Iodine – Metabolism, and the Immune System
OVERVIEW: Cedar Bear Naturales® Pureodine™ processed iodine, a glycerite of mono-element triiodide of 'fixed' iodine, is not your typical 'nascent' iodine that other companies offer. It's more, far more! Summarizing its development, the Pureodine™ process (now in its 8th generational iteration) is different and goes beyond the other methods for making this form of iodine. One being that Cedar Bear Naturales® was the first to utilize a totally alcohol-free approach by using glycerin instead of alcohol (or gases) in the making of this form of iodine. The other is that the Pureodine™ process includes specialized equipment (some customized), lab-grade manufacture-standardized methodology and protocols, and an advanced ground-breaking technology exclusive to Cedar Bear®. One of those ground-breaking developments is our IHMVAS™ (Integrated Hydro Molecular Vortex Agitation System) accelerator that imparts transformative qualities and enhanced glycero-microencapsulatiing stability to the finished iodine product. It's all a patentable development, but we kept it a proprietary trade secret. This all results in an innovative, revolutionary, and unique glycerite of mono-element triiodide of fixed (Nascent) iodine. And its quality, astounding stability, gentleness, and mild flavor are unmatched by any others for this type of iodine product.
• Iodine Deficiencies Are Worldwide & Well Documented
• Iodine's Role In Evolutionary Biology
• All Forms of Iodine Are Not The Same
Iodine is incredibly important for the body. And make no mistake, iodine deficiency, especially sub-clinical Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) of populations worldwide, including North America, are real and not just a 'popular belief' thing, but are verified and recognized by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH), Center for Disease Control (CDC), American Medical Association (AMA), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Many evolutionary biologists consider iodine the mineral element that anchors all other minerals in biological processes, hence, being called 'The Anchor Mineral.' Iodine also possesses the lowest-mass-to-highest-weight of the essential mineral elements required by the body, which is one of the reasons it is only needed in trace amounts compared to the other essential minerals. Nevertheless, even at trace amounts, people are still showing iodine-related deficiencies.
Iodine is an "essential" mineral for human health and needs, meaning the human body does not make its own iodine but must ingest it, through diet and/or supplementation to get it.
In evolutionary biology, iodine was the original antioxidant that enabled the jump to higher forms of life? For sure, iodine was essential to the evolutionary development of warm-blooded species and their thyroid gland. In fact, some believe iodine to be at the core of mammalian hemispherical brain development and humans' greater degree of functional lateralization and anatomical asymmetry of the brain. This evolutionary development became unique to humans.
While other mineral elements are important, Iodine is the most essential mineral element to healthy DNA sequencing and synapses (the epicenter of chromosomal activity – hence iodine's essential role in evolutionary biology) from the start of in-utero meiosis, through fetal development and childhood and adulthood. Iodine anchors thyroid activity, and thus all metabolic activity in the body. Cardio-vascular and blood sugar health are just two of the many body systems dependent on a healthy thyroid and adequate iodine intake, uptake and utilization by the body. The ubiquitous presence of bromide in foods and beverages, fluoride in municipal water supplies, medicines, and background radiation all challenge thyroid and systemic tissue iodine uptake.
Did you know that bromide is an iodine mimicker and disrupter and can displace iodine and get trapped in tissue iodine receptors in place of iodine, causing all kinds of undiagnosed and mysterious problems, as well as thyroid hormone imbalances? Many practitioners consider bromide dominance in Americans to be endemic in the population at large.
Since the immune system is embedded into every body system, including the body's metabolic system, the omnipresent immune system relies on the proper functioning of the body's metabolic system to stay strong. Iodine can be incredibly useful in helping to boost your immune system, while also building the immune system at the same time.
