The Attack of the Halides: Chlorine, Bromine & Fluorine

To get the complete story, I urge you to read:

The Iodine Crisis

A Brief History of Halides in the Food Supply

Although bromine was used as a “medicine” and an anesthetic by turn of the century doctors, the first real mass poisoning of the public with halogens of Iodine started around 1900 when water systems started putting chlorine in the water supplies.  I suspect that this made the prevalence of goiters much greater.

But there was also another source of anti-iodine toxic food supplies introduced in 1900, The introduction of “vegetable” oils which are NOT from vegetables. Prior to this introduction, people used lard and had done so for hundreds of years with no ill effects.

Proctor and Gamble  has been around since the 1800s. Their early products were soap and they were using cotton seed oil (NOT a vegetable) for the soap base. Cotton seed oil was not fit for consumption and was more of less a waste product of the cotton industry. But in the late 1890s, a German chemist came over to the USA, and sold a chemical process to Proctor and Gamble that allowed them to make cotton seed oil marketable. The first product was Wesson Oil and then Wesson Oil was altered by hydrogenation and became Crisco. These chemical oils are infused with Bromine, a toxic halogen(And just about every oil on the shelf in the grocery store). A marketing campaign was started to convince people that “vegetable” oil was more healthy than lard. But that was a big lie. It took many decades before BVO took over the lard market. And the more people used these products, the more degenerative diseases began to appear.

World War I started a few years later and chlorine, which is highly toxic, was turned into a chemical weapon. It killed and maimed 10s of 1000s of people. The survivors were damaged for life. For example, the noted actor Walter Brennan served in WWI and was the victim of a chlorine gas attack. Because of this, his voice had a distinct, odd tonal quality the rest of his life. Now Walter Brennan was one of the lucky ones. He did not suffer enough damage to shorten his life but many others didn’t live long after being victims of the chlorine gas. I remember my grandparents talking about the effects on a relative that had been gassed and how he lived a short. miserable life after the war.

So, even knowing the dangers of chlorine, water systems around the country started putting this toxin in drinking water and continue to this day. Keep in mind, the Europeans don’t allow chlorine to be put in their drinking water and their water is safer to drink. They also don’t allow it in their pools as they use ozone to purify the water.

So, people started getting anti-iodine poisons since 1900. I wonder if this is what prompted the authorities of the day to FINALLY allow Iodized salt, 50 or so years after the Europeans introduced it?

The Limited Positive Benefits of Iodized Salt

After iodized salt was introduced, the cases of goiter went way down.

Remember, the 1920s were the heady days of vitamin discovery. As new vitamins were discovered and made available, many people started taking them and improving their health. They switched to iodized salt.

All good right? It was clearly demonstrated that Iodine reduce goiters. Also, the commercial baking industry started putting an iodine compound in flour so that anyone who ate bread, which was practically everyone, got extra doses of Iodine. Incidents of goiter were pretty much eliminated and thyroid problems in general became rare. Unfortunately, the dose of Iodine people got from salt was very small but with it in flour and baked goods using flour, their iodine intake was much higher.

In my next post, I will talk about the campaign to eliminate iodine and all the diseases lack of iodine has caused.

It is a Safe Assumption YOU have an Iodine Deficiency!

As I mentioned in my last post, Iodine is critical for good health and practically no one gets enough.

If you want the complete story, I urge you to read:

The Iodine Crisis: What You Don’t Know About Iodine Can Wreck Your Health

As I mentioned previously, I learned about the work of Dr. Abraham in the early 2000s. around 2003-2004. At the time, he was challenging the outrageously low RDA for Iodine, which to this day is 150mcg. At the time, I was taking a quality multi-vitamin that had 150mcg of Iodine in it and thought I was covered but Dr. Abraham said that the RDA for Iodine should be 15mg per day and if you had an Iodine deficiency, you needed to take 50mg per day to bring your levels up.

How to Know if you are Iodine Deficient

I was reading Dr. Rowen’s newsletter on health at the time and he had an article on Iodine based on Dr. Abraham’s work. In the article, he said a quick, inexpensive way to see if you were Iodine deficient was to get some antiseptic iodine like you use for cuts (I since learned there is a much better liquid Iodine called Lugol’s solution), I got the antiseptic Iodine for the test but I found out quickly that I was allergic to the antiseptic stuff after a few applications. I applied a 2 inch square on my thigh (or you can use the inside of your wrist) to see how long it took to disappear. According to Dr. Rowen, if you could still see the iodine color after 24 hours, your iodine level was good. If it disappeared before that, you were deficient. Well, the first patch disappeared in about 20 minutes indicating I was seriously deficient. The second patch disappeared as quickly!

