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  • Summer Is Here – Time for Sunscreen!

    By Nurse Mark

     

    One reader recently unsubscribed from HealthBeat News, complaining that while he felt that our information (always offered free of charge) was accurate and valuable, he thought we were becoming "too commercial" – interested only in selling Dr. Myatt’s consultations and products. Hmmm… and just what does this fellow think funds all this great free information that comes every couple of weeks in this newsletter?

    It’s true, we often suggest to people with complicated questions that a consultation with Dr. Myatt would save them time, trouble, and money in the long run, and we often do link vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other supplements mentioned in our articles to the appropriate product pages – mostly because there is usually a wealth of additional information about the item there but yes, there is also the opportunity to click the "Buy now" button…

    There are also many articles that sell nothing. They provide information and techniques and strategies that folks can implement for free and use without charge to improve their health and their lives. How often does that happen? Useful information for free! Crazy, right?

    Even crazier, Dr. Myatt will actually recommend products and send people to websites that don’t make her one thin dime! Why does she do that? Because it really is all about you, the reader, the subscriber, the patient. You have come to trust that HealthBeat News and Dr. Myatt’s suggestions, recommendations, and advice are straight up and honest. We will not abuse that trust, and if keeping your trust means that we tell you where to get the very best of something, even if it is not something we sell, then that’s what we will do for you.

    So, with that in mind, (and that was a long-winded introduction, wasn’t it!) Dr. Myatt sent along this link to a comparison of a number of different brands of sunscreen and asked that I include it for you in HealthBeat News.

    Summer is here, and sun protection is important to good health – but there is no sense slathering on a sunblock to protect your skin if it is filled with toxic and damaging chemicals!

    See how your favorite brand measures up with this report from The Environmental Working Group.

    Remember, sunshine is important to and necessary for our good health – but a sunburn is not!

  • The Internet Can Be A Scary Place

    By Nurse Mark

     

    HealthBeat News readers are a smart and computer-savvy lot – after all, they find us on-line and they are not the least shy about searching online for whatever information they seek. There is a massive amount of information available – just for fun, this morning I entered the word ‘cancer’ in a popular search engine and got 190,000,000 results! Let’s face it – no matter how important a subject is to you, that much information is overwhelming and is bound to leave most people desperately confused rather than usefully educated.

    Chat boards, forums, and discussion groups are another aspect of the internet that can be both good and bad – they can be a wonderful source of support and encouragement; just knowing that there are others out there facing the same challenges, and being able to chat and share tips and experiences can be very gratifying.

    Unfortunately, many of the participants of these chat boards and forums are "regular folk" like everyone else, and much of the "helpful information" tends to be of the "since I had my heart attack two years ago, I eat steel-cut oatmeal every morning for breakfast and drink a cup of cider vinegar every day. My doctor says I’m doing great. That has probably saved my life and I’ll never stop it!" variety – anecdotal at best.

    At worst there are the quacks and hucksters who also haunt these places, looking for the unwary and the desperate to prey upon. Selling everything from "enhanced water" (over which they have meditated to give it "energy"), to coral calcium, to any number of fruit and berry and grass juices, or dubious and even potentially harmful concoctions of supposedly "all-natural" ingredients their glossy and compelling advertisements and unsupported testimonials, often accompanied by ad copy that claims that the product is being "suppressed by the government!" confuse and confound many people and separate them from time, attention and money that could be better used for the pursuit of more proven treatments.

    We’ve had several emails recently that point out just how confusing a place cyberspace can be:

    One was from Gail, whose conventional doctors gave a diagnosis of cancer and told her she had "six months to live" a number of years ago and who is now not only very much alive but is thriving under Dr. Myatt’s care. Gail wrote with a question about a much-hyped but unproven "cure" for her cancer. Here is Dr. Myatt’s reply to her:

    Hi Gail:

    The single most important control cancer treatment is a ketogenic diet. Please read the attached abstract "Dietary Ketosis In The Treatment of Solid Tissue Malignancy" from an upcoming medical presentation of mine concerning cancer.

    [Nurse Mark Note: Please follow the link above or this link to read this important abstract.]

