CHEESESLAVE

I seriously feel like I am dying. HOLY MOLEY do I feel bad!

I started taking iodine drops yesterday. Not a lot. Yesterday I took about 5 grams and this morning I took about 10 grams.

The Japanese traditionally consume about 13 grams of iodine per day. They eat a lot of fish, seaweed, and fish broth.

They also have the lowest incidence of breast cancer in the world. Japan has one of the lowest worldwide rates of every type of cancer with the exception of stomach cancer. Source

Can iodine deficiency cause cancer? Well, it makes sense, doesn’t it? If iodine is responsible for chleating the body of toxins and heavy metals, and you don’t have enough iodine to do the job, then where do those carcinogens go? The do not get excreted and they get stored in your body.

Our RDA recommends only 150 micrograms — about 10 times less. As a result, most Americans are iodine deficient. The iodine docs — Brownstein, Abraham, Flechas, et al — say that it’s somewhere between 80-95% of the population.

I believe it. What with all the soy in the food supply (soybean oil in most of the cooking oils, soy lecithin in most packaged foods, soy in all the baby formula, and soy in most of our dairy and meats — due to the fact that soy is being fed to all the cows and chickens and pigs). Soy is a goitrogen and it blocks iodine absorption.

In addition to soy, there is something called bromide. Bromide is also a goitrogen.

They used to add iodine to the bread but now they are adding bromide. Many breads, bread and cereal products, and packaged foods contain bromide. Even soda pop has bromide. Mountain Dew contains brominated vegetable oil. Yuck!

Oh, and pesticides. Pesticides also have bromide.

Anyhow, one of the consequences of an iodine deficiency is the inability to chelate toxins and heavy metals from your body. I guess your body needs iodine to detoxify.

Iodine… detoxifies the body by removing mercury, fluorides, chlorides, and bromides. Source

When you start taking iodine, it’s normal to go through a detox. The iodine goes to work getting all that bad stuff out of your body. Fluoride, mercury, bromide, etc.

I have many of the symptoms of bromide poisoning:

eye lid twitching
tingling in hands or feet
leg and hip ache (feels like arthritis)
metallic taste
sinus ache
runny nose (I have post nasal drip)
headache
lethargy, fatigue
body odor or bad breath (bromos is Greek for stench)
irritability
increased salivation
kidney pain
anxiety and/or depression

Some of these symptoms I have had for a while — about a month or two now. The kidney pain, anxiety attacks, eye twitching, irritability, leg and hip ache, fatigue, and tingling in my hands and fingers.

Oh! And you know another thing that is caused by iodine deficiency? Hyper-pigmentation — or melasma. This explains why I started getting these brown spots on my face a few years ago.

It also explains why I have impaired immunity — why I get sick so easily and can’t recover very fast. Heavy metal toxicity does that to you.

The symptoms come on fast and furious when you start detoxing. Dr. Flechas says that it is common to have the symptoms for about 2 weeks when you first start on the iodine.

There are a few ways to help your body detox faster:

Sweating - Very hot salt baths or clay baths — as hot as you can stand it so you sweat
Salt Loading - Take 1/2 tsp of sea salt in a small amount of water, followed immediately by 12-16 oz of pure water
Juicing - Drinking lots of freshly juiced vegetables including cilantro, parsley, carrots, etc.
Coffee Enema - Yes, you read that right. I guess this helps the liver produce more bile. If it works, why not?

I just took a very hot bath with 1 cup of raw apple cider vinegar and 3 cups of kosher salt. I am now wrapped in towels and lying under four blankets — sweating like crazy. The taste in my mouth is horrible — metallic and really foul. That’s the heavy metals, I guess.

In a minute I’m going to get up and juice up some carrots, celery and parsley. And take vitamin C (acerola powder — it’s a food-based form of vitamin C). I’m going to do the salt loading again, too.

And I think I will pick up an enema bag on the way to the airport to pick up Seth. A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.
This is not easy but I am just so grateful to be getting rid of all these toxins in my body. How ridiculous is it that we live in a world where we are poisoned by our own food supply?