from an article in blacklistednews.com ..... In 1945 dentists set out to prove that adding fluoride chemicals into public water supplies safely prevented children’s tooth decay. The studies failed; but early fluoridationists ignored this inconvenient truth and forged ahead. Now with 2/3 of public water supplies fluoridated, Americans are fluoride overdosed and suffer from fluoride’s toxic effects as cavity rates climb. In 1955, ten years into the experiment, researchers reported more bone defects, anemia and earlier female menstruation in children purposely dosed with sodium fl ...
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If there is a better place to send this, please do, but I do find the fine folk who frequent this forum are interested in any good information out there. I found it a very interesting page about nanotechnology and food - more poisoning of the food supply. http://www.blacklistednews.com/iNP/view.asp?ID=5156   [End]
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http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=19602&fr= Here he is....   [End]
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I live in Texas, in an area above Houston that was rural till about 5 years ago, when progress came roaring up the freeway. Anyway, there is a town to the east of where I live called Cut n’ Shoot. Many people know that it exists because of its’ name. They have lots and lots of resales and junk shops and flea markets out there. The shops are not necessarily orderly, and most are filled with useless junk that is dusty and cobwebby, but you can find the overlooked treasure or two. As you are driving there, you will pass old junky trailers with dogs and cars on blocks, scrap yards, typical rur ...
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I read an article once about iodine in the diet of pigs - maybe it got posted before the Big C-Zone Crash... as I recall, it said that farmers monitor the amount of iodine that the pigs get, because too much will make the fat in the bacon too soft! So they want only a certain ratio so that the bacon fat will be firm, but in Japan they like it softer, or something like that. Sorry for the paraphrase, I just remember thinking about how this supports the fat liquification, which I am all for!   [End]
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Is perio-menopause a possibility? I have just recently entered into the Wonderful World of Menopause, and have experienced moderate anxiety attacks, edema, fatigue, night sweats and the famous Crying at the Drop of a Hat. Thank god I don’t get the Lifetime Channel... Just went to the doctor for a hormone panel. Told her about iodine supplementing, expecting some sort of rebuke, but got none. She was aware of breastcancerchoices.org, and the renewed interest in iodine. Cool lady. At any rate, these symptoms come and go. I have good days and bad days, I thought they would be consistent ...
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I am losing a fair amount of hair as well, but am going tomorrow for a hormone panel, as I think I am in menopause, and iodine has NOT helped THAT! :) My hair and nails are growing at what could be called a phenomenal rate, though, it is obvious and my clients at the salon have noticed and commented on how long it is and how fast it has grown this year. and it looks luxurious. I am actually able to keep nails, in spite of having them in haircolor and water all the time. Iodine has DEFINATELY made a difference there. My pharmacy-tech friend told me that little old ladies come in wanting ...
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man, whenever I do 200 mgs, I turn lobster bright red and my skin raises in whelps and I have an anxiety problem. I just cannot handle it.   [End]
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Day 2 : 2 drops, after 2 weeks off all supplements: about 2 -3 hours after ingesting the 2 drops - severe sinus blocking and big headache from stuffy nose. No salt push then as I was at work. Headache stayed until we went for mexican cuisine and I drank 2 margaritas. Hey I figured I’d better be honest. Will continue -tomorrow being Sunday, I will do my drops, then salt push if my head gets stuffy again. When I first did any iodine 6 months ago, I wound up with a very bad head cold that started out just like this - the sinus headache and stuffy thing - why do you all suppose that I am d ...
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Just started back, using the Wilsons, after a 2 week break, 2 drops a day, and will work up weekly. 2 weeks ago I stopped all supplements due to the following symptoms: Very very sore bones in hands, feet and legs - painfully sore - cystic acne bumps - heavy fatigue - overall malaise. After carefully reveiwing what I was ingesting, I believe that the issue was related to my taking a DHEA formula that my supplement store lady was convinced would heal my ”adrenal fatigue issues” that she said I had because my pupils were dilated in her dimly lit shop. I feel she meant well, but when I in ...
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Man all you guys are great!! Thanks for all the positive reinforcement. I am going to start b-vitamin-ing tomorrow, and get ready for re-introduction to iodine. How often to salt load if I am using 2 - 5 drops a day? And should I take 3 g of C? I don’t want to go into the world of supple-mania again. I realized that when my sister got breast cancer, I panicked and started taking everything. That is not healthy, that is fear-based. I must have gotten scared that it took me 40-odd years to get my life together, I didn’t want a health issue to take it away. That is very fear-based. ...
