Re: Hveragerthi..Orthoiodosupplementation

 As further evidence how do the people who claim the intake of iodine causes acne through bromine displacement explain this simple fact? Both chlorine and fluorine are also halogens and also displace bromine in elevated levels. So why don't people break out from drinking tap water? Or swimming in pools or showering? Why don't they break out from ingesting foods processed with fluoridated water? Or from drinking tea which is loaded with fluoride? For that matter why don't people who use spas have major acne outbreaks as spas are brominated?

They don't?

Just because someone breaks out this does not mean it is from bromine, which is what was being discussed. I am still waiting for the people claiming this to provide some solid proof to this claim.

But the point i was getting to is that these halogens are more predominant in our society and we have much higher levels of exposure to these halogens that we do bromine. But they are making it sound like bromine is in everything so most people will have excess bromine in their system. But if this were the case then the MAJORITY of the population would have acne. But this obviously is not the case.  Even when I used to drink sodas like Mountain Dew and ate tons of bread I never got acne. I never suffered brain damage either or any of the other side effects they claim can occur. And yes different people can react differently, but I find it interesting that as common as they claim bromine exposure is that we do not see more of these side effects. Are the majority of people immune to the supposed side effects of bromine, soy and the many other substances that the "sky is falling" proponents are running around warning us about? Or is it simply more hype than fact? If it were fact I would also expect there to be a lot of research backing up these claims. But again the research is seriously lacking. But they take what few studies that are available and twist them in to a scare tactic. For example the claim about bromism from excessive soda consumption. Well here is a study so let's review it:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9140329

As you read the study we find out that the study is based on ONE case. Yet the people arguing with me try to make it sound like we have a widespread epidemic of bromine poisoning because they found one study about one person developing bromism. Or they read the claim from the first person who made this claim and ran with it without ever checking their facts. In fact the first line of the abstract states "Bromism is an UNUSUAL occurrence". 

Then there is the statement from this review:

"Bromism, the chronic intoxication with bromide is rare and has been almost forgotten."

So where are all the cases of bromism? The fact is that just like how not all people will react to bromine the opposite is also true. Yet if you go to Medline and look this up the reported cases in humans are cases of individuals, not mass bromism.