r/IodineProtocol

Anyone have success doing this? I was taking 5 drops and initially felt great. I’m subclinical hypothyroid and found out I was iodine deficient.

After about a month I started to feel like shit and was unable to sleep through the night. Sleep has been an issue for me for the past year and a half.

I wake up at 2am wide awake and wired. I’m going to stop all my supplements all together and take a break.

It seems the only way to be successful on this protocol is to super mega dose iodine. Honestly, that seems absurd.

I can more wrap my head around taking one drop every day or at least every few days. But 50-100mg just seems asinine.

Anyone have success doing just 1 drop?

So I did the iodine loading test here in Spain. I simply ordered a 24 hour iodine urine test. I read the instructions carefully, didn't take any iodine for 2 days beforehand. I then started at 10 am, discarding the first urine of the day, took 50mg of ioderal, and peed in the bottle for 24 hours. Kept the container refrigerated, didn't eat any high iodine food or anything. To complete the test, I shook the bottle well, took a sample of about 50 ML and then shipped it to the lab refrigerated with dry ice.

Then my results came back and it said I had excreted 67.5mg. How is that possible? I have never heard of an excretion of >100% before nor read anything similar in the books. I contacted the lab and they said that its possible that you excrete whatever was in your body beforehand as well as the loading dose, but I think a mistake was made to be honest.

Any ideas? I am now on 12.5mg of iodine a day and I have noticed major upgrades in my health, so I am sure I am deficient. I rarely eat sea food and I didn't even have iodized salt the past few years so it makes total sense that I am.

" My conclusion was quite clear: iodine at these new proposed doses was not justified and I have since counseled patients and peers against it... Given that risks of high-dose iodine are irrefutable, long-term intake should be kept at levels of roughly 150 mcg/d, although episodic intake of up to 1000 mcg is tolerable by most without thyroid antibodies." -Alan Christianson, NMD

https://ndnr.com/iodines-new-paradigm-more-or-less/

These are this NMD's words, not mine. I have no connection to the man. Science is a process and everyone has different experiences and rationalizations. Through iterations a truth comes out eventually, which may eventually be proven not true! Thus the way it goes