IODINE AND CANCER: HOW IT WORKS AGAINST CANCER

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IODINE

AND CANCER HOW IT WORKS AGAINST CANCER

 

By

Dr. James Howenstine, MD. July 27, 2006

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Medical journals and textbooks typically

portray iodine as an unimportant substance which should be taken in small

amounts[1] because of it's

dangers. Actually approximately one third of humanity has iodine deficiency.

 

When humans lack iodine the thyroid gland enlarges (goiter),

nodules appear in the thyroid gland and over a period of time cancer may appear

in a thyroid nodule. Conventional medicine treats thyroid gland enlargement with thyroid hormone without considering the possibility that

the hypothyroidism and goiter may be due to lack of iodine.

This failure to diagnose and treat iodine deficiency can lead to an

increased risk of breast cancer and the longer the diagnosis is missed the

greater the chance that breast cancer will occur. Women taking thyroid hormone appear to be twice (12.1%) as

likely to develop breast cancer as women not using thyroid hormone (6..2%).

Women who had taken thyroid hormone for 15 years had a 19.5% incidence of

breast cancer whereas women who have only taken thyroid hormone for 5 years had

only a 10% incidence of breast cancer. Why is this? The essential

trace element iodine may be the most important least publicized mineral in

existence. Iodine is the only element needed in hormones

and in the production of hormones.

The iodine containing hormones are involved in the creation of embryos,

development of brain function, growth, metabolism and maintenance of body

temperature. This means that proper amounts of thyroid hormone, estrogen,

progesterone, testosterone, insulin, growth hormone etc. can not be made when iodine is lacking

from the body. One third of all individuals on Earth are

functioning with subnormal levels of iodine. Low intake of iodine is the leading cause

for intellectual deficiency in the world.There

is strong evidence that iodine lack predisposes to breast cancer. One out of

seven women in the U.S.

has deficiency of iodine proven by urine iodine screening tests (urine I less

than 50 ug/L). This is the same incidence for

breast cancer seen in U.S.

women. Without bothering to check urine

for iodine, physicians visited by a woman with a goiter or symptoms of hypothyroidism are

routinely prescribing thyroid hormone therapy. Hintze et al[2]

compared the results of 400ug/L of Iodine with 150ug of T4 (synthyroid) for 8

months and then four months after stopping therapy. The results clearly favored iodine therapy.

Both treatments led to similar suppression in the size of the goiter. However, four months later the size of the

thyroid had returned to pre-treatment levels in the group treated with T4

hormone. The group

who had received iodine therapy continued to have normal sized thyroid glands

four months after therapy was stopped.

Several investigators have concluded that

iodine lack is a probable cause for breast cancer in women.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Demographic studies in Japan and Iceland

revealed that both countries have a high intake of iodine and low incidences of

goiter and breast cancer ( My special note this is the REAL REASON why

Asian women DO NOT GET BREAST CANCER, that and utilizing Fish Bone soup, the

Vitamin D that also prevents Cancer of the reproductive system, SOY encourages

breast cancer ). In Mexico

and Thailand

where iodine intake is low there is a high incidence of

goiter and breast cancer.[8] Thyroid gland size measured by ultrasound is significantly larger[9] in Irish women

with breast cancer than control women. Administration of thyroid hormone to iodine

deficient women appears to increase the risk of developing breast cancer.

In a group of women undergoing screening mammograms the incidence of breast

cancer[10] was twice as

high in the women taking thyroid hormone. for

hypothyroidism (probably caused by iodine lack) than in women not taking

thyroid supplements. The mean incidence was 6.2% in controls and 12.1% in women

on thyroid hormones. The incidence of breast cancer

was twice as high in women taking thyroid hormone for more than 15 years

(19.5%) compared to those on thyroid hormones for only 5 years (10%).

