History of Vinegar
Historically speaking, vinegar was discovered when it was first learned that wine exposed to the air would turn sour, thereby creating vinegar. In 400 BC Hypocrites, the father of medicine, treated patients with vinegar, making it one of the world’s first medicines. Throughout biblical times, vinegar was successfully used to treat infections and wounds. For centuries medical textbooks have listed various ways to use vinegar.

Hard Cider in Colonial Times
In America, back in colonial times, apple cider, not wine, was the popular beverage. But the apple cider of the colonists was not the sweet cider you buy in the store. It was hard cider, made from organically grown apples, crushed and aged in oaken barrels, unfiltered, unpasteurized, and alcoholic. Everyone in those days drank huge quantities of hard cider, but some of the cider was allowed to continue to ferment until all the sugars were dissipated. The result: pure organic unfiltered apple cider vinegar.

Apple Cider Vinegar
Many herbalists recommend the use of raw, unpasteurized, unfiltered, organic apple cider vinegar as an important dietary ingredient for humans, farm animals and pets. Apple cider vinegar reduces common infections, improves stamina, prevents muscle fatigue after exercise, increases resistance to disease and protects against food poisoning. Apple cider vinegar is rich in the vitamins, minerals and trace elements found in apples, especially potassium. It normalizes acid levels [pH] in the stomach, improves digestion and the assimilation of nutrients, helps cure constipation, alleviates some of the symptoms of arthritis and helps prevent bladder stones and urinary tract infections.

Dr. Clark’s View On Vinegar
Dr. Clark recommended we “use only white distilled vinegar, even though it lacks potassium, aroma and popularity. Using a variety of honeys can make up for the need to vary the flavor. Get orange blossom, linden blossom, buckwheat, wildflower, and sage honey, besides clover blossom.”

“Using a lemon or vinegar and honey beverage helps with digestion although this provides citric or acetic acid, not hydrochloric. These acids are completely metabolized so they don’t add to the body acid level. But the fact that it is not hydrochloric means that it can’t kill bacteria and parasites in the stomach like regular hydrochloric acid could.”

Dr. Clark wrote this about Vinegar
Bones are not made of calcium alone. Magnesium is essential. Since magnesium is more soluble and easy to assimilate than calcium, the tablet form (magnesium oxide, 300 mg, see Sources) will do. If you are not absorbing the magnesium it will stay in your intestine and act as a laxative. If this happens acidify your stomach during meals: always add fresh lemon, vinegar, or vitamin C to your food or drink to help digest milk and dissolve minerals for you. Boron (3 mg. once a day) and manganese (15 mg. once a day) are additional bone hardeners.

Cloth diapers should be sterilized not bleached. Use the hottest water your laundry system is capable of producing. Add ½ cup borax for the washing process. If you have homemade Lugol’s iodine (made by your pharmacist or by yourself, see Recipes), add a tsp. to the wash or rinse. Vinegar is a yeast inhibitor, add it to the rinse. Dry the diapers at the hottest setting. Dry to kill. Kill all the yeast spores in the diapers.

Lemon juice or vinegar can be put in certain foods but the most reliable way to get it into the diet is to put 1 tablespoon into the water glass along with a teaspoon of honey. This gives the water a “sweet and sour” flavor, enough to make it interesting throughout the meal. The fresh lemon juice or white distilled vinegar and a honey dispenser that is easy to use should always be on the table. Bring these two items to your loved one at the “home” if it cannot be provided regularly and reliably. Pop in at mealtime to check up on it. Powdered vitamin C (¼ tsp.) is another useful acid if the first two are not effective enough.

The lemon and honey habit, alone, can add years (healthier years) to an elderly person. The extra acid taken with lunch and supper (the stomach has its own best supply of acid in the morning, for breakfast) improves overall digestion and helps dissolve the calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, and other minerals in the food so they can be absorbed.

