“Although the thyroid is tiny in size, it has the power to wreak havoc on you anywhere from head to toe. I have been practicing holistic medicine for over 20 years. I have yet to see any single nutrient help as many patients as iodine. Every cell in your body needs iodine. You cannot make a single hormone without it, yet people do not get enough of it.”
~ Dr. David Brownstein, MD, author of Overcoming Thyroid Disorders and 59 Diseases Linked to Thyroid Imbalance
By Brigitte Mouchet
The thyroid is a key driver of many functions in our bodies. It provides our daytime energy, manages our enzymatic processes, is involved in the production of human growth hormone, contributes to mitochondrial health—which is connected to many chronic diseases—and more. For a variety of reasons, many people today suffer from a low-functioning thyroid, but it is still often undiagnosed.
How can we take care of our thyroid health? Dr. Kae Thompson, a naturopath and the developer of VoiceBio©™, a tool analyzing people’s voice to identify imbalances in the body, tells us about a simple supplement that can restore thyroid health and help us stay healthy.
That supplement is liquid iodine. The thyroid uses iodine to produce thyroid hormones. Dr. Thompson discusses liquid iodine derived from the mineral iodine, which is natural to our bodies—not plant- or ocean-based sources that require involvement of the liver.
In this interview, we invite you to take a deep dive into the role of the thyroid and its back-up organ, the adrenals, to understand the importance of keeping your thyroid healthy.
In Let’s Go to the Movies, Catherine will review the film Soylent Green and comment on the Yes Men spoof on the WTO and McDonalds. This is part of her effort to inspire you to establish trustworthy, fresh foods sources, given accelerating changes in the global food industry.
You can email or post questions for Ask Catherine at this week’s Money & Markets commentary here.
Talk to you Thursday!
It’s interesting under New Trends and Stories that History and Faith are not separate categories – are they under “Culture”?
Faith is under culture. History depends on what history it is. For example, history of precious metals would be in precious metals and currency.
It’s interesting under New Trends and Stories that History and Faith are not separate categories – are they under “Culture”?
Faith is under culture. History depends on what history it is. For example, history of precious metals would be in precious metals and currency.
Bravo Solari team, thank you for another brilliant and timely interview as we navigate a global health crisis. I couldn’t agree more with Dr. Thompson except for the following.
Twice in the interview Dr. Thompson states we can not be allergic to iodine because it is a part of us at birth. From personal experience and my training in functional medicine/energy medicine, this is incorrect. And, this topic seems to be the elephant in the room in functional medicine today. We can be allergic to anything, any mineral, vitamin, amino acid, food, environmental influence, toxin, pathogen, geopathical stressor (pressure, humidity, etc.). When an allergy to a nutrient such as iodine is present, the body does not absorb it. The body rejects the allergen resulting in an eventual deficiency. Often times patients arrive with symptoms resulting from insufficient levels of certain nutrients, because an allergy to that nutrient is preventing its absorption. NAET is used to eliminate the allergy, restore the nervous system’s relationship to the nutrient/substance, followed by supplementation of nutrient IV’s to restore levels of the nutrient in the body.
Consider this: an allergy to zinc will prevent production of adequate stomach acid preventing proper digesting and extermination of incoming pathogens. An allergy to sulfur will prevent the efficient second stage of detox, resulting in higher toxicity levels and eventual symptoms when the body can’t deal with the toxic load. Allergy to vitamin D or B often result in mental health challenges. Bottom line, any allergy can produce just about any symptom, therefore the person must be treated, not the disease name/symptom. If you are testing for low levels of a nutrient and after concerted effort to increase intake of that nutrient you still have low levels, there is a very good chance an allergy to that nutrient is present or a problem with absorption. In the world of NAET, there are also combination allergies, meaning, you may test strong for say, iodine, but test weak for iodine in combination with salt (example). Any day where both salt and iodine are ingested over a 24 hour period, symptoms can occur. These are insights from 5 years of training with a functional medical physician who was a nutritionist at heart, cancer/autoimmune specialist with a remarkable ability to resolve complex issues. I hope some find this information insightful and that it leads you in the right direction to regain or maintain optimum health. And make detoxing a lifestyle, not a once in a while event. It’s a cumulative game.