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Ok - you guys helped me with the copy and paste so, in case someone missed this post a while back, this is what was going on before: http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=952443 Update: With no supplements at all. My urine stayed very thick and of varying degrees of tan and dark yellow or yellow orange, no matter how much water I drank, for about 3 days. Now it is sometimes clear, but still not as clear as it should be. I was very muzzy-headed, and still experienced extreme fatigue for about 5 days. Then it was afternoon fatigue, now very little fatigue. My bones hurt considera ...
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what is the prednisone for? Have you talked with him about the growing number of atheletes that are having heart issues possibly due to using aspartame and other chemicals?   [End]
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I intend to put out business cards - my name, my business #, and website addresses - I am the same way - I tell wherever I go. Tomorrow I will post the results of going cold turkey on all supplements - then I will resume a protocol that uses 2 drops/day of Wilsons! I can’t figure out how y’all post the post #’s for reference, but some of you remember my post from 5 or 6 days ago reffering to how toxic I was - report to follow. Tonite is a distant thunderstorm, a small snifter of brandy and Van Morrison. Viva La Tejas!!!   [End]
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You are so right. I am very aware that I work in chemicals, especially because I try so hard to avoid them every where else!! I am leasing a small room in a big building full of small salons - my room is probably 8 X 10. I don’t do perms, but specialize in color and cutting. So lots of chemicals there. I am currently looking for a non-ammonia line, but I feel that it doesn’t make much difference as you have to have some sort of developer for the color. It may not be ammonia, but it is something. This is difficult, doing hair is really the only skill that I have, and it is lucrative - I wi ...
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Honestly, it’s a limited one - I took Estratest HS for about 2 years till I couldn’t stand it anymore, than slowly weaned myself off, and once I tried Zoloft for about 1 month, couldn’t stand it either. But come to think of it, there was a time I was pretty dependent on alcohol and ibuprofen - lots of ibuprofen. That was about 6 years ago.   [End]
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I know people who have a much lesser education than you are describing, and they think they know it all, too. I find that character defect crosses all socio-economic lines. They’re narcissists. Dreadful people to be around. I now avoid them like the plague....   [End]
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As much as I dislike the salt loading, I did it this morning, and found my pee to have a yucky color. My workout was lousy, I am so tired, but I will try to get ”back to normal”. I am off tomorrow, and will attend to this poor shell that houses my spirit - fluids, salt load, napping, baking bread while listening to dvd musicals - all the good stuff. No workout. Must recoup. Great thread, thanks!   [End]
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I meant to add: I do use selenium - 200 mcg once a day, and a multi once or twice a week. sorry. Salt loading I have avoided except on occasion - which was when my kidneys hurt as I upped the dose. This pain is steady. do you all suggest that I load now? Or do a series of flushes while I am off iodine??   [End]
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I have been using iodine since way back, as some of you know, all the way back to the inception of this forum, and before. What a great trip it has been!! I have watched this forum grow, and newbies come in and expand our intelligence even further. I have hesitated to post this, but was encouraged through a private email correspondance to do so in order to gather input and to share info. I have been supplementing on an average of 8 or so horizontal drops a day since February. Many wonderful benefits occured - no more sore breasts, skin not dry, some weight loss at the beginning, among o ...
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Will you explain the protocol behind this? I am set up for an appt. for a tummy tuck consultation - something I have always wanted, and am curious that maybe I can pull my sking tighter and reduce fat deposits with this ... What cream do you use, how do you add iodine and do you look weird, or does it blend in? I was painting my breasts on occasion and my ”jellyfish” (belly), but not often and not when I knew it was a ”boyfriend night”, We’re living together now, and I don’t paint Lugols’ like I used to.... I will tell you - learning to live with someone at 45 is a big pain in the ass.. ...
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pass, please : )   [End]
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That’s funny, one of the first things I noticed on iodine was ”the juicy” - I sure welcomed it - I had a hysterectomy in my 30’s - I am 45, and was using progesterone creme with very mixed results prior to iodine - I had very sore breasts, no lubrication, mini-flashes, etc and felt that the creme did not do much. I felt ”estrogen-y”. Enter Iodine. At 8 months supplementing: no more sore breasts (4 months), nice and juicy with better libido, and with the progesterone creme(natural by the way) and the DHEA-F formula from natures sunshine ( recommended by my health food place to supplement wi ...
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Like the grasshopper in the parable, I waited till the last minute to try to buy Lugols. I used the references up top to attempt to order, and the least expensive site that was actually still displaying pages was niles bio. Well they contacted me today and told me that the califormia justice department called them yesterday, and told them no more selling lugols. They had to refuse their delivery from their distributor. Being the grasshopper that I was, I no longer know where to get lugols. Can I still order from Jcrows? No offense to them ,but I was really trying hard to avoid paying th ...
