 Does everyone have halogen toxicity? Halogens are any of the elements, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine of the periodic table. These can occur in different forms and amounts, some of them being natural, most being harmful. The primary issue here is the lack of iodine in modern diets and high presence of these other halogens as pollutants, which end up binding to iodine receptors throughout the body and can even replace certain minerals when people have deficiencies. These pollutants are in our food supply, they're sprayed on common materials, whether directly or unintentionally. The three main halogens of concern are fluorine, chlorine, and bromine. I've touched a lot about fluorine and chlorine in my past water videos, but the dangers of bromine apply more so to people on a standard American diet that aren't cognizant of their food quality and water quality. So fluorine is in our water predominantly, it's sprayed on our crops as a pesticide, it is in toothpaste, baby food, as well as antibiotics. It is a neurotoxin, causes DNA damage, inhibits uptake of iodine in the thyroid, preventing the production of thyroid hormone leading to thyroid cancer and it can also lead to brittle bones replacing certain minerals in the bones in the teeth when we are deficient in others. Fluorine does occur in nature in a form that our bodies don't really absorb. Our modern chemical versions of fluorine that are bound to certain molecules become much more available to the body leading to the issues we see today. It is mostly known as a disinfectant in water, our drinking water, our bathing water, as well as pools. Just because you filter your tap water and remove the chlorine doesn't mean you can go in the shower without suffering the consequences of this, as chlorine can be absorbed via shower vapors. So you need to filter any water that is coming in contact with your skin, any drinking water, and that is why I unfortunately avoid pools. I haven't been able to find a salt water pool. I kind of dream of the day where I can actually go in the water. So chlorine leads to liver malfunction as it is a toxin. Imagine you're drinking water constantly with this toxin in it and your liver has to detox it every single time you're drinking it. Compromises the immune system by disrupting our gut microbiome. You're drinking a disinfectant. You're disinfecting your gut microbiome. Not good. Bromine is a halogen that I haven't really focused on too much because it's not a concern as someone who filters their water and consumes high quality animal foods from local farms. It is in our water supply, it is in sports and energy drinks, it is that new car smell, so they actually spray it in certain manufacturing processes as a disinfectant and it is used in warm water pools and hot tubs because it is more stable at a higher temperature. Bromine is so dangerous because it is very similar to iodine in its molecular weight. Therefore it binds to all iodine receptors in the body. Fluorine typically sticks to the thyroid and although that's still horrible and can lead to many issues, bromine has been found to be at toxic levels in most of Dr. David Brownstein's patients. Big shout out to Dr. David Brownstein. That's where I really upped my iodine knowledge and learned more about what we have to be doing in the context of iodine and in the context of these halogens in order to prevent auto immune diseases and hypothyroidism. If you've ever met someone that is always cold, has cold hands and feet every day, can't seem to regulate their body temperature, no one is really getting enough iodine and then we have the presence of these modern pollutants that are making it even more difficult. Our ancestors, hunter-gatherers, these indigenous people, didn't really consume a super crazy amount of iodine. Some of them were in mountainous areas and they only came down to get iodine once every few months but they were not suffering in the presence of these modern halogen pollutants in unnatural levels. So what's the solution? How do we fix halogen toxicity? Part of this protocol is from Dr. David Brownstein. Another part of this is something I came up with myself. So obviously you want to say very well hydrated. You want to use a lot of salt and this is because salt is sodium chloride. It's sodium bound to a chloride molecule and then some other trace elements. Chloride inhibits the absorption of these halogens. So by consuming a large amount of salt you are removing some of these issues. This is why people need more salt and more water in the modern context. Again, our indigenous ancestors aren't necessarily something we can look at because they did not have these pollutants present. So very high salt intake, very high water intake helps alleviate the absorption of halogens. Dr. Brownstein recommends vitamin C and E for antioxidant properties. I disagree with that a little bit. And then the actual protocol is iodine, selenium and magnesium. Of course you can supplement these things artificially. You could use seaweed. I personally think shellfish and seafood is the best option here. You can suffer from detox symptoms such as headache, fatigue, aches, heart palpitations, diarrhea and brain fog. Imagine, if you take some iodine all of your receptors are going to release these toxic halogens that you've been storing your whole life. Dr. Brownstein says that in order to avoid detox symptoms you follow the first few steps of the protocol for a couple weeks before introducing iodine. If you start introducing iodine right away or in a large amount then you might suffer from the detox symptoms. I went full steam ahead and I felt like crap for a day or two. I used 12.5 milligrams of iodine per day. That is two drops of local's iodine. Sometimes people do up to 50 milligrams per day of iodine. But 12.5 is more of a maintenance dose. The reason I didn't use seaweed is because there are pollutant concerns in seaweed and iodine levels vary greatly with that source. What I suggest adding to this protocol is to filter and remove all halogens from your lifestyle. Go to a local farm by high quality meat, fruits and vegetables. Make sure that your water is distilled or reverse osmosis. Filter your shower water. Don't overlook the importance of vitamins, minerals, elements and fatty acids in your body in the healing process. Many people think they can just remove the negatives and they'll be good to go. No. You need the positives as well. Just because you didn't plant your tree in lava doesn't mean it's going to grow. The soil still needs nutrients. It still needs to rain outside. There are so many factors that come into play here, especially when our health is at stake. Big shout out to Dr. David Brownstein. He got me to do that iodine video I did a couple months ago as well as this. And yes, I've done many videos on water in the past, but I never really touched on bromine and I never really touched on the detox iodine protocol. So thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully I helped some of you out. If you could please like the video, subscribe, hit that bell icon and share the video if you can. Every single time I do a whiteboard video, I change my lighting configuration and you guys still complain about it. I have no clue what I'm doing. I'm just going to buy a shed in the middle of the woods and set up some natural lighting. So you guys can get Lugl's iodine, Lugl's iodine on my Amazon shop. It's down in the description below. There's a bunch of other supplements that might help you out there. If you do want to check out Frankie's Naturals, I do have a fluoride free tooth powder. I sell aluminum free deodorant, minimal ingredients, minimally processed hygiene and cosmetic products that are very cognizant of these pollutants. In addition, if you'd like to check out Frankie's free range meat, we are providing high quality nutrient dense animal foods at the most affordable price online. Frankie'sFreeRangeMeat.com for grass-fed beef, organ meats, fat, marrow, caviar, ruchies. If it can be a part of a healthy diet, we will have it boys and girls. Thanks again for joining me and enjoy the rest of your day.