When I was pregnant, I ate a lot of small pickled fish for a while, it made me stink all day, but I couldn't eat anything else. Now I know why. Thank God I had a smart son. The idiot doctor didn't give me iodine for my hyperthyroidism, and in fact, after giving birth, they removed most of my thyroid during thyroid surgery. I loathe doctors, even more so since covid. Lousy overpaid executioners!
Why does Dr. Joseph Mercola in a video with Dr. Alan Christianson recommend against iodine supplements in a recent video? I was taking iodine based on Dr. Brownstein's recommendations but then stopped because of Dr. Mercola's recommendation. How can the two doctors be so different in their opinions?
I saw that too! Very strange. I don’t think Mercola is thinking clearly right now. He might be under the spell of a (con)man who goes by the name Kai Clay, who communicates with an entity named “BAHLON”. That’s the story I heard. I wish I was joking. I think he also fired several executives in his company, in addition to reversing his position on iodine and I don’t know what else..🤷🏼♀️
I didn't notice any changes, and I went from zero to 25 mg per day for a few weeks and then down to 12 mg per day for a few months but now I have stopped. No changes apparent. I trust Mercola more because he seems smart and seems to talk to smarter people. But I don't really know if I'm making the right choice. I plan to do more research, but don't know if I'll find a good answer.
NB I was told to separate iodine and C vitamin intake as they cancel each other. E.g. C vit in the morning and iodine early evening/ late afternoon, but not too close to bedtime, as it tends to exite the nervous system. Is this all wrong, or unimportant? Also, in Dr Mercola's video we are advised against Lugol's iodine because it contains potassium. And which iodine/iodide combination products are available online? I find this article difficult to put into practice.
Hi. On the very trustworthy site, Drmyhill.co.uk, there is a sentence saying "take vitamin C away from iodine... they work in different ways and combining them reduces the effectivity of both". There was no warning about Lugol's combination with potassium iodide though. I have been wondering if unbecoming's summaries are AI generated and may miss out on certain information. Interestingly, the presentations (headings and questions) are similar and the contents also quite repetitive. I have seen many cases (see e.g. Jon Rappoport; Clif High) when AI, like ChatGPT, on being questioned, has admitted mistakes and omissions. This creates mistrust, like the one I have against Google (I browse/search on Brave). Also, the AI generated colourful pictures on top of many articles (not only this site) are put in the same style, and based on one repetitive template. Unlike Sasha Latypova's paintings at the end of her brilliant posts - creative and personal both in writing and art.
I bought a good combination of iodine and iodide on Amazon (alt. eBay)
Ambrosial iodine with iodide potassium (5 mg + 7.5 mg) . 120 tablets a 12.5 mg 1 per day, for £11.95 - not bad.
Here is the YouTube video with Dr. Mercola and Dr. Alan Christianson saying you should not supplement with iodine. These doctors need to get together and figure out why they are so different in their recommendations. There are a lot of comments in the youtube video referencing Dr. Brownstein.
I think it's always best to get nutrients from food, rather than supplements, but it's not always possible. When taking supplements, the form and source of the supplement is most important. Also, people differ. Some people can't handle Iodine orally, so they put it on the skin.
I think about what our ancestors ate. Like whether my/your ancestors lived in an area where consuming Iodine-rich food was normal, or whether they lived in an area where there wasn't much Iodine. In my family there was a drastic change in environment - from living near the ocean for generations - to living in a desert environment. I think that factors into health.
Right, dozens of generations living by the sea results in people with a genetic type that can use the iodine that is absorbed or eaten, but if those later generations then moved to the center of a continent where the iodine is less then they may suffer. And then the reverse is true when people from the center of the continent who adapted to low iodine move to areas near the ocean, then those people may suffer. I think I saw this in the Mercola / Dr. Alan Christianson video.
I wouldn't trust the NIH or the USDA. While you may get some facts, you'll get mostly lies.
In 2012, I downloaded a chart of food sources of Iodine from the USDA which revealed the highest food source of iodine, after seaweed, was sunflower seeds.
Today, Various types of fish are listed highest, then seaweed and egg yolk. Only one type of seaweed is listed (there are at least six types), and the data for Sunflower seeds is for shelled, salted, and roasted, and not RAW which would contain the highest amount of iodine.
