Iodine Why You Need It

An excellent book, a must-read for anyone suffering from thyroid problems or any other iodine deficiency issues in my opinion. Controversial, yes, but well sourced, so you can do your own research. Poorly indexed, which is a pity as this is a book that I will want to refer to again and again, but still worth five stars as it has been so helpful to me and has, I believe, helped me to avoid having to take thyroid drugs for life.

Very interesting book. Easy to read and understand. I shall be putting it in practice and taking the supplements as recommended.

The information is interesting. The writing itself is a bit too long for the amount of information being presented, the book could probably be halved without losing anything.

Iodine deficiency is highly likely one of the root causes of many increasing health problems. The modern Western medecine is too often just masking the symptoms but not trying to find out and then addressing the reasons why someone becomes ill.One of the books that I bought to help me to regain my health - very good manual for ordinary people like myself.

It is a great book which everybody who is interested in own health should read. You need to take care of yourself and not wait until the conventional doctors prescribe only tablets from which Big Farma gain enourmous profits but not your well beeing.

This book could be defined as the medicine and medical practice that time forgot. The role of iodine so essential in the development of man and mans health is revisited and explained. If you are on a health or longevity quest read this.

A very interesting and useful book if you care about your health, too bad that it has quite a lot of repetitions! This is becoming a real problem with many of today's health books! After a while one starts losing interest because one gets the feeling of already having read everything elsewhere! At times this book is also a little bit technical but bear in mind that the message is quite important! Most of us being low on iodine means that we can be prone to quite a few illnesses that could easily be prevented! Too bad that other than on the Internet Lugol's and Iodoral aren't sold in Europe! The only form of iodine sold here is kelp but so far I haven't yet found out whether it is equivalent to Lugol's or not.Dr. Brownstein seems to be a great doctor who really cares about his patients, and that is rare to find nowadays! He also puts forward quite a few case stories to help understand how important iodine is and the problems its deficiency can cause! Illnesses like cancer, thyroid problems, Autoimmune diseases, ADHD, all can come from a lack of iodine! I have to say that at times I got a bit mixed up with the words iodine and iodide as the title for the tables would talk about iodide but then on the table itself the word used was iodine. Maybe there is an explication for that.... The table of how to calculate one's water intake should have also come in metric measurements as authors should know that nowadays their books are often read in Europe as well! One can convert them but taking the weight in pounds, dividing by 2 and then getting the amount of water one should ingest in ounces is rather complicated!Interesting that nowadays newspapers often publish articles proving detox does nothing at all for one's health, while books like this one really point to the importance of getting rid of toxins! And it has to be important because we are all full of toxins, how could it be otherwise? The only ones not interested in detoxification are Big Pharma, who doesn't care about our health and fills us with more and more toxins and those who also don't care about what happens to us, like governments, who also profit from our bad health, while telling us that we are too ill and cost too much money while telling us that we are living too long! Read this book, you won't regret it!UPDATE: I tried to contact Dr. Brownstein through his site with a simple question: can one take Kelp instead of Lugol's or Iodoral as Kelp is readily available here in Europe, the other two are not! I have had contact with the authors of book I read before and some are more keen than others but well, dr. Brownstein is not keen on any contact! I got a message back from one of his assitants informing me that as I am not a patient of his the advice was to go to someone they suggested in Belgium (I live in Switzerland...). I am not one to go around bothering authors, thinking that just because I bought a book they are at my service but come on, a little doubt.... I have changed my mind about this doctor being a caring professional, sorry but I have! Either you go there and pay either you won't get even the smallest piece of information out of him!

I feel very previleged to have a chance to read this book, thank you!