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Mitchell A Fleisher, MD

The Critical Importance of Dietary Iodine

Mitchell A. Fleisher, MD

Jan 2006

"Iodine is an essential micronutrient required not only by the thyroid gland but by every cell in the entire body, including muscle, fat, brain and nerves, the immune system and endocrine hormone glands, etc. Iodine is most highly concentrated in the thyroid gland and breasts.

"Bromide and fluoride, both toxic minerals, interfere with iodine absorption and promote goiters. Over the past 20 years, widespread contamination with bromide and fluoride has been associated with an increased occurrence of thyroid and breast cancers in American women. It may also be connected to increasing prostate cancer in men and stomach cancer in both sexes. 

"Iodine has antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, anti-parasite, anti-cancer and mucus clearing properties. It also has anti-oxidative activity by decreasing free radical formation, protecting nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), proteins (enzymes) and other life-sustaining molecules in your body from oxidative damage. Iodine restores the ability of cells to respond normally to hormones, improves energy production, promotes elimination of toxic heavy metals, including aluminum, cadmium, lead and mercury, and of toxic halide ions, including bromine and fluorine.

Dietary iodine has been demonstrated to be useful for:

• thyroid disorders, including goiter, nodules and cysts
• diabetes mellitus and other hormone imbalances
• heavy metal and halide detoxification
• enhancing mental function, e.g., ADD
• chronic fatigue syndrome
• fibrocystic breasts
• fibromyalgia
• ovarian cysts
• immune system disorders
• acute and chronic infections
• all forms of abnormal scarring
• cancer, esp. of the breast, uterus, ovary, prostate, thyroid and stomach
• improving heart function, e.g., irregular heart beats, high blood pressure
• obesity, esp. that resistant to diet, exercise and other treatment
• protection from nuclear radiation fallout and industrial pollution
• reduction of oxidative stress, etc.

The Importance of Inorganic Iodine, Part 2

Fleisher MA

March 2006

"Oral administration of inorganic, nonradioactive iodide/iodine preparations has been demonstrated to benefit thyroid disorders, including goiter, nodules, cysts and thyroid cancer. It has also helped persons with diabetes mellitus and other endocrine system imbalances; those with heavy metal and halide toxicity; persons with chronic fatigue syndrome; those suffering from ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder); fibromyalgia and other myopathic syndromes; fibrocystic breast disease and other mastopathies; ovarian cysts, including polycystic ovary syndrome; sebaceous cysts; Dupuytren's contractures; Peyronie's disease; keloidal scarring; parotid duct stones; acute, subacute and chronic infectious conditions; immune system dysregulation and deficiency syndromes; autoimmune disorders; neoplastic diseases, especially hormonally mediated cancers; cardiovascular dysfunction, such as arrhythmias and hypertension; obesity; protection from nuclear fallout, industrial pollution and reduction of oxidative stress. "

"Clinical iodism (acne, metallic taste in mouth, increased salivation, sneezing, frontal sinus pressure/pain), from alleged iodine overdosing, is infrequent, occurring in less than five percent of patients. The presence of known allergies to fish, shellfish, radioactive iodine or organic, iodinated compounds in x-ray contrast dyes, does not indicate that there is an allergy to inorganic, nonradioactive iodide/iodine. In fact, true allergy to inorganic, nonradioactive iodide/iodine is extremely rare, and if present, usually manifests as urticaria (hives), which is readily manageable."

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