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these epidemiological findings. The carcinogens nitrosomethylurea enrolling 175 women in a phase III trial, registered on and DMBA cause breast cancer in more than 70 per cent of female —_ClinicalTrials.gov and sponsored by Jack Kessler, PhD.* rats. Those given iodine, especially in its molecular form as I,, Most physicians and surgeons view iodine from a narrow have a statistically significant decrease in incidence of cancer. perspective. It is an antiseptic that disinfects drinking water and Other evidence adding biologic plausibility to the hypothesis that prevents surgical wound infections, and the thyroid gland needs it iodine prevents breast cancer includes the finding that the ductal to make thyroid hormones—and that's it. (When painted on the cells in the breast, the ones most likely to become cancerous, are skin prior to surgery, tincture of iodine kills 90 per cent of bacteria equipped with an iodine pump (the sodium iodine symporter, the present within 90 seconds.) The thyroid gland needs iodine to same one that the thyroid gland has) to soak up this element. synthesise thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3), hormones that Similar findings apply to fibrocystic disease of the breast. The regulate metabolism and steer growth and development. T4 incidence of fibrocystic breast disease in American women was contains four iodine atoms combined with 27 other atoms of three per cent in the 1920s. Today, 90 per cent of women have carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, but owing to its large size this disorder, manifested by epithelial hyperplasia, apocrine gland it accounts for 65 per cent of the molecule's weight. (T3 has three metaplasia, fluid-filled cysts and fibrosis. Six million American iodine atoms.) The thyroid needs only a trace amount of iodine, 70 women with fibrocystic disease have ug a day, to produce the requisite amount of moderate to severe breast pain and T4 and T3. For that reason, thyroidologists tenderness that lasts more than six days say that iodine is best taken just in Studies, female rats fed an iodinetree diet | A Statistical analysis Of | consuming more tan 1-2 me of iodine a day develop Fibrocystic changes in their Breasts, the Seattle study... to pe excessive and potentiaty harmful. h “unian researchers fit showed in 1966, | WAS done, which | purview of thyroidotosiss. Mainstream that iodine effectively relieves signs and showed that iodine has physicians and surgeons accept their thyroid- symptoms of fibrocystic breast disease. only view of iodine and either ignore or Vishniakova and Murav'eva treated 167 a highly statistically discount studies that show iodine in larger women suffering from fibrocystic disease ignifican neficial amounts provides extrathyroidal benefits, with 50 mg KI (potassium iodide) during the s g cant be oH particularly for women's breasts. Thus a intermenstrual period and obtained a effect on fibrocystic leading textbook on breast disease, Bland and beneficial healing effect in 71 per cent. i i Copeland's The Breast: Comprehensive Then Ghent and co-workers, in a disease. lodine was Management of Benign and Malignant shown to reduce breast study published in the Canadian Disorders (2003), fails to mention Journal of Surgery in 1993, likewise tenderness. nodularity, iodine anywhere in its 1,766 pages.’ 3 3 fibrosis, turgidity found that iodine relieves signs and symptoms of fibrocystic breast disease and the number of macrocysts... History, formulation and efficacy Iodine has an important and little understood history. This relatively scarce element has played a pivotal role in the formation of our planet's atmosphere and in the evolution of life. For more than two billion years there was no oxygen in the atmosphere until a in 70 per cent of their patients.* This report is a composite of three clinical studies—two case series done in Canada in 696 women treated with various types of iodine, and one in Seattle. The Seattle study, done at the Virginia Mason Clinic, was a randomised, double-blind, placebo- new kind of bacteria, cyanobacteria controlled trial of 56 women, designed (blue-green algae), began producing to compare 3-5 mg of elemental iodine (I,) to a placebo (an oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria also aqueous mixture of brown vegetable dye with quinine). developed an affinity for iodine. The most likely reason is that these Investigators followed the women for six months and tracked organisms used iodine as an antioxidant to protect themselves subjective and objective changes in their fibrocystic disease. against the free radicals (superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide and A Statistical analysis of the Seattle study (enlarged to include 92 hydroxyl radical) that oxygen breeds. Studying kelp, researchers women) was done, which showed that iodine has a highly have shown how iodine does this and have found that kelp will statistically significant beneficial effect on fibrocystic disease absorb increased amounts of iodine when placed under oxidative (P <0.001).° Iodine was shown to reduce breast tenderness, stress.'° Other researchers have shown that iodine increases the nodularity, fibrosis, turgidity and the number of macrocysts—the antioxidant status of human serum similar to that of vitamin C." five parameters in a total breast examination score that a Iodine also induces apoptosis, programmed cell death.'? This physician blinded to what treatment the woman was taking, iodine process is essential to growth and development (fingers form in or placebo, measured. This 51-page report,’ now available online, the foetus by apoptosis of the tissue between them) and for was submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in destroying cells that represent a threat to the integrity of the 1995, the authors seeking its approval to carry out a larger organism, like cancer cells and cells infected with viruses. randomised controlled clinical trial on iodine for treating Human lung cancer-cells with genes spliced into them that fibrocystic breast disease. The FDA declined to approve the enhance iodine uptake and utilisation undergo apoptosis and study, telling lead investigator Dr Donald Low that "iodine is a shrink when given iodine, both when grown in vitro outside the natural substance, not a drug”. body and implanted in mice." Its anticancer function may well But the FDA has now decided to approve a similar trial, prove to be iodine's most important extrathyroidal benefit. sponsored by Symbollon Pharmaceuticals. This company is Iodine has other extrathyroidal functions that require more A statistical analysis of the Seattle study... was done, which showed that iodine has a highly statistically significant beneficial effect on fibrocystic tenderness, nodularity, fibrosis, turgidity and the number of macrocysts... 28 = NEXUS disease. lodine was shown to reduce breast www.nexusmagazi ne.com DECEMBER 2007 — JANUARY 2008