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My wife and I have been taking high dosage iodine for seven months. I take 150mg a day versus 75mg for her. Unlike MMS, iodine is essential to life, you can't live without it. Because of the extremely polluted environment we're all stuck in, iodine needs to be taken in quite large amounts to facilitate detoxing of the bad halides: fluorine, chlorine, and bromine. Iodine is a halide too but our bodies' chemistry depend on its presence. Low intake of iodine is the underlying cause of many diseases, dozens of them. People are largely stumbling through life, living on prescription drugs while all they need is adequate iodine. Symptoms of deficiency include: cold limbs even in a warm room, lethargy, brain fog, low resistance to infectious diseases, etc.. These are early signs. Being chronically low in iodine leads to MS, ALS, Alzheimer's, and cancer, among many others. See:
www.breastcancerchoices.org,
www.donaldmiller.com/Iodine_For_Fibrocystic_Disease_MX04.pdf
www.optimox.com/pics/Iodine/opt_Research_I.shtml
Drs. Guy Abraham, David Brownstein, Jorge Flechas, David Derry, are iodine enlightened doctors. Most mainstream docs are very leery of taking iodine over 2mg a day. This is the result of indoctrination by Big Pharma which really intends to make us all dependent on their mostly toxic drugs as solutions for all ailments.
Stephanie is a victim of mainstream medicine. She lost her thyroid because of it. She found out too late but instead of being wrapped up in self-pity, she went to school to learn about thyroid chemistry and health in general. She runs the website www.steppingstones.com and has a very large forum on Yahoo that is focused on iodine and thyroid chemistry. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Visit her site to download her free guide on iodine supplementation: steppingstonesliving.com/resources/iodine/ She put a lot of time and effort into that guide to get it right for all people.
BTW, although we take large amounts of iodine (in the form of Lugol's Iodine drops and Iodoral tablets) it is better to start at 12.5mg and ramp slowly up from there. Please refer to the guide of Stephanie's for good guidance. Also visit www.drbrownstein.com to sign up for his free newsletter and to get his book on iodine and why you need it.
Peace and gratitude, Dean

oceanpine, Thanks so much for sharing your wife's information! What a gold mine! I found her free download to be very well laid out and super informative. I can see it being of immediate help to so many people. Please be sure and thank her for her awesome website and the generous information.

I couldn't find 5 % , so bought 7 %. How can I calculate how many drops to take?

Mickey, thanks so much for this. Lugol's really changed my life and cleared up so many problems so far. As a result of reading your info I have decided to up my dose: at present I am taking 2 drops of 12.5% Lugol's so that is only about 13mg (I think).

For everyone out there, there is a very easy way to tell if you are iodine deficient (which nearly everyone is to some extent). Put one drop on the back of your hand. The stain should stay there for about 3-4 days. The first time I tried this the stain TOTALLY disappeared after 90 mins!!!!

Bagalamukhi wrote:

I couldn't find 5 % , so bought 7 %. How can I calculate how many drops to take?

Here is the site link

steppingstonesliving.com/resources/iodine/

She only speaks about 2 % and 5 %...

Bagalamukhi, I have never worked with anything but "Lugol's Solution" and Ioderal. Lugol's Solution is 5% Iodine to 10% Potassium Iodide in 85% distilled water. I have no idea how one would work with a 7% solution but if I were you, I would carefully look at the ingredients and the proportion. Make sure there is nothing else in there! Just guessing, your 7% solution should be about 7% Iodine to about 12% Potassium Iodide, I would think, but I am no chemist---not even close to being one. If it looks like the correct ingredients and proportion, and it doesn't say on your bottle what the strength is per drop, call the company that makes it and ask them. I also noticed by the Amazon reviews, that a couple of people had trouble with the drops coming from the bottle in an unequal amount---some drops were big and some were small. Because of this, you might want to transfer it to a glass bottle with a glass eye dropper. Be very careful not to spill it or it WILL STAIN EVERYTHING.

Here's a place you can get the real Lugol's Solution but it is at a scalping price. We paid $7 per 100ml bottle just before it became illegal however a 100ml bottle will last you and your spouse about a year so that still works out to be very cheap for something so vital to our health;
www.strideintohealth.com/Lugol-Solution.html

Other ideas to obtain it would be from fish stores, get a prescription for it or make a trip to Mexico. Making it is beyond my talent but I did put the recipe out there for those that are talented that way. I plan on hiring a chemist to make a couple of gallons for me when I run out.

To Your Good Health!

I am sooo excited! I just found a recipe that looks like something I can even handle! Here's how to make Lugol's Solution;




here's part 2;