The Lugol's Iodine Cure for Autoimmune Disease

Iodine is a well-known and highly effective antiseptic and disinfectant solution. How to Use Lugol's Iodine to Cure Autoimmune Disease At Home Lugol’s iodine is made up of molecular iodine and potassium iodide, two forms of iodine that make up an essential nutrient combination that can either be taken internally or applied to the skin (where it is then absorbed into the bloodstream) to correct iodine deficiency. Thus, Lugol’s iodine is a nutritional supplement. The more familiar Povidone iodine, which is what’s available at the pharmacy and at grocery stores, and what’s used in doctor’s offices to disinfect skin and surfaces. Though Povidone iodine has some similar properties to Lugol’s iodine and though it does have some medicinal uses, it cannot be used as a nutritional supplement in...

Toxic Load and Autoimmune Disease: How Pharmaceutical Drugs and Environmental Toxins Cause Autoimmunity

A Brief Overview of Toxins That Are Known to Cause Autoimmunity In May of 1981 in Spain, a new syndrome suddenly developed that was caused by the distribution of industrial rapeseed oil that had been refined to remove aniline denaturants. Itinerant salesmen had been selling unlabeled 5 liter bottles of this “refined oil” and ultimately, 20,000 people were affected by what later became known as Toxic Oil Syndrome. About 1,200 people died from exposure to this rapeseed oil which contained only traces of toxic fatty acid anilides and related compounds. Scientists are still not entirely sure what the contaminant was that actually caused Toxic Oil Syndrome and investigation into this health problem continues. Though Toxic Oil Syndrome was eventually identified as a type of poisoning, pat...

Autoimmune Disease as an Infection: The Problem with Consensus-Based Science

Patients who have been diagnosed with autoimmune disease may struggle to find cures for autoimmunity online because, as with cancer cures, most have been hidden carefully under written content that was paid for by Big Pharma. Autoimmune Disease Causing Infection or Infection Causing Autoimmune Disease? Conversations that Lydian and I have had with people who have autoimmune conditions tend to begin with a long explanation about why the patient no longer believes what their doctor is telling them about their disease. Patients with autoimmune disorders spend a lot of time and energy (a precious commodity) defending themselves to their doctors and to other people around them if their views about their disease conflict with conventional medicine. Autoimmune disease, after all, features comp...

Sulfur Supplementation for Autoimmune Disease

The Role of Sulfur Deficiency in Autoimmune Disease Development Sulfur is a major mineral, and though it doesn’t have a formally established RDA in the United States, this doesn’t diminish its importance for human health and healing. Most easily accessible sources will tell you that sulfur deficiency in the US and developed countries is rare. But, the reality is that a large number of people are deficient in this essential mineral. People who eat a diet low in animal proteins and high in grains and cereals (like vegans or strict vegetarians) are especially likely to become deficient in sulfur, but even people who eat a variety of foods rich in sulfur (such as eggs, onions, meats and eggs, nuts, cruciferous vegetables, etc) may become deficient if they eat foods that were grown in sulfur...

Reflections on Paraneoplastic Autoimmune Disease: An Important Autoimmune Disease and Cancer Cure: Is Cancer an Autoimmune Disease or Vice Versa?

A number of autoimmune diseases are strongly correlated with cancer and vice versa. In this article, we discuss Lugol's iodine 2% as a cure for both autoimmune disease and cancer, but we also provide some other important medicinal footholds to get you started on the path toward healing. If you have an autoimmune disease diagnosis and/or a cancer diagnosis, you will need to use more than just one medicine to heal, but Lugol's iodine 2% is an excellent place to start if you want to experience gains within a relatively short period of time. Getting Started: The Beginner’s Autoimmune Disease and Cancer Cure Important Update: In the following article, we talk in depth about iodine deficiency as a major cause of autoimmune disease. Since it was written, we have been researching organophospha...

Do organophosphate pesticides cause autoimmune disease?

How Pesticides Contribute to the Development of Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Autoimmune Thyroid Disease, Autoimmune Hepatitis, and Other Types of Autoimmune Disease The link between autoimmune disease and organophosphate exposure exists, and has in fact been studied extensively. Unfortunately, however, the research into this connection is difficult to find, since this is a link that would be devastating to Big Pharma should the public find out about it. Of the research that exists, much of it is fairly convoluted and highly technical. In other words, it’s been designed to be not only difficult to find in the first place, but also difficult to understand for the average person wanting to cure their disease. This makes it so that the average person is more likely to just “pass over”informat...

The Autoimmune Disease Diet: The Basic Guidelines for Healthy Eating

A Functional and Sustainable Autoimmune Diet Protocol... Diet is the base of any healing protocol for any disease. While some people may experience some minute benefits from using natural, alternative treatments for autoimmune disease without adopting healthy, appropriate dietary practices, most patients see the most positive changes when they choose to make dietary changes. The Autoimmune Disease Diet doesn't have to be boring, and to be clear, following this diet doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to give up your favorite foods. It does require some creativity, in some cases, to “remake” the foods that bring you joy (feeling happy is important for healing, too, after all), but I find that the vast majority of so-called “comfort” foods are attainable with healthy, whole ingredients s...

Fat-Soluble Nutrients for Autoimmune Disease: How Vitamins A, D, E, and K2 and Omega-3's Affect Autoimmunity

The Fat-Soluble Vitamin Supplement Protocol for Autoimmune Disease Because patients with autoimmune disease often struggle with liver and gallbladder health, fat-soluble vitamin deficiency can be an issue. This is because bile is essential for the digestion of fats, and therefore also for the digestion of fat-soluble vitamins and other nutrients (such as omega-3 fatty acids). If the liver has trouble producing high-quality bile, or if bile flow is somehow impeded in the gallbladder, then fat absorption will be impaired. This can lead to the development of fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies over time, especially if the person’s diet is poor or less-than-adequate.  Fats and oils are electrical substances and some fat-soluble vitamins like vitamin K1 and vitamin K2 are notably electrical...

How Vitamin B-Complex Deficiency Causes Autoimmune Disease

Surprising Autoimmune Disease Symptoms Caused by B Vitamin Deficiencies Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) Formal thiamine deficiency disease is known as beriberi, and can manifest in 3 different forms: dry beriberi, wet beriberi, or gastrointestinal beriberi. Dry beriberi predominantly affects the nervous system, wet beriberi affects the cardiovascular system, and gastrointestinal beriberi, of course, affects the gastrointestinal system. Because thiamine deficiency can affect such different areas of the body, it can be difficult to pin down in the more early stages. Vitamin B1 deficiency is often misdiagnosed as another kind of disease; while misdiagnosis isn’t a good thing, the positive part of having too little of a particular nutrient, like vitamin B1, is that the health problems caused by the de...

Pau d'Arco: A Natural Herbal Treatment for Toxoplasmosis, Autoimmune Disease, Lyme Coinfections, and More...

Pau d'Arco as a Potent Herbal Antiparasitic Medicine Pau d’Arco is a plant medicine native to Brazil and other parts of the Amazonian rainforest, and today grows throughout Mexico, Central America, and South America. The tree was previously (and widely) known formally as Tabebuia impetiginosa, but was recently renamed as Handroanthus impetiginosus. This is an important detail, since it would be easy to get confused and wonder if these are actually two different plants, which is why I want to draw special attention to the fact that there are two commonly used Latin names for Pau d’Arco. Additionally, there are two varieties of Pau d’Arco: the purple-flowered plant and the yellow-flowered plant. Generally speaking, the purple-flowered Pau d’Arco variety supplied the most potent tree bark...