MedicalConspiracies- Iodide/Iodine

	http://lewisford.info/iodide.html Iodides are chemical compounds that have Iodine  atoms bonded into their structure.  The vast majority of  the Iodine on Earth, and in our diets, is in the form of  Iodides.  Iodine is more chemically active than the  Iodides formed from it.  That is why weak solutions  containing elemental Iodine are often used as  antiseptics, and in some parts of the world used for  water purification.  Such solutions kill bacteria and  viruses that may be on the skin, or in drinking water, by  chemically "burning" or "bleaching" them, much like very  dilute solutions of the chemically similar element  "Chlorine" are also used to bleach and kill germs,  particularly in municipal water systems and in public  swimming pools.      During the 1970's, one of the experiments I most  enjoyed showing my students involved taking a small  scoop of pure, purple-black, crystals of solid elemental  Iodine, and placing them on top of one end of a small  sheet of ordinary kitchen-grade Aluminum foil.  I would  roll and wrap the foil around the pile of crystals until I  ended up with cigarette shaped roll of foil with the Iodine  concentrated in one end.   Then I would twist the foil to  bind and seal it so the Iodine could not leak out.  Next I  pick the bundle up by the end that did not have any  Iodine it, to show it to the class.  Then I would silently  wait for them to try warning me that my foil cigarette had  started emitting a cloud of translucent purple smoke.    This development, and the commotion it inspired,  usually got everybody's attention.   As things continued  to heat up the Aluminum would be surrounded by an  atmosphere of darker purple Iodine fumes, and then  would burst into bright white/yellow flames that  consumed the purple fumes about as quickly as they  were cooked and sublimed out of the foil.  The reaction  was not just between the Aluminum and the Iodine.   Some of the Iodine also reacted with the with the thin  Oxide layer on the Aluminum that usually protects that  metal from further oxidation, and also with Oxygen in the  air, to form Oxides of Iodine.  Usually after less than one  minute, when the remains of the aluminum cigarette ran  out of elemental Iodine, the purple vapors would  dissipate, and the brightly burning Aluminum would  extinguish itself.   The white "Aluminum Iodide" smoke  produced by the main chemical reaction would be left  floating around the room, and we would have to open  doors and widows for ventilation.    Aluminum, and most other metals, will also  spontaneously burst into flame and burn even more  quickly and energetically when they are placed in an  atmosphere of pure Bromine, Chlorine, or Fluorine.   These very active chemical  elements, and Iodine, are  called "Halogens".  They share similar chemical  properties, and in the periodic table of elements they are  all placed in the same column.  I don't recommend trying  these metal burning experiments with any of the other  halogens, however, because they are all much more  active, tissue burning and toxic than Iodine.  During The  First World War, for example, tons of Chlorine gas were  released by the opposing armies upon each other.   Chlorine gas is heavier than air, so it stays concentrated  near the ground and burns the eyes, throat and lungs of  anyone downwind from the release point.   Tens of  thousands the soldiers out in the field were quickly  suffocated by the burns, and hundreds of thousands  more, who managed to managed to survive the initial  gas attacks nevertheless developed chronic breathing  problems that haunted them for the rest of their lives.   The suffering was so widespread and so horrific that  after The First World War the use of poison gas was  outlawed.  Even Hitler and Stalin were afraid of the  retaliation their counties would draw, if they broke the  ban.    I hope all of this clarifies your understanding that  Iodines are compounds than contain chemically bonded  Iodine.  The reason why elemental Iodine is much rarer  in nature than Iodides is that it is so chemically reactive  that it spontaneously bonds together with all kinds of  other elements and/or compounds, to form iodides with  them.  Iodine is also one of the rarer elements on Earth.  It is  only about as common as gold.  Since salts of it, and  most other compounds of it, are water-soluble, most of  the world's Iodide has ended up concentrated in the  ocean.  Even so, there is only about one part Iodide per  each 100,000,000 parts of seawater.   Removing the  water from seawater, there are about 3 parts of Iodide  for each million parts of sea salt.  Our modern Iodized  table salt has about 74 part per million of Iodide added to  it.  Thus, it has about a 25 times higher of a  concentration of Iodide than sea salt does.  If you  replace your ordinary Iodized table-salt with sea-salt  because it is "more natural" and supposedly "healthier",  you may be cutting out the major source of Iodide in your  diet.  