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Y’all are in beautiful, but wet, Central tx, but pour me, pour me is over here in Montgomery, above the b-hole that is Houston, I live a few miles from the Renaissance Festival, used to be the country but boy how we are changing. How I envy you Hill-country dwellers. You are correct, there are lots of Texans on CZ. What is the name of the biergarten? We are always looking for great places for our little Harley trips... Still getting the rain, but not for the last 2 days, we have a little frog farm going on under the oaks here - all different kinds of frogs, and gobs of them. We like to ...
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Wait, explain this corn chip thing to me. I don’t see additives on the label of ingrediants on the chips I like! That’s the only kind of chip I eat, as I know the potato chip thing...   [End]
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We need a watermelon taste-off- down here in texas, it is the Hempstead watermelon that the old black men sell on the side of the road. Red heaven.   [End]
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You know, that makes sense. I came from a very severe abuse situation, all the therapy has not taken the memory, and with the memory comes pain. Memory-pain. Though I am 45 now, the memory-pain is always there, and there are few moments where I truly am fully happy, as that memory-pain lurks. It is better than it was due to some very difficult soul work I did a few years back, and sometimes things surface to be dealt with. During those times I am depressed and chewing more. But as I have improved with loving myself, the drive has lessened. I am looking for and anticipating a full healing, ...
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I had an Ioni-Thermie wrap at the salon I work at, and have another one coming up. My target areas are my ”square butt”. You spread a solution on your skin, they wrap a clay pack around the target areas, but the clay does not touch the skin, then they attach electrodes that strongly contract and stimulate the area. I lost a total of 4 &7/8 inches overall between my thighs and waist. The girl that did the wrap has been a client of mine since she was in the 8th grade, and I asked her flat out if this was bunk, told her I would never tell if it was, but she assured me that it is not. She ...
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How do you get rid of an addiction to food? I have believed for a long time that I have a fixation with comfort food. I could give you the whole brutal psychological breakdown as to why, but not necessary. I do know that I eat, particularly when I am alone, and love to chew and chew, so in trying to change my eating lifestyle, I chew and chew stuff like carrots, almonds, jerky (yeah, I know), but then I will go for things like peanut butter crackers, corn chips with salsa, etc.Don’t tell me to chew gum!, weirdly enough, I hate gum. I frequently crave salt now, sometimes sugar, but it us ...
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Last night I was at the going-away party of a gal that happens to be one of the best waitresses in Texas. She’s a Yankee from Chi-CAgo, and we forgive her anyway, cause she’s so cool. So we’re all getting hoop-dy and singing kareoke, and someone starts singing ”Purple Rain” and the first thing I see in my mind is Trappers’ Purple Moses, and then I turn to my boyfriend and say, ”this is the theme song of the Iodine Forum”, and THAT LOOK crosses his face. You know, Veterans of the Violet, the one that says ”Huh??”. But I knew. And I smiled to myself. Yes, I Knew. Thanks, guys, fe ...
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5 a day just isn’t the trick-but I’ll bet we know what is... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070717/sc_nm/cancer_breast_diet_dc_2;_ylt=AvGGMN...   [End]
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Could you please explain the magnesium therapy and the IP6? I have been taking magnesium citrate for about a month now, no IP6 but am getting ”curiouser and curiouser” about it. Why magnesium? what kind and how much? the internet info confuses me, and I have always felt that your info and insights are trustworthy. thanks   [End]
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Oh Yeah!! I used to have very difficult bowels, probably what doctors would call Irritable Bowel. There has been vast improvement in that area. My skin is not dry and ashy anymore, my hair and nails are growing like crazy, my adult acne is non-existant, I have better energy - not optimal, unfortunately, but that would improve if I didn’t enjoy good wine so much - I no longer have sore breasts at all, at anytime of the month, and that is going on 3 months, so it took about 3 months to stock up in the breast area, I guess, THAT has been amazing, as I had sore breasts all the time. Like a ...
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I started Iodine about 6 months ago, and approximately 4 days into it I developed a whopping case of what I thought was the flu. Fever, awful chills, stuffy nose and head, but I kept using the Iodine. Later I came to believe that the Iodine did indeed flush some virus or bacteria out of hiding. I agree whole-heartedly with Hopinso.   [End]
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Sorry it took so long to get back, I had a long work day! The recommendations that were made to me at that time as I recall was to salt load and take the vitamin C and selenium. I did 1/2 tsp of Hawaiian sea salt in 1 qt. water twice a day, and did about 4,000 mg Vitamin C spread out over the hours, not all at one time. I couldn’t tolerate the selenium at 200mcg, so I do 100, even now. I am not doing a salt water protocol at this time. I do, however use sea salt more than ever, and am slowly doing away with table salt. I never, ever drink soda, not diet or otherwise, so I really get ...
