IODINE: Essential or Dangerous? Why You Need Iodine? How Much?

Do I need Iodine? Iodine is a very important element. You will suffer if you don't have enough of it in your diet. Although some think it dangerous, iodine is actually essential to normal human life. Without enough of it you suffer, either a little or a lot.

It's hard to get enough iodine in your diet, but it is essential to optimize thyroid function and the function of numerous other glands. What is it and what does it do? Where does it come from and how much do you need?

Various Iodine Topics:
Direct relationship between enlarged thyroid and breast cancer
Iodine Deficiency as a cause of Brain Damage
Is iodine a gatekeeper of the integrity of the mammary gland?
Role of Iodine Supplement in early Brain Development:
Lancet article about iodine in preg needed for IQ

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[cmills]

After coming across this months ago, I was stunned that I’d never heard anything about iodine and breast pain. I’ve suffered extreme breast tenderness with PMS since I was a teen and I’m now in my 40’s. There were times I’d wear a sports bra over a regular bra because it was so painful. This had happened for 10 to 14 days a month since puberty. I don’t think anyone ever took me seriously when I said how painful it was. I started supplementing with 3 drops of iodine a day and it’s completely resolved. It’s amazing. I suffered for three decades because I never found this information anywhere and no doctor ever addressed it. I cannot thank you enough. It’s literally life changing.

[EduardQualls]

*Iodine is required for one of the steps in apoptosis: programmed cell death, in which a cell that recognizes its DNA has been damaged, will kill itself to keep you from developing cancer.* Iodine deficiency is associated particularly with all cancers of the reproductive system, but especially with breast cancer, cervical cancer, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. The Japanese have the highest intake of iodine and the lowest incidence of all those cancers. The people of Iceland used to have the second lowest rates, but then, around 1982, mega-agri-business stepped in and sold the farmers there on feeding cattle industrial pellets instead of the traditional kelp. The iodine level in their systems plummeted and Icelandic cancer rates soared to match those of the US and Western Europe. *Iodine in the blood stream and lymphatic system also acts as a whole-body antiseptic.*

[Hapkat]

I had a goiter & it was growing fast. My doctor wanted to schedule surgery. I had been using the new salts that came out instead of good old Morton Salt with iodine plus was not putting salt on my foods because of high blood pressure. I researched everything & being low in iodine was key. I simply started putting good old Morton iodized salt on my food and SERIOUSLY it was gone in less then a month. Taking iodine supplements now everyday. My endocrinologist refused to give me anything to shrink it he insisted on surgery. Needless to say I will continue my research & self care before ever going under the knife. How simple a solution he didn’t give a shi t about what taking my thyroid out & the after effects would be for me. He couldn’t have cared less about me. Thank you Dr Ken for helping people learn how to heal naturally which will save them from surgery’s & long term medical problems. ❤

[CT-vujr]

I had a problem with loosing weight. I started to eat sardines, mackerel and cod liver in its own oil (Icelandic). This was the only change I made and the weight started to drop. I saw results almost every day. It made a huge difference. For the record I have been doing mostly carnivore diet and some fasting. (I am female in my 50's)

[lennyblunden]

It's amazing that we don't put iodine back in the soils but we put Fluoride in the water.

[aeroslimatic]

"The human body doesn't do anything for no reason. We just don't know what they are yet!"
Medical honesty is one of the best things to hear.
Thank you for maintaining a clear channel

[freeangel]

Omg you said chronic cold hands. My husband and son have that. No one has ever said they need iodine. It was, you have a circulation problem. Thank you, Doctor Berry.

[colleen]

I started menapause recently. Hair fell out in clumps . Hot flushes like crazy. Sleepless nights. Sore joints. No energy.
Came across the following in my you tube researched and BOOM 🙌🙌🙌. Not one of those symptoms anymore. Almost immediately hot flushes stopped. Hair loss slowed down and has grown much thicker. Can literally count the strands I loose now on one hand. Sleeping through and no sore joints.

Iodine 20ml ( mix with a little water)
Selenium 75mg
Iron 80mg
Magnesium 80mg


Even started spraying my scalp with iodine once a week. Kills any fungus that attacked the hair at the surface of the scalp due to lack of iodine which was part of the reason why it fell out.

Praise God 🙌

[laurareynolds]

I have had hashimotos for 20 years. Had horrible fatigue despite normal labs and medications. I have tried everything... I started taking iodine drops 10 days ago! I am a new person!!!! I feel normal you!

[piotrksiazek]

We need more educated doctor's like you to turn around people's health, thank you!