Animal sea-life needs Iodide to make and regulate the  thyroid hormones that drive its growth and energy use.   Salt-water shell fish, such as lobsters and crabs, can't  even moult (grow larger) without high concentrations of  Iodide in their diet.  All kinds of sea plants and animals  have evolved to concentrate Iodide in their bodies to  levels higher than found in our iodized table salt.  Most  kinds of seaweeds are very low in carbohydrates and  high in protein.  The high levels of  proteins in them are  also composed of very high concentrations of an amino  acid called "Tyrosine".   By weight, for example, dried  kelp is about 60% protein and 5% carbohydrates, and  the protein in kelp is about 10% Tyrosine.   Tyrosine  spontaneously absorbs, bonds with, and concentrates  Iodides.  To further speed up this bonding of Iodides with  the Tyrosine in their structure, most seaweeds also have  "Iodide pumps" located in their cellular membranes that  pump some of the Iodide in the seawater around them  into their cells.  This enables a lot of the Tyrosine in their  tissues to become Iodized, so they often end up with  Iodide levels inside their tissues that are about  1,000-fold higher than Iodide level is in the seawater  they live in.  By weight, for example, the Giant Pacific  Kelp that grows off the coast of California, after it has  been dehydrated, typically contains between 3,000 and  7,000 parts per million of Iodide.    I believe the reason sea weeds have such high levels  of Iodide is to poison the fish, and other creatures, that  might otherwise eat very much of them.  Since they have  evolved greater tolerance for high levels of Iodide than  most fish, filter feeders and crustaceans often survive,  and end up with, very high concentration of Iodide in  their bodies.  So, in addition to seaweeds, most marine  invertebrates are also good sources of dietary Iodide for  humans.   Humans need a lot more dietary Iodide than most other  mammals because (as I will explain in detail in Feeling  Young and In Love) for millions of years our early human  and hominid ancestors evolved and prospered in  semi-aquatic, marine environments, where Iodide was  about 100 times more abundant in their food chain than  it is in today's modern American diet.  Most of the human  population today still lives less than 200 feet above sea  level, and most of the people living near the sea, and still  dining regularly on foods from the marine food chain, are  healthier and live longer than the average American  because they eat higher and more optimal levels of  Iodide than the average American.    The first, and so far the only, major summary of all of  the scientific research done around the world over the  past 100 years on dietary Iodide sufficiency,  "Orthoiodiosupplementation for The Whole Human  Body", recently (in December 2003) concluded that the  amount of Iodide/Iodine needed for optimal human  health, happiness and longevity was about 12.5 mg per  adult per day.  That is about 83 times as much as the  US Food and Drug Administration recommends, and  about 90-120 times as much as the average American  adult today actually eats.    (To find this ground-breaking  summary, just put the word "orthoiodosupplemetation" in  your search engine.)       The average USA diet is presently one of the most  Iodine deficient in the world, and as a consequence most  of the psychological and health problems that Americans  suffer from, and are killed by, are Iodide deficiency  related.  I will go into this sad and easily correctable fact  in detail in Feeling young and In Love.   In The Basic  Program from Feeling Young and In Love I give more  specific Iodide dosage information for various age  groups and health conditions.   The Basic Program can  be downloaded for free from this website.                 Kelp Powder   There are three kinds of supplemental Iodide I  recommend.  The oldest and most available is most any  kind of seaweed.  I prefer ground up kelp powder  because it is the least expensive of the seaweeds, and  in its dehydrated and powered form it tastes salty and  makes a fairly pleasant tasting salt replacement in soups  and sauces and/or in combination with real butter or  cheese on top of hot-air-popped popcorn, baked  potatoes, and/or steamed vegetables.  The average  Japanese adult gets about 14 mg of Iodide per day, from  eating sea weeds.  Most of this Iodide is delivered in  their traditional morning bowls of boiled sea-vegetables  called "Miso Soup".  To get the minimum-opitmal 12.5  mg of Iodide per healthy adult, per day from eating kelp  powder, from the Giant Pacific Kelp, you would need to  eat about 2 heaping teaspoons of dehydrated kelp  power per day.    Many oriental markets and health food stores sell  various kinds of dehydrated sea-weeds and/or kelp  powders.   The "Now Foods" brand of powdered kelp I  have most commonly bought at my local health food  store currently costs about $3.50 per 8 ounces.    My list  of on-line/mail-order suppliers is as follows: Now Foods - Kelp Powder Now Foods is its own distributor, selling directly to  retailers.   