An important consideration few people, including many health practitioners, are aware of, is that all iodines/iodides are NOT the same relative to their effects on biological systems. Cedar Bear® offers an amazing iodine supplement described as a unique 'glycerite of mono element triiodide of 'fixed' iodine’ (also popularly referred to as a ‘Nascent’ form of iodine). This means no other manufactured chemically reduced mineral element, as mineral salts, such as potassium, sodium, etc., with an accompanying W-C Effect (described later) are used to make our iodine. Only the mineral element of iodine (and glycerin) is used in making our unique liquid iodine product. (‘Fixed’ means the iodine solution is stable, and we use the term ‘fixed’ because it more accurately describes our Pureodine™ processed form of iodine than the term ‘nascent’ does.)
Cedar Bear® Glycerite of Mono-Element Triiodide of Fixed (Nascent) Iodine, is an alcohol-free iodine supplement, made using our revolutionary proprietary Pureodine™ process, that you can use to help introduce more of the right kind of iodine into your body. It was the first alcohol-free triiodide of fixed iodine of its kind introduced into the industry and marketplace, and has remained unique and at the forefront ever since.
Cedar Bear® (and its prior iterations) has been involved in providing high-quality natural-based 100% alcohol-free liquid supplements to customers for 40+ years, and they have the knowledge and expertise to help you realize the power that natural herbal and mineral supplements can have for you.
Here’s a look at just how iodine can affect the immune system and how Cedar Bear®'s Pureodine™ made glycerite of mono element of triiodide of fixed (Nascent) iodine comes into play.
Metabolism and Immune System
The immune system is vital for your body to ward off harmful bacteria and viruses and control cells that may become destructive to the body. It helps prevent us from getting the flu when others around us are coughing. Your immune system depends on the body's thyroid-driven metabolic systems for the energy and biological factors to fight off illness and dispose of dead cells. Without the proper minerals, fuel, and enzymes, along with plenty of water and oxygen intake, the body cannot provide a stable and reliable defense against illness or the effects of rapid onset aging.
Your metabolism is regulated by hormones produced by the thyroid and throughout the body. Iodine is the thyroid’s 'epicenter-need' that is essential to creating these hormones, and without proper amounts of the right form of iodine, 'trapped' in the cellular colloid and matrix of the thyroid and cells throughout the body, the entire body is negatively affected.
If the thyroid doesn’t get the correct kind of iodine and trap it in the thyroid's iodine receptors, it has to work harder to produce even less than needed thyroid hormones, and it can cause swelling and inflammation that leads to a goiter and stoppage of thyroid hormone production altogether. The science clearly shows that a gross deficiency of iodine at the thyroid's iodine receptors is a major cause of goiters. Interestingly, goiters can manifest with either a hypothyroid or hyperthyroid condition. (Goiters are a swollen thyroid gland condition and are often a full-on clinical Iodine Deficiency Disorder.) Goiters (along with bulging eyeballs) represent the most serious outward manifestations of a hypothyroid or hyperthyroid condition.
It is often thought that vitamin C and vitamin D are what you need for a healthy and strong immune system. While these and balanced levels of other vitamins and minerals are important and should not be ignored, iodine is seen by many as being the anchoring and most foundational to a strong healthy immune system, and many problems that appear to be vitamin C deficiency related, for example, may be more indicative of an iodine deficiency. Many unresolved conditions utilizing other nutritional supplements are often resolved when a mono element glycerite of triiodide of fixed iodine is used, either by itself or in combination with those other nutritional supplements.
Iodine is great for providing direct immune system support and maintaining DNA sequencing integrity. Iodine can potentially help with healthy cells and potentially help keep the body free of toxins. An environment rich in iodine is unable to host harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi that make us sick, and it has been found that these microorganisms cannot adapt to an iodine-enriched environment. The amazing part of this is that compared to other minerals and vitamins intake, the amount of our Pureodine™ processed mono element of triiodide of fixed (Nascent) iodine intake is extremely small (6 drops a day), that when compared to the huge benefits resulting therefrom, makes our iodine one of the most astounding value propositions of all essential nutrients there is.