The habit of using vinegar and honey in water as a beverage was made famous by Dr. Jarvis in his book Folk Medicine, circa 1960. He recommended apple cider vinegar for its extra potassium. In those days, vinegar was made of good apples. Now, all the regular vinegars have mold in them. The toxin, patulin, in moldy apples has been carefully studied by scientists. It taints the vinegar as well as apple juice and concentrate made from them. I have not tested patulin to see if it can be detoxified by vitamin C. We must use only white distilled vinegar, even though it lacks potassium, aroma and popularity. Using a variety of honeys can make up for the need to vary the flavor. Get orange blossom, linden blossom, buckwheat, wildflower, and sage honey, besides clover blossom.

We must use only white distilled vinegar, even though it lacks potassium, aroma and popularity. Using a variety of honeys can make up for the need to vary the flavor. Get orange blossom, linden blossom, buckwheat, wildflower, and sage honey, besides clover blossom.

But honey is not perfect food. It usually has ergot mold, a very serious toxin. To detoxify the ergot, you simply add vitamin C to the honey as soon as it arrives from the supermarket. This gives it plenty of time to react with the ergot before you eat it. Bring your “fixed” honeys to the home.

If your elderly loved one has not tolerated milk in years, start with the vinegar and honey beverage, or lemon and honey, and be patient until that is accepted. Then add only ¼ cup milk to the day’s diet, (in the morning, on homemade cereal). Go up very gradually and only when digestion allows it.

Adding lemon or vinegar (white distilled) and 1 tsp. honey is probably the best way to stimulate both thirst and appetite.

The drinking water should always have a little vitamin C, lemon juice or vinegar added, and 1 tsp. honey if desired.

Use homemade salad dressing with a preference for oil and vinegar styles.

Soup should be homemade from scratch. Add bones and 1 tbs. vinegar (white distilled) or a tomato to the kettle to ensure some calcium leaches out of the bones.

The water may be plain if there was vinegar in the soup.

A common mold found on bread, nuts and fruit and in beer, apple cider vinegar and syrups, produces aflatoxin. This is what prevents you from detoxifying tiny bits of propyl alcohol that get into your body!

Keep moldy fruit out of the refrigerator where the spores can spread. Use only white distilled vinegar.

Vitamin C helps your body detoxify all the mold toxins I have tested, including aflatoxin.

Genetically modified produce has made its way into approximately 80 percent of US-processed grocery store items, and up to 90 percent of several US-grown crops are grown with genetically engineered seed. So if you live in the United States, you’ve been exposed to GMO’d foods, probably without your knowledge.

What are genetically-modified foods

The term GM foods or GMOs (genetically-modified organisms) is most commonly used to refer to crop plants created for human or animal consumption using the latest molecular biology techniques. These plants have been modified in the laboratory to enhance desired traits such as increased resistance to herbicides or improved nutritional content. The enhancement of desired traits has traditionally been undertaken through breeding, but conventional plant breeding methods can be very time consuming and are often not very accurate. Genetic engineering, on the other hand, can create plants with the exact desired trait very rapidly and with great accuracy. For example, plant geneticists can isolate a gene responsible for drought tolerance and insert that gene into a different plant. The new genetically-modified plant will gain drought tolerance as well. Not only can genes be transferred from one plant to another, but genes from non-plant organisms also can be used.

Danger to environment and health

Environmental activists, religious organizations, public interest groups, professional associations and other scientists and government officials have all raised concerns about GM foods, and criticized agribusiness for pursuing profit without concern for potential hazards, and the government for failing to exercise adequate regulatory oversight. It seems that everyone has a strong opinion about GM foods. Even the Vatican19 and the Prince of Wales20 have expressed their opinions. Most concerns about GM foods fall into three categories: environmental hazards, human health risks, and economic concerns.

GMO banned in Hungary

Genetically engineered seeds are banned in Hungary and in several other European countries, including Germany and Ireland. Peru is also following suit and has passed a law banning genetically modified ingredients within the nation for 10 years. Drastic? Maybe not. GMO’d crops simply cannot be contained, and inevitably will contaminate the environment with their DNA. It gets worse. Nearly all GMO’d crops are designed with genes to resist a powerful herbicide called Round Up or glyphosate, a potentially dangerous chemical.