Hi Michael, Thank you for your great comments.Allergies can be very tricky to identify and treat, especially when you think that they can start with or be triggered by emotions.I shared your post with Dr. Thompson and here is her response:
I ABSOLUTELY agree with Michael Fuchs, and it is a great commentary. I should have clarified my comment better; so will here. Yes, we can become allergic to just about anything in life these days; and my comment was meant for the people who take an iodine product and become ill, then immediately assume they are allergic. In almost 20 years of selling the iodine, it is rare that a client was actually allergic to iodine (I only know of 3 in those 2 decades); and their reactions are generally because of two situations. One, they are taking a product that isn’t iodine but a multitude of items. It is common for people selling these products to regurgitate all the advantages of iodine and then sell you a product that isn’t iodine or is iodine plus other ingredients. These products need to go to the liver to be processed and often cause effects from those ingredients and the liver. Two, Iodine is a halogen element; and when it enters the cells, it will push out other halogen elements that are present – meaning fluoride, chlorine, and bromine. The Iodine pioneer, Dr Guy Abraham, found urinary excretions of lead, cadmium, arsenic, aluminum and mercury upon initial use of iodine as well. It is highly recommended that you take in sufficient water during the initial use of iodine; and if you do have a reaction, a heavy metal detox would be in order. Information on this can be found at http://www.myersdetox.com.
I appreciate the response and clarification. Agree regarding symptoms related to iodine usage causing confusion. I’ve seen iodine spur severe Herxheimer reactions in patients, it really can get toxins moving! I agree many products available today don’t contain what sellers claim and people often react to other ingredients, often times deemed “trade secrets” so ingredients are hidden. With iodine, high quality is of utmost importance! Also agree on increasing water intake to maintain cellular hydration and keep toxins moving.
With detox therapies, I’m actively researching different approaches to proper sequencing of binding agents. Do you use particular binding agent protocols with iodine usage? Once the iodine pushes the harmful halogens out of the cells, what’s the best way to capture and eliminate those toxins and prevent re-absorption? Tinctures aimed at lymph support and binding agents come to mind. Not asking for advice, just what you have found to work well in your experience knowing we are all unique and can tolerate different things. It’s nice to be able to muscle response test exactly what each person needs. Without muscle testing, it becomes a guessing game.
Dr. Klinghardt has found that the ionic foot baths increase a noticeable amount of heavy metal elimination in the urine days following the ionic foot bath. To supercharge the ionic foot bath treatment, cilantro tincture either in the foot bath water or taken orally prior to the foot bath. He notes taking binding agents prior to the ionic foot bath take stress off the kidneys following the treatment. These are from some notes from his Autonomic Response Testing III course. I apply a similar approach to the FAR infrared sauna.
As for identifying and treating allergies, iodine or any other, this is accomplished via muscle response testing. For practitioners who don’t have that ability, EAV machines are a good second option. From my experience, I find mineral and vitamin allergies VERY common. In fact, most patients have at least 1 nutrient allergy. I would bet 1/4 to 1/3 of our patients with hypo or hyper thyroidism have an iodine allergy. Eliminating the allergy via NAET and subsequently supplementing with iodine for those patients is often times all they need. But most need additional detox work and further nutritional balancing. The level of compromised health is astounding today, even for those who consider themselves relatively healthy.
Eliminating allergies is easy and straight-forward via NAET. Problem is energy medicine has not been allowed to enter mainstream to the degree we need it. Not all practitioners can make the NAET treatment work, which conveniently allows it to reside on the ‘quackery’ list. Just because someone has done training doesn’t mean their treatments are effective. One must have a certain ‘knack’ to make the treatments hold, and the ability to muscle response test and obtain clear answers from the patient’s nervous system via clear concentration. If a trapped emotion or limiting belief is nested with the allergy energetically, that too must be liberated via other techniques like Emotional Freedom Technique, Emotion Code, Tapas Acupressure Technique, Jaffe-Mellor Technique, or NAET with the appropriate vial. This is all cutting edge energy medicine that most with an open mind have a hard time grasping. Welcome to the fringe, and the future of medicine.
Again, thanks for creating a forum to share vitally important information with the Solari family. This is not intended as medical advice. But it’s one avenue I would research prior to entering the labyrinth of the conventional medical system.
Hi Michael,
Thank you for the additional information on this topic. I will forward this again to Dr. Thompson and post her response.
Hi Michael,
Below is Dr. Thompson’s response. Thanks again for your comments!
Hi Michael:
Detoxing with the correct binders is definitely a maze these days. First, I should mention that we don’t normally deal with the extremes that you do. Most of our clients are “Joe” down the street that is the only breadwinner, has 3 kids and isn’t feeling well; or “Jane” who is experiencing weight, depression and female issues; or “Nana” who is tired and achy and doesn’t want to experience the cut, burn or medicate advice she watched her parents go through. Perhaps 5-7% are of the extreme that you speak of, and those are always referred to a functional endocrinologist. Granted, it was 2% a decade ago and is now more than triple that; but still a small percentage of who we see.
