J. Crows 2% Iodine - The Original Lugols Iodine /2oz, 60ml

What? Why does your body need iodine? What is iodine? Iodine is an essential micronutrient. This means it is needed and small amounts by every cell in the body. Iodine can be very powerful and our bodies have built in compensation mechanisms to conserve it. That's the good news. Then there's the bad news. Iodine deficiency has become a public health crisis because it's so vulnerable to displacement by environmental toxins such as brahmide pesticides and food additives. That's exactly what's causing the iodine deficiency bromine fire retardants surround us introduced in the 1970s they have accumulated in our homes, cars and workplaces iodine as a food. Fortifier was removed from flower around the same time contributing to the iodine deficiency that has grown to epidemic proportions. 

Why has iodine become big news now? Because some brilliant doctors fact-check the medical literature, then refuted the recent myth that iodine supplementation was toxic. They went back in history to when iodine was a universally used medicine and reported the information. The double whammy came when tens of thousands of medical consumers tried supplementing iodine and began reporting success stories on the internet. The grassroots item movement was born. Patient success research and supplementation reports continue to fuel interest in iodine.

How was iodine used in the past ? from medical records in 1906, iodine was considered the universal medicine and used to treat goiter , athersclerosis ,syphilis, uterine fibroids, Mercury, lead and arsenic poisoning, swollen glands, prostatic hypertrophy, Scarlet fever, bronchitis and pneumonia, obesity, depression, breast pain, eczema, genito-urinary diseases, malaria, ovarian, cysts, rheumatism, gastralgia, tonsillitis and cough just to name a few.

If you're more interested in iodine, we sell a few books that you should check out. The iodine crisis is one and the other one is the 1899 Merck manual