Cold-pressed Sunflower oil is high in Iodine as indicated in this 'scientific' or 'research' paper below. The paper is misleading however, because there is no such thing as 'bad' cholesterol. The human body produces cholesterol (liver and intestines) if insufficient dietary intake, and your body doesn't produce something bad for itself. The bad cholesterol scam doesn't seem to run out of steam. The paper also gives no indication of what nuts were used in Ground nut oil. Typical science. Don't trust the science. Think for yourself. Use discernment.
Please get yourself a copy of the following book if you really want to know about Iodine and how it was weaponized against you. Spoiler Alert: avoid table salt and iodized salt. It's the wrong kind of iodine. Iodide is not iodine. They think we are stupid.
"Commonly purchased iodized salts, available at super markets or sitting on the table of your favorite restaurant, have synthetic chemicals added to them. These chemicals include everything from manufactured forms of sodium solo-co-aluminate, iodide, sodium bicarbonate, fluoride, anti-caking agents, toxic amounts of potassium iodide and aluminum derivatives. It may come as a shock, but most table salt is not only unhealthy, but can sometimes be toxic.
The natural forms of important iodine is lost when we manufacture salt. Without this natural iodine, the thyroid is severely harmed, leading to growth and metabolism issues. Because of this, the chemical-based salt industry began to add synthetic forms of iodine to their products."
Going low salt is another scam. We need to increase salt intake from Celtic sea salt, Himalayan, or other natural mineral-rich salt. These salts have 65-85 minerals, which are necessary nutrients. "Covid" depleted salt stores and some doctors treated covid patients with saline IVs. Add Iodine also.
Dr. Mercola has a recent article about synthetic iodine added to foods being a factor in the ever increasing thyroid problems.
What about people with iodine and seafood allergies? I take a kelp supplement myself and have taken iodine in coffee. I have a friend who would benefit from supplementation but she refuses due to iodine allergies and taking thyroid meds. Doubtful she would ever supplement but allergy issues should be added to the articles for alternatives for supplementation.
"The medical use of iodine dates back to 1811 when Bernard Courtois first discovered it while making gunpowder. The first therapeutic use was reported by Jean Francois Coindet in 1774, demonstrating that goiter could be treated with iodine" sorry to fact-check you @unbekoming but that timeline is contradictory!
Ive followed for Dr Browstein over a decade. He is responsible for my alt medicine pursuit having read early blog articles by Dr Brownstein on the topic of the critical importance of iodine AND the increase in autism as a direct result of MMR vaccine. Dr Brownstein really cares about patient health and the root causes of disease. I cannot say enough about my high regard for Dr Brownstein!
> Supporting Nutrients: Optimal iodine function requires adequate selenium (100-200μg daily), vitamin C (3,000-6,000mg daily), magnesium, and unrefined salt. These nutrients support proper iodine utilization and help minimize detoxification reactions.
REPLY: The above are beneficial. Why is Kelp left out of this recommendation. Kelp and sea vegetation is a major part of the diet of Japan, Korea, and all Asia countries that have coast lines.
Thanks for considering the wonders of Kelp as a excellent source of iodine.
Kelp and many other types of seaweed, and RAW sunflower seeds, sunflower butter, and cold-pressed sunflower oil. I stick with the seeds. Best soaked and dehydrated.
When I was pregnant, I ate a lot of small pickled fish for a while, it made me stink all day, but I couldn't eat anything else. Now I know why. Thank God I had a smart son. The idiot doctor didn't give me iodine for my hyperthyroidism, and in fact, after giving birth, they removed most of my thyroid during thyroid surgery. I loathe doctors, even more so since covid. Lousy overpaid executioners!
Why does Dr. Joseph Mercola in a video with Dr. Alan Christianson recommend against iodine supplements in a recent video? I was taking iodine based on Dr. Brownstein's recommendations but then stopped because of Dr. Mercola's recommendation. How can the two doctors be so different in their opinions?
I saw that too! Very strange. I don’t think Mercola is thinking clearly right now. He might be under the spell of a (con)man who goes by the name Kai Clay, who communicates with an entity named “BAHLON”. That’s the story I heard. I wish I was joking. I think he also fired several executives in his company, in addition to reversing his position on iodine and I don’t know what else..🤷🏼♀️
How was the iodine supplementation going for you?
