(Below is in response to one of my program participants asking me about why iodine is important, and her not understanding what detoxification is and why it is so crucial to good health and weight management):
I would not be able to advise you on what you should or shouldn’t be doing. Instead I can give you a little more info and tell you about what I/we do/use:
Bromide is all over flour products as part of the processing of flours. We have massive exposures to it in the western world (see more in link below). Chlorine is in the water both via drinking, showering, and huge exposure via swimming. It occurs naturally in the body, but we are over-exposed according to theories we support and it then displaces iodine in the body, an element we count on for antipathogen properties among a host of other benefits such as metabolism. Breast and prostate issues are being tied to iodine deficiency more and more, among a huge host of other problems, Fibromyalgia being a biggie.
You would have to talk to the companies and ask them about dosaging, since I do not sell the product. I get mine from nutrimedical (Dr. Deagle), and I know people who get the Magnascent brand below.
http://www.magnascent.com/esp/PramList2.aspx?PrimCat=Bottle
Detoxification is simply about removing the toxic burden from our bodies. It is so pervasive in our lives now that I personally feel it needs to be done daily and for life, else we accumulate the toxins which can lead to problems. The body tries to segregate toxins as best it can (including into fat cells) but all of this requires energy and taxes the body, and leads to illness.
Anyone can feel the detox from iodine. I started at one drop and added a drop a day tapering off around 4 drops for a while, then moved up into higher drops. Dr. Deagle at the nutrimedical site I referenced above discusses 15 drops a day, even twice a day for ill folks. The thing about that is, mid-back/kidney discomfort will surely be felt when people take this much. If a person can get there without back pain, all the better (they will usually derive lots of benefits…less illness, sharper mind, more energy, easier weight loss, etc) but most of us are so toxic that the discomfort is felt as the kidneys get loaded with the mainly bromide that the iodine is displacing in the body…iodine going where it SHOULD go, where the bromide should NOT be, on the cell receptors). The standard protocol once kidney discomfort is felt is to back off the iodine for a few days, and take in lots of water with extra crystal salt (MUST be a full-spectrum salt, not table salt/sodium chloride). I take a quarter teaspoon of crystal salt a few times a day for this purpose, also called a “salt push.” It relieves the discomfort within a couple days. Then I resume the iodine, placing it on my arm and leg joints or near the joints out of personal preference. Occasionally a drop near my groin for prostate benefit.
More:
http://www.medhelp.org/user_journals/show/161956/Bromide-is-causing-Iodine-deficiencey-in-many
Too many people notice really great benefits from gentle, and long-term experimentation with iodine supplementation. People report feeling better than ever.
Hence my email on it, since that’s what I’m all about. 😉
Tim