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I know how things are changing regarding getting 5% Lugols come July or so. I had gotten some lugols from MedEx way back at the beginning, when Trapper got his, right before they ”backordered” it off their catalog. So I got very spoiled at the great price, and am hesitant to pay so much to JCrows’ (please don’t take offense, Crows, I am a lower-income individual, and every single penny counts). But I know I need to get another quart to stash away for the future, and was wondering what the current offerings are out there. Has anyone had any problem with Clarkson? An update is appreciat ...
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An amusing thing I have noticed is that ”stare” that you are describing usually takes place over the can of diet coke they are drinking as I am talking. Now there’s some poison for you!!! Some wise guy named Jesus said that if people don’t want what you have, shake the dust off your sandals and find people that do. I don’t spend too much time anymore explaining. I state my benefits, a brief history, then write down one or two websites depending on level of interest. Iodine4health.com and/or Curezone (if I see a higher level of interest), and breastcancerchoices.org if someone has in ...
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Texas is certainly full of beautiful people - and scenery! I live near Houston, in Montgomery, and we are getting so urban, I hate it. Oh to be lounging by the Pedernales right now!!! Lots of Texans on the Iodine forum   [End]
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Tell me slow, so I understand - I get the raciest heart on 100mg niacin, and feel terribly anzious, but the flush itself does not bother me, 50 mg just makes me blotchy in places, and I didn’t know if that is sufficient or if I need the whole giant flush the 100 brings on. Any suggestions??   [End]
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Hi Marty - Have you taken the recommended Vitamin C, selenium and sea salt, too?? That should help some - I am wondering if you drank a lot of pop like Mountain Dew, or do you now drink diet sodas- maybe lots of bromide in there?? Anyway, my hope is that you have read the information on this forum - there is so much, I know. But I do know that I was unable to easily up my dosage until I started to follow it up with the C, salt and selenium.... Moral support: it is worth doing and doing well.   [End]
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Oh, sweetie, not controversial to ME, I just look on in amusement at all the crap swirling around the truth. Rock on, oh Trapper-O’-KC, Over the hills and far away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gXuStZdtxY   [End]
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Grz, hope this isn’t offensive, but being from Texas, I prefer my chaps a**-less.   [End]
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If the party is for the over-45 set, then I say a banana motif, with cocktails of that Iodine scotch for our drinks, everyone dress in purple, and for the entertainment..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8B3pf3mOh0   [End]
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But I have always found you more attractive and controversial than Rygar...   [End]
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I had a breast reduction. When I first went to the plastic surgeon he was wondering why I wanted one, until I took my bra off and they went ”plop”. I am a dense breasted woman, he said, and I was a candidate for a minor reduction. So they do exist, and those dense boobs out there are MINE!!!!!!!!!   [End]
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Yes, I will keep you ”a-BREAST” of my progress! tee hee. We could do a song to the tune of ”Be Happy”: ’Don’t worry, boobs happy’ Here’s a little song we wrote I’d like to sing it note for note don’t worry, boobs happy. Cause when you’re deficient your boobs fall down and that will bring everybody down don’t worry, boobs happy oooh hooo hoo hoo u-hoo u-hoo u-hoohooohoooo, uhooohoooooouhooooo Etc. I never said i was a song writer, just a profound thinker :)   [End]
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I’m with High, keep on keeping on. I live near Conroe, and you are sweating BECAUSE IT IS SO DAMNED HUMID!!!!!! :) We’re neighbors. Bad storms here right now. Lemon sized hail in The Woodlands. Don’t be afraid. I have been supplementing since this forum started and was on the other forum before this one was born, I feel better than I have since I was young, it takes time, and detox, and effort and attention to detail. Don’t get derailed five minutes before the miracle, research,research, research, and ask all the questions you think you need to. I say lots of water, no soda, ...
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Prefer party in the woods with no walkers. Maybe some Led Zepplin. You little flirters, you. Carry on, you are so cute when you make eyes at each other.   [End]
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Yay!! Reduction!! As one of the ”big boobed wonders of the universe” and having had a reduction, any shrinkage is great! But really folks, I have gone down a bit myself, the remarkable thing being that I am going on a month of pain free breasts. yes, PAIN FREE BREASTS!! I can be hugged hard!! I can enjoy that part of foreplay!! I can take off my bra without flinching!! They are beautiful and full and soft!! I am actually running on the treadmill now at the gym. I am so amazed that I am pain free that I am sad that more people do not know. We should all have unlimited access to thi ...
