Vitamin C and lugols Iodine - an observation

[Guest guest]

I was reading posts from a while back about Vitamin C reducing the

Iodine. The conclusion seemed to be to not worry and to take them all

together and some of you also shared how despite taking the iodine

with vitamin C it still helps, so that gives hope.

I've been taking my Lugols (1ml - 50mg) with orange juice. I've

noticed that when I add the juice at a certain point (about 40ml) it

suddenly turnes clear (as in no longer iodine tinted but now looks

like juice)and also tastes fine with NO iodine taste. Today I took it

after breakfast in water with some apple cider vinegar. Same ammounts

but it tasted absolutely foul, was still brown and when it hit my

stomach just about made me want to vomit!

I guess my conclusion is that fuiet juice or vitamin C obviously does

infact effect the solution.

Quoted from Secrets From the Sea pg 41

The dark iodine stain will instanly disappear due to an

oxidation-reduction reaction. Reactions that involve a transfer of

electrons from one atom to another are called oxidation-reduction

reactions or redox for short. Vitamin C is considered a universal

donaor and reuces iodine while iodine oxidezes Viamin C. This

oxidation reduction reaction is the reason that iodine and vitamin C

should not be taken together.

So I went to the supermarket to find some kind of fruit/vege juice not

high in vitamin C to take it in and there was none. In fact some of

the vege juices were higher than my orange juice!

So now I sit here with a terrible crampy grumpy tummy in a delima. I

think I'm going to get some empty gel caps that someone suggested.