, phtalates and
plastics, the BPA plastics have a big role to play. So, try to avoid any
plastics or phtalates or cooking food in plastic containers, storing it in
plastic containers during the week.
We are getting a lot of questions, so what I'm going to do is I would
appreciate any additional feedback. Follow us on Facebook, go to my blog.
We will post on this blog post and probably on Facebook, a list of
questions and some of the answers that you guys are writing in.
Let me just see if I can take a couple good ones here. One of them is "My
son has hypothyroid since he was four, now 16. He's on Synthroid. Will
nascent iodine help him get off the pill?"
Unfortunately, I can't give medical advice. But from the feedback that
we've had through Dr. Brownstein's patients, the research out there, I
would definitely recommend that you go and type in "Iodine for
hyperthyroidism." "Iodine for hypothyroidism." There's plenty of
information out there. Let me just say this. Iodine pretty much helps with
anything.
One good question, though. "How soon after taking iodine does a person
begin to feel the detox symptoms of fatigue?" That's going to be different
for everybody. It depends on your age, your weight.
We've had people that have taken iodine that were severely deficient, but
actually felt worse for two weeks. They were just detoxing, I mean, all
that stuff was coming out of their system. We just recommend you drink tons
of water, avoid tap water, of course. Let your body detox naturally, do an
intestinal cleanse using oxygen. Do a liver and gallbladder cleansing.
Assist your body in its ability to eliminate toxins. But over a period of
two weeks or so, like I said, it just depends. But you will be feeling
better eventually. And usually, the first thing that people notice is they
notice their energy levels. They wake up with so much energy and as a
matter of fact, I've even had to tell people not to take iodine at night
because it increases your energy so much that you might even have problems
sleeping or going to bed.
I've had people that have written in and said that they want to go out with
their friends. And their friends are going out to clubs til 2:00 in the
morning and they don't want to drink, so they take a shot. They take some B-
12 and they take some iodine. It just keeps them up and gives them the
energy to stay up til 2:00 in the morning without having to take any
stimulants or do anything like that.
Somebody asked the question on how much apple cider vinegar do I put in my
water per cup? I just take the bottle and pour it in. But you start with,
let's say 8 ounces and a cap-ful. I actually have my vinegar right here. I
use Bragg's apple cider vinegar with the mother in there. I keep it right
next to my desk. And now, I'll just fill up my whole cup with water and
just pour a little bit in there.
But if you take a gallon of distilled water, probably a tablespoon to start
per gallon. But then, you can work up as high as two tablespoons. And you
know, just work it up to taste. I mean, apple cider vinegar does incredible
things. There's over 100 documented health benefits for organic apple
cider vinegar, so I highly recommend it.
One of the cheapest and most effective things you can do for your help is
what we're talking about right now, iodine and organic apple cider vinegar.
Of course, I recommend cleansing the body on a regular basis, too.
One question "Is alcohol-nascent iodine more potent than a vegetable
glycerin nascent iodine?" That just depends on how much iodine is used
during the manufacturing process. Doing tests with iodine and alcohol
versus iodine and glycerin, we've been able to stabilize up to 7 percent
glycerin, I mean, iodine in glycerin. There's no possible way you can do
that with alcohol.
So, glycerin will hold probably five, six times the amount of iodine than
an alcohol. And as a matter of fact, we're going to actually be coming out
with a stronger version fairly soon, which will provide roughly around 650
micrograms per drop of iodine. So, that's going to be very effective.
Especially when you're talking about going with higher dosing, because most
of the iodine supplements out there, 450 micrograms per drop, 500
micrograms per drop.
But we're talking about needing 25,000 to 35,000 micrograms on a daily
basis. And it's like everything, I always recommend cycling everything. I
don't like to put stuff in my body every single day so the body gets used
to it. I usually do it every other day.
For the first period of time, I would recommend going for a month, let's
say, of 30, 40 milligrams a day, 30,000 to 40,000 micrograms a day. But
after that, just taking a few drops, a dropper-ful a few times a week
should be sufficient, as long as you're not taking in massive amounts of
chemicals and toxins and stuff like that.
So, anyway. I just wanted to thank everybody for coming on. I hope you
enjoyed the webinar tonight. And if you have any further questions, like I
said, don't hesitate to e-mail us. E-mail us at social, S-O-C-I-A-L,
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Everybody have a wonderful evening and until next time, if you want to see
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be healthy.