Having said this, I too believe that the correct binder is critical to get it right for the client/patient. As you know, one size doesn’t fit everyone. Autoimmune diseases are varied and the symptoms so different client to client that it almost makes your head spin! If you are looking for a source of trusted information with someone who is right in the middle of autoimmune treatments than I would recommend doing some research with Evan Brand. I like him because he’s accessible, has been there having experienced autoimmune himself, and is willing to help. QuickSilver Scientific has great liposomal products; I’ve heard Biomin is good but haven’t personally used them as I have QuickSilver. Microbiome Labs is another company I use as well.
By the way, I love Klinghardt and just heard him talk about the dangers of 5G; as a lot of alternative medical professionals are doing now. I highly recommend that readers take the time to educate themselves – it is THAT important. GreenMedInfo is offering a free symposium on it next week. Sign up!
With Blessings.
Thanks, Michael – very much appreciate the insight. Agree, detoxing is a lifestyle, not a once in a while event. More cilantro!
Bravo Solari team, thank you for another brilliant and timely interview as we navigate a global health crisis. I couldn’t agree more with Dr. Thompson except for the following.
Twice in the interview Dr. Thompson states we can not be allergic to iodine because it is a part of us at birth. From personal experience and my training in functional medicine/energy medicine, this is incorrect. And, this topic seems to be the elephant in the room in functional medicine today. We can be allergic to anything, any mineral, vitamin, amino acid, food, environmental influence, toxin, pathogen, geopathical stressor (pressure, humidity, etc.). When an allergy to a nutrient such as iodine is present, the body does not absorb it. The body rejects the allergen resulting in an eventual deficiency. Often times patients arrive with symptoms resulting from insufficient levels of certain nutrients, because an allergy to that nutrient is preventing its absorption. NAET is used to eliminate the allergy, restore the nervous system’s relationship to the nutrient/substance, followed by supplementation of nutrient IV’s to restore levels of the nutrient in the body.
Consider this: an allergy to zinc will prevent production of adequate stomach acid preventing proper digesting and extermination of incoming pathogens. An allergy to sulfur will prevent the efficient second stage of detox, resulting in higher toxicity levels and eventual symptoms when the body can’t deal with the toxic load. Allergy to vitamin D or B often result in mental health challenges. Bottom line, any allergy can produce just about any symptom, therefore the person must be treated, not the disease name/symptom. If you are testing for low levels of a nutrient and after concerted effort to increase intake of that nutrient you still have low levels, there is a very good chance an allergy to that nutrient is present or a problem with absorption. In the world of NAET, there are also combination allergies, meaning, you may test strong for say, iodine, but test weak for iodine in combination with salt (example). Any day where both salt and iodine are ingested over a 24 hour period, symptoms can occur. These are insights from 5 years of training with a functional medical physician who was a nutritionist at heart, cancer/autoimmune specialist with a remarkable ability to resolve complex issues. I hope some find this information insightful and that it leads you in the right direction to regain or maintain optimum health. And make detoxing a lifestyle, not a once in a while event. It’s a cumulative game.
Hi Michael, Thank you for your great comments.Allergies can be very tricky to identify and treat, especially when you think that they can start with or be triggered by emotions.I shared your post with Dr. Thompson and here is her response:
I ABSOLUTELY agree with Michael Fuchs, and it is a great commentary. I should have clarified my comment better; so will here. Yes, we can become allergic to just about anything in life these days; and my comment was meant for the people who take an iodine product and become ill, then immediately assume they are allergic. In almost 20 years of selling the iodine, it is rare that a client was actually allergic to iodine (I only know of 3 in those 2 decades); and their reactions are generally because of two situations. One, they are taking a product that isn’t iodine but a multitude of items. It is common for people selling these products to regurgitate all the advantages of iodine and then sell you a product that isn’t iodine or is iodine plus other ingredients. These products need to go to the liver to be processed and often cause effects from those ingredients and the liver. Two, Iodine is a halogen element; and when it enters the cells, it will push out other halogen elements that are present – meaning fluoride, chlorine, and bromine. The Iodine pioneer, Dr Guy Abraham, found urinary excretions of lead, cadmium, arsenic, aluminum and mercury upon initial use of iodine as well. It is highly recommended that you take in sufficient water during the initial use of iodine; and if you do have a reaction, a heavy metal detox would be in order. Information on this can be found at http://www.myersdetox.com.