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I agree with you - it seems to me that someone who is asking if they can continue the ”bad” habit and then just use this stuff to ”fix it” is not interested in making significant changes. They are just looking for a way to do the destructive stuff without consequence. My experience has taught me that there is still consequence, no matter how I ever tried to avoid it. And yes, I certainly preach the word on the dangers of aspartame. I have not had a soda, diet or otherwise, in about 5 years. I have watched my diet soda addicted friends with their headaches, ugly skin, and inability to ...
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I have noticed that you refer frequently to using niacin - I tried it based on some posts regarding detox, and at 100 mg experienced extreme flushing - I mean, extreme. 50 mgs does not seem to do enough - I understood that you got built up to where you didn’t flush so badly, but after a week, nothing changed, and I just stopped doing it. On one hand, I can really believe the benefits of dilating those capillaries, and I felt great after the flush, but during the flush my heart beat so hard it scared me, and I would get relatively light headed, and I didn’t like that feeling. Like severe a ...
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could be allergies, I never thought of that. AND - I am going to work in a canoe, with more rain to come today!! I can’t believe it - I think this is gods’ way of telling al gore that global warming is bunk haha - (just a joke to those of you who may take offense) - so should I just dose as normal a while longer? or back off some or all for a few days??   [End]
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Seems that before the ”crash of 2007” that there was a list of signs of iodine sufficiency - I can’t find it, and was wondering if any of you sages know...I cannot afford a loading test, and am kind of having to wing it. I have noticed the last few days that the frontal headache stays all day long, no matter what I do, I have adult acne again, and yesterday I was sooo irritable and crabby as to be almost impossible to live with. I feel better this morning, but am hesitant to do my drops. Now, I have gone from 5 drops twice a day, to 5 drops just in the morning. Something is telling me ...
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No one at the salon asks me if I want fast food anymore when they are doing the lunch run. I am officially known as ”the health nut” and there is an intense curiosity about what I bring for lunch. My clients say my secondary profession should be a health food store, and they will bring their questions in every month for me. I have learned to write down websites and refer, attempting to create a proactive person, rather than pretend I am any kind of practitioner. They were really freaking out when I did a parasite cleanse :) The best is yet to come, learntobe.....   [End]
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yeah, my feelings got tender a minute there - I have been with the forum since BEFORE we were an iodine forum! I just fly a bit below the radar. You’re great, do you know that?? I appreciate all the hard work you put into this to get us so much information.   [End]
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After about 2 1/2 months, I noticed that suddenly my breasts didn’t hurt anymore. It is such a free feeling. I am actually jogging on the treadmill at the gym now. I feel so much better for taking iodine, and I agree with you that it has been stolen from the public. My poor dear sister has breast cancer, and I wonder how much Iodine would have helped or would help today, but I cannot break her of the belief that what I am doing is not good. For about 2 weeks now I keep mashing my boobs expecting them to hurt, and they just plain don’t. It has been years and years since I got any more ...
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this was emailed to me this morning from the natural solutions foundation. please help out as there is a lot at stake for those of us on the zone. please post into your favorite alternative medicine forum as well - help us help ourselves site down again: here’s the fix i am in transit to the codex committee on food labeling and natural solutions foundation’s site is down again! it is still urgently important that you submit your comments to the fda cam (complimentary and alternative modalities [or medicine, as the fda would have it]and share the opportunity to do so. commen ...
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For exactly the reasons above, I have added a liver health tincture to my routine - 30 drops 3-4 times/day to help keep it clean. No frontal headache since beginning 2 days ago, but still a little gallbladder pain - comes and goes all the time. Also, I use b-complex, Sam-e, fish oil along with the C and selenium   [End]
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the 150 mcg is the stupid RDA. It is also the dose found in vitamins and such. Lugols is 6.25 mg. BIG difference   [End]
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whoa! hang on! I flush HORRIBLY on 100 mg, don’t you think someone should start with that first? Sometimes I get lightheaded - love the rush of the flush, but HATE the lightheaded heartpounding feeling I get sometimes   [End]
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Oh I love it!!! I will fill up and become ”Juicy Mary” and everyone will wonder why I call myself that!! Juicy Mary. I like that . Kinda nasty, kinda nice   [End]
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I am glad you brought that up - I noticed the same thing, as well as a slight increase in my libido. I quit using progesterone creme, too, but did add in DHEA formula for women, which has also added into the libido and balance factor - my health person recommended it to help with the adrenals. I told her I was using Iodine, but it didn’t change her mind about telling me to us the DHEA. I did notice more secretion, and it is clean, and wonderful, especially as I am 44 and menopausal due to hysterectomy and a discontinuation of the synthetic hormone I was taking several years ago. ALSO, ...
