Hashimotos Thyroiditis
I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis sixteen years ago and placed on synthetic thyroid replacement at that time. I felt like I was barely alive for three years and went to many doctors, none of whom helped me. Eventually, I got my life back when switching to natural thyroid, but I honestly never felt 100% normal and knew intuitively that I needed to get off of thyroid replacement altogether. I’d had an iodine loading test done shortly after reading Dr. Brownstein’s book a few years ago, but my N.D. said that I shouldn’t use iodine because of my Hashimoto’s. UGH. More recently I had two different acupuncturists who were able to help me radically reduce my thyroid intake but, unlike their other clients, I simply couldn’t get off of thyroid completely for some unknown reason….that is until I began taking high-dose iodine, which has allowed me to make more progress. Why? Because in lowering my thyroid dose, we discovered I had been walking around with multiple tumors (breast and neck). Why? Because I clearly had an iodine deficiency which my body was trying to tell me about for a good 20 years! I’m thrilled to say that now I’m on 10 – 15% of the prescription thyroid I was originally taking and hope to be fully off of thyroid replacement in a few months. Moreover, one of my tumors is 90% flattened, thanks in part to my new hobby – painting Lugol’s iodine on my body. To be clear, I’m also using a broad variety of other herbs, supplements, lymphatic stimulation and dietary modifications, but the iodine made an obvious difference when I added it to my protocol just 28 days ago, allowing me to further reduce my prescription thyroid supplementation and helping me to purge the body odor from my normally odor-free body, likely the result of bromine, chlorine, mercury and fluoride toxicity. Yes, I’m taking a lot of iodine – I’ve slowly titrated up to 100MG+ of Ioderol, plus whatever I paint on each day. In my case, I’m just finishing my studies in holistic nutrition, and believe me, they don’t teach you this in school, no matter how holistic and progressive your program might be! Thank you so much, Dr. Brownstein. Your work has literally changed my life.
