Iodine and Thyroid Information

*****THIS INFORMATION IS MY EXPERIENCE ONLY. I AM NOT GIVING MEDICAL ADVICE TO ANYONE. I URGE YOU TO RESEARCH FOR YOURSELF ANY AND ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED IN HERE AND THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT AND SEEK ADVICE FROM YOUR DR OR OTHER TRUSTED MEDICAL PERSONNEL. I WISH YOU WELL IN YOUR SEARCH!******


I have been doing research on iodine the last few months. I felt years ago that I was deficient so I started using iodized salt. Nothing happened and I still felt that I needed to take iodine. I tried kelp pills but didn't get much from that. The reason they didn't help was that I was so depleted that those things don't make any difference because the amounts of iodine are so small when someone is so depleted.


About a year ago, a friend gave me a bottle of LUGOLS Iodine. I tried to take it orally but felt that I needed it through my skin. I had been on a no sugar diet because I suffered from chronic yeast. I was 30 lbs over weight and in the past when I went on a "no sugar" diet, the weight would drop off.

I ate nothing but one healthy meal and healthy snacks daily for 8 months and didn't lose a pound. I started rubbing the Lugols iodine on my body every night (2% solution) in huge amounts. I would cover my abdomen. By morning, there was no evidence I had even put the dark colored yellow solution on my skin. That showed how depleted my body was for iodine. I did it for two months and every morning I would have no sign of having put the solution on. I lost 20 lbs in those two months and did NOTHING other than put on the iodine. I was worried about "over dosing" on it or creating an allergy so when I started having a bit of yellow left on my skin in the morning, I stopped putting it on my stomach. I lost no more weight even though I did everything the same.

The next month, I started being very tired again and thought perhaps I should try putting a little on to see how I felt because I had so much more energy after using the iodine. I put it on for the weekend, felt so much better and lost 3 lbs. I stopped taking it for another month and lost no weight. Put it on for a weekend the next month, lost 3 lbs and had energy.

I started putting a few drops on each night and started to balance my energy rather than on and off over the months. I ran out of the Lugols solution at that point and went and bought 4 other types of iodine from IFA, pharmacy's, a holistic healer and a Chiropractor. I never had the same results or felt good about using them even though I tried them each for a few days.


I finally spent some time researching iodine. When looking at the bottle of iodine I had in my emergency storage for a nuclear event, I read this information on the bottle. "This product will not help anyone in a nuclear event that is iodine deficient. This product will only help those that have sufficient amounts of iodine in their system prior to a nuclear event."


As I started researching iodine and the thyroid I learned the following information. The thyroid makes and/or regulates hormones dealing with sex, reproduction, sleep, energy, mood etc. Melatonin, serotonin etc. The way to get iodine is by eating ocean veggies or animals. Living in a desert, we don't eat much if any of those foods. Kelp and other seaweeds can be obtained in a pill form but I haven't met many people that actually take them.For your body to absorb iodine, it needs an amino acid called L-Tyrosine. Check out my Stress Vitamin Therapy page for more information on this link.


What are the major issues of health for Utahans? Depression, obesity, infertility..... etc. Can we see a pattern in the above information? Iodine. We are also very busy, stressed people which also taxes the thyroid. If the thyroid doesn't have sufficient iodine, it burns out. Having babies also takes its toll on the hormones. (Thyroid) How many women do we know in Utah that have had 5-10 kids and have never been able to lose the weight after no matter what type of diet they go on?


One person I talked to told me of a town in Denmark where they had a huge problem with fertility and the Dr. found that it was iodine deficiency and started giving them iodine and one woman had triplets and another twins.


I talked to a Dr. friend who told me of a Dr. Ed Wagner who has done lots of research and studies and Dr. Wagner explained (at least my understanding of what I was told, you can do further research) that not only does our thyroid need iodine but that our liver is affected by it as well. It is like a feedback loop. Our Thyroid, once it has enough iodine, will start producing hormones. Once our hormone levels reach a certain level, our body will then tell the liver that it doesn't need to hold onto the fats and cholesterol that are told to hold onto everything in the body as it is deficient. Once the liver gets the message that the body has enough, it doesn't need to hold onto that cholesterol and fat any longer, the fat and cholesterol can then go down. (This is a simple explanation; I would suggest anyone that is on Cholesterol lowering drugs do their own research)


I have to say that when I was using the iodine the first time, I was eating lots of healthy fats. I had a jar of raw (un baked) nuts in the car and would snack on them and was eating an avocado daily. 30% of our diet should be healthy fats. I would also eat a spoonful of coconut oil every few days. (Coconut oil is an antifungal which helps the body kill off fungal/yeast infections) When our body has healthy fats on a regular basis, it doesn't need to hold onto the unhealthy fat.


Also, a study at Berkley found taking kelp lowered your chance of breast cancer. This study was built on others showing that cultures with seaweed rich diets tend to live longer and have lower cancer rates. (2005 September issues or organic style www.organicstyle.com)


I found another Dr. from the 50's who used Lugols iodine to treat chronic yeast infections with great results. (I will attach a document that has the iodine links in it for your to read this information yourself)


Lugols iodine (it is named after the Dr. who created the process which makes it bound to potassium so it is sold from many different places. Lugols is the process which makes it kind of like "band aids" are sold by many different companies but it is the same product) is bound in such a way that the body can absorb it and that is why I didn't have the same results with other types of iodine.


There is one other newer type of iodine that I have tried but it is more expensive. Nascent or atomic iodine. I take it in water and have had results of more energy, increase in libido, sleeping better with dreams etc. My friend that is also taking it was testing her ph daily and she said it immediately balanced her ph which she had been trying to do for sometime. After a few weeks of just taking nascent orally, I added taking Lugols on the skin for other health issues. I absorbed all I put on overnight for about a week before I started to have a little yellow on my skin in the morning letting me know I have enough. As long as you are still absorbing it, your body needs it. Once you have enough, it doesn't absorb. I am going to using one or two drops everyday to keep my levels up.


For those who don't have a thyroid, or whose thyroid is sluggish, there are animal thyroid supplements you can take over the Synthetic types of thyroid. Always consult your Dr. when changing meds but many Dr.'s are now going with a natural type of thyroid as people tend to assimilate it better. There is a great book by Sanford Siegal D.O. MD called "Is your thyroid making you fat?" He is a specialist who learned that synthetic thyroid isn't able to be used by your body. You can have your thyroid tested and you may have normal levels, but, your body isn't able to transfer it from the form you make into a form your body can use. I recommend his book for anyone having fertility problems, (He found when he fixed peoples thyroids, their infertility went away.)

Iodine is an oxidizer. Don't take it at the same time as anti-oxidants such as vitamin c, e, a etc. They fight against each other. Also, be careful that you don't hold it in your mouth. It will oxidize your fillings. If you have mercury fillings, you don't want that breaking down in your mouth. 


I had yeast issues for years and using this iodine has helped clear that up as well as giving me more energy and helped with my hormone balancing.If you are going to forward this information to someone, please include all the information including the warnings at the top and the bottom. 

Here is a link to a site I have used to order from in the past or you can check out more information and links in my "Stress Vitamin Therapy" page. 


*****THIS INFORMATION IS MY EXPERIENCE ONLY. I AM NOT GIVING MEDICAL ADVICE TO ANYONE. I URGE YOU TO RESEARCH FOR YOURSELF ANY AND ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED IN HERE AND IN THE ATTACHMENTS AND SEEK ADVICE FROM YOUR DR OR OTHER TRUSTED MEDICAL PERSONNEL. I WISH YOU WELL IN YOUR SEARCH!******