At the time, I didn’t understand why since I was taking the multivitamin with the RDA of Iodine. But I was having low thyroid so I followed the basic Iodine Protocol of Dr. Abraham and got enough Iodine in my system to make it active again.

Iodine is Used by More organs and Glands than Just the Thyroid

What I didn’t realize at the time was Iodine was used by the entire body, not just the thyroid and that the halogens of iodine got in your system and stayed there like heavy metal and blocked the functioning of all the glands and other organs of the body. The reason Dr. Abraham’s Iodine Protocol worked for me is that the thyroid gets iodine first because iodine along with selenium are necessary to make thyroid hormone. After the thyroid is full of iodine, THEN the rest of the body can start receiving it. But I didn’t know that at the time. I just knew my thyroid was functioning properly. Yet I was still seriously Iodine deficient and didn’t know it.

So just as I unknowingly was exposed to heavy metal, I discovered recently that I was unknowingly exposed to the anti-iodine halogens for many decades, and like heavy metal, they have to be chelated out. How did this happen?

Again, it was from food sources, the water supply and dental products. With each exposure, it kicked out more Iodine and the halogens, chlorine (water), fluoride (water and dental products) and bromine (flour products, flame retardants, etc.) stayed.

Iodine Deficiency a Known Problem Since the Late 1800s

In the history of the US, there have been many parts of the country that were iodine deficient to the point that goiter was common. This was also a problem in other parts of the world. Then in the 1820s, a French chemist accidentally discovered Iodine. Other researchers worked with it and found that this “new” compound reversed goiters.

Since goiters and the corresponding health issues associated with it were very common, some far thinking Europeans figured they could get it to the consuming public by putting it in salt. Although it wasn’t much iodine, it did reduce goiter. So after the Europeans started putting Iodine in salt in the late 1800s, it took the US until 1924 to iodize salt (the US health authorities appear to not be interested in cheap, simple self-health solutions for better health). After salt was iodized, just as in Europe, goiters went down in the US.

In my next post, I will give a brief history of toxic halides being forced on an unaware public and the intentional attempt to stop people from taking Iodine.

As I wrote about in my post on healing my Hypothyroidism, (Hypothyroid = Fluoride, what you don’t know can hurt you), I found out about iodine in the early days of Dr. Abraham’s research. A few months ago, to deal with some major health issues, e.g. extreme heavy metal poisoning, I started an intensive research program following many different categories that I will cover in future posts.

Right now, I want to talk about a critical component of health that just about everyone is deficient – IODINE.

Back in 2003 or so, when my thyroid was malfunctioning due to fluoride, I had discovered the work of Dr. Abraham which helped solve my problem However, the work was in it’s early stages. It gave me enough information to boost my thyroid but not enough information for better health. Since that time, which has been almost 20 years, regular citizens have done an intensive research program, a real world program, with IODINE and this information is presented in a great work:

The Iodine Crisis: What You Don’t Know About Iodine Can Wreck Your Health

If you read this book and apply the protocols mentioned, it can do amazing things to improve your health.

For myself, almost 20 years ago, even the basic Iodine protocol helped. I knew my problem came from unknowingly consuming a lot of water that was heavily contaminated, on purpose I might add, with Fluoride. What I didn’t know at the time was that Fluoride, and the other halogens of Iodine, operated and stayed in the body, just like the more traditional heavy metals such as lead and arsenic.

A couple of years ago, I inadvertently ended up with a serious case of traditional heavy metal poisoning from a contaminated food source which almost killed me (I will talk about this in a future post)  and I’m not over it yet. So, when I found out that these halogens of Iodine operated and stayed in the body until they were forced out (chelated), The Iodine Crisis book provided an iodine protocol that removes the halogens because iodine serves as a chelator to the adverse halogens which are chlorine, bromine and fluoride.

Due to my accidental heavy metal poisoning from a food source, I am very familiar with the need for chelation. Doing the chelation process for the last year has stopped the heavy metal from killing me, however, now I am dealing with all the damage the heavy metal has done to my body.

The Iodine Protocol is one of the programs I am using to heal the heavy metal damage. In my next post, I will start a series of posts about the critical need for iodine and how we have been poisoned by the halides of Iodine beginning in the 1970s.