Iodine is a catalyst, and also a clearing agent. So while it optimizes some functions and you feel so much better, it also clears bromides, fluorides, and even heavy metals from the body. During this clearing, we often feel side effects due to the body trying to readjust and clear at the same time. These side effects can be transient, lasting from a few hours to a few days, or even longer. But they are not an allergic reaction to iodine, or problems with the Iodine itself. The side effects are due to what the body is clearing out.

There is a ton of info on this in the FAQs. Read dosage, pull back or push through, Herxheimer reaction, and all the detox ones.

Your goal is to take a dose at which you can handle the detox reactions. Most of these are eliminated by doing the salt loading protocol, and keeping the bowels very open. Magnesium and Vitamin C are especially helpful in this. Detox symptoms are manageable, and you may not get the detox symptoms you expect. The body determines where the Iodine goes. You have to do what is necessary to get those toxins out and also to keep what is coming out from doing further harm. For example, if you get facial pimples, it is prudent not only to keep your face clean, but to change your pillowcase everyday; back pimples, sheet changes. If you are detoxing candida, your vaginal or anal area may get irritated, and it is prudent to keep that area clean, and also to apply Colloidal Silver if necessary. Sinus problems can be helped by a neti pot, saline sprays, Colloidal Silver , or peroxide. If the salt loading does not help, repeat it until it does, or do the salt flush recommended in The Master Cleanse Forum. In my opinion, salt is the most important element to aid in detox.

Here is a post that may help explain it.


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by pb3046
DETOX AND ELIMINATION

"Most people associate elimination as normally done from the kidneys and bowels, as in urination and defecation. The major organs of purification are the kidneys and liver. However, when these organs are overburdened, we turn to secondary organs of elimination, such as the skin, lungs, joints, etc.

What kind of detox symptoms you get are due to the condition of your body, the organs of purification specifically, and your ability to keep the toxins eliminated.

Iodine is a clearing agent. It helps everything move along, just a little bit faster. If you are not prepared for the elimination that takes place, you may think the Iodine is causing the problem. In fact, it is the body trying to rid itself of toxins that is causing the problem.
Iodine must be managed, according to your detox symptoms. You may find it useful to take a longer break from iodine, cut down the dose, or just push through and keep on the same dose, even increasing it. That is a personal decision you must make, and an educated decision is much better than a guess.

What determines whether you will get pimples or the flu or other symptoms? If you have had lung problems in the past, or that is constitutionally a weak organ for you, you may get the flu, and eliminate through the lungs. If you have toxins in your eyes, you may have eye drainage. If your digestive system is overloaded, you may eliminate through the skin, with rashes or pimples. Obviously if you have severe, or longstanding problems, it will take you longer. Read all the information thoroughly and be prepared to understand what your body is telling you.


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WHY PEOPLE GET SICK, THE THEORY OF TOXEMIA

A healthy body struggles continually to purify itself of poisons that are inevitably produced while going about its business of digesting food, moving about, and repairing itself. The body is a marvelous creation, a carbon, oxygen combustion machine, constantly burning fuel, disposing of the waste products of combustion, and constantly rebuilding tissue by replacing worn out, dead cells with new, fresh ones. Every seven years virtually every cell in the body is replaced, some types of cells having a faster turnover rate than others, which means that over a seven year period several hundred pounds of dead cells must be digested (autolyzed) and eliminated. All by itself this would be a lot of waste disposal for the body to handle. Added to that waste load are numerous mild poisons created during proper digestion. And added to that can be an enormous burden of waste products created as the body's attempts to digest the indigestible, or those tasty items I've heard called "fun food." Add to that burden the ruinous effects of just plain overeating.

The waste products of digestion, of indigestion, of cellular breakdown and the general metabolism are all poisonous to one degree or another. Another word for this is toxic. If these toxins were allowed to remain and accumulate in the body, it would poison itself and die in agony. So the body has a processing system to eliminate toxins. And when that system does break down the body does die in agony, as from liver or kidney failure.

The organs of detoxification remove things from the body's system, but these two vital organs should not be confused with what hygienists call the secondary organs of elimination, such as the large intestine, lungs, bladder and the skin, because none of these other eliminatory organs are supposed to purify the body of toxins. But when the body is faced with toxemia, the secondary organs of elimination are frequently pressed into this duty and the consequences are the symptoms we call illness."