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iodine was among the first of the

elements discovered during the Wars of

Napoleon that's interesting is is that

we discovered how to can food it took us

another hundred years before the can

opener was invented the use of iodine

for treatment of Gorder was the first

time that a single item item was used to

treat a specific illness goiter in

today's world many doctors think that

iodine is a cause of goiter we

discovered iodine to treat Gorder not to

induce Gorder now you'll notice the

different types of halogens you have

fluoride chlorine look at the dates that

they were discovered look at bromide

discovered back in 1826 iodine in 1918

eleven astatine back in a in 1940 and

this was because of the nuclear age that

they discovered this one this is a

radioactive halogen now iodine

deficiency causes goiter now there's two

types of goiter

there is Gruyter with the thyroid

hypertrophy x' Gorder x' where the TSH

stimulates the thyroid cells to get

bigger that's a TSH driven system

whereas in goiter secondary to identify

see there is hyperplasia this explains

why people with Gorder have a higher

incidence of what certain types of

cancer okay now iodine deficiency

worldwide is the number one reason for

mental retardation and if you have

iodine deficiency it can cause problems

and it's throughout the childhood years

you can get what's called cretinism and

you notice that short short tissues

mental retardation there's probable

these people have IQs and their 50s and

we see a lot of these people in Bolivia

up in the Andes Mountains right now

where the

bolivian government is not putting any

iodine in their salt and because of this

then you see this type of thing

missionaries that come back from bolivia

tell me about quote the little people

and these are small people this big

they're usually about 4 foot tall with

IQs of about 55 now people with Gorder

have a higher incidence of thyroid

cancer breast cancer stomach cancer

esophageal cancer ovarian cancer and

then Demetrio cancer in the 1990s Gorda

was prevalent in large numbers in the

Great Lakes region 40% of school-aged

children had Gorder by 1924 in Akron

Ohio 56% of the population had a goiter

with a ratio of six women to one man

united states quickly added iodine to

the salt after these studies were done

why is there more women with thyroid

disease and goiter than there is males

what's the reason it's estrogen estrogen

inhibits the absorption of iodine okay

which explains what's the ratio of

hypothyroidism in women as compared to

men it's nine women to every one male in

the United States and that's because of

the estrogens women are to have that are

inhibiting them from absorbed absorbing

the iodine every cell in the body

contains and utilizes iodine white blood

cells cannot effectively guard against

infection without adequate amounts of

iodine is concentrated in the glandular

systems of the body contains Allah the

thyroid contains the largest amount of

iodine what's the number to tissue for

making thyroid hormone in the body

outside the thyroid huh nope

what tissue has the ability to

concentrate iodine and use it to make

thyroid hormone outside the thyroid no

ovaries the ovary has the ability to

concentrate iodine and to make thyroid

hormone from those from that glam so if

you see a patient with hyperthyroidism

you are obligated to do a radioactive

study on them and check the ovaries

because they may have a hot thyroid

nodule inside the ovary causing the

hyperthyroidism now it's interesting

that the ovaries make a thyroid hormone

called thyroid t2 t2 is can't be used by

the body to make t3 or t4 and of it it's

interesting that so many women start

gaining weight when their ovaries are

starting to fail and when they're

starting to fail it's because of the

decrease in t2 production guess what you

can buy t2 over-the-counter

non-prescription and one of the vendors

over here has t2 and some of their

formulas that you can get and you don't

have to be on you know get it by

prescription there are other tissues

that absorb large amounts of iodine the

breast tissue the salivary glands what

happens to the salivary glands if you

don't have enough iodine you can't make

saliva so your eyes go dry your mouth

goes dry lack of iodine pancreas

cerebrospinal fluid the brain tissue the

stomach the skin lack more glands lack

of iodine to the skin what do you get

dry skin skin that can't sweat so this

you get out there and you work in the

garden and it's a hot day you should

sweat all over the body but I got

patients who just get red and hot but

they don't sweat decrease sweating is

due

to lack of iodine and when you start

these people on iodine within three or

four weeks they start sweating pretty

pretty good iodine inside the

cerebrospinal fluid what does iodine do

to the brain makes the brain more

mentally alert which is why you never

never never give I dine to somebody just

before they go to sleep because you'll

wake up the brain and the brain will

become very active iodine during

pregnancy

a baby a fetus inside the uterus and you

