OT: Breast Fibroids

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Hi Patty,

 

The now deceased Dr. John Meyers treated fibroid breast cysts with elemental

Iodine followed by magnesium injections, with 90+% success in eliminating

breast cysts. The Tacoma Clinic in Washington state offers a form of Potassium

Iodide called SSKI, which is the closest thing I have been able to find to the

Elemental Iodine.

 

The clinic also offers a book titled The Patient's Book of Natural Healing,

which outlines protocols for treating fibroid breast cysts including the iodine

therapy. The potassium iodide link below is to their clinic. I have included

a link to another site which gives information on iodine therapy as well.

 

I have one client, with severe fibrocystic breast disease using this therapy.

Her breasts were so filled with cysts that mamograms only returned what the

radiologist described as " bags of marbles " with zero ability for cancer

detection. Last year when one of her cysts ballooned to the size of a golf ball,

I

exhaustively researched alternative therapies for her and discovered the iodine

treatment. She began taking the SSKI iodine from the Tacoma Clinic with

Magnesium supplements and had immediate reduction in her cysts. The process is

ongoing for her.

 

Another proven method of tumor/cyst elimination is Dr. Johanna Budwig's Flax

oil diet, in which you mix cold processed flax oil with sulfurated proteins

like cottage cheese, yogurt or skim milk. Tumors, even cancerous ones, will

completly disappear. My client is now using this therapy as well, in conjunction

with the ongoing iodine therapy.

 

If you would like to have a wonderful understanding of what causes the cysts

in the first place, read the book Flow System Therapy (link below). It gives

an amazing explanation of our digestive system, combustion process, and

elimination system that will likely give you an understanding of the " why "

behind any

malady you may be experiencing, including the cysts.

 

Best of luck in your treatments.

 

Please feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions.

 

Many blessings,

 

Holly Perry

 

 

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Han M. Stiekema: Flow System Therapy/Stroomsysteemtherapie

 

Potassium Iodide

 

(from the Tacoma Clinic site:)

 

Many women develop " fibrocystic breast disease " . In the 1970s, I learned from

pioneering trace element researcher Dr. John Myers that iodine (a close

" relative " of SSKI) would eliminate even the most severe cases of fibrocystic

breast disease. [For the full details of this treatment, see pages 169-174 of

The

Patient's Book of Natural Healing by Alan Gaby M.D. and me.] In " medium " to

" minor " cases, 6 to 8 drops of SSKI taken in a few ounces of water daily will

frequently reduce fibrocystic breast disease to insignificance within three to

six months. Please do not do this without monitoring your thyroid function…see

" Keeping SSKI Safe " on page whatever.

 

One of our daughters and at least thirty other women I've worked with in

nearly 30 years have helped ovarian cysts disappear within two to three months

with the same quantity of SSKI. Again, make sure to monitor your thyroid

function!

 

It's very likely that SSKI helps eliminate fibrocystic breast disease and

ovarian cysts at least partly through it's interaction with estrogens….which

brings us to another important use for SSKI (and other forms of iodine such as

" Lugol's solution " and " di-atomic iodine " ). All of these forms of iodine help

your body to metabolize estrone (a slightly carcinogenic human estrogen) and

16-alpha-hydroxyestrone (a much more dangerous metabolite of human estrogen)

into

estriol, an " anti-carcinogenic " or at worst " neutral " form of human estrogen.

I've reviewed literally hundreds of hormone tests in over 26 years which have

proven this point. This testing and treatment usually requires the help of a

physician skilled and knowledgeable in nutritional and natural medicine, who

can also help with monitoring thyroid function. (See " Resources " , page 8).

 

 

 

Breast Cancer: The Iodine and Thyroid Connection / Breast Iodine

Thyroid Effectiveness Society (BITES)

 

Breast Cancer: The Iodine and Thyroid Connection

 

 

 

 

A starting point: fibrocystic disease

 

Fibrocystic disease of the breast consists of small or large, sometimes

painful lumps in women’s breasts. It varies in the way it shows—not only in

different women, but also because it changes from month to month in the same

women.

Medical doctors generally believe that fibrocystic disease results from the

excess number of cells that grow in the breast during the menstrual cycle from

the hormonal stimulation.Since the number of cells increases in the breast

during the cycle, some of the cells have to be removed to restore the normal

state

each month. Iodine is the trigger mechanism that causes excess cells to

disappear to complete this normal process of cell death. Without enough iodine,

the

extra cells that develop during the menstrual cycle due to the hormonal

stimulation do not resolve back to the normal breast architecture. These

leftover

cells build up over repeated cycles and cause the lumps, soreness, and larger

lesions of fibrocystic disease.However, while about 90 percent of North

American women have fibrocystic disease, about 40 percent of these women

experience

no symptoms. Their breasts may be normal to examination, but the disease may be

only microscopically detectable with a biopsy.Enough iodine enables the

excess cells to be cleared out, and the breast can return to its normal resting

state as the fibrocystic disease slowly disappears from the breast.

 

 

Iodine treatment

 

Fibrocystic disease over decades of hormonal stimulation eventually tends to

cause some cells to change to cancer cells. Lack of iodine causes fibrocystic

disease, so women who have fibrocystic disease are susceptible to breast

cancer. Although breast scars from fluid leakage out of the cysts are often

permanent, iodine given therapeutically in the correct doses gradually gets rid

of

all fibrocystic disease except for the scars.How much iodine is enough? It has

been shown that daily doses of iodine above two to three milligrams per day

(about half a drop from a standard eyedropper) saturate the thyroid within a

couple of weeks. At this point, the thyroid gland stops taking up iodine. This

means that at a dietary intake above two to three milligrams, all of the iodine

goes to all its other functions in the body, such as killing off abnormal

cells.