Designer genes

Upwards of 65 percent of U.S. corn crops contain a special gene added that encourages them to produce a potent insecticide that kills bugs dead: Bt-toxin, produced from Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria. Genetic engineers remove the gene that produces the Bt in bacteria and insert it into the DNA of corn (and cotton) plants. They claim that Bt-toxin is quickly destroyed in human stomachs, and that even if it survives, it won’t cause reactions in humans or mammals. But recent studies show that Bt toxin readily passes into the human bloodstream and animal studies have already shown that Bt-toxin does in fact cause health effects in animals.

Bt-toxin attacks the immune system

Jeffrey Smith, executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, says: “Mice fed natural Bt-toxin showed significant immune responses and caused them to become sensitive to other formerly harmless compounds. This suggests that Bt-toxin might make a person allergic to a wide range of substances. Farm workers and others have also had reactions to natural Bt-toxin, and authorities acknowledge that people with compromised immune systems or preexisting allergies may be particularly susceptible to the effects of Bt.”

Already prevalent in humans

Moreover, it now appears that Cry1Ab, a specific type of Bt toxin from GMO’d corn, is already prevalent in humans. After testing 69 pregnant and non-pregnant women who were eating a typical Canadian diet (which included foods such as GMO’d soy, corn and potatoes), researchers found Bt toxin in:

* 93 percent of maternal blood samples

* 80 percent of fetal blood samples

* 67 percent of non-pregnant women blood samples

It’s about the money

A large part of the problem, and one of the reasons why the United States has not taken a precautionary stance the way other countries have, is that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are heavily influenced by biotech giant Monsanto. In the first quarter of 2011 alone, Monsanto spent $1.4 million on lobbying the federal government — and this was a drop from a year earlier, when they spent $2.5 million during the same quarter.

What you can do

Get involved. Talk to organic producers and stores and ask them to actively support the California Ballot. It may be the only chance we have to label genetically engineered foods. Distribute the Non-GMO Shopping Guide to help consumers like you identify and avoid foods with GMOs. Look for products (including organic products) that feature the Non-GMO Project Verified Seal to be sure that at-risk ingredients have been tested for GMO content. You can also join the Non-GMO Project on Facebook, or follow them on Twitter.

Buy organic

In the meantime, the simplest way to avoid GMO’d foods is to buy whole, certified organic foods. By definition, foods that are certified organic must never intentionally use GM organisms, must be produced without artificial pesticides and fertilizers and come from an animal reared without the routine use of antibiotics, growth promoters or other drugs. Additionally, grass-fed beef will not have been fed GMO’d corn feed, although now that GM alfalfa is approved, grass-fed will not always mean GMO free.

Cough syrup is under attack, and rightly so. Parents’ organizations have been concerned about the hallucinogen dextromethorphan (DM), an ingredient in several popular over the counter cough remedies, which has created a subculture of teens and preteens who get high on cough medicine. Moreover a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics reported that neither dextromethorphan nor diphenhydramine (another popular ingredient) was more effective than placebo in improving the nighttime cough or sleep of 100 youngsters with upper-respiratory infections.

Setting limits

The American College of Chest Physicians has issued guidelines strongly urging that over-the-counter cough and cold medications not be used for children younger than 14. The FDA warned parents not to give non-prescription cough and cold medicines to children under two years of age.

A better alternative

Spice Syrup adds plant oils to a maple syrup base, specifically clove bud oil, coriander oil, peppermint oil, nutmeg oil, white thyme oil, and fennel oil. All of these oils possess powerful anti-bacterial properties, and are effective against most of the 25 strains of bacteria. The bottom line is that many plant oils are better than prescription antibiotics in terms of efficacy, safety, and resistance. The maple syrup is soothing, and the plant oils kill bacteria. But even if you are not coughing, the formula is very effective for sore throats and germ-caused bad breath. In the stomach safe healthy Spice Syrup combats food poisoning from Salmonella and in the intestine it kills parasites. Spice Syrup can also be applied topically as a disinfectant on cuts, or on a fungal infection.