give the mother iodine usually we give

iodine enough iodine as if the mother

were a Japanese woman how much iodine

does a Japanese woman eat on a daily

basis thirteen point eight milligrams of

iodine per day in Japan you give that

much iodine to a pregnant woman and

iodine to the baby is like caffeine to

us caffeine makes you very mentally

alert gives you tachycardia gives you

all sorts of problems but newborn you

know fetuses inside the uterus you give

them 12 point five milligrams of iodine

a day the baby is very hyperactive it's

moving around it's as if the mother just

took ten cups of coffee you don't take

ID on that day the baby is nice and

quiet and it doesn't move very much but

you give the mother iodine and the baby

just start stirring around a lot it's as

if the baby becomes very mentally alert

while it's inside the uterus it's very

interesting but I died - the brain is

very stimulating to the tissue now we've

learned about the sodium iodide

symporter this importer is how you pump

iodine into the tissues again there are

two types of iodine what are they

there's iodine and there's iodide what's

the difference between the two

what's IO dye

it's the salt of iodine

now iodine will literally diffuse into a

cell so it diffuses in whereas iodine

needs to be transported in so this is

the transport mechanism is called the

sodium iodide symporter it's a transport

mechanism you will find babies that are

born hypothyroid and hypothyroid babies

usually have a symporter defect and many

of you who do well many women will

develop breast cancer and breast cancer

is seen in a defective sodium iodide

symporter we can do testing for this

importer and we can check and see if

it's okay or not and we do have ways to

fix these importers now of interest is

is that the symporter is fixable and

it's even in children with

hypothyroidism you can turn them you

thyroid by fixing this importer giving

them iodine and their thyroid starts

making thyroid hormone the stomach has

the ability to have this importer the

mammary glands and the celebrate glands

have this symporter present it's because

of this that we are able to do testing

for this importer and to see if it's

functional but as you can see you can

see the areas where the simpler is

functioning and working these are other

tissues where this importer is present

notice the ovaries and again the ovaries

can make their own

thyroid hormone they can't store it but

they can make it the other tissue that

has the ability to make thyroid hormone

is the white blood cells of the bone

marrow now you know of three different

tissues that can make thyroid hormone

the thyroid gland the ovary and the

white blood cells of the immune

the thymus absorbs huge large amounts of

iodine the epidermis your skin the

conroy plexus of the brain this is how

the brain absorbs it

iodine is through the sodium iodide

symporter this importer works against a

gradient so that if you were to measure

the amount of iodine in the serum and

the blood you would find the level to be

one but the amount of iodine in the

saliva would be something like anywhere

from twenty-eight up to 72

so this importer is able to push iodine

from a low concentration into a very

high concentration on the other side and

that's because it works against a

gradient again notice here you got

iodine versus iodide notice certain

tissues have only the ability to absorb

one or the other so the thyroid only

absorbs iodide whereas the breast can

absorb both iodine and iodide the

salivary glands can only take the iodide

whereas to prostate only the iodine

stomach iodine skin iodide that's why

you cannot take any preparation that is

just one or the other that makes sense

you've got to have both both of these in

order to do iodine supplementation

iodine in children it's essential for

normal growth and development it is

crucial for normal central nervous

system development and IQ in the first

three years of existence which basically

says from the time a mother is can you

know knows that she's pregnant you start

giving her 12.5 milligrams of iodine a

day why would you give her 25 50 or even

100 milligrams because all of you know

that there could be a potential problem

with a pregnancy period and we know that

in Japan the average intake is 13.8

milligram so you can't go bad

in court if something happens to that

pregnancy they can't blame you for

giving that mother iodine throughout the

pregnancy and the baby comes out with

one arm or one leg and then they try to

blame it on the high doses of iodine you

sit there and say you know in Japan they

take 13.8 milligram I gave this mother

12.5 what's the problem okay a few you

know millions of people in Korea and in

Japan taking iodine this can't be the

source of this one legged child okay so

you know you try to protect yourself but

also the fact is is that when you give

iodine to a mother that's pregnant the

baby will come out with an IQ that's

about twenty to thirty points higher

than the parents I have two patients

actually two doctors a husband and wife

who both had four children and the wife