Where Iodine is Found
Iodine is found naturally all over the world, in some soils, in the oceans, the atmosphere (especially over the oceans), and in deep earth venues. Cedar Bear®’s raw iodine used in the making of its Pureodine™ made mono element triiodide of fixed iodine is from deep earth sources that, unlike ocean-sourced iodine, have been protected for eons against atmospheric and surface contamination, radiation (background and incursive), and modern pollutants.
While it may be remotely possible to get enough iodine from diet alone, most people worldwide are susceptible, to one degree or another, to iodine deficiency due to a number of reasons. Recently, iodine deficiency has gained awareness, and so it is becoming more widely available. Iodine, as potassium iodide, is commonly added to table salt to provide an easy method of iodine access. It is estimated that around 70 percent of people around the world have access to iodized table salt, however, the iodine in iodized salt liberates and dissipates rather quickly, and if left on shelves too long without using, iodized salt looses most of its added iodine to sublimation (i.e., liberating as a vapor).
Some claim to be 'allergic' to iodine because they cannot eat shellfish, which causes reactions. Well... an allergy is caused by a 'protein,' not a mineral. One cannot be allergic to a mineral because a mineral is not a protein, this includes iodine. The shellfish contains a protein causing an allergy, not the iodine.
Iodine is also consumed as a dietary supplement. Many live in places where the soil does not have enough iodine traces, which is now found across most of the planet's landmass, which makes iodine supplementation necessary. Iodine supplements can be found in liquids, tablets, capsules, and, as mentioned before, iodized table salt. In most of these instances, the iodine is in the form of a manufactured chemically reduced mineral salt of iodide, the most common being potassium iodide or variants thereof, and that is problematic as you will see in the next section.
The Pureodine™ Process – An Industry First!
Cedar Bear® Glycerite of Mono-Element Triiodide of 'Fixed’ (Nascent) Iodine
First developed coming on to two decades ago, the proprietary Cedar Bear® Pureodine™ process results in a non-mineral salts iodide, in our instance, a triiodide (i.e., three iodine molecules) of mono element iodine combined with glycerol molecules in a stable matrix fashion. It's unique to Cedar Bear® and a first in the dietary supplements industry.
A Pureodine™ made Iodine is made using pure USP-Grade iodine, in its mono-element form, that has been naturally sourced, along with USP-Grade vegetable glycerol (glycerin), and is never bound to or in combination with other mineral elements like other mineral iodide salts such as potassium, sodium, etc.
For instance, Lugol’s solution of iodine is bound to potassium, and Iosol™ iodine is bound to sodium. Both of these manufactured chemically reduced mineral salt iodides can easily get in the way of the body’s utilization of iodine, making them less effective for absorption into the thyroid and tissues throughout the body as an iodine supplement. Yes! That sounds contrary. However, taking a manufactured chemically reduced mineral salt of iodide for iodine supplementation actually turns around and, to one degree or another, suppresses iodine uptake into the thyroid and tissues of the body. That's what happens with this kind of iodine/iodide.
In science, this phenomenon of manufactured chemically reduced mineral salts of iodides blocking iodine uptake and absorption into the thyroid and tissues of the body is called the Wolff-Chiakoff (W-C) Effect, that causes this potential blockage of manufactured chemically reduced mineral salt iodides into thyroid tissues and other tissues throughout the body.
Given these scientifically ascertained and well proven facts, it is apparent that manufactured chemically reduced mineral salt of iodides are NOT a good source of iodine supplementation. They are considered 'Not-Fit-for-Use' for iodine tissue loading or effective daily supplemental purposes. The aforementioned W-C Effect of this kind of iodine is why this kind of iodine is such a good go-to prophylactic for staunching the uptake and effects of radio-isotope bound iodine and affected heavy metal incursions from a nuclear event and its radiation fallout, because this form of iodine/iodide stops the thyroid and tissues of the body from receiving and up-taking radiation laden iodine, and all other kinds of iodine salts as well.
