Why would you need that? All of my research says that iodine with required co-supplements detoxes Halides AND mercury from the body.
Am I wrong?
This article confirms my understanding:
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"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 or detoxifying technique......
..... Heavy metals poison us by disrupting our cellular enzymes, which run on nutritional minerals such as magnesium, zinc, and selenium. Toxic metals kick out the nutrients and bind their receptor sites, causing diffuse symptoms by affecting nerves, hormones, digestion, and immune function. The heavy metals most often implicated in human poisoning are lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium but uranium is playing catch up since depleted uranium became the favorite armament of the United States military. Once in the body, they compete with and displace essential minerals such as iodine, zinc, copper, magnesium, and calcium, and interfere with organ system function.
No where is this process more evident than in the case of the halides, which are all antagonistic elements to iodine, meaning they will impede the absorption of iodine. Heavy metals get stored in the same receptors that are looking for iodine.
www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Liodine2.htm
For much more, see the chapter "Detox"
Grizz
Grizz
This is one reason why people know that mercury and aluminum is chelated out using iodine.
"The bioavailability of a Lugol tablet (Iodoral ) containing 12.5 mg elemental iodine was evaluated by measuring 24 hr urine levels of iodide together with the minerals, trace elements and toxic metals before and after administration of this preparation. The results obtained following iodine supplementation revealed that in some subjects, the urine levels of mercury, lead and cadmium increased by several fold after just one day of supplementation. For aluminum, this increased excretion was not observed usually until after one month or more on the iodine supplementation."
http://optimox.com/pics/Iodine/IOD-08/IOD_08.htm
Wether the chelation is out of ALL tissues, such as the brain, I don't know.
Thanks,
Paraboy
Ah, so iodine replaces the receptor's possession of mercury and mercury runs free in the blood stream?
And if that is the case, why would it dump in the urine instead of all of it binding in the tissues?
Why does cilantro spill mercury out of the urine?
Thanks,
Paraboy
I think Chelorex is the best. After I used it my allergies were 90% better. And I don't have any more detox symptoms when taking Iodine. No side effects.
http://www.scienceformulas.com/
We have had really good luck getting the mercury out buy using algae and cilantro in our food as well as taking liquid zeolite. JAB Generally if you feel uncomfortable and cranky the metals have been knocked loose but they aren't binded and removed from the body efficiently enough.
The zeolite can be uncomfortable though. My daughter always gets a fever when she uses it. I feel like everything has been "stirred up" when I take it and that makes me cranky.