I didn't notice any changes, and I went from zero to 25 mg per day for a few weeks and then down to 12 mg per day for a few months but now I have stopped. No changes apparent. I trust Mercola more because he seems smart and seems to talk to smarter people. But I don't really know if I'm making the right choice. I plan to do more research, but don't know if I'll find a good answer.
NB I was told to separate iodine and C vitamin intake as they cancel each other. E.g. C vit in the morning and iodine early evening/ late afternoon, but not too close to bedtime, as it tends to exite the nervous system. Is this all wrong, or unimportant? Also, in Dr Mercola's video we are advised against Lugol's iodine because it contains potassium. And which iodine/iodide combination products are available online? I find this article difficult to put into practice.
If you google your concern, i.e. vit C cancelling iodine, you'll find a load of information.
And what's wrong with taking potassium? It's one of the body's vital minerals.
Hi. On the very trustworthy site, Drmyhill.co.uk, there is a sentence saying "take vitamin C away from iodine... they work in different ways and combining them reduces the effectivity of both". There was no warning about Lugol's combination with potassium iodide though. I have been wondering if unbecoming's summaries are AI generated and may miss out on certain information. Interestingly, the presentations (headings and questions) are similar and the contents also quite repetitive. I have seen many cases (see e.g. Jon Rappoport; Clif High) when AI, like ChatGPT, on being questioned, has admitted mistakes and omissions. This creates mistrust, like the one I have against Google (I browse/search on Brave). Also, the AI generated colourful pictures on top of many articles (not only this site) are put in the same style, and based on one repetitive template. Unlike Sasha Latypova's paintings at the end of her brilliant posts - creative and personal both in writing and art.
I bought a good combination of iodine and iodide on Amazon (alt. eBay)
Ambrosial iodine with iodide potassium (5 mg + 7.5 mg) . 120 tablets a 12.5 mg 1 per day, for £11.95 - not bad.
Reading AI text is super boring too.
Vitamin C as Absorbic Acid is lab made poison.
Source?
And it is never checked when you have routine Thyroid blood work. All they check is the 3/4 THS levels.
Here is the YouTube video with Dr. Mercola and Dr. Alan Christianson saying you should not supplement with iodine. These doctors need to get together and figure out why they are so different in their recommendations. There are a lot of comments in the youtube video referencing Dr. Brownstein.
https://youtu.be/R085kZw3YBQ?si=NO5Ghm3knBlHpeCl
I think it's always best to get nutrients from food, rather than supplements, but it's not always possible. When taking supplements, the form and source of the supplement is most important. Also, people differ. Some people can't handle Iodine orally, so they put it on the skin.
I think about what our ancestors ate. Like whether my/your ancestors lived in an area where consuming Iodine-rich food was normal, or whether they lived in an area where there wasn't much Iodine. In my family there was a drastic change in environment - from living near the ocean for generations - to living in a desert environment. I think that factors into health.
Right, dozens of generations living by the sea results in people with a genetic type that can use the iodine that is absorbed or eaten, but if those later generations then moved to the center of a continent where the iodine is less then they may suffer. And then the reverse is true when people from the center of the continent who adapted to low iodine move to areas near the ocean, then those people may suffer. I think I saw this in the Mercola / Dr. Alan Christianson video.
This is one reason why I bake my own bread...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/28/bread-additives-chemicals-us-toxic-america
The other: my home made portuguese buns cost me .08 CAD (.05 US) each.
Haha! From the NIH, allegedly published only 2 hours ago:
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iodine-HealthProfessional/
I wouldn't trust the NIH or the USDA. While you may get some facts, you'll get mostly lies.
In 2012, I downloaded a chart of food sources of Iodine from the USDA which revealed the highest food source of iodine, after seaweed, was sunflower seeds.
