Hmmm, well I guess I need to get this in print NOW, so no one thinks it was the baths that caused what I'm about to report.
Over the years my 'brilliantly coppery auburn' hair has slowly degraded/darkened to a reddish brown that has become extremely dull (in comparison to twenty years ago). Most people still said my hair was beautifully 'auburn', but I've known it used to be beatifully-ER for decades. Also, in the past 5-6 years I've had my first 'major' grey hair. Our family gals (mother, grandmother AND great grandmother) all have start greying with (what I think is really cool) a 'skunk stripe' that starts on the left side/forehead. I always wanted that to happen when my hair started greying, and it did :) Up until 2 months ago, it was seriously "Bonnie Raitt" :)
WELL, about 3 weeks into dosing I started thinking that I thunk I noticed I was seeing more grey in my hairbrush than usual; then I started thing that I thunk I noticed my hair was becoming more coppery again. Naaaah, maybe the greys are falling out a bit (apoptosis, cell death and all), but there's no way my hair is 'getting younger' and becoming more alive and coppery. Then my mom came out one day and said, "You know how I'm always saying you're hair is getting darker/less fiery and how it makes you grumpy?" "yes I do...grrr". Well, I think your hair is getting lighter, and I'm SURE you've lost a lot of grey, too.
Really? REALLY! So the next few weeks I started taking major notice...and danged if she's not right, my hair becomes more fiery and coppery by the day. And when I'm in the sun? WOWZAH, it's starting to look like my teenage pictures again. My hubby say it's reminds him of a Fire Agate now...in the sunlight we really CAN see 'rainbow/prism flashes' off the new copper hairs - blues/violets/golds in lil' 'twinklers' that seriously catch the light and then disappear :)
And that all happened BEFORE I dunked my head in the
Iodine bath. And wanted to post this now, so that folks wouldn't think it was the outter application that did it.
Since I like they way it feels on my scalp, I'll probably be 'dunking' again, so maybe I'll never know again just 'what did what'...but I want every body to know that
Iodine supplementation HAS caused a major loss of grey AND and an infusion of color & life to my hair...that I was SURE I'd lost forever.
AND, my husbands full beard had become TOTALLY white/silver (except for right below his temples). The center of his beard (the area directly beneath his chin back to his neck) is now FULL of scattered totally black hairs, and it's starting to look far more 'salt n' pepper' than it looks pure white :) And he's NEVER dunked his beard :)
So there ya have it; I'm 47 hubby is 53, and we've both been dosing since 2/20/07...it's now 4/23 and we've BOTH seen an amazing loss of grey AND our hair/beard color is being restored by internal dosage of Lugol's.
How's THAT for cool? :)
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