    Carctol is a combination of aryuvedic herbs ( Hemidesmus indicus, Tribulus terrestris, Piper cubeba, Ammani vesicatoria, Lepidium sativum, Blepharis edulis, Smilax china and Rheum emodi). It has never been tested in any controlled trial, not even in animals. There are only some anecdotal stories about it’s use.

    Because it has never been studied, we don’t know IF it works or how it works. Many claim that it works by alkalinizing the body. Since cancer cells produce lactic acid, this sounds reasonable to a layman. However, the substrate or "fuel" for cancer cell’s production of acid is glucose — sugar. A ketogenic diet stops lactic acid production by removing the fuel that allows for this acidity. Of course, the production of lactic acid is only one of the many mechanisms whereby cancer wreaks havoc in the body.

    Because I not only practice but also teach in the field of cancer medicine, I’m pretty "hip" on  anti-cancer substances, both conventional and natural. I focus on those that have a high degree of proof behind them. I and my research team are constantly reviewing the literature from all angles. There aren’t any scientific references on this herbal formula, only "testimonials." There are so many substances that are PROVEN to help cancer that I really don’t mess around with the ones that aren’t proven.

    Also, there is no "one magic bullet" for cancer. Instead, there needs to be a complete strategy to thwart the disease at a number of different places: angiogenesis, apoptosis, immune system recognition, anti-inflammation, decreasing radical oxygen species production, etc. (you’ll see the list of objectives in the paper). This means a complement of substances, each one doing one of the many "jobs" of a complete anti-cancer strategy, are best employed. When people are taking a number of disconnected "miracle substances," they rarely get results because there is no concerted plan. It would be like having a pile of materials — wood, windows, doors, roofing material and nails — and starting to build a house without a house plan. All you wind up with is a jumbled mess.  I once tried building a garden shed this way so I know whereof I speak. It’s a mess (we call it the Taj Mahal because it felt like such a major construction).

    Don’t build a house without a house plan and don’t treat cancer without a concerted protocol the addresses all the factors of cancer.

    It sounds like you would benefit from an updated review of your nutritional, supplement and other parts of your protocol so we can make sure you are doing the best that can be done (not just a "patchwork quilt," which I find many patients eventually drift toward). I will be leaving the end of next week on a 3-week speaking/ patient tour but I would be sure to work you in before then if you agree that it would be in your best interest.

    In Health,
    Dr. Myatt

    Then there is Katrina, who found us recently in her search for relief from what sounds like arthritic pain, requesting more information about glucosamine sulfate and wanting to know if we provide a "chat board" or blog where our customers (and presumably patients) can chat with each other.

    I’ll answer some of Katrina’s health questions in another article, since the answers may be of benefit to our other readers – but for now, here is the answer to the Chat Board question:

    No.

    Here’s why: When we look at some of the other medical condition forums and chat boards, we have seen that the "signal-to-noise ratio" is skewed very heavily to the "noise" side. There are plenty of well-meaning (and some, as described above, not so well-meaning)  folks and huge amounts of conflicting, erroneous, and even dangerous "advice" being shared around. Because Dr. Myatt’s and my policy for our website and HealthBeat news articles is that they be scrupulously researched and strictly correct, we would spend all our time sorting out misinformation and setting straight well-meant but wrong or even dangerous suggestions.

    Anyone who wants to see just how far off-base some of these discussion forums can get should check out websites like Dr. Mercola’s Optimal Wellness Center and Mike Adams "The Health Ranger’s" NaturalHealth – just two of many websites that allow a free-for-all comments feature. Some of these websites require registration, many don’t, but almost none of them are truly moderated by medically knowledgeable people. They are fun, but everything there must be taken with a healthy dose of caution.

    So, there you have it – since the potential for misinformation is so great on chat boards and forums, we will not be a party to them. Instead, we do take and answer questions from our readers – and you can be sure that the information that you are reading in those answers really is "The Straight Goods!"

  • Dietary Ketosis In The Treatment of Solid Tissue Malignancy

    Nurse Mark Note: The following abstract was recently been presented to the American Academy of Anti Aging Medicine (A4M) for consideration for presentation at an upcoming conference. While it is written for a medically trained audience (for doctors and scientists) we are making it available for our HealthBeat readers who may also find it useful in their research.