Today, Various types of fish are listed highest, then seaweed and egg yolk. Only one type of seaweed is listed (there are at least six types), and the data for Sunflower seeds is for shelled, salted, and roasted, and not RAW which would contain the highest amount of iodine.
https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUSERFILES/80400535/DATA/IODINE/IODINE_DATABASE_RELEASE_3_PER_SERVING.PDF
Cold-pressed Sunflower oil is high in Iodine as indicated in this 'scientific' or 'research' paper below. The paper is misleading however, because there is no such thing as 'bad' cholesterol. The human body produces cholesterol (liver and intestines) if insufficient dietary intake, and your body doesn't produce something bad for itself. The bad cholesterol scam doesn't seem to run out of steam. The paper also gives no indication of what nuts were used in Ground nut oil. Typical science. Don't trust the science. Think for yourself. Use discernment.
https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRTL020068.pdf
Please get yourself a copy of the following book if you really want to know about Iodine and how it was weaponized against you. Spoiler Alert: avoid table salt and iodized salt. It's the wrong kind of iodine. Iodide is not iodine. They think we are stupid.
https://www.lulu.com/shop/patrick-jordan/assaulted-mass-medication-by-a-halogen-you-never-suspected/paperback/product-12jmey9z.html?q=Patrick+Jordan
What’s the best way to get iodine…
Seaweed, raw sunflower seeds, sunflower butter, cold-pressed sunflower oil, nascent iodine from Magnascent.
Nascent iodine drops in water. I do 5 every morning. Lugols is ok too, but nascent iodine is more bioavailable in the human body.
Iodized salt is a scam.
Dr. Ed Group:
"Commonly purchased iodized salts, available at super markets or sitting on the table of your favorite restaurant, have synthetic chemicals added to them. These chemicals include everything from manufactured forms of sodium solo-co-aluminate, iodide, sodium bicarbonate, fluoride, anti-caking agents, toxic amounts of potassium iodide and aluminum derivatives. It may come as a shock, but most table salt is not only unhealthy, but can sometimes be toxic.
The natural forms of important iodine is lost when we manufacture salt. Without this natural iodine, the thyroid is severely harmed, leading to growth and metabolism issues. Because of this, the chemical-based salt industry began to add synthetic forms of iodine to their products."
Going low salt is another scam. We need to increase salt intake from Celtic sea salt, Himalayan, or other natural mineral-rich salt. These salts have 65-85 minerals, which are necessary nutrients. "Covid" depleted salt stores and some doctors treated covid patients with saline IVs. Add Iodine also.
Dr. Mercola has a recent article about synthetic iodine added to foods being a factor in the ever increasing thyroid problems.
Book: https://www.lulu.com/shop/patrick-jordan/assaulted-mass-medication-by-a-halogen-you-never-suspected/paperback/product-12jmey9z.html?q=Patrick+Jordan
There is a 2015 edition.
I have lent my copy out so cannot refer difference between editions.
Bugger, now I have to remember who I lent it to.
What about people with iodine and seafood allergies? I take a kelp supplement myself and have taken iodine in coffee. I have a friend who would benefit from supplementation but she refuses due to iodine allergies and taking thyroid meds. Doubtful she would ever supplement but allergy issues should be added to the articles for alternatives for supplementation.
sunflower seeds, RAW. Best soaked overnight and deydrated.
In case it helps others I've been told that 1 drop of 12% Lugol's contains 15mg iodine. Link https://www.purewelt.com/lugols-iodine-solution-12-30ml-1.html
"The medical use of iodine dates back to 1811 when Bernard Courtois first discovered it while making gunpowder. The first therapeutic use was reported by Jean Francois Coindet in 1774, demonstrating that goiter could be treated with iodine" sorry to fact-check you @unbekoming but that timeline is contradictory!
Thanks as always.
Ive followed for Dr Browstein over a decade. He is responsible for my alt medicine pursuit having read early blog articles by Dr Brownstein on the topic of the critical importance of iodine AND the increase in autism as a direct result of MMR vaccine. Dr Brownstein really cares about patient health and the root causes of disease. I cannot say enough about my high regard for Dr Brownstein!
> Supporting Nutrients: Optimal iodine function requires adequate selenium (100-200μg daily), vitamin C (3,000-6,000mg daily), magnesium, and unrefined salt. These nutrients support proper iodine utilization and help minimize detoxification reactions.
REPLY: The above are beneficial. Why is Kelp left out of this recommendation. Kelp and sea vegetation is a major part of the diet of Japan, Korea, and all Asia countries that have coast lines.
Thanks for considering the wonders of Kelp as a excellent source of iodine.
Kelp and many other types of seaweed, and RAW sunflower seeds, sunflower butter, and cold-pressed sunflower oil. I stick with the seeds. Best soaked and dehydrated.