Iodine - are you deficient?; Energy flow & minerals.
Dr. Brownstein suggests you may be in an interview by Ken Berry, MD.
Iodine deficiency is common. My betting money would go on ‘Yes.’
Yes, the odds are good that you and most people in the US are low in iodine and/or have an excess of other goitrogens. However, that is not a good thing for energy level and mood or decision making and critical thinking.
Iodine helps as an antioxidant to protect our mitochondria so they can keep making energy available to us in the form of ATP. Magnesium is a partner for ATP so lack of magnesium will also lead to fatigue and being easily tired.
Iodine helps us within the thyroid hormone for our energy level. Every molecule of thyroid hormone has three or four atoms of iodine in the active forms. When iodine is not available or lots of fluoride or bromide or chloride is available, then atoms of those minerals will be incorporated into the molecules of thyroid hormone instead of iodine.
The Brownstein protocol involves a loading phase with extra iodine/iodine, to flood the body with excess. The body then will exchange it for atoms fluoride, bromide, and chloride. Measuring levels of all four halides during this phase will show high levels of other halides and not much of the iodine, or less then would be expected if iodine sufficiency was present.
When there is adequate iodine the body excretes excess dietary iodine in the urine. Measurements may be done by collecting 24 hours of urine and comparing the iodine concentration with a standard range.
You're Iodine Deficient [with Dr. David Brownstein] Iodine Benefits, KenDBerryMD, (youtube.com)
One question from Lies are Unbekoming’s interview, (Unbekoming.Substack):
8. Moving to iodine, you've stated that iodine deficiency is linked to many health issues like fibrocystic breast disease, hypothyroidism, diabetes, obesity and certain cancers. Why do you think iodine deficiency is so widespread today?
It seems purposeful, either as a population control method, a bomb industry cover-up of employee harm, or to help make radioactive iodine use more ‘effective’ - more would be taken up by someone whose body was deficient in iodine and then an X-ray screening for thyroid cancer would be clear. Of course, iodine deficiency is adding to the cancer risk but that isn’t discussed. In the 1950’s the use of fluoride in bomb making factories caused significant employee harm. Law cases ended up being lost when the defense attorney’s expert dentists embraced fluoridated toothpaste to help protect children’s teeth from cavities – based on one rat study that showed fluoride uptake by the teeth. How could fluoride be bad if it is good for kids? Well, because that was more of a lie than the truth. Fluoride can make teeth and bones more dense but also more brittle. Magnesium within the bone matrix adds flexibility to the bone tissue so it is less brittle. (Castiglioni, et al., 2013)
In the 1950s potassium iodide as an anti-caking agent in flour was replaced with potassium bromide. Bromide is more of a toxin than a food ingredient as it and fluoride can compete with iodine and be incorporated into molecules of thyroid hormone which would make the hormone dysfunctional but levels of thyroid hormone on a lab test would seem ‘normal’. Chloride may also. The three are halides which is a chemical group that includes iodide too.
Doing some generational math places us at three and a half generations of babies born from women who had too little iodine compared to the other halides. With each generation and each pregnancy, women will have less iodine for their next pregnancy. Recommended intake guidelines of iodine are inadequate for optimal health or to compensate for the bromide and fluoride in our food and water supply. Congenital hypothyroidism can be improved if the baby is given iodine shortly after birth however that is not routinely done.
No one is routinely treated with iodine in the current medical system. Someone who does test low in thyroid hormone will be treated with synthetic thyroid hormone like Synthroid which might help thyroid function, but it is not providing iodine for any other uses. Every endocrine gland needs iodine, not just the thyroid gland. It just gets first pick so if it is low, then the other glands will be even lower in iodine and that includes the mammary glands. Lack of iodine likely adds to cancer risk because iodine also supports mitochondrial function in critical ways and without mitochondrial and cytoplasm methylation cycle function we won’t have epigenetic regulation of the cell’s genes.