     

    Dietary Ketosis In The Treatment of Solid Tissue Malignancy

     

    By Dr. Dana Myatt

     

    "Attack by stratagem: hence, to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting”

    — Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"

     

    Many believe that cancer cells, damaged by mutation, are more resilient than normal cells. However, malignant cells are largely incapable of the metabolic flexibility displayed by normal cells, and therein lies their weakness and the potential for a gentle but highly effective point of attack.

    Nutritional and botanical factors can have profound positive effects in cancer treatment, but the single most potent anti-cancer strategy documented in the medical literature strikes at the core of cancer’s metabolism: glycolysis, especially anaerobic glycolysis, and impaired mitochondrial function.

    Numerous animal and human studies have demonstrated that the glycolytic pathway of cancer cells can be confounded by metabolic ketosis, often with profound apoptotic effects on cancer cells but without negative consequence — and in fact with protective effects — to normal cells.(1-6)

    Metabolic ketosis curtails cancer growth by a variety of mechanisms including:

    I. Decreasing the glucose substrate required for cancer cell metabolism. Most tumors express abnormalities in the number and function of their mitochondria.(7-12) Such abnormalities prevent the bioenergetic utilization of ketone bodies, which require functional mitochondria for their oxidation.

    II. Decreasing insulin, a secondary growth factor for cancer cells. (13-14)

    III. Decreasing inflammation. Inflammation acts to promote cancer by altering cell-to-cell communication and delaying local detoxification. (15-25) Metabolic ketosis has significant anti-inflammatory effects. (9, 26-29)

    IV. Decreasing ROS production. Reactive Oxygen Species are known to promote
    cancer (30-33) ; metabolic ketosis decreases ROS production. (34-37)

    V. Reversing cachexia while simultaneously decreasing tumor weight. (38-40)

    VI. Decreasing angiogenesis. (29, 41-42)

    VII. Inducing apoptosis. (11,29, 38)

    VIII. Suppressing the p53 oncogene, the most common point mutation observed in human cancer; more than 50% of all human tumors examined to date have identifiable p53 gene point mutations or deletions. A ketogenic diet has been shown to suppress the p53 oncogene in animal models. (43)

    IX. Acting synergistically with chemotherapy and/or specific nutritional supplementation. (44-45)

    In spite of improved availability of foods containing anti-carcinogenic phytonutrients and vitamins, most types of cancer have not declined as expected. This correlates to the overall calorie increase and overweight condition of our society, a condition which puts us in "constant feast" mode instead of the periodic fasting our ancestors previously experienced. (46) Some observers feel that our previous occasional fasts, which would induce ketosis, were beneficial for cancer control. It has also been hypothesized that alternative "cancer diets" such as juice fasting, calorie restriction or the use of Coley’s toxins are effective primarily because they induce metabolic ketosis.

    This presentation will serve as a review of the nature and behavior of characteristics common to all solid tissue cancer cells. It will offer a novel but well-documented clinical nutritional treatment strategy which targets multiple cancer cell vulnerabilities while simultaneously protecting and enhancing the function of normal cells and tissues.

    References:

    1.) Al-Zaid NS, Dashti HM, Mathew TC, Juggi JS. Low carbohydrate ketogenic diet enhances cardiac tolerance to global ischaemia. Acta Cardiol. 2007 Aug;62(4):381-9.

    2.) Kodde IF, van der Stok J, Smolenski RT, de Jong JW. Metabolic and genetic regulation of cardiac energy substrate preference. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 2007 Jan;146(1):26-39. Epub 2006 Oct .

    3.) Smith SL, Heal DJ, Martin KF.KTX 0101: a potential metabolic approach to cytoprotection in major surgery and neurological disorders. CNS Drug Rev. 2005 Summer;11(2):113-40

    4.) Cahill GF Jr, Veech RL. Ketoacids? Good medicine? Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 2003;114:149-61; discussion 162-3.

    5.) Suzuki M, Suzuki M, Sato K, Dohi S, Sato T, Matsuura A, Hiraide A. Effect of beta-hydroxybutyrate, a cerebral function improving agent, on cerebral hypoxia, anoxia and ischemia in mice and rats. Jpn J Pharmacol. 2001 Oct;87(2):143-50

    6.) Kashiwaya Y, Takeshima T, Mori N, Nakashima K, Clarke K, Veech RL.D-beta-hydroxybutyrate protects neurons in models of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9;97(10):5440-4.