was pregnant with child number five and

I said you need to take some iodine

throughout this pregnancy it's going to

increase the IQ of the baby and she sat

there and said look I've got four

brilliant children already and I said

you don't know the definition of

brilliant until you've seen a child

who's been born with iodine so she took

the iodine throughout the pregnancy saw

me at a conference last year on autism

and she was there and she came up to me

and she says I want to apologize to you

she said the baby is not 1 year old and

she said I got four others to compare it

to but she said my fifth baby is

definitely far superior IQ wise than my

other four she said this kid is like a

living sponge and it is doing things

that none of my other children did at

age 1 already I've got ten of these

children in my practice they're all

running ahead of schedule mentally I got

a 2-1 in the second grade who is doing

5th grade material our little brother at

age 4

going into preschool and the mother was

all in consternation I haven't taught

him his ABCs and I haven't taught him

his numbers and I sat down and said

don't worry about it

this kids this kid's an iodine baby

he'll learn it faster than lightning so

the school teacher said soon says look

we'll teach him his ABCs and Idzik

alphabet and he'll have it done by the

end of the year you know and a month

later the kid is reciting all of his

ABCs he can write all out all of his

alphabet he knows all of his numbers and

he's already starting to do mathematics

he's doing addition and the teacher

comes to the mother and says I thought I

was going to do the teaching and the

mother said you're supposed to because I

haven't done it and the mother says I

haven't taught him and the teacher says

well neither have I but he's picked it

up somewhere so a few weeks later

mother's listening to the daughter who's

in the seventh grade playing with the

little boy who's in the you know fort

who's four years old and the mother

hears the following comment Johnny come

on over here now let's play school and

I'll teach you everything I learned so

that you don't have to go through the

hassles what I've had to go through so

she the little seven year old was

teaching her four-year-old brother the

alphabet she was teaching him how to

read she was teaching him his

mathematics she was teaching him

addition and he's only for these kids I

tell you there are the most phenomenal

children you were ever meet in your life

and you know this is something that

really really really needs to be paid

attention to but it's 12.5 milligram

tablet per day or liquid in the form of

lugol's solution deficiency can result

in cretinism which is mental retardation

and deafness delayed physical and

intellectual development this actually

teaches us something about bone

development being skeletal development

because iodine is

crucial for the skeleton to develop

appropriately look at this last

statement mild efficiency in early fetal

life will manifest as attention deficit

disorder attention deficit disorder you

know we used to put iodine in the bread

we used to put iodine in the milk we put

iodine in the salt we took the iodine

out of the bread we took the iodine out

of the salt I'm sorry out of the milk

and now what's the u.s. public service

doing they're telling us that we need to

decrease the total amount of salt and

the population by 1/2 when you do that

all these women that are pregnant what

do you think is going to happen to them

they're going to start spitting up

babies that have more Radd from the year

2000 through 2006 the rate of a DD in

the United States climbed 500% what do

you think it's going to do in the next

10 or 15 years as we decrease the salt

intake in the population and all these

women that develop hypertension of

pregnancy what did the doctors tell them

to do you need to come off your salt

well you take them off salt what have

you just done

you've deprived a baby of a you know

some iodine and the problem is the

doctor doesn't say oh and by the way

while you we got you off your salt we

need to supplement you with iodine you

don't hear that statement that's why

this is becoming a public health

disaster in Haynes studies back from

1971 through 74 we had an intake of

urine of iodine which was 320 microgram

a day this was during the days when we

were quote eyed izing the bread and I'd

izing the milk in Haynes 3 1998 1994 we

had taken the salt out of I mean taking

the iodine out of the bread and the milk

we're down to the salt look what the

intake is it's 145 in Haynes 2001-2002

salt the iodine intake in the spa

urine is 168 the spot urine is the first

morning urine and it kind of gives you

an idea about how much iodine a person

is eating over the last 24 hours in my

laboratory we did a spot test we looked

at female values and we found that the

mean was a hundred and seventy-five

micrograms and nationwide we are seeing

that the rate of iodine in the

population is starting to climb back up

that's because we've raised the alarm

the fact that something has gone wrong

and we need to pay attention what's

interesting is sixteen point five