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funny thing - i posted down below about a food binge I went on when I abruptly quit Lugols right in the middle of a detox from an increase in dosage - I tell you what, after that binge, my bowels are just shot - it reminds me of my Bowel Cleanse days when all this black yuck was coming out - forgive the graphics, but it was what I said - very foul smelling and dark, lots of gas - I had binged on and literally CRAVED processed food- hamburger helper, candy, potato chips - like a starving woman, and I just couldn’t really stop. The detox from that has not been pleasant - I am now breaking ...
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As I recall, Trapper and I both got our Lugols in great big bottles from MedEx Supply, right before they mysteriously and permanently put Lugols on ”backorder”. I checked the site, they carry Povidine, but no more Lugols. Too bad, too, they had it cheap cheap...Perhaps that is what Trapper is referring to. The company that I used to buy progesterone creme no longer sell it - they said that their manufacturer has been getting the squeeze from the FDA regarding the ”medicine” issue, they said that there will be other sites that will sell it, but they are chosing to comply rather than fac ...
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You may want to re-post this higher up, as sometimes stuff gets lost in all the hub-bub and you get overlooked - I noticed that posts that are about 24 hours old without an answer rarely get one later Try again!!! I dont’ know the answers to your questions. Sorry   [End]
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did you work your way up to the 100 mg, or just jump in? I can’t seem to get above 50 without detox-ing and feeling lousy. Great work by the way.   [End]
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last week I upped my iodine from 4 drops 2 X/day to 6 - 8 drops 2 X/day. Got that crappy headache, fatigued, puffy feeling with little pimples here and there of course. Did some sea salt, felt a little better,actually not much better come to think of it, but decided to back off iodine for a few days. Well, 1st day, no iodine at all - 2nd day, 2 drops in a.m., felt better, all detox symptoms finally gone - 3rd day 4 drops in a.m.. I usually eat a good amount of fruit, vegetables and protein. My vice is alcohol, I do love wine and whisky and microbrew beer (and beer is only very occasiona ...
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are you using vitamin C at a high level? It will cause diarrhea if you take more than your body wants.   [End]
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Very LOOOONNNGGG Q-Tips - think ”GYN”...at the medical supply, maybe??   [End]
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don’t forget our dear Vulcanel, who I think has gotten very quiet now that he is saturated, my friend who is a secret Texan - and always remembers the Alamo with me...miss you Vulcanel. No Iodine-Scotch, but I will toast you with my Mendocino County Chardonnay here in beautiful semi-rural Montgomery (Texas not Alabama).... I believe that Iodine is saving my life.   [End]
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Thank you for that info. I think that I will leave it as it is right now, and see what happens. So far, my libido is not lower, it is fine, including a dramatic increase in ”body fluids”, since beginning iodine. I have felt like my hormones ride a roller coaster, ever since discontinuing the fake stuff, so maybe I will get a chance to ”level out”. I am open to any input that will help. Being only 44, I am not ready to surrender to old age yet. :)   [End]
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Hey I have been away, and am just now getting back --- YES, I did finally quit retaining water after I got Lugols and quit using Sea-adine, I also added in the vitamin C, selenium and sea salt which really helped. Strappy sandals rock!!!   [End]
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I was wondering if you felt that discontinuing the progesterone creme has been beneficial to you. I only have one ovary, and started using it after discontinuing synthetic hormone Estratest HS (bad stuff). Anyway, I still experience very very sore breasts about 25 days a month. I discontinued the progesterone hoping that the iodine would take care of the sore breasts. For a few days I was pain free, but now the breast pain has returned with a vengence. I never really got relief with the creme, and now that I am without it I find things to be about the same, Why did you discontinue th ...
