Can you describe the iodine protocol? Can you get enough iodine for this with foods high in iodine?
The iodine protocol includes iodine, selenium, magnesium, vitamin C and salt. The only iodine really suitable has a ratio of 7.5mg iodide to 5mg iodine (lugol’s is the liquid form and Iodoral is the pill form). That totals 12.5mg for 5 drops of lugol’s or 1 pill of iodoral. I take 4 per day which is 50mg.
You cannot get enough from food unless you eat like the Japanese, which is tons of seaweed and raw fish. They get approximately 13mg/day and have essentially no incidents of thyroid or reproductive cancers.
The RDA of iodine in the US is 150mcg which is just enough to keep you from getting a goiter and a fraction (like 1/1000) of what the Japanese get daily.
The other prong of the problem in the US is that there are 3 toxic halides in abundance in our environment that actually mimic and compete with iodine. They are chlorine, flouride and bromine. That’s why higher doses are crucial
Iodine used to be the universal specific in the American medical pharmacopoeia. The body needs far more than the FDA acknowledges. It may enhance disinfection, immunity, cognition, and stamina.
Our diets are simultaneously much lower in iodine and much higher in competing halogens (elemental chlorine, and ionic chloride, fluoride, bromide in various forms) than a century ago. Sodium Chloride aside, these are unnatural and non-nutritional, and, being smaller in atomic size, displace the larger iodine atom.
Sea Macro-algae (”weeds”), especially Brown, are excellent sources. Natural salt, although highly beneficial, is not. (I do not recommend Iodized Salt at all.)
Starting in the 1830s or so, Lugol’s Solution became the common medicinal iodine supplement. It is nearly 100 times more potent per dose than a typical modern tablet or capsule supplement, which are based on deliberately low FDA standards. Medical doctors used it without problems until Big Pharma took over in the 1930s, and MDs generally abandoned natural remedies.
One dose of traditional Lugol’s Solution is 12,500 micrograms (versus 150-200 micrograms).
Around 2007, the DEA had full strength and large quanity Lugol’s banned, ostensibly because it could be used in making illegal drugs.
One can still get half strength, small size Lugol’s online, but pharmacies no longer sell it.
Following the DEA move, some companies started producing solid versions of the solution, to retain the fill dosage, since tge regulation applied only to liquids. Iodoral was the first, as I recall.
The advantage of Lugol’s is that it is a blend of elemental iodine and potassium iodide. One works better systemically (such as, female breast), and the other works better in the thyroid gland.
I have usually suggested people ramp up to full dose on alternate days, 3/4 times per week.
The only mild problems I have encountered are:
Short-term detox symptoms as the body releases toxic halogens. It is temporary; getting the flourides and bromides out is a good thing.
Temporary sleep interruption due to increased alertness and energy, possibly requiring reducing dosage or frequency.
Increased sebaceous gland production, possibly causing skin eruptions somewhat like adult acne, again possibly requiring reducing dosage or frequency.
I have used Lugol’s on occasion. I currently use my own home-made sea algae blend. Since I am sensitive to most such things, I take it only in the morning, so as not to interfere with sleep.
If you research Lugol’s Solution cross-referenced with Iodine Protocol, you should get plenty of information.
I also suggest you peruse EarthClinic.com. They have conditions and remedies separately by alphabetized index, and I recall them having much information on iodine usage.