Iodine and Psychosis 
Stargazer1111
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Okay. I finally had to give up taking iodine.
For the last month or so I had started experiencing very weird digestive problems and food sensitivities that I hadn't before. I couldn't tolerate anything with salicylates, amines, or oxalates. I never had these reactions in the past.
Then, I started having severe mental problems that I have never had before. I developed a weird paranoia and began to semi-hallucinate that evil spirits were in my home that wanted to hurt me.
I did not suspect Iodine so I tried eliminating everything else that I could think of. I eliminated dairy which seemed to help some but not entirely. I eliminated salicylates, amines, and oxalates and nothing changed on the mental front, although the allergic reactions to those things ceased.
Then, on a hunch, I quit taking Lugol's for a few days. It all stopped and my tolerance for these food chemicals has improved drastically.
I'm not saying this would happen to everyone, but I will never take Iodine again.
I searched for anything that might hint as to why, and I found this:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/grp/2010/494195/
Being on the autism spectrum, I already have a delicate digestive system and it might be that the Iodine damaged my gastric mucosa and/or the mucosa cells in the intestines. Just a hypothesis, though. I can't know for sure.
But, I do know for sure that stopping the iodine stopped the paranoia and hallucinations.
For reference, I was taking roughly 50mg per day with all of the companion nutrients.
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- Re: Iodine and Psychosis #183825
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This is a reply to # 2,336,859Am i mistaken or is 50 mg a large amount?
how many droppers do you take daily? So i have an idea of the quantity.- Re: Iodine and Psychosis Stargazer1111
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This is a reply to # 2,336,91050mg is roughly 20 drops of 2% lugols.
That's what I was taking.
I also realized after stopping that I had stopped farting completely. After a few days away from Iodine I am craving acidic and fibrous foods and noticed normal farting patterns. I know that sounds silly, but I do think that Lugols can have a negative effect on the gut flora.- Re: Iodine and Psychosis holysin
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This is a reply to # 2,336,922No it can't probiotics live in the large intestine. The Iodine would have been absorbe long before it not even near the large intestine.
Sound like you where detoxing from it.q- Re: Iodine and Psychosis Stargazer1111
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This is a reply to # 2,336,924Yes, I understand your point.
That is why I believe it physically damaged my gastric and intestinal mucosal cells.
Did you have a look at the study I posted in my original post?
Lugols clearly can damage the gastric mucosal cells. The intestinal mucosal cells are structurally related and may also be damaged by it.
Damage to the mucosal cells would then affect the gut bacteria because they require those cells to be intact to thrive. In fact, many of them can feed off of the mucin that is produced by those cells.
I believe this is what was happening.
EDIT: Also, there is no way I was detoxing from the iodine. I had been taking 50mg per day since January and I avoid fluoride and bromide like the plague. Definitely not detox. My mental symptoms only showed up in late August.
- Re: Iodine and Psychosis trapper/kcmo
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This is a reply to # 2,336,933are you trying to kid us? damage to the cells in the gi tract? of course Lugols damages cells. it damages all cells if its strong enough. thats why you can paint too much with 5%. it will burn the skin and make it raw.
but geeze o pete, the GI tract is killed all day long by everything you shove into your pie hole. every morsel is toxic. the GI tract replaces that layer about four times a day if memory serves me right.
whats next? sounding the alarm for H2O? a gallon all at once in the gut can kill ya. so can a couple of tablespoons in the lungs. watch it with that stuff, especially around the kids.
- Re: Iodine and Psychosis Stargazer1111
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This is a reply to # 2,337,180Regardless of the specific process, stopping the Iodine stopped my psychotic symptoms.
The hallucinations were terrifying and I honestly felt like I was developing schizophrenia.
After several days without iodine, I feel exactly normal, the way I did 8 months ago.
I will never take that stuff again. Ever.
- Re: Iodine and Psychosis trapper/kcmo
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This is a reply to # 2,337,184you got something else going on. a little cleanout of the pineal and some extra T1 and youre trippin.
everybody's mileage varies. you have to have iodine. how much is debatable and different for each case.
- Re: Iodine and Psychosis trapper/kcmo
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- Re: Iodine and Psychosis Stargazer1111
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This is a reply to # 2,337,180https://www.hindawi.com/journals/grp/2010/494195/fig1/
Look at those images.
If someone is consuming Lugol's every day, then they could be causing this every day regardless of the fast cell division of the mucosal cells. They would never have a chance to recover.
This also explains why I feel sensations in my stomach that feel like a healing scab since stopping the iodine.
Also, I believe the cell turnover rate is 1-57 days depending upon where in the GI tract the cell is. That is what I have seen in all the studies done on the mucosal cells.- Re: Iodine and Psychosis trapper/kcmo
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This is a reply to # 2,337,190puting Lugols in water takes care of that.
i dont know what youre talking about, really. might as well be plant life on mars for all i know.
lugols is known to upset some stomachs. there are ways around that - dilution with water, taking in pill form, putting in orange juice to name a few. i dont see the problem.- Re: Iodine and Psychosis Stargazer1111
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This is a reply to # 2,337,225I diluted my Iodine in plenty of water.
The pain in my stomach/upper intestines has disappeared since stopping the lugols.
You can believe whatever you want to believe. I am never taking this stuff again.
- Re: Iodine and Psychosis Stargazer1111
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- Re: Iodine and Psychosis trapper/kcmo
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- Re: Iodine and Psychosis Stargazer1111
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- Re: Iodine and Psychosis trapper/kcmo
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- Re: Iodine and Psychosis Stargazer1111
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- Re: Iodine and Psychosis holysin
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- Re: Iodine and Psychosis Stargazer1111
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- Re: Iodine and Psychosis Stephy79
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This is a reply to # 2,336,859In the past i ve also been worried about the alkaline and oxidative effect of Iodine / Lugols on the stomach mucousa. I ve also made a thread about that months ago.
I came to the conclusion that the 20-40 (50-100mg) Drops of Lugols along with a 300-400ml glass of water and 2 Droppers of ACV would dilute the Lugols that much, that it couldnt be too hard and oxidising on the mucousa anymore.
I put my lugols in veggie caps. 1-2 veggie caps with lugols and 2-4 caps with acv (dont want the burn of Iodine / acidity of ACV in my mouth/teeth) with a big glass of water first thing in the morning.
Half- 1 hour later my breakfast with Vitamin C, OPC, and later the day the other supps - Re: Iodine and Psychosis Never surrender
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This is a reply to # 2,336,859I had a case like his. I took Iodine 50mg for a while, my old symptoms began to appear, I was basically eating meat, chicken, eggs, few fruits and vegetables, I could not continue eating any vegetable and reduce more fruits, I was mad without understanding the where did these symptoms if I was contaminating my food with something, but actually I found that I could not tolerate more plant foods and I am pretty sure that Iodine was to blame for this, at that time I was taking 2 drops of Iodine when was increased to 5, 6, and stopped at 8 drops, it was only a matter of time before it starts to happen. Because of this, now I do the closest to a diet "zero carb".
I also never going to take iodine again too.
- Re: Iodine and Psychosis #183825
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