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I have used niacin and iodine together, with no adverse effects, as a matter of fact, try googling those two words together and see what you come up with. If I were you, I would start with one Iodoral, and not slam the system... Even with juice fast, I strongly recommend that you take plenty of vitamin C daily, along with 200 mcg selenium, and sea salt and some magnesium, too - all to keep the toxins moving out of the system - this is very important and makes the difference between feeling good and feeling like poo-poo.   [End]
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heehee Trapper, you’re very correct... As I recall, SOMEONE - Wombat or Unyquity? went off their progesterone way back at the beginning of this forum - so I am still enquiring... I was using a natural Progesterone creme, not synthetics. Man, I HATED synthetic hormones, and fought with my GYN to get off, wound up taking a year to wean myself off, nasty, nasty stuff. If the forum gets a big load of messages today I will repost so this doesn’t get buried, it’s important for me to find out....   [End]
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I cannot remember who posted that they had stopped using progesterone with the advent of their Iodine supplementation. If you know, will you please post the link and let me know how that is going for you?? Being the uninsured, I have to try alternatives. I started using Progesterone after experiencing hot flashes and no libido after discontinuing my synethetic hormone. It helps some, but I have often felt that it causes fluctuations in my hormones or something. I only have one ovary after a hysterectomy. But I will get FBD swelling and soreness a good 25 out of 30 days, even with pr ...
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”Be careful in measuring as 3 drops daily can lead to toxic symptoms.” That may be the only thing I object to in this post - but then again, different rules apply to everyone   [End]
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When I saw it, it felt ”divine” - the ”Divine Purple”....you really don’t quite get the grasp until you see a little quantum leap...   [End]
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http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=839063#i   [End]
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Hey, Sugar, it’s good to see you are close by...please drink a large Texas toast to me - make sure when you do that you mention my fantastic inner and outer beauty all due to the miracles of Iodine... No fancy Scottish stuff here, just drinking a toast and posting the forum with a nice Napa Shiraz.... Feeling pretty good Mary   [End]
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Here is a good short read.... http://www.mercola.com/1998/archive/bone_disorder.htm   [End]
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Why are you ingesting so much? That comes out to almost 100 mg/day - maybe too much too soon? I remember when you started, it wasn’t that long ago and you are already zooming along - is there a reason? I know that every body is different, I am just curious and wondering if the cure won’t cause the sickness if over used... Do you use the selenium, vitamin C, magnesium and sea salt that has been recommended? Those things really help. LOTS of water.   [End]
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YES! I re-read this after the Big Crash, and just was amazed at the difference in everything. I got Lugols Iodine and started taking it internally, 1 drop 2 X day for awhile, and have since worked up to 4 drops 2 X day, which puts me at about 50 mg/day. I take 200 mcg selenium daily and 3-4,000 mg vitamin C (as well as the usual supplements- b-complex,magnesium,digestive enzymes,multi,etc.). I drink maybe 1/2 - 1 gallon water a day, no sodas - diet or otherwise, and take in about 1/2 tsp. of sea salt. I paint my breast-scars with Lugols, too, as well as a skin cancer spot that I have ...
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That is really freaky - just when I decided that Curezone was no more, I went through MSN instead of Yahoo, and here I am, out of the fog!! I just found you, I have noticed that you all have accessed much sooner than I could, Yahoo won’t let me through and says the site is ”under construction”. So many of our MIA posters still probably cannot get through. Glad to be back, sorry to see so much info gone, amused to re-read that post I wrote 45 days ago. Well, maybe this is a test, and maybe now we can compile cleaner, more cohesive information than we ever have before...ok, folks, what all ...
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Ok guys here I go again My average temp is about 97.3. I have all the symptoms of hypothyroid. I was using about 4mg sea-adine and painting my feet in p.m. I have been doing that for 3 weeks, along with 1/2 tsp. sea salt/day. I stopped the sea-adine 3 days ago, because of edema. I am waiting for Lugols and just started a thyroid glandular support product yesterday - enzymatic thyroid formula. I weighed myself Tuesday, and in 3 weeks I have gained 10 lbs. I can barely fit in my jeans. I eat primarily veggies and chicken, and a smoothie in the morning with a banana, soymilk, flax ...
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I clicked over to Hypothyroidism on Wikipedia and they say that the American Thyroid Association or something like that says that taking too much iodine can worsen hypothyroidism - why and how could that be?? Why would they say that?   [End]
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I remember the Alamo too. I remember thinking ”I didn’t know the Alamo was that damned SMALL” teehee. The riverwalk is quite the party place to be. I have gone to some rip-roaring hairshows that culminated in 2,000 hairdressers taking over the Riverwalk. Wow what memories (or lack of)!!! I’m feeling old. Bob Seger was in Houston Monday night and boy if you had seen all the balding older men and stretch-pant wearing women rocking down to ”old time rock n’roll” you’d’ve gone straight home and drank your Sea-adine!!!!!:) Awesome concert for us oldsters. You were in Lackland about th ...