Tumors are like a growing baby – rapid growth, fully activated, no brakes. Epigenetic control by healthy mitochondrial methylation are the brakes that our cells need to perform only the desired functions instead of being in rapid growth, fully ‘turned on’ mode. Lots of nutrients are needed for proper methylation and iodine is one of the group that may get forgotten because it protects mitochondria in ways that are not directly part of methylation cycle pathways. But without the iodine, the mitochondria won’t function as well in more general ways.
Iodine and thyroid function also impact the function of the heart:
“While T4 is the major product secreted by the thyroid gland, T3 exerts the majority of the physiological effects of the thyroid hormones; T4 and T3 have a relative potency of ~1:4 (T4:T3). T4 and T3 act on nearly every cell of the body but have a particularly strong effect on the cardiac system. As a result, many cardiac functions including heart rate, cardiac output, and systemic vascular resistance are closely linked to thyroid status.” (Levothyroxine/Synthroid)
Iodine seems critical to our being able to have the quantum rate of energy flow within our cardiovascular system and within mitochondria. Without the faster speed, chemical reactions are slower and take more energy – if we don’t have more energy, than our metabolic reactions can’t happen – we will be more tired and maybe not able to think very well either – brain fog.
Read more: (Unbekoming.Substack).
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And more music:
Uplifting Meditation, 1 hour handpan music with Malte Marten, Luna Mando, and Fabba. (youtu.be)
Positive energy can be shared in a recorded medium - we see positive body language and feel positive feelings in response (generally, your mileage may vary).
Imitator cells may be involved - “Smile and the world smiles with you,” frown, and you may indeed be frowning alone. Who wants that? People will avoid it because it does ‘rub us the wrong way’ or ‘get under our skin’ or worse ‘makes our skin crawl.’
Adequate iodine and magnesium can help us to have that energy and inner glow which helps set us alight in a magnetic way. “Magnetic attraction” - metaphorical? Or literal? Kind of literal actually. We do have an energy field which includes magnetism. A “charming” person may be a healthy person who is flowing at a quantum pace internally, with adequate iodine and magnesium to keep things sparkly.
Calcium is needed too, and vitamin K2 and vitamin D/sunshine, all in balance with each other (and avoid glyphosate as it likely is inhibiting vitamin D metabolism).
Magnesium is very flammable and provides the sparkle in a Fourth of July sparkler too.
Sodium and potassium are considered our electrolytes but the other minerals are also electrically active, unless bound to a carrier protein. So we also need adequate protein in our diet to gave a good energy level and maybe a more ‘magnetic’ personality.
Cholesterol plaque in blood vessels is likely a calcium burden the body is trying to make safer electrically, by spackling it over with waxy cholesterol. Adequate magnesium and iodine and zinc and vitamin K2 can help reverse atherosclerosis and maybe arteriosclerosis (*not quite the same, but similar).
See page Relaxation & Stress, (effectivecare.info), for more about magnesium and its role in helping keep excess calcium out of cells where it can over-activate them to a point of cell death (*avoid the excitotoxic glutamate seasonings and aspartame or Neotame).
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References
(Castiglioni, et al., 2013) Castiglioni S, Cazzaniga A, Albisetti W, Maier JA. Magnesium and osteoporosis: current state of knowledge and future research directions. Nutrients. 2013 Jul 31;5(8):3022-33. doi: 10.3390/nu5083022. PMID: 23912329; PMCID: PMC3775240. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3775240/
Very cool that you say our energy field is literally magnetic. All my life, animals have been attracted to me. I go to the zoo and animals make their way to get close to me. And when I'm out walking or sitting on a bench, dogs come up to be petted -- some owners tell me their dog never does that! So apparently I eat enough protein and minerals :-)
Iodine is such an important topic - there's often controversy around the right dosage amount. Any suggestions on dosage for a woman in her 40s?
Love Malte!