    7.) Meixensberger J, Herting B, Roggendorf W, Reichmann H: Metabolic patterns in malignant gliomas. J Neurooncol 1995, 24:153-161

    8.) Pedersen PL: Tumor mitochondria and the bioenergetics of cancer cells. Prog Exp Tumor Res 1978, 22:190-274.

    9.) Seyfried TN, Sanderson TM, El-Abbadi MM, McGowan R, Mukherjee P.: Role of glucose and ketone bodies in the metabolic control of experimental brain cancer. Br J Cancer. 2003 Oct 6;89(7):1375-82.

    10.) Fearon KC.: Nutritional pharmacology in the treatment of neoplastic disease. Baillieres Clin Gastroenterol. 1988 Oct;2(4):941-9.

    11.) Skinner R, Trujillo A, Ma X, Beierle EA. Ketone bodies inhibit the viability of human neuroblastoma cells. J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Jan;44(1):212-6; discussion 216.

    12.) Muti P, Quattrin T, Grant BJ, Krogh V, Micheli A, Schünemann HJ, Ram M, Freudenheim JL, Sieri S, Trevisan M, Berrino F. Fasting glucose is a risk factor for breast cancer: a prospective study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 2002 Nov;11(11):1361-8.

    13.) Venkateswaran V, Haddad AQ, Fleshner NE, Fan R, Sugar LM, Nam R, Klotz LH, Pollak M. Association of diet-induced hyperinsulinemia with accelerated growth of prostate cancer (LNCaP) xenografts. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007 Dec 5;99(23):1793-800. Epub 2007 Nov 27.

    14.) Borugian MJ, Sheps SB, Kim-Sing C, Van Patten C, Potter JD, Dunn B, Gallagher RP, Hislop TG. Insulin, macronutrient intake, and physical activity: are potential indicators of insulin resistance associated with mortality from breast cancer? Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2004 Jul;13(7):1163-72.

    15.) Khan G.: Epstein-Barr virus, cytokines, and inflammation: A cocktail for the pathogenesis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma? Exp Hematol. 2006 Apr;34(4):399-406.

    16.) Dalgleish AG, O’Byrne K. Inflammation and cancer: the role of the immune response and angiogenesis. Cancer Treat Res. 2006;130:1-38.

    17.) Schottelius AJ, Dinter H.: Cytokines, NF-kappaB, microenvironment, intestinal inflammation and cancer. Cancer Treat Res. 2006;130:67-87.

    18.) Otani T, Iwasaki M, Sasazuki S, Inoue M, Tsugane S.: Plasma C-reactive protein and risk of colorectal cancer in a nested case-control study: Japan public health center-based prospective study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006 Apr;15(4):690-5.

    19.) Dobrovolskaia MA, Kozlov SV.: Inflammation and cancer: when NF-kappaB amalgamates the perilous partnership.Curr Cancer Drug Targets. 2005 Aug;5(5):325-44.

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    21.) Ohshima H, Tazawa H, Sylla BS, Sawa T.: Prevention of human cancer by modulation of chronic inflammatory processes. Mutat Res. 2005 Dec 11;591(1-2):110-22. Epub 2005 Aug 3.

    22.) Coussens LM, Werb Z.: Inflammation and cancer. Nature. 2002 Dec 19-26;420(6917):860-7.

    23.) Stewart JW, Koehler K, Jackson W, Hawley J, Wang W, Au A, Myers R, Birt DF: Prevention of mouse skin tumor promotion by dietary energy restriction requires an intact adrenal gland and glucocorticoid supplementation restores inhibition. Carcinogenesis 2005, 26:1077-1084

    24.) Zhu Z, Jiang W, Thompson HJ: Mechanisms by which energy restriction inhibits rat mammary carcinogenesis: in vivo effects of corticosterone on cell cycle machinery in mammary carcinomas. Carcinogenesis 2003, 24:1225-1231.

    25.) Patel NV, Finch CE: The glucocorticoid paradox of caloric restriction in slowing brain aging. Neurobiol Aging 2002, 23:707-717.

