THE IODINE CONSPIRACY - ITS REAL

[Guest guest]

Historically Doctors used to consider Iodine the miracle treat all

drug. They didn't know how it worked, and over time during the

1940's they were quietly convinced to convert from Iodes, and Iodines

of the natural solutions - to the more profitable hormonal and

synthetic pharmaceutical variants. Naturally this only helped the

profitability of the pharmaceutical industry.

Secondly there is much historical evidence that dosages in excess of

100 times the RDA were used successfully for the treatment of various

ailments and naturally goiter.

Thirdly the iodines mixed in salts must compete with the salts for

absorption. This has been studied to greatly reduce the amount of

intake of the iodine. Incidentially only 50ug of iodine a day is

required to hold off goiter, and it since it was successful in doing

this inspite of its competition with the salt - it was still declared

a 'success' even though we are all still deficient of it without

consuming iodine supplement (or seaweed daily).

IT HAS BEEN NOTED THAT A CHILD THAT IS IODINE DEFICIENT WILL HAVE A IQ

UP TO 15 POINTS LOWER, ADD A IRON DEFICIENCY AND YOU CAN ADD 8 POINTS.

YOU MIGHT THINK ITS NOT ALOT BUT WHAT IF THEIR IQ IS ONLY 80, IT THEN

DROPS TO 57! ADDITIONALLY IT LOWERS METABOLISM GREATLY.

DOES 'DUMB AND FAT' RING A BELL??

Consider the following article.

http://www.vrp.com/art/1781.asp

Remember NEVER take antiseptic iodine - its poison, as it has

iospropyl alcohal. Instead seek the oral kind (its usually found in

health food stores)

Consider Japans intake of daily iodine:

The literature search revealed that 60 million mainland Japanese

consume a daily average of 13.8 mg of elemental iodine, and they are

one of the healthiest nations based on overall well being and cancer

statistics.7 Japanese women do not stop consuming iodine-rich foods

during pregnancy, and Japanese fetuses are exposed to maternal

peripheral levels of iodide at concentrations of 10-5M to 10-6M.

Either the Japanese are mutants capable of surviving on toxic levels

of iodine or we have been grossly deceived. The human body needs at

least 100 times the RDA, which was established very recently in 1980

and confirmed in 1989!!

[Guest guest]

cnmcdeealberta wrote:

> Consider Japans intake of daily iodine:

> The literature search revealed that 60 million mainland Japanese

> consume a daily average of 13.8 mg of elemental iodine, and they are

> one of the healthiest nations based on overall well being and cancer

> statistics.7 Japanese women do not stop consuming iodine-rich foods

> during pregnancy, and Japanese fetuses are exposed to maternal

> peripheral levels of iodide at concentrations of 10-5M to 10-6M.

> Either the Japanese are mutants capable of surviving on toxic levels

> of iodine or we have been grossly deceived. The human body needs at

> least 100 times the RDA, which was established very recently in 1980

> and confirmed in 1989!!

>

Japanese women who consume the most seaweed also have the lowest

levels of rhinitis, even after accounting for the calcium and magnesium.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=1\

6406247 & dopt=Abstract

The real question here for me is: why do humans seem to *require*

foods that are generally only found on the sea coastlines? (salt,

iodine, fish). Earlier peoples traded and worked very hard

to obtain these items: we can get them fairly easily. It's pretty

clear that Iodoral and Lugol's are recent inventions, and maybe

they are needed because of other recent weirdnesses in our

diet, but iodine deficiency is a major problem worldwide (not

just in " developed " countries).

BTW: I now consume a pretty-close-to-Japanese amount of

seaweed, and have had zero negative effects, except possibly

a change in appetite (I seem to crave rice but get full fast ...

next my hair will turn black and go straight ... :-) ) I am not

low thyroid so am not trying to treat anything, just experimenting.

-- Heidi