In the state of Michigan, during a period of iodine

supplementation in bread (1924-1951) the prevalence of goiter diminished from

38.6% to 1.4%. Of interest the incidence of

breast cancer remained unchanged during this time frame. This information was

used to suggest that iodine supplementation had no effect on the incidence of

breast cancer. However, Ghent

and Eskin were able to show in women and female rats that the amount of iodine

needed to protect against fibrocystic disease of the breast and breast cancer

was at least 20 to 40 times greater[11]

than the iodine needed to control goiter. In the 1960s mandated iodine

containing dough was equivalent to the RDA of 150 ug per slice of bread. At

that time the incidence of breast cancer was only 1 in 20.[12]

In the past 20 years the use of iodine

supplementation in bread was eliminated

and a goiter producing substance toxic to the thyroid gland (bromine) was

introduced as replacement for iodine. The risk for breast cancer is

now 1 in 8 and this risk is increasing by one percent[13] each year.

The decision to replace iodine in an iodine deficient population with a

goitrogen was illogical lacking in common sense. The damaging effects of bromine on thyroid

tissue also appears to contribute to the development of auto-immune diseases in

the thyroid gland (Hashimoto's thyroiditis). Now the

next part is extremely important, as to the why iodine is required for breast

health( my special note ) The mammary glands have a trapping system for iodine similar to that of

the thyroid gland.

The breasts effectively compete with the

thyroid gland for ingested iodine.

This distribution of iodine to both breast and thyroid gland in pubertal girls explains

why goiter is 6 times more common in girls than pubertal boys.

The disappearance of iodine into breast

tissue in women leads to decreased ability to supply the thyroid gland with an

adequate amount of iodine.

The development of a goiter in young girls indicates deficient distribution of

iodine to both breast and thyroid tissue. Treating such a patient

with thyroid hormone is not sensible and appears to increase the risk of breast

cancer. Study of radioiodine uptake in normals and

women with fibrocystic breast disease FDB reveals that the FDB breasts were

able to take in 12.5% of the iodine dosage compared to only 6.9% in normal

breasts. This proves the existence of

considerable iodine depletion in the breasts of women with FDB.

There is considerable evidence for an increased risk of thyroid cancer as well as breast

cancer in persons with iodine deficiency.

Untreated iodine deficiency leads to goiter,

thyroid nodules and eventually some of these nodules become malignant.

The decreasing intake of iodine has resulted in an increase

in thyroid nodules and increase in thyroid cancer.

In 2001 there were 19,500 new cases of thyroid cancer in the U.S. with

14,900 of these cases occurring in women.

Iodine has a role in promoting general

well being as well as protecting against infections, degenerative diseases and

cancer. Iodine promotes the normal killing of

defective and abnormal cells (apoptosis).

Thus, iodine helps the body's surveillance system to

detect and remove abnormal cells.

Additionally, the presence of iodine triggers differentiation away from the more dangerous undifferentiated type of cell toward

normal cells. The presence of adequate levels of

iodine in the body (Japanese diet with lots of sea vegetables and fish) reduces

reactive oxygen species (ROS)(.SPECIAL NOTE THIS ALSO IS EATEN IN THE

MEDITEREANAN DIET AS WELL AS THE NORTHERN EUROPEANS, AFRICAN COAST LINES,

MIDDLE EASTERN COASTAL AREAS AS WELL. IN NORTH ANERICA ( CANADA , USA , MEXICO

) WHERE COMMERCIAL FOODS ARE PROCESSED WITH THYROID DAMAGING FOODS, THE

INCIDENCE OF THYROID CANCERS ARE HIGH AS A RESULT OF TOXIC POISONS BLENDED IN

THE FOODS ) in the body which decreases the

oxidative burden in the body This results in slowing of

degeneration disease processes and decreasing the risk of cancer.

Nearly every physician in the United

States will reach for a prescription pad to

order thyroid hormone when he sees a patient with goiter or symptoms of

hypothyroidism. This can be exactly the wrong thing to do if the patient has

deficient stores of iodine. Insist on obtaining a 24 hour

urine collection for iodine to eliminate iodine lack as the cause for your

symptoms (values below 50 ug/liter are abnormal).