    26.) Gasior M, Rogawski MA, Hartman AL. Neuroprotective and disease-modifying effects of the ketogenic diet. Behav Pharmacol. 2006 Sep;17(5-6):431-9.

    27.) Maalouf M, Rho JM, Mattson MP. The neuroprotective properties of calorie restriction, the ketogenic diet, and ketone bodies. Brain Res Rev. 2009 Mar;59(2):293-315.
    28.) Garai J, Lóránd T, Molnár V. Ketone bodies affect the enzymatic activity of macrophage migration inhibitory factor. Life Sci. 2005 Aug 5;77(12):1375-80.

    29.) Seyfried TN, Kiebish M, Mukherjee P, Marsh J. Targeting energy metabolism in brain cancer with calorically restricted ketogenic diets. Epilepsia. 2008 Nov;49 Suppl 8:114-6.

    30.) Shi DY, Xie FZ, Zhai C, Stern JS, Liu Y, Liu SL. The role of cellular oxidative stress in regulating glycolysis energy metabolism in hepatoma cells. Mol Cancer. 2009 Jun 5;8(1):32. [Epub ahead of print]

    31.) Halliwell B. Oxidative stress and cancer: have we moved forward? Biochem J. 2007 Jan 1;401(1):1-11.

    32.) Brown N., Bicknell R. Hypoxia and oxidative stress in breast cancer: Oxidative stress – its effects on the growth, metastatic potential and response to therapy of breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res 2001, 3:323-327.

    33.) Wiseman H, Halliwell B: Damage to DNA by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species: role in inflammatory disease and progression to cancer. Biochem J 1996, 313:17-29.

    34.) Veech RL: The therapeutic implications of ketone bodies: the effects of ketone bodies in pathological conditions: ketosis, ketogenic diet, redox states, insulin resistance, and mitochondrial metabolism. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2004, 70:309-319.

    35.) Veech RL: Metabolic control analysis of ketone and insulin action: Implications for phenotyping of disease and design of therapy. Lecture:The Dynamic and Energetic Basis of Health and Aging Monday, Nov 11 – Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002, The Cloister’s, NIH, Bethesda MD.

    36.) Masuda R, Monahan JW, Kashiwaya Y: D-beta-hydroxybutyrate is neuroprotective against hypoxia in serum-free hippocampal primary cultures. J Neurosci Res 2005, 80:501-509.

    37.) Bough KJ, Rho JM. Anticonvulsant mechanisms of the ketogenic diet. Epilepsia. 2007 Jan;48(1):43-58.

    38.) Beck SA, Tisdale MJ. Effect of insulin on weight loss and tumour growth in a cachexia model. Br J Cancer. 1989 May;59(5):677-81.

    39.) Tisdale MJ, Brennan RA, Fearon KC. Reduction of weight loss and tumour size in a cachexia model by a high fat diet. Br J Cancer. 1987 Jul;56(1):39-43

    40.) Beck SA, Tisdale MJ. Nitrogen excretion in cancer cachexia and its modification by a high fat diet in mice. Cancer Res. 1989 Jul 15;49(14):3800-4.

    41.) Zhou W, Mukherjee P, Kiebish MA, Markis WT, Mantis JG, Seyfried TN. The calorically restricted ketogenic diet, an effective alternative therapy for malignant brain cancer. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2007 Feb 21;4:5.

    42.) Seyfried TN, Mukherjee P. Targeting energy metabolism in brain cancer: review and hypothesis. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2005 Oct 21;2:30.

    43.) Berrigan D, Perkins SN, Haines DC, Hursting SD.: Adult-onset calorie restriction and fasting delay spontaneous tumorigenesis in p53-deficient mice. Carcinogenesis. 2002 May;23(5):817-22.
    44.) Marsh J, Mukherjee P, Seyfried TN. Drug/diet synergy for managing malignant astrocytoma in mice: 2-deoxy-D-glucose and the restricted ketogenic diet. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2008 Nov 25;5:33.

    45.) Otto C, Kaemmerer U, Illert B, Muehling B, Pfetzer N, Wittig R, Voelker HU, Thiede A, Coy JF. Growth of human gastric cancer cells in nude mice is delayed by a ketogenic diet supplemented with omega-3 fatty acids and medium-chain triglycerides. BMC Cancer. 2008 Apr 30;8:122.