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yeah, you can almost tip the bottle of Sea-adine up - ”bartender, one Crown and Sea-adine, please” haha What do you think about what I said about the iodine ”tease”? I am telling you I know something is amiss. My temp right now is 97.1. I thought that would make me dead. teehee. anyway, I WILL heal and believe I am divinely led - I love people who have epiphanies. kiss kiss   [End]
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Just ordered my Lugols from medex - $25 for 16 oz. Will use old Sea-adine bottle for a dropper. Question - how many mgs are there in a drop of Lugols? It has been suggested at EarthClinic that a woman needs about 14mg/day for proper functioning of all organs requiring iodine. I also got to speculating that maybe because I was only using about 4 mg/day of Sea-adine (which is about 64 drops) I was only aggravating any low thyroid stuff. Like it is only getting a taste of what it needs, so it is upset?? Yeah, I think too much. What do you think.   [End]
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I have been reading and researching off the internet all morning, and I just discovered something on a wellness site. I think it was wellness solutions, and they are promoting their iodine, and it said that iodine helps estrogen to move along the correct pathways in the body, and said that the thyroid helps to regulate sex hormone, too. Like I said, maybe I am having a little estrogen ”flood”. I wish I knew how to copy links and text like y’all do - I am going to my health food store and getting some Natures Sunshine Thyroid Support, which has bovine glandular substance, just to see wh ...
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I posted yesterday about edema - see below - and got many good suggestions. I also made it a point to take my temperature at different times throughout the day, as well as this morning. Not once was my temp above 98. I had a range of 97.1 - 97.9. This may be an indicator of low thyroid, eh?? I was really shocked to see how low my body temp is - I had no idea!! except for the cold hands and feet.:) But then here I am supplementing with about 4 mg Sea-adine, and having all the water retention in my boobs. Speculation was that the kidneys are trying to detox, and I should back off the ...
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What about natural dessicated thyroid?? Would that help?? the health food store has it.   [End]
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I am a bit upset, however, and do not know what to do to fix the whole t-3 thing - any ideas??   [End]
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Well you pretty much described every symptom - i will back off the iodine and just try to normal out...   [End]
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Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Even the health lady said that she felt that I am trying to process toxins. She had also suggested another kind of thyroid support. Natures Sunshine. I will simply back out a few days and let things hopefully right themselves - water weight is simply uncomfortable and ugly. I was sorta hoping that I would speed up and lose weight :)   [End]
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Hahaha - if I am pregnant, than it is the second immaculate conception! And my name is Mary to boot!! But I am definately no virgin. I had a hysterectomy years ago. No I do not use Lugols. thanks for your help all.   [End]
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about 1/2 tsp. malta sea salt or red hawaiian. I also forgot to mention that Sea-adine is made from dulse, if that is any help.   [End]
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Hi folks - I need your genius to help me with this. I have been taking about 4mg of Sea-adine for about 3 weeks now, and painting my feet. Although my energy levels are way up, and I feel clearer and less foggy and my vision is a bit sharper, I find that I have gained close to 6 pounds, I think it is all water, because my boobs are killing me! :0 My ankles hold the marks of my socks, too, and my fingers are stiff, all the classic signs of water retention. I am drinkibg a gallon a day of water, I don’t ever drink sodas, sometimes wine, sometimes whiskey and water. 1 -2 cups of coffee in ...
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As I said above, I use about 4 mg Sea-adine perday, if not a little more, and I enthusiastically paint the soles and ankles of my feet, as well as the thyroid with iodine I bought at the grocery - hopefully trapper, griz or vulcanel can tell you what to try - they are very well informed - and quite spiritual today, too, as you can tell.....   [End]
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After 3 weeks of painting, and ingesting about 4 mg + of Sea-adine a day, I can honestly say that my energy levels have gone wayyy up. I genuinely feel so much better. My sleep is better, I do not want to nap in the day - wow. I do feel more clear and alert, my vision has improved. Colors really are more vibrant, at first I thought yeah right, but as I have observed a change this week, I can only conclude that I am coming up to better thyroid behavior due to Iodine therapy. My boyfriend thinks I am crazy, but he says to keep doing it, because it must be working. I have noticed that ...
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Boy THAT would explain the water retention going on with me ! I have been drinking 3-5 quarts of water daily with about 4 mg of Sea-adine in it, as I have no Lugols yet, and painting my feet at night and in the morning with decolored ( I check for saturation by putting a dot of H2O2 on my ankle and watching it), and I have noticed the classic symptom of water retention for me - very swollen, sore boobs. Looks great for the guys, very uncomfortable for ME!!! Can you tell me a little more about the detox type symptoms and how much sea salt and C are you using to offset this?? I want my s ...
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