Iodine: An Essential Nutrient and Holistic Option for Detoxing Heavy Metals and Halogens
One of the many important properties of iodine is protecting the human body from heavy metal and halogen toxicity.
Iodine is an essential nutrient; the body does not make iodine, so you have to consume it. However, the modern food supply is no longer a reliable source of iodine, and 95% of Americans are deficient in it! This leaves the organism susceptible to the detrimental effects from exposure to harmful elements.
Because we live in an increasingly toxic world, iodine supplementation is especially crucial. Pharmaceuticals, food, water, and air contain high levels of heavy metals like mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic, and the halogens chlorine, fluorine, and bromine.
- Mercury is used in dental fillings, vaccines, and seafood.
- The city of Flint, Michigan poisoned its citizens by using lead pipes for the water system.
- Cadmium is found in some foods, cigarette smoke, and batteries.
- Arsenic is used to treat wood for building homes.
- Chlorine is added to swimming pools and municipal water supplies and is used to manufacture paper.
- Fluorine (in the form of fluoride) is used in dental treatments and added to water supplies.
- Bromine (and bromides) are found in commercially processed baked goods, sports drinks, jet fuel, and pesticides.
All of these elements compete for the iodine receptor sites in the body. Without enough iodine in the system, detrimental heavy metals and halogens inhibit the optimal production of hormones and disrupt enzymes.
Hormonal dysfunctions manifest as metabolic disorders and diseases such as:
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Hyper- and hypothyroidism
- Goiter
- Cystic conditions
With enough iodine in the system, hormone production and enzyme activity runs more efficiently and metabolism is optimized. Iodine preferentially binds to the iodine receptor sites in the body, and iodine supplementation immediately begins the excretion of halogens and heavy metals.
Iodine is fundamental to optimal health and can protect from environmental toxins!
Mercury.
Lead-Laced Water In Flint: A Step-By-Step Look At The Makings Of A Crisis.
Cadmium.
Arsenic.
Chlorine.
Fluoride Articles.
Bromines: Avoid This If You Want To Keep Your Thyroid Healthy.
Dr. Mark Sircus. Iodine: Bringing Back the Universal Medicine.
www.intothegardenofeden.com
you are doing something great for the earth and the earthlings...thank you for what you do!
Thank you for your recognition and appreciation, @s-dbraybrook! A better way is possible~*~
something women must really have enough!
love this post!
Absolutely, and excellent point @englishtchrivy! Women actually have twice as many iodine receptors as men, as iodine is vital to female tissues as well as to the health of a growing embryo or nursing baby.
agree! ^ ^
Great information here! Resteemed! Have you ever used bentonite clay for heavy metal detox?
Thank you @jaredcwillis! Some people in our ecovillage have used bentonite clay for various purposes, don't know about detoxing heavy metals specifically.
I'm so grateful for the awareness brought through these posts. Most of us have been lead to believe that iodized salt fulfills all of our requirements. Thanks for spreading the word.
Iodized salt is definitely worth discussion, thank you @everlove! The form of iodine in iodized salt is not actually iodine with an "n" but iodide with a "d", and it is not very useful to the human body. Not to mention it is also bleached, heated, and treated with additives. Our recent researcher even suggests that the iodine actually evaporates upon opening the package! Basically, iodized salt is a very, very poor source of the form of iodine the human body needs to optimize health.
Great points. Funny how much we have been told that really isn't the truth at all. I'm grateful to be a part of raising the awareness that it's time to rethink what we think we know, and find ways that truly are beneficial. Keep on sharing these important thought provoking posts and upgrades for health and well being.
Also interesting to see how attached people become to their beliefs, even when presented with countering evidence. The conversation is important for clarifying truth!
Agreed! And isn't it also interesting that the more we know the less we realize that we know. Open minds give heed to infinite possibilities and sharing this kind of information that can lead to greater awareness is indeed a blessing for those who are ready to receive.
Great information, I did a post on my experience with Nascent Iodine last week, the results of taking Nascent Iodine for me were incredible. In my experience taking Nascent Iodine was an effective way to detox, a lot of people out there who feel tired and sick are probably just full of toxins and need to cleanse. People should also research the effects candida . Many ways to detox of course, but this appears to be a good starting point.
Awesome, we'll check out your post @realitycheck! We agree that taking nascent iodine can provide incredible benefits to the body. Many people that are less than thriving are full of poisons, and health is super upgraded when those elements are removed!
Great post! Hopefully a visit to Garden of Eden will happen within a year or so :D
We're excited to host you, @firepower!!
yay! :D
Yeah I have to question the claims here. First of all your sentence "the body doesn't make iodine" suggests it can some other element. This is not true, we have no ability to make any element, no living thing has that ability to my best knowledge. Also I have doubts how mercury cadmium lead and arsenic react with iodine receptor sites. This things are cations iodine is an anion so it seems rather implausible. Furthermore implying hormonal dysfunction causes such a wide variety of disease is dishonest. Type 1 diabetes for example has nothing to do with hormones.
Thanks for your input, @lukaszb!
The phrase "the body doesn't make iodine" is not to intended to suggest that other elements are created in it; it is to highlight the importance of consuming iodine.
Our research shows that heavy metals do indeed bind to iodine receptor sites. Mercury, in particular Please bring forth evidence you have to the contrary if we need to update our info.
Hormonal dysfunction causes an incredible array of disease - that is fact, although many diseases may have multiple causes. If the chemical messengers are out of whack, many of the body's systems can be pulled out of whack and sub-optimal function results.
To say that type 1 diabetes has nothing to do with hormones is incorrect. Both type 1 and 2 diabetes are said to be caused by insufficient insulin levels, which is a hormone. In type 1 diabetes, the cells of the pancreas that make iodine are damaged/nonfunctional. Leptin and amylin (more hormones) deficiencies play significant roles as well.