How germs spread

The two main ways that germs are spread are: (1) by contact, (2) in a droplet or through very small remains of droplets that float in the air. Contact transmission is the most common way that germs are spread. Droplet transmission happens when germs are spread in a tiny drop of liquid. When a person talks, sings, coughs or sneezes, thousands of invisible droplets are created. These often germ-laden droplets can be broadcast as far as three feet through the air from the person who is doing the sneezing. The droplets may land in another person’s eyes, nose or mouth. But it doesn’t end there. The invisible droplets can be carried by wind for hundreds, even thousands of miles.

Safe healthy Spice Syrup

The point is, you don’t have to be near the person who is sneezing or coughing. That’s why it’s important to take Spice Syrup, not just when you have a cold or a cough, but at the very first sign of a sore throat or a cold. Be attentive, act quickly and you will nip a cold in the bud. Choose Spice Syrup and you have a powerful, safe, proven, protection against illness. As opposed to the big drug companies’ commercial brands, mostly ineffective and many of which are laced with the hallucinogenic drug, dextromethoriphan.

The American people, desperate for a cancer cure, contribute millions of dollars each year to the American Cancer Society. Sadly, only about 15 percent of this money goes directly into programs for cancer patients. The lion’s share goes to overhead and drug research, which means that the American Cancer Society is in fact a gravy train for research facilities, pharmaceutical companies, bureaucrats and lobbyists.

False claims of progress

Claims of progress in the fight against cancer are false, and the statistics are skewed. The Cancer Establishment’s statistics include many people with benign diseases, and patients in remission for more than five years are listed as cured, even though a large percentage of these supposedly cured patients will die from cancer, or ironically, from toxic therapies, after the five years.

Lead-time Bias

Lead-time is the length of time between the point at which a cancer is detected by current technology and the point at which it was previously have been clinically detected using yesterdays technology. Lead-time bias accounts for the majority of the illusory “improvement” seen over the last few decades in treating breast, prostate, and a few other kinds of cancer. Lead-time bias makes the statistics look much better because the sooner you find the cancer the longer the patient survives after the discovery has been made.

Toxic cures

A striking example of a toxic therapy is the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen, a widely prescribed drug for prevention of cancer in at risk women and treating existing cancers. Unfortunately Tamoxifen is highly carcinogenic itself, causing high incidences of uterine and liver cancer not only in already ill women, but also in healthy women who are urged to take Tamoxifen for prevention.

Petrochemical poisoning

Runaway cancer rates correspond precisely to the rise of the petrochemical industry after the Second World War, when massive pesticide use promised better, cleaner yields of food to feed the growing masses. Between 1940 and 1990, total annual production of synthetic agricultural chemicals went from 1 billion to over 600 billion pounds. Despite this horrendous cancer epidemic, the Cancer Establishment has shown no inclination to focus on the real culprits, namely poor diet and the poisoning of the planet by the petrochemical industries. Instead of preventing disaster, the focus stays on highly profitable and toxic therapies such as Tamoxifen.

Time to think outside of the box

Since finding the cure for cancer would put the pharmaceutical industry out of business and would end the careers of countless doctors and so called researchers, it is in their interest suppress all knowledge of real, proven cancer cures that do exist and have existed for thousands of years. But we don’t necessarily have to go along with that. We don’t have to continue to be Big Pharma’s willing puppets. It’s time to think outside of the box. Instead of supporting the American Cancer Society, you can support research dealing with alternative medicine and folk wisdom. Because it is in precisely this direction that we must turn if we are to find the long-awaited cure for cancer.

Osteoporosis is a disease that weakens bones, decreasing their density and making them prone to fractures. If significant bone loss occurs, hips, ribs, and wrist bones can break easily. The fractures from osteoporosis can be painful and disfiguring. There is no cure for osteoporosis. We think of osteoporosis as occurring in old age, and this is true. But guess what? Osteoporosis has its inception in childhood—the result of poor eating habits.