I appreciate the response and clarification. Agree regarding symptoms related to iodine usage causing confusion. I’ve seen iodine spur severe Herxheimer reactions in patients, it really can get toxins moving! I agree many products available today don’t contain what sellers claim and people often react to other ingredients, often times deemed “trade secrets” so ingredients are hidden. With iodine, high quality is of utmost importance! Also agree on increasing water intake to maintain cellular hydration and keep toxins moving.
With detox therapies, I’m actively researching different approaches to proper sequencing of binding agents. Do you use particular binding agent protocols with iodine usage? Once the iodine pushes the harmful halogens out of the cells, what’s the best way to capture and eliminate those toxins and prevent re-absorption? Tinctures aimed at lymph support and binding agents come to mind. Not asking for advice, just what you have found to work well in your experience knowing we are all unique and can tolerate different things. It’s nice to be able to muscle response test exactly what each person needs. Without muscle testing, it becomes a guessing game.
Dr. Klinghardt has found that the ionic foot baths increase a noticeable amount of heavy metal elimination in the urine days following the ionic foot bath. To supercharge the ionic foot bath treatment, cilantro tincture either in the foot bath water or taken orally prior to the foot bath. He notes taking binding agents prior to the ionic foot bath take stress off the kidneys following the treatment. These are from some notes from his Autonomic Response Testing III course. I apply a similar approach to the FAR infrared sauna.
As for identifying and treating allergies, iodine or any other, this is accomplished via muscle response testing. For practitioners who don’t have that ability, EAV machines are a good second option. From my experience, I find mineral and vitamin allergies VERY common. In fact, most patients have at least 1 nutrient allergy. I would bet 1/4 to 1/3 of our patients with hypo or hyper thyroidism have an iodine allergy. Eliminating the allergy via NAET and subsequently supplementing with iodine for those patients is often times all they need. But most need additional detox work and further nutritional balancing. The level of compromised health is astounding today, even for those who consider themselves relatively healthy.
Eliminating allergies is easy and straight-forward via NAET. Problem is energy medicine has not been allowed to enter mainstream to the degree we need it. Not all practitioners can make the NAET treatment work, which conveniently allows it to reside on the ‘quackery’ list. Just because someone has done training doesn’t mean their treatments are effective. One must have a certain ‘knack’ to make the treatments hold, and the ability to muscle response test and obtain clear answers from the patient’s nervous system via clear concentration. If a trapped emotion or limiting belief is nested with the allergy energetically, that too must be liberated via other techniques like Emotional Freedom Technique, Emotion Code, Tapas Acupressure Technique, Jaffe-Mellor Technique, or NAET with the appropriate vial. This is all cutting edge energy medicine that most with an open mind have a hard time grasping. Welcome to the fringe, and the future of medicine.
Again, thanks for creating a forum to share vitally important information with the Solari family. This is not intended as medical advice. But it’s one avenue I would research prior to entering the labyrinth of the conventional medical system.
Hi Michael,
Thank you for the additional information on this topic. I will forward this again to Dr. Thompson and post her response.
Hi Michael,
Below is Dr. Thompson’s response. Thanks again for your comments!
Hi Michael:
Detoxing with the correct binders is definitely a maze these days. First, I should mention that we don’t normally deal with the extremes that you do. Most of our clients are “Joe” down the street that is the only breadwinner, has 3 kids and isn’t feeling well; or “Jane” who is experiencing weight, depression and female issues; or “Nana” who is tired and achy and doesn’t want to experience the cut, burn or medicate advice she watched her parents go through. Perhaps 5-7% are of the extreme that you speak of, and those are always referred to a functional endocrinologist. Granted, it was 2% a decade ago and is now more than triple that; but still a small percentage of who we see.
Having said this, I too believe that the correct binder is critical to get it right for the client/patient. As you know, one size doesn’t fit everyone. Autoimmune diseases are varied and the symptoms so different client to client that it almost makes your head spin! If you are looking for a source of trusted information with someone who is right in the middle of autoimmune treatments than I would recommend doing some research with Evan Brand. I like him because he’s accessible, has been there having experienced autoimmune himself, and is willing to help. QuickSilver Scientific has great liposomal products; I’ve heard Biomin is good but haven’t personally used them as I have QuickSilver. Microbiome Labs is another company I use as well.
By the way, I love Klinghardt and just heard him talk about the dangers of 5G; as a lot of alternative medical professionals are doing now. I highly recommend that readers take the time to educate themselves – it is THAT important. GreenMedInfo is offering a free symposium on it next week. Sign up!
With Blessings.
Thanks, Michael – very much appreciate the insight. Agree, detoxing is a lifestyle, not a once in a while event. More cilantro!