in about 2008 I was directed to investigate a 'holistic health' doctor by the name of Dr David Brownstein, who has done extensive research in his general practise on the subject of Iodine and the effects of toxic halides present in our environments and food supplies. This includes fluoridated water, as well as bromate bleaches in wheat flour.

I almost forgot to drop this link in here because this was what gave so much more credence to what Brownstein says: http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/library/randrep/pb_paper/mr1018.2.chap10.html

Army doctors studying the soldiers who returned from the First Gulf War had all kinds of seemingly unrelated psychiatric disorders. As you can read in the article above, it turns out that the disruptive effect of Bromine on brain chemistry is exactly this - you could struggle for years with a psych disorder, with no drugs helping at all, and the doctor would have to suspect it for there to be any way to get a remedy.

The prescribed treatment they recommend is only partial, also, although important. One of the key things to note is that it was due to this that at least some doctors realised that the rate of elimination of bromine from the body might be slower than previously thought. I also would point out that poly cyclic bromide fire retardants are also probably better at crossing lipid membranes than the bromide.

I then, albeit without any help from a doctor to do urinalysis to determine what was coming out of my body from taking Lugol's Iodine, by starting slowly and carefully and more than doubling my salt intake (unrefined sea salt). Within 3 months I was adjusted to this and I could take about 5 drops of 15% (standard full strength) lugol's iodine (it is much the same as tincture but with water instead).

I had all kinds of problems with daytime sleepiness, unstable mood, drug addiction (alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes, caffeine), and the effect after 3 months was that the worst of these problems was gone. The problems have resumed, after nearly 4 years not being able to continue to maintain supplementation, and I think this is needed because I may be more than normally susceptible to absorbing toxic halides from my environment.

In the first few days, I discovered that within half an hour after taking the iodine, I would get sleepy and felt this niggling anxiety and jitteriness. Reading from Brownstein, I surmised that this must have been the effects of toxic halides dislodged from their place hidden in organs in my body, and to combat this, the dose was lowered, and my salt intake was doubled.

Saline drips are the standard method for treating acute halide toxicity, and the way it works is that it forces the kidneys to increase the elimination of electrolytes in the blood.

Fluoride was the cause of the anxious, dirty feeling, and the bromide, obviously was sedative.

I revisited this reaction today, after, as previously I have posted about mixing up a large stash of lugol's iodine thanks to how easy it is for me to get the necessary chemicals over the counter here in Bulgaria, and I took 1 drop without any food, and without raising my salt intake.

I have in fact been avoiding doing this because the stupid himalayan salt I have has a terrible grinder and it simply is difficult to get enough out of it without a lot of effort and pain on my hands from the friction trying to operate the grinder. Not only that, it has become clear to me that Himalayan salt does not have the same benefit as french/spanish/portuguese unrefined sea salt from the atlantic coast, and I know if I travel into town there is a supermarket where I can get such salt, produced in Garand, off the coast of France.

Within half an hour, I was sleepy, and so I laid down, and a couple of hours later woke up. I was pleased that at least that nervous feeling was not part of the effect this time. The Netherlands banned fluoridation of water supply in the 70s, which is probably where the majority of the water I have been consuming in the last 3 years came from, since being released from prison in Bulgaria.

I have been trying to correct my sleep cycle this last week, and I didn't even consider that the stimulation of the release of bromide into my blood by iodine would be helpful. Tonight, I will have no problems going to sleep before 10pm, I need to do this because I am super sensitive to light, and almost every day I wake at 30 minutes before dawn, as the light in the sky changes.

Lugol's iodine was a revolution in my life, after trying out so many diets and supplements and psychotropic drugs, it actually worked.

But I just need to preface this with a warning:

Do not just take doses of iodine over about 2mg per day without medical supervision and increased, unrefined salt.

The salt issue is a big one also because I have in the last year, started develop serious hypertension. The Himalayan salt triggers it, but I don't remember the atlantic sea salt doing this, so I must get the proper salt tomorrow, and consider also buying a bulk quantity to go with the iodine.

If they set off nukes near you, or a reactor blows up, you MUST have iodide available, or you can die very quickly from Iodine 131, produced in the nuclear fission reaction. This was first discovered after Chernobyl, and saved many lives. But with the toxic halides around, you also want to have a good stock of unrefined sea salt for those around you who have not been supplementing it to clear out the toxic halides, because it could, just by the potentially massive release of fluoride and bromide in a person with decades of absorbed, accumulated toxic halides, and these go straight to your thyroid and do the same thing, more or less, as the iodine 131, though it takes a lot more to do this.

I will be continuing to treat myself with this supplement again, because I know that previously it had massive benefits especially to my neurochemistry. Now that I know more about circadian clocks and the endocrine system, which depends on them, this, plus earthing and the Epi Paleo diet from Dr Kruse, I am very hopeful that this is the total remedy I need to get myself into a position where I might actually survive the next 10 years, because my health is getting serious, and I am pretty sure I am not far from developing heart disease.

Also, I have just realised, while thinking about this, that it was absolutely necessary for me to come back to Bulgaria right now, because this is the only country in the world where I can just buy iodine crystal to make Lugol's (I have 2L made up), and to get Magnesium Sulphate at a reasonable price. The 2L of lugol's cost me about 40 euros to make. Most online sources charge at least €15 for a single 100ml bottle. At this price my 2L supply would have cost me 150 euros.

This accessibility of laboratory chemicals is probably one of the other things I love about this country. I used to think it was cool because I wanted to cook myself meth, I used to think that if I just had a supply of pure clean meth, that I could help myself get into working. But this is not the case at all. This health stuff is what I need. I will be acquiring a supply of 1% Semax also, from my next 77 steem power down payout. This should help massively accelerate the repair of my brain, which I am sure is chemically damaged, since I was small.