Bones are building blocks

Bones are the building blocks of your child’s developing body. During childhood and adolescence the skeleton grows in size and density. For most people, the amount of bone tissue in the skeleton (known as bone mass) peaks by their late twenties. At that point, bones have reached their maximum strength and density.

Peak bone mass is influenced to a great extent by two factors: nutrition and physical activity.

Calcium, magnesium and vitamins C and D

Are your kids getting enough calcium? Calcium is an essential nutrient for bone health. A well-balanced diet, including adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals such as magnesium, zinc, and vitamin D, is also extremely important for bone health. Calcium is found in many foods, but the most common source is milk and other dairy products. Sources of calcium also might include an ounce or two of cheese on a pizza or a cheeseburger, a cup of calcium-enriched orange juice, or a small serving of yogurt. Your kids can also get calcium from dark green, leafy vegetables like kale, Swiss chard or beet greens, or foods such as broccoli, almonds and tortillas.

Exercise is important

Muscles get stronger when we use them. The same principle applies to bones: the more work they do, the stronger they get. Any kind of physical exercise is great for your kids, but the best exercises for their bones are weight-bearing activities such as walking, running, hiking, dancing, tennis, basketball, gymnastics, weight lifting and soccer. Encourage your kids to spend less time sitting in front of the television and more time on their feet and moving. A lifelong love of physical activity is one of the best gifts you can give to your children.

Remember, children who learn good eating and exercise habits by their preteen years are more likely to carry these habits with them for the rest of their lives. The best way to encourage healthy habits in your children? Be a good role model yourself.

Bromide Dominance Theory
How Competitive Inhibition Causes Iodine Deficiency

A bromide dominance condition may develop when bromide,
acquired through environmental, occupational, iatrogenic or dietary
exposure, causes bromide levels in the body to rise high enough to
inhibit iodine enzyme metabolism.

Iodine supplementation alters the competitive bromide-iodine
relationship causing bromide excretion. Thus, bromide dominance is
diminished and proper iodine enzyme metabolism may be restored.

In the toxic 21st Century, these questions must be raised:

Would we have such a severe iodine deficiency without bromide dominance?

If iodine deficiency is the underlying cause of many diseases,
is bromide “the underlying cause of the underlying cause?”

Is bromide dominance creating a public health crisis?

Where Does Bromide Dominance Come From?

Bromide is an insidious, additive used in many common products, and as a pesticide. Because of the sheer amount of bromide-supplemented products, exposure to this man-made additive has caused a depletion of iodine in human populations. Studies in lab animals provide alarming evidence that even small amounts of bromide exposure can be toxic. (1)

What products contain bromide?

Currently, bromide is found in pesticides (methyl bromide), some bread products (potassium bromate), brominated vegetable oil that may be added to citrus-flavored drinks, hot tub cleansers, certain asthma inhalers and prescription drugs, plastic products, some personal care products, and some fabric dyes.

PBDE (bromide) fire retardants have been added to mattresses, carpeting, electronics, furniture, car interiors and other products since 1970. These products disperse toxic bromide dust.

BPDEs are banned in many countries outside the US.

Effects of Bromide on the Organs

Iodine depletion weakens the thyroid and other organs. (2)(3)(4)(5)(6) In individuals where the bromide-iodine ratio is less, bromide may not be problematic.

Thyroid

Elevated bromide levels have been implicated in every thyroid disease, from simple hypothyroidism to auto-immune diseases to thyroid cancer. Malenchenko found bromide levels 50 times higher in thyroid cancer than normal thyroid tissue. (7)

Rats fed even the minimal amount of bromine expected to be encountered in the environment underwent goiter-like changes (8), an arguable case of bromide dominance. In the FIRE project, exposing rats to the brominated flame retardant compound, bromocyclodecane, showed consistent effects on the thyroid hormone axis, including decreased T4. Thyroid gland cells have increased size and larger nuclei, indicating increased synthetic activity. (9)

With enhanced intake of bromide, fully one-third of the iodine content in the thyroids of rats was replaced by bromide. (10)