percent of men had extremely low levels

of iodine so and these these are very

low iodine iodine should be one hundred

and fifty should be 0.15 one to two

thousand or greater this is where the

vast majority should be but look at this

16% of our males are high pope you know

have very low levels of iodine among our

team you know women 17.6% are extremely

low in iodine in the population our

numbers at the lab pretty much look like

the numbers coming out of the national

studies from 1971 through 2000 in haines

showed iodine levels decline 50 percent

in the United States during the same

time period there was an increase in

thyroid illnesses cancer of the breast

prostate endometrium and ovaries and

what did I say lack of iodine you go

into a higher level of cancer right

people with going to have a higher rate

of cancer and what type of cancers were

they cancers of the thyroid cancers of

the breast cancers are they in the

metrium and the ovaries look at the

other cancers starting to show up iodine

binds to its receptors throughout the

body if there is sufficient iodine

present iodine will be excreted so if

the body has plenty of iodine then

you'll urinate it back out if the body

is efficient of iodine you'll start

hanging on to it and that's what the

iodine loading tells that we

do tells you about is the fact that it

tells you if the body is starving for

iodine we felt that I done sufficiency

is present when there's greater than 90

percent of the iodine is excreted that

is you give somebody 50 milligrams of

iodine and they excrete back out forty

five milligrams of the total 50 but we

do two studies we do a spot test in a

loading test if the spot test says here

is somebody who is barely taking any

iodine I mean very little iodine and yet

the loading test says this person's 90

percent saturated what I have just said

to you is an oxy and what is that

two opposing statements in the same

sentence how in the world can you barely

be eating iodine and yet the body have

almost a 90 percent excretion because

the body is quote saturated and the

reason is a defective sodium iodide

symporter that's why when we do testing

we check for both the spot test and the

loading test not just one because the

two will give you a clinical clue about

if the symporter is malfunctioning

remember it's the absence of iodine in a

cell that will produce cancer in the

body and if you can't pump iodine into

the cell then you've got a problem with

a potential risk for development of

cancer 98% of our patients had

significantly low iodine levels and that

was based upon 2500 patients and a

nationwide pool that we did there is one

interesting thing here and this is

something that happens we have this

group down here that are very low in

iodine intake but then we have some

people

out of that total number some people

were excreting more than 50% of the

iodine that is you gave them 50

milligrams of iodine and they urinated

back out 50 to 55 60 milligrams of

iodine what happened it's called a

defective sodium iodide symporter we put

the iodine in and we got more back out

than we put in saying that the cells had

trouble hanging on to the iodine this is

an interesting study because back during

World War one a lot of people tried to

get into the military and many of them

were rejected back in 1920 1966 the US

Agriculture Department started went back

and looked at the soil samples of all

the men that were rejected during World

War one from getting into the military

because of goiter and what they found

was is that there was plenty of iodine

up in the southern states but remember

the Great Lakes region is a goiter

region so there was a lot of problems

with goiters up here because there's no

I dine up here but look at what happened

here

what do you see lack of iodine right

across the northern United States and

down along the coastline okay so

basically there's problems in this area

with too much water and the water is

washing all the iodine out of the soil

that makes sense so if there's not

enough iodine what's what comes up right

behind that low iodine hypothyroidism

and what's the other thing

breast cancer and I can't tell you how

many people that I have found at this

conference who have Gauri's I have

probably found out you know for those

people coming around up there where the

vendors are I have found at least

probably 20 of you that have gorger's

now let me make another statement

among vegetarians the vegan group 80% of

vegans are iodine deficient what's the

problem with us I'm a vegetarian too we

were taught that we should eat a more

plant-based diet but folks we forgot to

teach you how to eat marine plants you

know how to eat the land plants but we

forgot to teach you how to eat seafood

I mean seaweed so you need to learn how

to start sticking seaweed in your and

your vegetable soups how to stick

seaweed in your rice and how to eat more

seaweed on a daily basis not just every

now and then okay you know in Japan they

seaweed three times a day they put their

seaweed and their gummy bears

they put seaweed in their soda crackers