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  • Questions About Things We Don’t Even Sell…

    By Nurse Mark

     

    It’s no secret that we get a lot of questions here – Dr. Myatt has a well-deserved reputation for being scientific, honest, thorough, and for being more interested in what’s best for the person than in just "making a sale."

    So, we get plenty of questions about products we do not carry: questions of the "have you heard of…" variety are common, and yes, Dr. Myatt has probably heard of it.  Questions of the "I bought this product at my local health food store because the sales clerk said it was really good and now I think I’m having  a bad reaction to it – is that possible?" variety are tougher since 1.) we probably know little about that particular product (if we don’t carry it ourselves) and, 2.) we certainly know little about the person, their medical history, their medication or supplement regimen, their diet, and a dozen other things. To those people we can only suggest they go back to the health food store and ask the sales clerk… Then there are the "I bought this supplement from someone else – now can you tell me all about it and how to use it?" variety of questions – which mostly just get a chuckle from us here…

    Then there the questions that ask for our "opinion" regarding supplements being sold by others: Brenda sent us a rather confusing email recently asking about such a product and acknowledging that she could not find it on our website – a fact which by itself be pretty revealing of how Dr. Myatt feels about it. If it’s worthwhile, that is if it can benefit our patients and customers, we’ll probably carry it! Brenda also mentioned Larch in her subject line, but did not ask about it in her question – so maybe she pushed the ‘send" button before she was quite ready…

    I cannot find this on the shopping portion of your site. Do you have an opinion on Protocel?
    Thanks,
    Brenda

    Dr. Myatt took some time to answer Brenda as best she could, since she is familiar with the product through her research into cancer:

    Hi Brenda:

    No studies on Protocel have been published in standard scientific journals, and no clinical trials (research studies with people) of Protocel have been done.

    NCI studies have uncovered nothing special about this substance. It is certainly not one of the more promising substances for cancer treatment if that is your interest in Protocel.

    One of the ingredients in the formula, copper, can actually hasten metastasis when it is present in higher doses in the body. The other ingredients have been little studied. There are only a few testimonials in the advertising pages. Testimonials alone do not constitute a promising cure unless they are extensive and spread throughout non-sales forums across the internet (as the Budwig cure is for example).

    I have just finished my lecture notes for a medical conference in July where I am speaking on the subject of nutritional and botanical agents for cancer treatment.

    My research and criteria for each agent is extensive; a number of promising therapies exist. Protocel didn’t make any of my lists, not even the "promising but unproven" list. It may be an antioxidant, but there are numerous other nutrients, formulas and herbs that are far better proven as anti-carcinogenic agents. This is why you will not find Protocel on my website.

    I am finishing up a medical white paper on the most promising cancer treatments including dietary therapies. Would you be interested in reviewing this document when it is ready?

    If yes, please let me know and I’ll put your name on my special pre-review list.

    In Health,
    Dr. Myatt

    P.S. Why is your subject line "Larch"? Larch (arabinogalactans) ARE are promising agent for anti-metastatic properties.

  • Iodine And Thyroid – Again…

    There is just no end to the questions we receive on this complicated issue.

     

    Frances writes:

    Can Modifilan be taken while taking Armour Thyroid as long as labs are done intermittently?  Thanks, Frances

    And Dr. Myatt replies:

    Yes.

    ANYONE who needs to be on thyroid should have their iodine levels tested, because low iodine is the primary cause of low thyroid.

    You can "treat presumptively" (just take iodine, which you are doing with Modifilan), but the dose you are taking is far too small to correct an iodine deficiency if you have one which again, most people with low thyroid do.

    (The thyroid hormones are called T4 and T3. Do you know what the "4" and "3" refer to? The number of molecules of iodine in the hormone).

    Here is information about iodine: http://www.drmyattswellnessclub.com/Iodine.htm

    Here is information about the iodine test: http://www.drmyattswellnessclub.com/medicaltests.htm#IODINE

    You will not overdose on iodine from Modifilan; the iodine dose is too small. But I’m also afraid you won’t get your iodine levels up to "sufficiency" with Modifilan and without proper testing.

    In Health,
    Dr. Myatt