Posted on 09/07/2011 4:03:03 PM PDT by spacejunkie01
I see today that Andrea Mitchell has breast cancer. I read threads here and at other sources from time to time of others newly diagnosed or struggling with it.
What you won't hear most of the medical community tell you is, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, other reproductive cancers, including prostate, are tied directly to iodine deficiency. Same applies for breast and uterine fibroids and enlarged prostate glands. As well as goiter or nodules on the thyroid.
I felt compelled to start a thread on this as we ALL need iodine and we are almost ALL deficient in it. Iodine is a crucial mineral, just as magnesium and calcium are but we get very little in our food supply and there are competing toxins (bromine, flouride, chlorine) that keep us from absorbing the little we get.
Go to www.breastcancerchoices.org for more information on the relationship between iodine deficiency and breast cancer (as well as a place to buy Iodoral) and check out Dr. David Brownstein's books and info and go to Optimox for more information.
“Lots of processed foods contain so much sodium you don’t need table salt (which has iodine added).”
What is the source of the non-salt sodium in those foods?
Any idea of iodine’s efficacy in metatstatic breast/prostate cancer?
Some foods naturally contain sodium. These include all vegetables and dairy products such as milk, meat and shellfish. While they don't have an abundance of sodium, eating these foods does add to your overall sodium intake. For example, 1 cup (237 milliliters) of low-fat milk has about 107 mg of sodium.
Hope this helped.
Thanks much for the information. The salt in the processed food is not iodized?
I understand salt and meat are high in iodine.
I’M SET. As long as I don’t OD on iodine.
Time to cook some more bacon.
As far as I know, and have researched, the only food that has iodine added is table salt. Now if you’re into seaweed ......long time ago the feds were wondering how to get iodine to the masses since goiter was a serious problem back in the 1920’s or so and they came up with table salt since everybody used it.
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In my case I have to be careful what I recommend. I actually took an Oath to do so...
If you’re a good doctor, Obamacare does not want you.
Please create a Ping List for topics/threads like this and add me to it. Wow you are good.
More likely to make someone puke their guts out.
Because iodine promotes apoptosis,it can only help, particularly in therapeutic doses (50mg and higher—preferably higher).
This is a GREAT site to discuss iodine. The founder of the site, Stephanie, cured herself of thyroid cancer and there are many here at differing stages of breast cancer.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iodine/messages
LOL! It definitely won’t but my dad said the same thing.
I drink it every day, sometimes twice, and I feel fantastic when I do it. And it alleviates any of the detox symptoms I have at the time from the iodine.
Two important points. The first is that many metals, semi-metals, halogens (like iodine and chlorine) and nonmetals are either antiseptic or inhibit pathogen reproduction. However, that being said, while a little is good, too much can be very bad, even deadly.
In the case of iodine, the thyroid will uptake a finite amount, but if more is in the body it will be excreted as excess. Both too little, and too much iodine can result in abnormal thyroid metabolism.
There are components in soy, flax seeds, and raw cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and cabbage) that counteract iodine. These components, called goitrogens, can cause an enlarged thyroid gland, also called a goiter. Thus, large amounts of soy combined with inadequate iodine intake can exacerbate iodine deficiency.
Typically the safe range for iodine consumption for a healthy adult is between 150 and 1100 micrograms a day.
There is some concern about OTC iodine supplements, as some are suspected of being contaminated with arsenic, which while carefully monitored so as to only exist in tiny amounts in drinking water (max 10 ppb), is far less watched in food and supplements.
Even a small amount can inhibit the immune system, dampening its recognition of novel pathogens, giving them a much better chance of establishing themselves. Then, when the immune system does recognize them, it overreacts, which can be very harmful in its own right.
A nutritional expert, agricultural expert, or geologist? And if you're going by the RDA for mineral intake, you might want to take another look. The RDA should really be written as the RMDA (Recommended Minimum Daily Allowance). It's right up there with the food pyramid in it's incorrect proclimations.
Thanks for the post.
LOL. Good because I don’t want any Obamacare, either.
And your irritating, holier-that-thou, condescending arrogance was from???
Really. Such attitudes are commonplace among liberals and other collectivists; we really don't need them here. Fact is, most American MDs have had no more than FIVE HOURS OF NUTRITION CLASSES IN MED SCHOOL IF ANY AT ALL, and yet there is a VAST wealth of cross-checkable nutrition information on the internet and elsewhere, even for you. Have you ever waited in a doctor's waiting room WITHOUT a rep from a large pharmaceutical company getting in to make a presentation ahead of you? ALL most MDs know is meds, not nutrition. Wise up.
Yet in order to get INTO Med School one has to take 4 semesters of Chemistry, including two of Organic (in which I made A’s on every exam, I might add) and then one takes a very rigorous Biochemistry Course in Med School which I THOUGHT would be easy because I smoked two semesters of Biochem as an undergrad. I have heard the claim “Doctors don’t study Nutrition” before. Horsesh!t! How many Internet Nutrition “experts” have studied this stuff even a fraction of what I have?
Sorry to burst your bubble FRiend. As I originally posted, I have to be careful what I recommend to folks because I took an Oath not to hurt people. How many Internet Experts have done that?
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