they put seaweed in everything and

instead of using salt they use seaweed

to salt their food and so on and so on

okay the thyroid needs six milligrams of

iodine a day just to take care of itself

the breasts at least 35 milligrams

larger women with larger breasts have

bigger increases for need for iodine men

with smaller breasts don't need as much

iodine other tissues need iodine look

let me give you this here this is very

interesting the total human body can

hold 1,500 milligrams of iodine the

thyroid at its maximum can hold 50

milligrams of iodine okay did you hear

me 1,500 for the whole body 20% 20% of

that 1,500 milligrams sits inside the

human skin if the skin is extremely

depleted of iodine you won't sweat 32

percent

of all the iodine sits inside the muscle

what disease do you think you're going

to get if the muscle doesn't have enough

iodine look let's go through it here

lack of iodine to the thyroid what do

you get enlargement cysts nodules scar

tissue decrease function lack of iodine

to the breast what do you get cyst

nodules scar tissue enlargement lack of

function you can't enjoy them as much as

you used to lack of iodine to the

ovaries you get cysts nodules scar

tissue enlargement pain like in the

breast and we get what's it called PCOS

polycystic ovaries women with recurrent

system the ovaries lack of iodine to the

skin what do you get decreased function

skin that can't sweat decrease iodine to

the skin I mean to the muscles 32% of

all the iodine sits in the muscle what

do you get cysts nodules scar tissue

enlargement pain but knock out the word

cysts and you got the nodules the pain

the fibrosis and so on what disease is

that fibromyalgia and women who have

fibrocystic breast disease have

repeatedly told me that when they take

iodine to get rid of the fibrocystic

breast pain guess what the muscle pain

disappears also that makes sense so if

you give iodine we found in fact we did

a study with a mormon group down here at

Mesa Kelly Arizona and it was a hundred

Mormon women who had fibromyalgia and we

gave them iodine to treat their quote

fibromyalgia

and of that group some out of a hundred

women almost 80% of them had a decrease

in the muscle pain just by putting them

on iodine okay we think we have broken

the paradigm as to a source of

fibromyalgia pain it's not the source

because you can take a spinal cord and

compress it from a Chiari malformation

or a problem with a compression of the

spinal cord like a herniated disc and

you can produce fibromyalgia muscle pain

fibromyalgia is basically a trash can

diagnosis just like headache I've got a

headache that's a trash can diagnosis

because it's a better statement and say

I've got a headache because I've got a

brain tumor I've got a headache because

I've got meningitis I've got to hit it

because my wife just hit me on the head

fibromyalgia just means muscles that are

hurting you've got to go beyond that

point say why are they hurting and one

of the first places to go to is iodine

deficiency if they're deficient in

iodine give them some iodine with some

ATP cofactor which contains vitamin b2

and b3 get the tissues to absorb the

iodine and hang on to the iodine and

you'll see the a lot of the pain go

right down very quickly as you can see

males need more iodine females need

about the same but as you get into

pregnancy and lactation the intake of

iodine needs to be higher the RDA was

helped was set up to prevent greater

there was no real concern about the rest

of the body's needs for iodine anything

the RDA for iodine is inadequate for art

not because it only is looking at the

thyroid but not the rest of the body

how much iodine does the thyroid hold 50

milligrams how much does the body hold

1,500 milligrams the RDA

will not even come close to this does

you know it the RDA does not address the

increased exposure to goitrogens that

are in the environment such as bromide

where do you get bromide in the American

dietary we took the iodine out of the

bread and what do you think we put back

in there bromide we're putting bromide

into our soft drinks if you haven't

looked up the word bromb ism look it up

it's in the dictionary many of our

children are suffering from bromb ism

and if you get you know where I live

from Nashville over to Asheville the

average nine to fifteen year old boy

drinks five Mountain Dews a day and one

of the essential ingredients from

Mountain Dew is brominated vegetable oil

and if you look up Brome ism one of the

problems with too much bromide in the

brain is schizoid behavior and you

wonder why kids are going to school

behaving paranoid and they're going

around killing each other and theirs and

their teachers and if you go into the

comments area of the high school look at

their look at their vending machines in

my son's school there was 15 vending

machines 14 of those vending machines

sold only Mountain Dew and only one sold

water milk coca-cola or something else

and they were filling those vending

machines three times a day because the

kids were drinking so much of it that's

how bad the situation is out there and

also we've been putting bromide into

