Re: Chloride Competing with Iodine for Absorption in the Gut

I agree with trapper that this is incorrect.

As a biochemistry major up here at Dr. Brownstein's alma mater, I can tell you that the rules of inorganic chemistry do not always apply to what happens in living organisms.

What you say is true in a laboratory setting.

However, Brownstein's lab results clearly show that, in a living system, Iodine does displace bromide and fluoride due to the much higher excretion rate of both.

The displacement rules involving atomic weight apply to covalent bonds formed in inorganic chemical reactions. I suspect that Iodine can displace fluoride and bromide from body receptors because the bonds that hold the halogens in the body's receptors are weaker bonds (like ionic, hydrogen, van der waals, chelation etc...)

Inorganic chemistry rules do not always apply in biochemistry.