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from the text you pasted:

Urinary bromide and fluoride levels increased markedly and proportionally to the amount of iodine/iodide ingested.

the significance of this is missed entirely by a lot of people. this does not say that bromide and fluoride gets freed from tissue proportionally to the amount of Iodine supplemented. it is the amount excreted in urine which goes up.

we have seen over and over that a little Iodine can up serum levels of these minerals and bring on the detox effects. the reason people do better with the higher doses is that the excreting of these halides is accelerated. i do not think the serum levels go up porportionately as well. this seems to be at a fixed lower or slower rate than excretion.

there is some kind of action of Iodine itself which tends to mitigate the very detox symptoms it creates. increasing the amount ingested always results in people feeling better, not worse. in general, at least.