Re: Question for trapper

hello, shenman.

this info came from the Iodine project. it was in a video lecture by either dr brownstein or dr flechas, i dont recall. it would be very hard for me to find that.

"in one of your posts"

do you have a link to that? what i recall, specifically, is that the ovaries are the second highest concentration of Iodine in the body.

https://restorativemedicine.org/digest/interview-thyroid-expert-david-brownstein-md/

DB: Iodine is needed for the production of every hormone in the body -- the pituitary, ovaries, testicles, etc. Therefore, a lack of iodine will cause an imbalance in the entire hormonal cascade.

DB: Iodine levels have fallen nearly 60 percent in the last 40 years, and during that same time-period we have seen epidemic increases in all the thyroid illnesses -- autoimmune, hypothyroid, cancer -- as well as epidemic increases involving cancer of the breast, ovary, uterus, prostate, pancreas. We are going down the wrong path right now for almost all those illnesses and I think iodine should be a big part of our re-assessing. My partners and I have been using iodine for a combined 45 years of experience between the three of us. If we were having problems with iodine, we wouldn't have any patients. We use it without side effects for the vast majority of people and if there are side effects, they are easily managed.

MF: So, when you give an iodine prescription -- let’s say someone has Graves disease, whether they’re hypo or hyper, do you give the same iodine then?

DB: Sometimes I use more. I’ll start them at 25 mg and quickly move up. The old-time treatment for Graves’ disease was iodine in high doses, and it works marvelously in the vast majority of people who do it.


https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a64c/9779e0d95e75b184e1e4392f6a4190f7cf0b.pdf

Other organs are also able to take up iodine, too, by the same transport protein as the thyroid. Research has shown that the receptor for iodine uptake is in the thyroid gland, salivary gland, parotid gland, submandibular gland, pituitary gland, pancreas, testis, mammary gland, gastric mucosa, prostate, ovary, adrenal gland, heart, thymus, lung, (3)bladder, kidney, endometrium,(4) and also breast, ovary and colon (5) and the lacrimal gland (6). The ovaries hold the second highest concentration of iodine, after the thyroid. The breasts also have a high concentration of iodine. Most secretions in the body, whether gastric, nasal, tears, sweat, etc., have iodine in them if sufficient iodine is present in the body. The skin also contains quite a bit of iodine, though its exact role isn’t clear. Dr. Flechas tells that clinically the ability to sweat is related to iodine and extremely low body iodine stores prevent sweating, opening the body to the spread of cancer (7). Many of the functions of iodine are separate from its role as part of thyroid hormones. Iodine has a major impact on the thyroid, but it will also have a direct impact on all of the other tissues of the body that utilize iodine.

Ovaries After the thyroid gland the ovaries contain the highest concentration of iodine. Dr. Flechas has seen that iodine reverses polycystic ovarian syndrome. Ghent and Eskin reported the reversal of ovarian cysts with iodine (30), along with reversal of endometriosis and prementstrual syndrome. Iodine is necessary for normal ovarian function. Dr. Jonathan Wrights reports that iodine elevates the amount of anti-carcinogenic estriol made and lowers the amount of estrone and estradiol, so that the three forms of estrogen are more balanced in favor of cancer prevention. (31)In the process of treating fibrocystic breast disease Ghent and Eskin also found that the elemental iodine was also an effective treatment for endometriosis, ovarian cysts, and premenstrual syndrome (30). Iodine appears to normalize ovarian function and estrogen production to alleviate these female problems as well.

http://www.alternative-therapies.com/openaccess/athm_19-4_flechas.pdf

http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles/brownstein-hormones.htm



those are the places i looked. sure sounds familiar but i cant find it. maybe you misread what i wrote? maybe i misspoke? let me know.

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