 

 

A theory of phases

 

Progress in cancer research is hampered by the lack of a coherent theory of

how cancer starts or what causes it, and also of how or why it progresses:

genesis and progression. Some have suggested that it is foolish to try to

postulate a theory because of the multitude of factors that appear to be able to

start

or promote cancers. However, based on my clinical experience, I am proposing

a theory of cancer, in particular breast cancer.My working theory is that

cancer’s beginnings and spread are biphasic.1 The first phase is the gradual

change from a normal cell into an abnormal cell and all the way to carcinoma in

situ.2 This phase has changes that are caused by many factors, but the process

is

long, usually measuring in years and decades. The second phase is the spread

of cancer cells in the connective tissue3 compartments. It is related to the

strength of the connective tissue barrier, which in turn is controlled by the

amount of thyroid hormone present in the tissues.

 

 

The iodine and thyroid hormone defence

 

Some experimental data and much research on the metabolic fate of iodine

strongly suggest that iodine is the main trigger mechanism for apoptosis4 within

the body. The sites of rapid apoptosis are also the sites of high levels of

iodine. For example, in the stomach, where cells have a life cycle of two to

three days, the lining actively transports a lot of iodine into the stomach

cavity. As long as a woman’s thyroid gland is working well, the cancer in situ

stays

in the breast and does not cause any problems. If the cancer goes to the

second phase, it spreads through the surrounding connective tissue,3 so the

strength and function of this connective tissue barrier are important.

Connective

tissue is controlled by thyroid hormone. If the connective tissue level of

thyroid hormone is high, then the defence of connective tissue is strong, and

the

cancer cannot spread. Thus the spread of cancer can be inhibited by giving

exogenous thyroid hormone. Most of the potential environmental causes of breast

cancer, such as pesticides and estrogen-like compounds in the environment, have

been found to be only a small factor in causing breast cancer. However, if a

person has enough iodine flowing through the body systems, the toxins cannot do

much damage because iodine is one of the greatest inactivators of chemical

toxins.In the second phase of the cancer process, distant metastases,5 such as

the spread of cancer to the lungs or brain, almost invariably involve

connective tissue.3 When working properly, the connective tissue serves as a

barrier to

cancer cell migration. Since the edema6 of severe hypothyroid states is

located in the connective tissue of all organs, it has been assumed and then

proven

in more recent years that thyroid hormone is the main controller of

connective tissue function.At levels of two to three milligrams of dietary

iodine per

day, the thyroid gland becomes saturated, and most of the iodine then bathes

the extracellular compartment, triggering apoptosis4 by means of an old (in

terms of evolution) reaction between iodine and tyrosine, or iodine and

histidine—

the same chemical reaction by which iodine in dilute solutions causes the

death of bacteria and all other single-celled organisms, such as bacteria of all

types, viruses, fungi, and protozoa.

 

 

Seaweed

 

This reaction of iodine with tyrosine and histidine, which makes iodine

rapidly kill bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other single-celled organisms at even

very dilute (1/170,000) concentrations, is the main reaction. Said another way,

the simple chemical reaction between iodine and the two amino acids, tyrosine

and histidine, causes the protein that the amino acids are attached to to stop

functioning properly. Iodine could therefore be the surveillance mechanism to

remove cells that are abnormal. The abnormal cells likely distort their own

outer membranes and expose a protein under the membrane surface that contains

either tyrosine or histidine.It is likely that this reaction was preserved in

multicellular organisms derived from the sea as a surveillance mechanism for

abnormal cells. As the reaction that kills most bacteria is the reaction of

iodine with the surface tyrosine molecules, this reaction denatures7 the protein

and kills the bacteria.The Japanese have consumed on average around eight to 10

milligrams of iodine per day for many centuries. Most of this is consumed in

the form of seaweed, which has the highest concentration of iodine of any

living tissue. In Japan, seaweed is used to mulch gardens and to wrap many types

of foods. Not only is the seaweed that is wrapped around the food high in

iodine, but if seaweed is spread on gardens, every carrot, every piece of

lettuce,

and every radish will have a lot of iodine in it. The Japanese also put

seaweed in soups, gravies, and anywhere else it will fit. Some scientists

theorize

that this high level of iodine intake is why Japan has one of the lowest rates

of breast cancer and of most other cancers in the world.

 

 

Why iodine and thyroid hormone work

 

Iodine remains the perfect antiseptic with the least side effects of all

time. As a perfect antiseptic killing all single-celled organisms, there has to

be

a common mechanism of a single element like iodine. In fact, the reaction of

iodine with tyrosine destroys the protein and consequently the cell itself.

If, in vertebrates and multicellular organisms, the tyrosine molecule is hidden

from the surface when it is normally functioning, the iodine will not trigger

any apoptosis. However, during abnormal development, it could be that tyrosine

or histidine molecules are slowly exposed to the surface. Extracellular

iodine bathing the cells could then trigger the apoptotic4 mechanisms.The second

phase of cancer spread involves thyroid hormone indirectly. The connective

tissue3 barrier and function is controlled and strengthened by adequate levels

of

connective tissue thyroid hormone. Thus thyroid hormone controls the connective

tissue barrier, and prevents the spread of cancer cells.Iodine in adequate

doses prevents the development of cancer cells, and adequate thyroid hormone in

the connective tissue prevents the spread.David Derry, MD, PhDFootnotes1

biphasic: has two phases

2 carcinoma in situ: cancer at the site

3 connective tissue: a sort of mesh- or net-like tissue found in the spaces

between organs

4 apoptosis: programmed and/or natural cell death

5 metastases: transfers of the cancerous cells to other parts of the body

6 edema: swelling from mucus

7 denatures: changes the natural qualities of