It's surprising that the proven and well elucidated W-C Effect of manufactured chemically reduced mineral salt of iodides, with this form of iodine being a 'Not-Fit-for-Use' form of iodine tissue loading and daily supplementation, is missed, passed over, or ignored by most doctors, practitioners, dietitians/nutritionists and even many holistic oriented practitioners. Cedar Bear® founder, L. Carl Robinson, MH, TT, CCHt, RH(AHG), became aware of the W-C Effect and its ramifications to human biology through his extensive studies and research on IDD (Iodine Deficiency Disorders) that led to a deep dive search into what he called the 'Iodine Conundrum.' As a result, he resolved to develop an alcohol-free solution to the problem by developing a glycerite of mono element triiodide of fixed (Nascent) iodine.
Cedar Bear® Pureodine™ processed iodine, also sold under the Cedar Bear® brand XODINE™ label, is NOT a manufactured chemically reduced minerals salt of iodide but is a glycerite of mono element triiodide of fixed iodine, meaning the only mineral element present in our product is iodine and no other mineral. It's a form of iodine that appears to work more hand-in-hand with the body's metabolism and thyroid needs, since it appears not to possess a W-C Effect.
One point that needs to be noted is that some other makers of iodine supplements mix a nascent type of mono element iodine with manufactured chemically reduced mineral salts of iodide, such as potassium iodide or sodium iodide, and claim the end product is still a nascent iodine. Chemically speaking this is not possible since when pure mono element of iodine, of any form, is mixed with chemically reduced mineral salts of iodide, such as is done in strengthening the iodine percentage of Lugol's potassium iodide solution during its making, the added mono element of iodine converts and combines with the mineral salt of iodide, thus fully becoming a chemically reduced mineral salt of iodide, potentially possessing the W-C Effect described earlier.
The Microencapsulating Effect of Glycerin & the Pureodine™ Process
L. Carl Robinson, as lead developer, with a small team of co-developer specialists, created the Pureodine™ technology. It's a proprietary 'transformative' stabilizing liquid iodine making process to create our innovative and revolutionary high-quality stable glycerite of mono element-based triiodide of fixed iodine supplements without alcohol or other mineral salts in a way never before thought possible. This was an industry first for an iodine product and the first of its kind introduced into the marketplace.
Unlike other mono element-based ‘nascent’ iodines, Cedar Bear® glycerite of mono element triiodide of fixed iodine also possesses a unique stability imparted by the Pureodine™ enhanced microencapsulating property of glycerin around the iodine molecules. It's why a Pureodine™ processed iodine is so stable, gentle on tissues, and possesses a mild taste for an iodine product. This microencapsulating property, and its effect on enhanced stability, is absent in alcohol, gas, and other chemical-based iodine products. This enhanced microencapsulating property of glycerin is also present in our TincTract® processed liquid herbal glycerite concentrates..
Over the years others have tried to do their own glycerite versions of a nascent iodine, but haven't matched the enhanced microencapsulating stability, more pleasant taste, and per-dose value of Cedar Bear® Pureodine™ processed glycerite of mono-element triiodide of fixed iodine.
On a final note, an essential benefit of glycerin being used in the making of Pureodine™ processed iodine is that glycerin is much easier on the body than alcohol, residual gases or toxic chemical residues, even possessing nutritive qualities, and assists the body to quickly and easily absorb the iodine for conversion into the endogenous mono iodide of I1, which is the only form of iodine that can be trapped in the iodine receptors of the thyroid and cells of the body and utilized at the cell level and for all of the body's biological needs. In fact, Cedar Bear® Pureodine™ made glycerite of mono element triiodide of fixed iodine begins to be absorbed into the body quickly.
To use Cedar Bear® Pureodine™ made mono element triiodide of fixed Iodine, all it takes are a daily dose of six drops in a glass of purified or distilled water. Drink the water for a light tasting, alcohol-free 'Fit-for-Use' iodine supplement that can help you provide the iodine support that your body and immune system need.