bread instead of iodine and then the

bread is becoming loaded with bromide

iodine is crucial towards keeping the

breast from developing scar tissue and

as a result if you if you give iodine

you don't give it for the

first three or four months until they

get saturation you give it for the first

three or four years to get rid of 50 to

90% of the scar tissue and the breast is

what iodine has the potential to do

during the lactation the breast is more

capable of capturing iodine via the

sodium iodide symporter and if the

symporter is sick then you can't get as

much iodine into the breast especially

for the milk breast cancer we have found

that the patients have lower iodine and

low iodine intake leads to a hyper

estrogenic state hypothyroidism is

associated with up to 80 to 90 percent s

free estrogen levels against a normal 40

to 60 hyperthyroidism is associated with

20 percent free estrogen states

basically there is interaction between

the estrogens and the level of iodine in

the human body which is why we know that

estrogen inhibits the ability of thyroid

to absorb now this is what happens when

you give iodine to cells and you like

this is a oat cell carcinoma oat cell

carcinoma that has had the ability of

the cells to enhance to absorb iodine

look at what happens over a 10-day time

period if you can get the cells to

absorb iodine that versus that in ten

days iodine induces apoptosis and iodine

will take away cancer I dine let me

finish off with this statement

iodine induces apoptosis iodine takes

away the immortality of cancer cells and

it goes to these cancer cells and it

says it's time to die go out there and

do it because it's your turn but cancer

cells think of themselves as being

immortal and iodine takes away that

immortality thank you

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questions let's talk about the defective

symporter how do you fix that if that's

the issue we have published that if

you'll go to our website called help my

thyroid calm if you go to that website

we have a whole group of iodine research

articles that have now been written and

there's three articles in there that we

have the term vitamin C that number two

article will have the term fibromyalgia

and number three will have the sodium

the term sodium iodide symporter those

three articles will tell you about how

we can repair the symporter one of them

is the use of ester vitamin c about 3000

milligrams a day one of them is the use

of high doses of iodine that you'll see

in the paper on fibromyalgia and the

other one is to use a vitamin b2 and b3

to help repair this importer so there's

different ways to repair these simple

ders it's not just one way there's

multiple ways but they can be repaired

and we can document we are now at a

point where we can document that repair

having occurred yes sir yeah thank you

that was excellent is this on right yeah

yeah um could you just expand a bit on

the evidence for iodine with

fibromyalgia and then number two just

maybe quickly explain your your

treatment paradigm for fibro where you

put that in how do you how do you can

you talk to me afterwards because it

would take another hour okay it was

basically you know it's the type of

thing and medical care you listen to

your patients a lot of times people will

give you the answer to a medical

solution

it's just listening to their weird risk

you know problems in this particular

case I was giving iodine for fibrocystic

breast pain and this woman came up to me

and she said you know the iodine took

away my breast

but it also took away all my muscle pain

okay I said what muscle pain I didn't

know there was muscle pain she said yeah

you know this this stuff right here well

I touched all the tender points for

fibromyalgia and she said yeah every one

of those has disappeared ever since I

started taking the iodine so we did some

more studies we got some more people and

sure enough that worked at which point

we took it to this large group of Mormon

ladies down here Mesa and 80 percent of

them got better almost within a month

and I'm going like this is not rocket

science guys you know we went back and

looked at it and sure enough 80%

I'm sorry 32% of the iodine uptake in

the human body is through the muscles

and that's when we started paying

attention more to what tissues have what

amount of iodine what are the symptoms

that a I dine deficiency in that tissue

would manifest do you think is it the

same for men or if you have you seen

that we have seen the same for men

however the other thing is remember a

spinal cord compression if you compress

the spinal cord from a herniated disk a

spinal stenosis a Chiari malformation

patients with with fibromyalgia will

complain about a daily headache folks is

it normal for people to have headaches

every day know if they have a daily

headache it's because there's a problem

with the anatomy

it's an anatomical problem daily

headaches daily migraine headaches

that's an Anatomy problem that needs to

be repaired by a neurosurgeon not by

some other type of doctor folks my time

is up

thank you we'll talk to you later