Thyroid hormone therapy in the presence of iodine deficiency increases the risk

of breast cancer and probably thyroid cancer as well. Endocrinologist, Dr. Guy

Abraham, formerly of the U.C.L.A. Department of Endocrinology, is convinced that everyone

needs to be on iodine therapy until their iodine stores have been fully

restored. After this time frame periodic

intake of iodine will help insure that the many body functions requiring iodine

run smoothly. A dosage of two tablets of Iodoral twice daily for three months

followed by one Iodoral tablet daily for a year will restore iodine stores for

most persons. At that point periodic taking of an Iodoral tablet daily one

month out of 4 to 6 months etc. will be adequate to maintain iodine stores.

Iodine stores can be easily monitored by taking 4 Iodoral tablets (50 mg

iodine) and collecting a 24 hour urine sample for iodine content. If 80% of the

ingested iodine is found in the urine collection the iodine stores are normal.

Iodoral can be obtained from Optimox Corp. Torrance, Cal. To purchase a

referral from a health care practitioner is needed.

SPECIAL NOTE ; INCORPORATE SEAWEED IN THE

DIET BY EITHER SUPPLEMENTATION OR DIRECTLY PURCHASING SEAWEED AT ANY ETHNIC

MARKET OR HEALTH FOOD STORE THAT SELLS THIS, YOU CAN ALSO GET KELP TINCTURES

AND USE THEM AS A PREVENTATIVE BY UTILIZING THEM AS NEEDED …SOME GOOD

TINCTURES ARE LUGOLS ( HAS 7.5 MGS PER DROP) ATOMIDINE (

600MCGS> THEN 1 MG SO YOU CAN USE MORE OF THIS THEN THE LUGOLS) OR JUST ANY

KELP OR SEAWWEED TINCTURE WHICH IN ALL LIKELIHOOD HAVE ABOUT 300-600MCGS. (

MCGS = MICROGRAMS) IT TAKES 1000 MCGS TO MAKE 1 MILLIGRAM ( 1MG)

Footnotes:

1,

Abraham, Guy F. et al Orthoiodosupplementaion: Iodine Sufficiency Of The Whole

Body pg 1

2, Hintze, G. et al treatment of

Endemic goiter due to iodine deficiency with iodine, levothyroxine or

both:results of a multicentre trial. European Journal of Clinical

Investigation, 19:527-534, 1989

3, Eskin B et al Mammary Gland Dysplasia

in Iodine Deficiency JAMA , 200:115-119. 1967

4, Eskin B Iodine and Mammary

Gland Cancer Adv. Exp. Med. Biol., 91:293-304, 1977

5, Ghent, W. et al Iodine

Replacement in Fibrocystic disease of the Breast Can. J. Surg. , 36:453-460,

1993

6, Eskin B. et al Different Tissue

Responses for Iodine and Iodidein Rat Thyroid and mammary Glands Biol. Trace

Element Research 49:9-19, 1995

7, Derry , D Breast Cancer and

Iodine Trafford Publishing,

Victoria B.C. , 92, 2001

8, Finley JW., Bogardus, G.M.,

Breast Cancer and Thyroid Disease Quart. Review Surg. Obstet. Gyn. 17:139-147,

1960

9, Smtyhe, P. , Thyroid Disease

and Breast Cancer J. Endo. Int. , 16:396-401, 1993

10, Ghandrakant, C. et al Breast

Cancer Relationship to Thyroid Supplements for hypothyroidism JAMA, 238:1124,

1976

11, Backwinkel, K., Jackson, A.S.

Some Fearures of breast Cancer and Thyroid Deficiency Cancer17:1174-1176 , 1964

12, Epstein, S.S., Sherman, D.

Breast Cancer Prevention Program Macmillan

, NY. 1998 pg 5

13, Ibid