Skin

Skin biopsied from a woman who had been on bromide-containing sedatives for nearly four years found increased bromide in normal skin and three times that in an affected skin lesion. (11)

An infant administered a syrup containing sodium bromide developed vegetative lesions on the face and scalp. (12)

Technicians exposed to brominated compounds for prolonged periods developed multiple cherry angiomas on the trunk and extremities. (12)

Mental

The psychiatry literature abounds with cases of elevated bromide levels being implicated in mental conditions from depression to schizophrenia. (14)(15)(16) As Guy Abraham, MD, asks, “How many people with misdiagnosed bromism are currently treated with psychiatric drugs?”(17) Bromide was used to suppress women’s sex drive in the 1950s.

Hearing

Potassium bromate, a bread additive, is known to cause renal damage and permanent deafness in animals and man. (18) In the FIRE project, the most relevant effect on exposing rats to 28 days to the brominated flame retardant compound, tetrabromobisphenol-A, was hearing. Specifically, the lower frequency range was affected . (19)

Kidneys

The ability of bromate to cause cancer, especially kidney cancer, is a significant health concern. (20) The gene expression in kidneys in rats given a high dose 100-week potassium bromate in their drinking water showed marked gene expression difference from the lower non-cancer dose. The high dose kidney gene expression resembled an adenoma-like expression pattern. (21)

BROMIDE IN PRODUCTS

BREAD

Potassium bromate as an additive to most commercial bread and baked goods probably provides the most egregious contribution to bromide overload in Western cultures.

Bromated flour is product “enriched” with potassium bromate. Some commercial bakers claim they use bromated flour because it yields dependable results, and it makes more elastic dough which can stand up to bread hooks and other commercial baking tools. (22) However, Pepperidge Farm manages to use only unbromated flour with excellent results.

NOTE ON BANNING POTASSIUM BROMATE IN BREAD:

The UK banned bromate in bread in 1990. Canada banned bromate in bread in 1994. (23) Proposal P230 in Australia: Food Regulation Ministerial Council (FSANZ) still has not finalized its July 2007 proposal to mandate iodized salt in breads, breakfast cereals and biscuits.

Back in 1999, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the FDA to prohibit the use of potassium bromate, charging that the FDA has known for years that bromate causes cancer in lab animals, but has failed to ban it. (24) As of September 2007, the US FDA responded to Breast Cancer Choices inquiry with the statement, ” Potassium Bromate is still listed as a safe additive.”

WATER

When drinking water containing bromide is exposed to ozone, bromate ion, a powerful oxidizing agent, is formed. Two significant recalls of drinking water involving bromate have occurred: Wegmann’s Food You Feel Good About Spring Water Recall in 2006, and Coca-Cola’s Dasani in 2004. (25)

TOOTHPASTE, MOUTHWASH AND GARGLES

Potassium bromate is an antiseptic and astringent in toothpaste, mouth and gargles. Very toxic if taken internally. May cause bleeding and inflammation of gums in toothpaste. (26)

BROMIDE IN FLAME RETARDANTS

Flame retardants reduce the flammability of a wide variety of commercial and household products. Some brominated home retardants migrate from the products in which they are used and are entering the environment and people. (27)

PERSONAL PRODUCTS AND SOME COSMETICS

Sodium bromate in Products: Permanent Waves, Hair Dyes, Textile Dyes Sodium bromate is in permanent wave neutralizers, hair dye material, and the textile dyeing process. (28) Benzalkonium is used as a preservative in some cosmetics. (29)

References

Breast Cancer Choices is indebted to the pioneering bromide research of Guy E. Abraham, MD, as well as the clinical and intellectual contributions of David Brownstein, MD, and Jorge Flechas, MD.