When I put "now  kelp powder" in Goggle, it  came up with dozens of on-line retailers reselling its  8-ounce bottles of Kelp Powder for about $3 each. There are also many other types of seaweed, and  brands of kelp powder, listed on the Internet.   In  quantities of 10 pounds or more, some of them cost less  than $2 per pound.  Even at those prices, however, they  are not nearly as low cost, or as easy to use, as a  source of Iodide/Iodine, as is Lugol's Solution.                 Lugol's Solution In 1823 a French physician named J. G. A. Lugol  developed a concentrated solution of Potassium Iodide  and elemental Iodine for treating the mental and physical  problems of his female patents, and also as a general  purpose health tonic, antiseptic, disinfectant and  drinking water purification treatment.  It was an  immediate success, particularly in treating depression,  obesity, slow metabolism, menstrual problems, breast  and uterine  fibroids, tumors and cancers, and  for  promoting  better general health and happiness.   In  1827, realizing that he had made a major discovery that  could help most people live happier, healthier and longer  lives, Lugol finally gave his formula to the world.   Lugol's  Solution is composed of 85% water, 10% potassium  Iodide, and 5 % elemental Iodine.  The Elemental Iodine  is what gives the solution its translucent dark brown  color.  It also gives it its antiseptic, antibiotic and water  purification effects, and much of its anti-cancer effects.     In the human body large amount of Iodide are  enzymatically converted into elemental Iodine.  The  female breast, for example, concentrates the amount of  Iodine in breast milk, by converting large amounts of  Iodides into elemental Iodine, then the elemental Iodine  ends up dissolving in and concentrated in the milk fat.   That vastly increases how much Iodine a mother's  nursing baby get.  Even when no breast feeding is going  on females breasts still convert Iodides into elemental  Iodide.   The kidneys then excrete the excess elemental  Iodine coming from the breasts about 5 times faster than  they excrete Iodides.  That is why even women who are  not nursing babies ideally still need about 5 mg more  dietary Iodide per day than men.  So if you eat enough  Iodide, even if you eat no element Iodine at all, you body  can covert enough of it into enough Iodine so that you  can enjoy all of Iodine's anti-bacterial, anti-viral and  anti-cancer activities that you need.  In fact, the infection  fighting and cancer fighting white blood cells secrete  Hydrogen Peroxide, which converts any nearby Iodides  in the body into elemental Iodine.  That Iodine then  attacks and helps to kill the germs and/or cancer cells  that the white blood cells are fighting.  The advantage of the elemental Iodide in Lugol's  Solution is that for people who are already sick, it is  already ready to start acting against infections and/or  cancers, so it is faster acting as and antibiotic, anti-viral  agent and/or anti-cancer agent than are Iodides.  The  disadvantage if Lugol's is that the elemental Iodide in it  can cause burns and Iodine allergies, and can also kill  off too many of the good bacteria in the digestive system.  During the 19th century and the first half of the 20th  century Lugol's solution came to be widely  recommended by popular word of mouth, and was also  routinely prescribed by apothecaries, druggists,  pharmacists, physicians and all kinds of other healers for  everything from use as a cough preventive and cure, to  a cancer preventive and cure.  Its effectiveness was why  it became so popular.  During the previous century most  Americans ended up using Lugol's solution for treating  all kinds of health problems.   Even today, it still works  better over the long-term for most such preventions and  cures, than any of our presently available prescription  medications.     Humans need to consume adequate dietary Iodide to  help them resist infections and autoimmune diseases,  and to avoid cancer and all kinds of other degenerative  diseases.  Prescription drugs may temporarily suppress  some of the many symptoms caused by Iodide  deficiency, but the side effects of drugs are often worse  than the symptoms they treat.  Also, even as some  symptoms of the underlying deficiency may be  suppressed, many other even worse symptoms will  sooner or later arise.  The simple prevention of all of  these problems, and the need for so many medical  treatments and prescription drugs, is to provide  adequate dietary Iodide in the first place.    The amazing efficacy of Iodide/Iodine for preventing  and curing all kinds of common illnesses is detailed in  Feeling Young and In Love.  For now let me just  summarize by saying that the most commonly proscribed  daily dosage delivers about 12.5 mg of Iodide/Iodine.  When bought in bulk, 12.5 mg/day only costs about $1  per year, and is enough to long postpone, or entirely  prevent, the development of the vast majority of the  degenerative diseases that presently disable and kill  most older Americans.    