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Higher Health: Iodine Protects Against Fluoride Toxicity

Iodine Protects Against Fluoride Toxicity

Written By: Dr. Mark Sircus

There is growing evidence that Americans would have better health and a lower incidence of
cancer and fibrocystic disease of the breast if they consumed more iodine. A decrease in iodine
intake coupled with an increased consumption of competing halogens, fluoride and bromide, has
created an epidemic of iodine deficiency in America. - Dr. Donald Miller, Jr.

The toxicity of modern life is impacting iodine levels and in the countries that fluoridate their
water this impact is maximized. It is well known that the toxic halides: fluoride and bromide,
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having structure similar to iodine, can competitively inhibit iodine absorption and binding in the
body. All the halogens use the same receptors in the body so fluoride's danger for people is
centered in great part on this fact.
Americans and Brazilians, who are more exposed to fluoride than other populations, have a
desperate need for more iodine. Taking iodine in its nascent form is not only the best way to
increase iodine levels in the safest and most effective way possible for adults and children whose
thyroids are already compromised, but it will also greatly aid in ridding the body of dangerous
fluoride, bromide, chlorine, perchlorates and heavy metals.
In our age of increasing radioactivity and toxic poisoning specifically with fluoride,[1] chlorine,
bromide, and even mercury, iodine is a necessary mineral.
Iodine is extremely important since the cells need it to regulate their metabolism. Without it,
people are known to suffer from swollen glands in the throat, thyroid diseases, increased
fluoride toxicity, decreased fertility rates, increased infant mortality rates, and (with severe
deficiency) mental retardation. It has been theorized that iodine deficiency is a causal factor of
ADHD in babies of iodine-deficient mothers.
Iodine intake immediately increases the excretion of bromide, fluoride, and some heavy metals
including mercury and lead. Bromide and fluoride are not removed by any other chelator
ordetoxifying technique.
Dr. Kenezy Gyula Korhaz states that iodine chelates heavy metals such as mercury, lead,
cadmium, aluminum, and halogens such as fluoride and bromide, thus decreasing their iodineinhibiting effects,[2] especially of the halogens. Iodine has the highest atomic weight of all the
common halogens (126.9). Iodine is the only option when it comes to removing these toxic
haloids from the thyroid and even the pineal gland where fluoride concentrates, especially when
there is a deficiency of iodine in the body.
The human pineal gland contains the highest concentration of fluoride in the body. Fluoride is
associated with depressed pineal melatonin synthesis and this depression increases one's chance
of cancer.

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Dr. David Brownstein says that fluoride inhibits the ability of the thyroid gland to concentrate
iodine and research has shown that fluoride is much more toxic to the body when there is
iodine deficiency present. Brownstein says that after only one dose of iodine, the excretion of
fluoride increases by 78%.[3]
On January 7, 2011, the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed lowering
the recommended level used in the water fluoridation program to 0.7 ppm, because of the very
high incidence of dental fluorosis among American children. An amazing 41% of ALL American
children aged 12-15 are now impacted by this condition.
Sodium fluoride is commonly used as a rat poison. Globalists and eugenicists have decided to
add it to water supplies with the message to the public that it is good for teeth, despite warnings
from the ADA stating that young children risk a disease called dental fluorosis.

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After hailing water fluoridation as one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 20th Century
(CDC), the government is calling for a reduction in the amount of fluoride it adds to public water
supplies, citing its negative effect on teeth when promotion of healthy teeth is the basic reason
given for adding fluoride to the water.
An August 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages children's liver and
kidney functions. One of the strongest physiological effects of fluorides in drinking water (e.g.
hydrofluorosilicic acid) is on the kidney, a point to consider in light of increased rates of kidney
failure during recent decades.[4]
Kidney disease markedly increases an individual's susceptibility to fluoride toxicity. In healthy
adults, the kidneys are able to excrete approximately 50% of an ingested dose of fluoride.
However, in adults with kidney disease, the kidneys may excrete as little as 10-20%, and young
children may only excrete 15% of an ingested dosethus increasing the body burden of fluoride
and increasing an individual's susceptibility to fluoride poisoning (e.g. renal osteodystrophy).
Scientific evidence over the past 50 plus years has shown that sodium fluoride shortens our life
span, promotes various cancers and mental disturbances, and most importantly, makes humans
stupid, docile, and subservient, all in one neat little package.

