iodine: PCOS, uterine and breast fibroids, cancers

[Guest guest]

This is another relevant article explaining the role of iodine in the body. In

many people's experience, it is not possible to get enough iodine from food to

overcome

all of the competing halogen sources (fluorine, bromine, and chlorine in any

form but

salt). We're exposed to those everywhere.

There's an alternative to the skin patch test, as explained in this article - an

excretion test.

Even then, that one can be skewed by nutritional deficiencies that make an

iodine-

deficient person have a hard time taking up the iodine s/he needs (re:

Brownstein's book).

A number of people are having success using inorganic iodine and companion

nutrients to

restore health. I wish the WAPF website would change that one page - I believe

the ABCs

of nutrition - to not say iodine is only needed in " trace amounts. " Some of us

have taken

rather large amounts with no bad effects. People who have bad effects from

taking large

amounts of iodine are nutrient-deficient. Selenium is one of those necessary

companion

nutrients.

I know this about other people from reading discussion groups / forums out

there. Most

importantly, I know it about myself. There's a growing number of MDs who

recognize that

iodine is needed by the body, that there is no " iodine allergy, " and that

iodophobia needs

to be educated out of the medical community. Some of the negative effects come

from

the bromine being pushed out of the body, which may necessitate some people

taking low

and slow amounts of iodine (but a lot over time), and I don't recommend doing it

without

doing a lot of research first, and maybe a consultation with one of the " iodine

docs " if

you're in poor health.

I also know this " take inorganic iodine apart from food " goes against most of

the WAPF recommendations. I still get my nutrients from food. Unfortunately,

seaweed,

one of those great sources of iodine, is also sucking up a number of heavy metal

pollutants from our oceans. It's a great sponge that takes up all kinds of stuff

it comes

across.

Iodine and selenium are important parts of the hormonal system. People think

" thyroid

hormone, " but there is no isolation. They all work together.

" Iodine deficiency is a recognized risk factor in the development of cancer of

the breast,

prostate, and probably the ovary and endometrium "

http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james37.htm

Other iodine websites:

http://iodine4health.com/

http://breastcancerchoices.org/

http://optimox.com/pics/Iodine/opt_Research_I.shtml

http://www.drbrownstein.com/