Re: Iodone after RAI with Grave's disease

[Guest guest]

iodine is not a shock to the thyroid gland, rather it is the

nutrient that it needs. Iodine used to be the main treatment for

hyperT. you can read about it at http://www.optimox.com click on

research.

Gracia

On 1/15/2011 7:50 PM, dab427 wrote:

I have done some reading on how iodine is used with

Grave's patients to "shock" their thyroid into temporarily

shutting down. Then it starts back up after the iodine

wears off and many people reach remission.

I am a post-RAI Grave's patient with very little

functioning thyroid tissue left (2004). How will iodine

help me? I have read Elaine (author and researcher

on autoimmune diseases) say that iodine is not recommended

for Grave's because it increase antibody production. It is

very confusing so I am hoping someone can clarify the

benefits/risks of iodone.

Debbie

[Guest guest]

That's so true. It seems to me that when the Wolff-Chaikoff lie was

promulgated then people got afraid of iodine (for no good reason) and then

started looking for other reasons to be afraid of iodine. None of these

ideas stand up to scrutiny, however.

Some of our newer members may not be aware of this, but Lugol's was the

very first Western medicine that was ever developed. (Obviously there were

many other types of medicines, traditional Chinese, herbal, etc.) In

Western medical history Lugol's is considered the first time Western

physicians had a medicine they could give to people that would cure a

disease. And what did it cure? Hypothyroid and Hyperthyroid. Lugol's was

invented in the early 1800s, and from then through the 1950s or so, Lugol's

was THE medicine for those two diseases.

I say we had it right the first time.

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At 09:00 AM 1/17/2011, you wrote:

>iodine is not a shock to the thyroid gland, rather it is the nutrient that

>it needs. Iodine used to be the main treatment for hyperT. you can read

>about it at <http://www.optimox.com>http://www.optimox.com click on research.

>Gracia

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>On 1/15/2011 7:50 PM, dab427 wrote:

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>>I have done some reading on how iodine is used with Grave's patients to

>> " shock " their thyroid into temporarily shutting down. Then it starts back

>>up after the iodine wears off and many people reach remission.

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>>I am a post-RAI Grave's patient with very little functioning thyroid

>>tissue left (2004). How will iodine help me? I have read Elaine

>>(author and researcher on autoimmune diseases) say that iodine is not

>>recommended for Grave's because it increase antibody production. It is

>>very confusing so I am hoping someone can clarify the benefits/risks of

iodone.

>>

>>Debbie

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