(1) Vobecky M et al., Interaction of Bromine with Iodine in the Rat Thyroid Gland at Enhanced
Bromide Intake, Biol Trace Elem Res 1996.
(2) Velicky J et al., The Effect of Bromide on the Ultrastructure of Rat Thyrocytes, Ann Anat 2004.
(3) Pavelka S et al., Bromide Kinetics and Distribution in the Rat. II Distribution of Bromide in the
Body, Biol Trace Res 2000.
(4) Velicky J et al., Long Term Action of Potassium Bromide on the Rat Thyroid Gland, Acta
Histochem 1998.
(5) Velicky J et al., Potassium Bromide and the Thyroid Gland of the Rat: Morphology and
Immunochemistry 1997.
(6) Vobecky M et al., Interaction of Bromine with Iodine in the Rat Thyroid Gland at Enhanced
Bromide Intake, Biol Trace Elem Res 1996.
(7) Malenchenko AF et al., The Content and Distribution of Iodine, Chlorine and Bromide in the
Normal and Pathologically Changed Thyroid Tissue, Med Radiol 1984.
(8) Velicky J et al., Potassium Bromide and the Thyroid Gland of the Rat: Morphology and
Immunochemistry, RIA and INAA Analysis, Ann Anat 1997.
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Bromide Intake, Biol Trace Elem Res 1996.
(11) Hubner K et al., Skin Bromide Content and Bromide Excretion in Bromoderma Tuberosum, Arch Derm
Res 1976.
(12) Bel S et al., Vegetant Bromoderma in an Infant, Pediatric Dermatology 2001.
(13) Cohen A et al., Cherry Angiomas Associated with Exposure to Bromides, Dermatology 2001.
(14) Horowitz BZ et al., Bromism from Excessive Cola Consumption, Clinical Toxicology 1997.
(15) Levin M., Transitory Schizophrenia Produced by Bromide Intoxication, Am J Psychiatry 1946.
(16) www.gulflink.osd.mil/library/randrep/pb_paper/mr1018.2chap10.html.
(17) Abraham G., The Combined Measurement of the Four Stable Halides by the Ion-Selective Electrode
Procedure Following Their Chromatographic Separation on a Strong Anion Exchange Resin: Clinical
Application, The Original Internist 2006.
(18) Morizono T et al., The Effects of Cetrimide and Potassium Bromate on the Potassium Ion
Concentration in the Inner Ear Fluid of the Guinea Pig, Physiol Bohemoslov 1988.
(19) www.credocluster.info, Issue 6 2006.
(20) www.rtctoc.com/bromate.htm.
(21) Geter D et al., Kidney Toxicogenomics of Chronic Potassium Bromate Exposure in F334 Male Rats, EIMS Meta Data Report 2006.
(22) www.wisegeek.com.
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(25) www.rtctox.com/bromate.htm.
(26) www.healthy-communications.com/hazards_of_cosmetics_by_carol_barzac95.html.
(27) www.credocluster.info, Issue 6 2006.
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About the Iodine Supplementation Protocol — Not Just For Breast Cancer Patients

Physicians Guy Abraham, MD, David Brownstein, MD, and Jorge Flechas, MD, have treated more than 4,000 patients with iodine supplementation. The protocol below is suggested by their writings and lectures. We acknowledge with appreciation their pioneering research and generous contributions to the field of Iodine Therapy. See references below the protocol.

Iodine and Companion Nutrients

From October 2007 Iodine Conference

50 mg Iodoral minimum for breast cancer (may start with 12.5 mg).

Some practitioners may recommend another form of iodine such as Lugol’s solution.

Iodoral is the Lugol’s formula in tablet form especially designed to avoid gastric irritation.

Vitamin C – 3,000 mg per day (more may be necessary to detox bromide).

300-600 mg magnesium oxide (Iodine Investigation Project participants prefer
magnesium glycinate or magnesium citrate.)

200 mcg selenium. The selenomethionine version is preferred by many.

500 mg niacin (B3) twice a day (NOT niacinamide). Start lower to avoid flush. *See update
in left margin on the ATP Cofactors as an alternative.

100 mg Vitamin B2 three times a day. *See update in left margin on the ATP Cofactor as an alternative.

A comprehensive vitamin and nutrition program.

