Iodoral, how much have people taken? 
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I am just curious what level of dosage people have done with Iodoral here. Anyone done more than 100mg for an extended period of time, greater than a month or more?
any negative feedback to that amount, more than the expected detox stuff?
I am partly curious because this summer I played with it some, I think some days I did 150 or 200mg. A few of those times I went hiking and my legs felt great, like they used to when I was healthy, like they wanted to keep going. I didn't keep it up for very long because I think I got a little scared about the amount of elemental I was getting in me, but besides getting tired sometimes I can't say I had any negative consequences...
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150 mg Iodoral for 10 months. If I don't get it I wake up at 2 a.m. wondering where the heck my iodine is. Need it with a bit of SSKI, currently 4 drops of Trapper's (120 mg). My breasts don't hurt and my thyroid works better having enough elemental, but the iodide doesn't seem to be available enough, or gets used, so I need the SSKI in addition. I don't know about that much for a man, and I'm biased towards SSKI with no more than a few milligrams of elemental for men. But that's an uneducated bias based on the fact that Hubby's metabolism gets dragged down by elemental after a few weeks, no matter the form, while he sails along on SSKI. Everybody's different.
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This is a reply to # 1,748,250just for clarity, you are taking 150mg of Iodoral AND 120mg of SSKI currently?
when you say your husbands metabolism gets dragged down what does that mean? sluggish, or gains weight???
thanks for sharing I am info gathering mode for myself and others.
my brain is still trying to wrap itself around the elemental Iodine and how much........
I found some old posts (4 years) about how some women were noticing iodoral working better for their breasts than lugols......
and I wonder for myself if the elemental might be helpful for me since I am not very testosterone expressed in some physical and emotional ways
I feel like I have had little glimpses lately of feeling more masculine energy/expression coming through......- Re: Iodoral, how much have people ta... just thinking
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Wordiness warning. Sigh.
Yes, 150 mg Iodoral and 120 mg SSKI concurrently. For awhile I took 150 mg Iodoral and 300 mg SSKI concurrently, but that started feeling like too much. I brought the Iodoral down to 125 mg, then 100 mg, but this broke my sleep up, which smoothed out again back at 150 mg. I experimented then with removing the 10 drops SSKI to see if I could handle just 150 mg Iodoral. This was a little scary because three years ago when I first raised my Iodoral to 150 mg without SSKI, I felt the dark pull of my old depression, probably due to detox of old psych meds. No depression this time around, but lacking a little spark. 4 drops SSKI is just enough to counter this.
Hubby needed TMG to take selenomethionine. Before I found this forum, when I had him take 200 mcg selenomethionine, within 48 hours he changed from a gifted engineer into someone who couldn't think straight and became very clumsy. We figured it out quickly and he recovered. Months later, he tried 50 mcg. Same problem. When I read Newport's recommendation of TMG, I was electrified. Hubby takes selenomethionine just fine now. However, when he takes elemental iodine, he gets funny looking. I've spent three decades studying this man's face for problems he can't describe. And funny looking means his brain is fixing not to work and I will be frightened for him to go out alone. Maybe too much oxidation? Don't know. Bless Trapper, I had Hubby try his 2% with magnets and magnascent. Same result. Maybe even a little worse because they both work so fast. But Hubby comes from a long line of hard-core dementia invalids, and at his age of 62, I see no reason to flirt with disaster. SSKI is fabulous!
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This is a reply to # 1,748,889thanks for all that!!!
Has he ever had a hair test to check for heavy metals? (Andy Culter counting rules...)
I am convinced the Iodine is stirring up metals in me and I have done a lot of chelation already...
every once in awhile it seems my body stops taking in water and I get really dry, lips chap so bad they almost fall off and cold sores ensue......it am just coming out of one of those....I am thinking my last Liver Flush stirred it up.....and as soon as I started taking dmsa I started feeling better...
I think the Iodine is mobilizing things, I really wish I knew more of what was going on inside me sometimes......
It is good to hear about someone taking larger doses of Iodoral without bad consequences
did you say 10 months on Iodine???? or longer?
and I hear you, I may have to watch it as a guy, but there is something there important for me too i think......- Re: Iodoral, how much have people ta... just thinking
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(she laughs) Um, 10 months on this most-stable version of taking iodine. Probably 10 years ago started painting with tincture of iodine in a desperate attempt to make the stain last longer than 3 hours. Never happened. 8 years ago started Iosol and then a half tablet of Iodoral, developed crushing headaches, and stopped iodine again. 4-1/2 years ago found this forum, learned about detox, and resumed Iodoral with the determination to bust through the headaches and resolve FBD. Success.
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This is a reply to # 1,749,274thanks for sharing your story JT!
Gosh makes me realize I would love to see a place for peoples stories on this forum for people who have been around for awhile
Your story reminds me of the need for long haul frame of mind...which I have, especially after I talking with Brownstein 2 years and learning he watched his bromide levels spike when he started taking Iodine and then stay high four four years before they dropped down again....and that was him taking 50mg of Iodoral...I don't know what else he was doing...
I have a client that sees me regularly and we got her on 12.5 mg Iodoral 1 1/2 years ago and she had really quick improvement in her breasts within 3 months or so.....no detox except some hot flashes for awhile
then after a year she started getting some fatigue and she had a uterine fibroid that was not going away. So she upped the Iodoral to 50mg. Again no detox. And now after 6 months at that dosage she has noticed that the outer 1/3 of her eyebrows are starting to fill in.
I have friends that had a naturopath (who is one that gave me brownsteins book, and is a friend) that got them started on Iodine and they stopped after several months because they didn't notice anything....that was about two years ago......after all the reading I have done lately, I got them to do an Iodine loading test and bromide test....they were both high in Bromide, so I talked to them about the virtues of taking Iodine for the long haul and how it can take a long time for Iodine to make a difference in some cases and for the bromide to come out and some people don't have much detox so they may not notice anything at first
That naturopath hardly recommmends Iodine now because I think she didn't see enough changes fast enough and she is not a big fan of testing...
anyway I am rambling ...kind of.....i guess what I am trying to say is that it can be really tough to get some people to believe in the necessity of Iodine if they are not symptomatic and they detox easy.....
hmmmmm......where was I going with that?????
ahhhhh, so much to learn......
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This is a reply to # 1,748,149I know that Trapper was messing around with 300mg Lugol's for a bit. Iodoral, lugol's, same dif:)
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