Now in the age of antibiotic resistant infections, it is more important than ever to remember iodine because it kills viruses, bacteria and fungus cells that antiobitics no longer can. Iodine is essential for the life of every cell and in certain glands like the thyroid, breasts, ovaries and prostate glands iodine sufficiency is necessary to protect against cancer.īefore doctors got swept away by the pharmaceutical companies and their sales people iodine was one of the most commonly prescribed medicines. Iodine is one of the most important medicines that exists today, more important and certainly more basic to life than everything one can find in their pharmacy except for magnesium and bicarbonate. …a majority of the articles reviewed demonstrate emergent iodine deficiency in this population of women of reproductive age, indicating alarm for a public health concern needing immediate attention.” Brownstein also reports about research from Texas Women’s University just released in 2019, an article titled, “A Review of Iodine Status of Women of Reproductive Age in the USA.” The report reads, “Despite the USA being considered iodine sufficient for the general population, the US dietary iodine intakes have decreased drastically since the 1970s, with iodine deficiency reemerging in vulnerable groups such as women of reproductive age. Bromide is also found in many commonly used consumer items as a fire retardant.”ĭr. Our water supply has been contaminated with fluoride and our food supply has been adulterated with bromine in the form of brominated flour and vegetable oils. These toxic elements competitively inhibit iodine in the body. He tells us that “Iodine deficiency epidemic was increasing because of our increasing exposures to toxic halides fluoride and bromide. When I began testing my patient’s iodine levels I found the vast majority-over 97%–were iodine deficient and most were severely iodine deficient.” When I started researching iodine in the late 1990s, I was shocked to discover that iodine deficiency was still occurring across the United States. In fact, I have been writing about iodine and its importance to health for nearly 15 years. It took me a short time into my holistic practice of medicine to realize that what I was taught about iodine was incorrect. David Brownstein, who recently wrote, “In medical school, I was taught that iodine deficiency was a thing of the past. I have learned a lot about iodine from Dr. That means most oncologists have a death wish for their patients wanting to maximize the chances that their treatments will not work. If you want someone to die from cancer do not give them iodine. Their stubborness, arrogance and complete ignorance of iodine creates unimaginable pain and suffering that for many ends with death from cancer. Doctors and their teachers at medical school have forgotten all about iodine and its importance in health and medicine.