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A Scientific American study "concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially
in the thyroid." The National Research Council of the National Academies in a 2006 report on
page 266 said, "In summary, evidence of several types indicates that fluoride affects normal
endocrine function or response; the effects of the fluoride-induced changes vary in degree and
kind in different individuals. Fluoride is therefore an endocrine disruptor in the broad sense of
altering normal endocrine function."
Halogen Displacement

The mechanism behind "halogen displacement" was probably best described by J. C. Jarvis, M.D.
(Folk Medicine, Henry Holt & Co., 1958, HB, p. 136), who wrote: "The clinical activity of any one
of these four halogens is in inverse proportion to its atomic weight. This means that any one of
the four can displace the element with a higher atomic weight, but cannot displace an element
with a lower atomic weight. For example, flourine can displace chlorine, bromine, and iodine
because fluorine has a lower atomic weight than the other three. Similarly, chlorine can displace
bromine and iodine because they both have a higher atomic weight." Likewise, bromine can
displace iodine from the body because iodine has a higher atomic weight. A reverse order is not
possible.
European doctors used fluoride as a thyroid-suppressing medication for patients with HYPERthyroidism (over-active thyroid). Fluoride was utilized because it was found to be effective at
reducing the activity of the thyroid glandeven at doses as low as 2 mg/day.
The regular use of iodine will go a very long way toward mitigating the damages done in our
bodies by the fluoride that we are exposed to. The Nascent form is the easiest way of increasing
iodine levels for adults and children whose thyroids are already compromised by fluoride. Nascent
Iodine is the atomic form and it is special. Nascent has the advantage of being in the I atomic
(as opposed to I or I molecular forms) form meaning that there is no digestion, no breaking
down of molecules of iodine. It is already broken down through an electromagnetic process.
For heavy lifting when needing iodine in large quantities for transdermal application (painting the
breasts daily with iodine for breast cancer is one example) I recommend the age old Lugol's
formula. Liquid forms of minerals always seem better than solid pill forms because the body has
an easier time digesting and absorbing liquid forms with the nascent form ready to be utilized
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instantly in any way the body needs. Some tissues utilize iodide and others iodine and the thyroid
always needs atomic iodine to make T3 and T4 metabolic thyroid hormones.

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[1] Fluoride is associated with cancer and it also accumulates in the thyroid as well as the
pineal gland, an important hormone control center. Dr. Jennifer Luke found out that the pineal
gland which produces serotonin and melatonin was also a calcifying tissue, like the teeth and
the bones, so she hypothesized it would concentrate fluoride to very high levels. Luke had 11
cadavers analyzed in the UK and found very high levels of fluoride in the calcium hydroxy
apatite crystals produced by the gland. The average was 9000 ppm and went as high as
21,000 in one case. These levels are equal to or higher than fluoride levels in the bones of
people suffering from skeletal fluorosis. Luke hypothesizes that one of the four enzymes
needed to convert the amino acid tryptophan (from the diet) into melatonin is being inhibited
by fluoride. Melatonin is responsible for regulating all kinds of activities including the onset of
puberty. It is thought that the fall of melatonin levels acts like a biological clock and triggers
the onset of puberty. In her gerbil study she found that the high fluoride treated animals were
reaching puberty earlier than the low fluoride ones. Considering the seriousness of a possible
interference by fluoride on a growing child's pineal gland (and for that matter, elderly pineal
glands) underlines the need for higher iodine intake to increase fluoride elimination.
[2] Sticht, G., Kferstein, H., Bromine. In Handbook on Toxicity of Inorganic Compounds
Seiler HG and Sigel, H Editors, Marcel Dekker Inc, 143-151, 1988.
[3] David Brownstein, Iodine, Why You Need It, Why You Can't Live Without
It;https://www.drbrownstein.com/bookstore_Iodine.php
[4] http://fluoride-class-action.com/wp-content/uploads/carol-clinch-2009-fluoride-andkidneys.pdf
Originally posted on: Green Med Info

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