[itzakpoelzig]

Just to put this out there: for about a year and a half I was taking between 8-20 drops of 5% Lugol's every day. The only "bad" effect I ever had was that my throat would feel a bit scratchy sometimes, and then I would cut back for a while and that would go away.

The good effects that I had were a significant increase in mental sharpness, better short term and long term memory, and much better dream recall. I had hoped for an increase in energy and for my hair to stop shedding so much, and it didn't do either of those things for me, so I eventually stopped taking it.

Now I take 6 drops of 2% Lugol's three times a week.

If you're scared to take iodine, just remember that a scratchy throat will usually be the first harmless sign that you have enough and can lower your dose. It would be very hard to "overdose" unless you were ignoring what your body is telling you.

[GariWatkins]

"There are people who thought they had Fibromyalgia and it's actually an iodine deficiency."

[JodBronson]

It was my Dog who taught me about " Iodine Deficiency ", YES, you heard it right a DOG!!! It was him and I limping up and down our stairs that lead me to research.... Foot / Heel Pain which leads me to "IODINE". I'm happy to report that my Dog and I are AOK now, using Iodine supplements in our Water. NOTE: Not only we no longer limping up and down our stairs, but our energy also great than ever!

[Thisisit]

Not only do we not get told about iodine in school but our doctors don’t say a word about it either. I have never in my life had a doctor that told me anything about iodine. So thank you very much for this video.

[donnac]

I have a rare chronic type of thyroid cancer. To treat it I had to starve myself of iodine, I felt like hell. Unfortunately, the treatment didn’t get all of it and I needed to back in now and then for additional treatment and for an entire decade my cancer team wanted me to strictly limit iodine. From 2012-2022. Most people didn’t even know what iodine what and that it was in salt. It was a real pain. Glad to be back among the iodine living. 🎉

[SuziRiderD]

Cliff Notes of this & more:
1. Dr. David Brownstein, MD wrote The Book on Iodine. It even helped saved his dad's ailing heart. Read it.
2. RDA was developed in the 1920s to prevent goiter when a slice of bread also had 150 mcg. as a leavening agent. People ate a lot of bread & butter and sandwichss back then, so their average intake was also a lot higher than now. Now bread often has bromine (a fungicide) instead.
3. The best test for an iodine deficiency is swallowing 50mg (4 pills) then seeing how much is not absorbed by the body and peed out over the next 24 hrs. It should be over 45mg.
4. Body typically needs 3-5mg/day, per extended studies. Teenage girls need a LOT when breasts are developing.
5. People exposed to radiation (xrays, CT scan) or who have any issue with the endocrine system [any '-itis' (inflammation) nodules l, or cysts) thyroid, breasts, overies, prostate] should try taking 50 mg (12.5mg x 4) per day for 1-3 months, until symptoms subside, then 1/day for maintenence.
6. Low iodine is often the cause of infertilty issues.
7. Iodine is used in almost every cell in the body. A deficiency makes the body try to MacGyver another halide cousin (such as fluoride) in its place, and those are toxic, so the immune system encapsulates it. When combined with a common semi-dormant HHV-family toxin-excreting virus, it can then sit in its excrement & either die or go cancerous.
8. 2% Iodide in iodized Table Salt (40/60 Sodium Chloride) was recently found to compete with the chloride and be absorbed poorly. Hence the falling fertility rates, weight gains, breast & health problems, etc.
9. Swallowed Thyroid meds are broken down into iodine & selenium in the gut, thus often 'stop working' after the severe deficiency is treated and natural production has been suppressed for months. Take them sublingually, and randomly to minimize addiction, then wean off under your doctor's supervision while continuing the Iodoral/eq and +200 mcg selenium/day, but <800 mcg total/day regularly incl. multi-vite & food.

I shrunk a dozen 1-2cm thyroid cysts by taking Iodoral for a few years.

Lugol's solution (iodide/iodine 12.5 mg/2 drops) has been safely used for ~150 years, but tastes nasty. Iodoral/eq 12.5 mg is it in pill form.

[kippy]

I think this video is... berry informative

[antediluvianclockwork]

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[lostnthesupermarket]

Thank You So Much Dr. Berry! I have cystic breasts & so always had Mammogram plus Ultrasound. This year I was told to come back because they weren't sure about a growth. I saw your video & started with Lugol's Iodine, 2 drops daily, a month before my 2nd Mammogram & Ultrasound. Now they could see & said it was a benign cyst. The cysts have shrunk/disappeared so much that I no longer have painful breasts. None of my Yale U doctors ever suggested this.

[marlenegold]

So government put iodine artificially into table salt, and then told us that salt is the primary reason for high blood pressure and to reduce our salt consumption, when it is SUGAR in all its forms we should avoid.

Talk about stupidity... 🙄