Why I Stopped Trusting the Medical System (And Why You Should Revisit Iodine)

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I told my psychotherapist last week that I don’t trust doctors anymore.

But I didn’t mean that as a jab at every individual who studied medicine. I meant the system that controls them. The same system that has quietly removed, suppressed, or outright vilified countless natural, effective remedies in favor of profitable synthetic treatments.

Iodine is one of those remedies.

Once a staple in every medical cabinet, iodine has been shoved to the back of the shelf—both literally and figuratively. And unless you’ve done your own digging, you’d never know it was used for decades to heal everything from thyroid disease to cysts to infections.

So What Happened to Iodine?

The deeper I look, the more the pattern becomes obvious. Here's how they operate:

• Suppress what works

• Label it dangerous

• Ridicule anyone who brings it up

Iodine got all three.

This once-revered treatment was:

• used to disinfect wounds,

• shrink goiters,

• balance hormones,

• protect against radiation,

• even treat syphilis…

But now? Doctors are taught almost nothing about it. Iodine testing isn’t standard. And anyone who uses it therapeutically is branded as "alternative" or fringe.

The main reason? You can’t patent elemental iodine. You can’t make billions from it. So it was replaced by drugs that treat symptoms rather than address root cause.

Meanwhile, Iodine Deficiency Quietly Spreads

The thyroid needs iodine to make hormones.
The breasts, ovaries, prostate, and brain all depend on it too.

And yet:

• Salt? Demonized. People moved away from iodized versions.

• Bread? Switched from iodine-based dough conditioners to bromide, which blocks iodine.

• Water? Laced with chlorine and fluoride, both of which compete with iodine in your body.

We’re being stripped of iodine—on purpose or through engineered ignorance. Either way, the result is the same: chronic deficiency, masked as a dozen other "diagnoses" with profitable pharmaceutical treatments.

Symptoms of Iodine Deficiency Include:

• Fatigue

• Brain fog

• Cold hands and feet

• Weight gain

• Breast tenderness or fibrocystic lumps

• Mood swings

• Thyroid issues

• Menstrual irregularities

Sound familiar?

But don’t expect your GP to bring it up. Testing iodine isn’t routine, and the thyroid panel you get? It doesn’t tell you iodine levels. That would require a 24-hour loading test, often available only through functional or integrative practitioners.

Why They Don’t Teach This Anymore

Ask yourself: why would the system remove something that’s safe, essential, and effective?

Simple:

• Iodine is cheap.

• It can’t be patented.

• And it works.

That means it threatens drug profits. Just like cannabis, vitamin C, fasting, and sunlight.

This is the same pattern I keep seeing:

Any time something is too natural, too effective, or too inexpensive, it gets deleted from medical school, replaced with fear, or slandered in media.

What Iodine Can Do (When Used Correctly)

• Restore healthy thyroid function

• Support fertility and hormone balance

• Reduce breast and ovarian cysts

• Detox bromide, fluoride, and heavy metals

• Boost energy and mental clarity

• Support immune function (iodine is antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal)

It’s not a cure-all—but it remains one of the most foundational nutrients we’ve abandoned.

Why I’ve Opted Out of the System

So yes, I told my psychotherapist I’ve stepped away from the mainstream system.
I no longer hand over my power to gatekeepers who profit from my illness.
I no longer tolerate a model that waits for symptoms, masks them with drugs, and never asks why the imbalance began.

I refuse to keep playing this rigged game.

Instead, I choose to learn. To unlearn. To reclaim the ancestral knowledge and forgotten truths. And iodine is one of those truths.

Want to Learn More?

If you’re curious about trying iodine but don’t know where to start, I’ll be posting a follow-up that explains:

• The difference between Lugol’s solution, Nascent iodine, and iodized salt

• How to dose safely (and what cofactors you need)

• What detox symptoms can show up

• Why selenium is crucial if you’re using iodine long-term

Stay curious. Stay sovereign. And if something sounds too simple to be real, there’s a good chance they buried it for a reason.

Iodine isn’t dangerous.
Iodine is disruptive—
to the system that profits from your sickness.