12.5 mg of Iodide/Iodine is also  enough to help slow the aging, and improve the health  and happiness, of most younger Americans.  Despite the well established cure-all nature of Lugol's  Solution, you may hear very little about it.  While it was  very widely proscribed, and it, and solutions of  Potassium Iodide without the elemental Iodine, were  used regularly before 1950, by more than 100 million  Americans, "modern" doctors almost never proscribe,  recommend or even discuss Lugol's' Solution, or any  other Iodinde/Iodine containing supplements.  In fact, few  of them have even heard very much about the bodies  need to Iodide/Iodine supplements, and what they have  heard has UNDERSTATED THE ACTUAL NEED BY  ABOUT 83-FOLD.    When Iodide started being added to table salt in  1924,  since the researchers developing the recommendations  came from "modern" medical orientations, where  prescribing the minimum effective dose of any  medication was, and is still, standard practice, and they  tended to view Iodide as some kind of toxic medication,  rather than as a natural and vital nutrient that we have  evolved high need for, and even higher tolerance of,  they ended up trying to find the very minimum amount of  Iodide that needed to be added to the diet to prevent the  immediate development of diseases such as cretinism  and goiter, rather than how much was needed for  optimum health and happiness.   The 150 mcg per day  that they recommended, and that is still stupidly  recommended by our government, when that much is  actually consumed, is enough to suppress the  development of goiter and cretinism in about 97% of the  population.  One problem, however, is that while most  American are still eating as much salt as ever, they are  getting more and more of their salt from processed  foods, such as junk foods, and less and less of their salt  from table salt.  Since the government only mandated  that Iodide be added to table salt, junk foods and all  other high-salt processed foods, almost never contain   any added Iodide.  Thus, the amount of Iodide that  Americans eat has been declining.  It is now less than  20% as high as it was in 1969.  It is also now  substantially lower than even the low-ball amount that  the government still stupidly recommends as sufficient.    There is major evidence that most Americans are  presently eating too little Iodide to suppress the  development of minder kinds of mental dysfunctions  such as our current epidemics of attention deficit  disorders, depressions, drug dependencies, obesity, and  wide-spread failures to fall and stay faithfully in love with  our mates.  Also our current very low levels of dietary  Iodide are insufficient to suppress the premature  development of all kinds of physical degenerative  diseases, such as our current epidemics of heart  disease, cancer and arthritis.      Much of the misinformation about Iodide/Iodine is also  the fault of the drug industry.  It does not like competition  against its more expensive and highly advertised and  medically promoted products.  Even thought Lugol's  Solution would be vastly more health promoting,  applicable and appropriate than any of their patented  products, the drug industry cannot make any serious  money with it because it cannot be patented.  Also,  Lugol's Solution is much less expensive than any  prescription medication.    Even worse for the drug  industry than the extremely low cost of Lugol's Solution,  however,  is its effectiveness at preventing and curing all  kinds of diseases.  The more it is used, the more it will  undermine the sales of those of their patented drugs that  don't actually cure anything, but rather just treat  symptoms of diseases.  That is the vast majority of  modern patented drugs.  Basically if you are taking  enough Iodide/Iodine to avoid most illnesses and  degenerative diseases, then you are not going to need  to buy nearly as much of their very high priced drugs.   To help suppress public knowledge about, and use of,  Iodide/Iodine drug companies have lobbied and bribed  federal legislators and administrators, and have also had  the influence to get their cronies installed in the NIH,  FDA, and the DOJ.  In the NIH the cronies have long  blocked the scientific study of the health benefits of  natural substances such as Iodide/Iodine.  In the FDA  the cronies have lobbied for, written and enforced laws   that, for example, make it illegal for nutritional  supplemental manufacturers and distributors to make  any health claims at all for any nutritional supplements.   It does not matter how well researched and scientifically   substantiated such claims may be.   Unless the   manufacturer pays huge amounts of money to have their  nutritional supplement tested and approved as a  prescription medication, then making claims about its  effectiveness is still forbidden.  