loreta said:
There is something in this threat that is almost magical, I don't know how to explain. Maybe because this is a thread where all a "team" is participating, all together, all listening and trying to do something in a team, a change with a team. I love this threat. So much information not just for the protocol but also from people, everyone giving, and this is really a gift, his or her experiences, their "vécu". We learn thanks to others and we do an exercise of listening, paying attention, and also paying attention to our bodies.
I've been thinking this as well. -In particular, rolling around in my mind is the question (and the answer) "Why didn't we do this earlier?"
Laura said:
Session Date: November 21st 2015
Q: (L) Well, why the hell didn't you tell us about this before?! [laughter]
A: Would you have believed it? Also, it is a very good thing that you have gone through various programs already or you would have been one of those that takes years to normalize and you would have lost heart and quit too soon.
Q: (L) So it came at the right time.
(Galatea) Everything happens when it's meant to happen.
A: Yes
Q: (Galatea) Is there any other miracle cure out there that you haven't told us about?
A: No.
Q: [laughter] (Galatea) Just making sure!
(nicklebleu) We've been doing different things, and we've researched a lot of different aspects of health. All the things help some people, but others don't see much benefit, like for example the ketogenic diet. I'm still trying to figure out what is the overarching problem in health or bad health in general. Does it in the end come down to toxicity, and everything else flows on from that? Like infection, autoimmune disease, inflammation, degenerative diseases... Is the final problem toxicity, and everything else only comes from that?
A: Yes
Q: (L) Toxicity. It's the terrain, not the microbe. I was reading that deficiency of iodine in any tissue can cause problems with that area of the body. If you are deficient you might have dry mouth, dry eyes, inability to sweat, brain fog, nodules in the skin like are common with arthritis, fibrosis and fibroids, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and on and on the list goes. The major thing is the failure of the immune system allowing so-called autoimmune conditions to develop.
These iodine experiments and the resulting protocol/s being settling on have some pretty hard and sudden kicks to them which the low-carb/ketogenic diet did not.
-I felt sick from time to time as my body adjusted from burning sugar to burning fat, but that process had a predictable experience curve which was easy to understand and thus navigate.
"I eat too much fat and I feel nauseous. Clearly, my body needs to adjust and increase the metabolic factors necessary to digest all this bacon!" With iodine and co-factors, we are dealing with much more abstract concepts requiring a level of awareness which goes beyond actions and feelings of the visceral, animal,
"Eating this feels bad" nature.
Iodine is like the next skill level up.
Also, the Keto-experiment opened up the huge problem of dealing with public resistance to animal-eating, exposing the deep programs and propaganda intertwined with human grain agriculture. The lies stuck out and the logical results were loud and telling, and I think that journey prepared us for Iodine perhaps more than we might realize...
Iodine, without having done the prep-work, would I think have been much harder to approach even as a simple concept. -The self-proclaimed "Anti-Quack" sites are filled fevered pitch fear mongering, which, combined with the kinds of painful results we have been experiencing with iodine would I think have created much more resistance to the simple idea a few years ago versus now. Today our confidence in the networking and observation process has grown quite strong.
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Quick update regarding my own iodine progress...
I'm taking my first night off from iodine; yesterday I had a major headache which pretty much shut me down. -I'm fairly certain that it has to do with posture and work-related stuff. I know how to sit and exercise and change positions regularly to keep head aches away, but it's a tight rope. If I slip even a bit... I foolishly spent a couple of hours in a couch with a work folder and got lost in it and didn't respect that my shoulders and back and neck hated every second of it. I can't get away with that sort of thing the way I used to when I was in my twenties, boy! So.., Wham! 24 hours of headache is a pretty good bio-feedback lesson in self-respect.
In any case, in my efforts to mitigate the pain, I flushed my system with Vit C and saltwater, and did a bunch of yoga and even took a hot bath. It all helped, and now I'm feeling that giddy sort of relief where the pain is 98% gone, but you can sense it lurking around the edges. In any case, I figured it would be a good time to take a break from iodine.
Reading earlier about others dealing with head aches, I am reminded that I know an amazing Osteopath in town, and that it is probably time once again to schedule an appointment. It's expensive, though! $120 a session? I don't go until it genuinely hurts to be alive.
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So I've not been smoking for a bit more than a week now. It was
very easy to stop; I have no cravings at all. I wonder if the iodine has replaced whatever it was that the nicotine was filling in for in terms of thyroid function, as others have suggested?
Though, I don't think I was ever really one who worked best with tobacco; it numbed my emotions which have always been a very rich landscape for me. I found tobacco helpful when certain fears, horrors and general negative stimuli became overwhelming. -Like, "Yeah, I KNOW! I'm DOING something about it. But back off! Too much emotion! It's paralyzing me!" When life stabilized, I found that I just kept on smoking because it was enjoyable and addictive and perhaps filling some need in the thyroid.