(Feb 2008) Dr. Guy Abraham cautions that “excess calcium supplementation (2,000- 3,000 md/day) has been the most common cause of poor response to iodine supplementation.” Vitamin Research News Vol. 22. Number 2.

Iodine is required by almost every living organism to some degree. Although elemental iodine is toxic in large amounts, it has been widely used for centuries for its antiseptic properties. For this reason, kelp and other ocean-faring plants are often consumed as rich organic sources of iodine due to the high concentration of iodine in seawater. Iodine is required to produce the thyroid hormone and a deficiency can result in the onset of goiters, chronic fatigue, depression, and possibly mental impairment. Once in the body, iodine affixes itself to harmful bacteria and reduces the bacteria’s life span.

A rich source of organic iodine

Black walnut hulls have a well-deserved reputation as a potent vermifuge and anti-parasitical remedy, but they are also a rich source of organic iodine, and can provide important nourishment for the thyroid, especially in the interior parts of the country where sea vegetables are hard to come by.

The active principle of the black walnut tree and that of the nuts is Nucin or Juglone. The kernels contain oil, mucilage, albumin, mineral matter, cellulose, and water. Black walnut is a significant source of potassium, magnesium, manganese, sulfur, copper, and silica. The nutmeats are a rich source of essential fatty acids. Iodine is present in all usable parts of the black walnut, but the highest concentration is in the outer hulls of the nuts.

Black walnut is high in bio-assimilable iodide

Black walnut tincture is high in the bio-assimilable plant form of iodide. The iodine contained in black walnut hulls is an oxidizing agent. This means it acts as an electrolyte that upsets the cellular balance of any bacteria or other microbial it comes in contact with.

Black walnut tincture was employed therapeutically during the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. Patients were wiped down with iodine tincture or black walnut tincture. The iodine in the two tinctures was absorbed into the body through the skin. Testing later showed that the patients who had been “painted” with black walnut or iodine tinctures were just as protected against radiation exposure as the patients who took potassium iodide (SSKI).

References

Discovery News.com, “Radiation From Japan Plant is Seeping Into Pacific”

http://news.discovery.com/earth/

United States Department of Energy.gov, “Iodine As an Antiseptic” http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/

Food sources of iodine

Iodized salt is the primary food source of iodine. Seafood is naturally rich in iodine. Cod, sea bass, haddock, and perch are excellent sources, and the common sea vegetable, Kelp, is a rich source of iodine. Most dairy products also contain iodine. Other good sources are vegetables grown in iodine-rich soil.

Iodine deficiency

The thyroid hormones regulate the body’s metabolic rate and promote growth and development throughout the body, including the brain. If there isn’t enough thyroid hormone circulating in the blood stream, the brain sends a chemical message to the thyroid gland, which then releases a measured dose of thyroid hormones. If a person’s diet is too low in iodine, the brain sends repeated chemical messages to the thyroid, which attempts to make more thyroid hormone, and the gland grows larger and larger. This abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland is called a goiter. Other symptoms of iodine deficiency may include dry skin, hair loss, fatigue and slowed reflexes.
Cretinism

Deficiency occurs more often in women than in men, and is more common in pregnant women. Chronic lack of iodine in the diet may lead to a physical and mental aberration called cretinism. Cretinism results from inadequate secretion of thyroid hormones during fetal life or early infancy. The brain and skeleton fail to develop properly, resulting in mental retardation and dwarfism. Cretinism is rare in the U.S. because iodine deficiency is generally not a problem. Lack of iodine is a major problem, however, in developing countries and is considered to be the world’s number one cause of preventable intellectual disability in children.

Vegetarians at risk

Vegetarians may also be at risk of iodine deficiency if they do not eat seafood. Ideally, they can get their iodine from iodized table salt or seaweed. But a study published in Sep-Oct 2003 Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism showed that 25% of the vegetarians, 80% of the vegans and 9% of those eating a mixed diet had low iodine status, so there is cause for concern.

References

Institute of Medicine. Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin A, Vitamin K, Arsenic, Boron, Chromium, Copper, Iodine, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silicon, Vanadium, and Zinc. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2001.

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