Since natural remedies  can't be patented there is no good means to recover  such expenditures. On the other hand, since it's drugs are usually patented,  and even after the patents have expired the drugs still  have built up considerable brand name recognition and  loyalty, particularly among the doctors who are in charge  of proscribing them, the drug industry has been able to  build up a large enough cash flow so than it can afford to  invest tens of billions of dollars each year to advertise in,  and thereby  better control, the medical journals and  medical education curriculums in this country.  Such  investments teach medical students and young  physicians a lot about patented drugs, and how to use  them according to the drug industries recommendations,  rather than anything about Iodide/Iodine and how it can  be used to prevent the need for most drug prescriptions  and/or medical procedures. This "disinterest in" (ignorance about and prejudice  against) natural remedies that has developed is also in  the financial interest of medical practitioners and the  medical establishment in general.  With little dietary  Iodide/Iodine prescribed or consumed, people develop  all kinds of diseases sooner, more often, and more  severely, so they end up seeing doctors a lot more.   It is  all about money.  They make money treating diseases,  and Iodide/Iodine would prevent too many diseases,  and/or cure too many of their potential customers. Getting back to the availability of Lugol's solution, it is  still theoretically legal to sell it.   During the  administration of George W. Bush, however, the FDA  and the DOJ have raided and shut down the operations  of hundreds of manufactures and marketers of nutritional  supplements, including all of the lower-cost providers of  Lugol's Solution labeled for human consumption.  The  only companies still selling it that I was able to find are: There are also two other classes of sources of Lugol's  Solution, however, that are still on the Internet and  available to American citizens.  One is marine aquarium  suppliers, and the other is laboratory chemical suppliers.   Marine aquariums, particularly those that house marine  invertebrates, need to have supplemental Iodide/Iodine  added to them.  Since it was low cost and  widely  available during the early decades of that industry,  Lugol's solution is still widely used  to supplement the  Iodide/Iodine levels  of saltwater aquariums.  Just put  "Lugol's  Solution" in your search engine, and most of  the suppliers your find will be retailers of saltwater  aquarium supplies. Lugol's Solution is also widely used in the field of  biology.  A common test for starch in plants, animals and  bacteria, for example, involves applying a drop of Lugol's  Solution to the specimen to be tested.  The Iodine in the  drop reacts with any starch in the sample, to turn it deep,  dark blue.  "Gram Negative Bacteria," for example, are  bacteria that contain small amounts of starch, and thus  have their stores of starch stained dark blue when  exposed to Lugol's Solution.   Laboratory grade Lugol's  solution is low cost, widely available, and just as pure  and safe as Lugol's Solution labeled for human  consumption.  Before using it, however, I suggest  reading the chapter on Iodide/Iodine in The Basic  Program from Feeling Young and In Love.  It warns  about how to deal with Iodine sensitivity and other  problems that many American have developed due to  preexisting deficiencies of dietary Iodide.  It also warns  about how children and adolescents don't need as much  Iodide as adults.  One warning about ordering from  laboratory supply houses that I should mention is that  you don't need to order their larger size bottles.  A single  Liter of Lugol's solution contains about 25,000 drops.   That is probably enough to supplement your entire  family for years.  While most laboratory supply places in  your town, and on the Internet, probably sell Lugol's  Solution, the only one I have bought any from is NASCO.   They sell to the general public, their prices are  competitive, and their service was fine.                                                                     Ford's Formula Iodide Drops Given the corruption of the Food and Drug  Administration so that it still only recommends about  1/83rd of the optimal amount of dietary Iodide, given the  corruption of the National Institute of Health, and the  drug industry which controls the NIH, so that they have  yet to do much of anything to test and/or publicize how  much dietary Iodide would best prevent disease and  improve health, happiness and longevity, and given that  the level of Iodide in the American diet has been  declining each year since 1969 and is now less than  20% as high as it was in the 1960's, I have formulated a  low-cost and easy to use Iodide supplement that the  third-party supplement manufactures and marketers can  produce and sell.  I have included complete information  about why and how to use "Ford's Formula Iodide Drops"  in The Basic Program.  I will add the contact information  about new suppliers of it periodically after I heard from  them.  For now the only suppliers I am aware of are: