What if everything you know about healing is backwards?
You're not broken. Your cells just don't have what they need.
We're made of cells.
These cells are made of nutrients.
Once these cellular components are assembled properly, they use nutrients to convert other nutrients into whatever we need for life.
24 hours a day. 7 days a week.
We're living in a toxic world.
And it's getting worse. It was never pure, and now it's littered with things that don't belong in our bodies.
This is being largely ignored when looking at health.
These toxins accumulate over generations
Bioaccumulation occurs when an organism absorbs a substance faster than it can eliminate it.
Mom's metabolism can only work with what it has. A set of toxins gets passed along with the nutrients to her offspring. Then that offspring follows a similar lifestyle, building up even more.
Research
WikiFetal mercury levels 76-81% higher than maternal bloodPMCMaternal Polycomb levels contribute to transgenerational inheritancePubMedTransgenerational effects of environmental toxinsPMCPCBs in breast milk 10-100x higher than maternal serumPMCFaroe Islands: 45 years of mercury exposure researchPMCEpigenetic transgenerational actions of environmental toxinsNatureGlyphosate effects in F2 and F3 generations despite no direct exposureToxins are toxic for two reasons.
They interfere with cellular machinery
Heavy metals compete with essential minerals in enzymes and transporters. They gum up the works.
They can't be handled and removed properly
The tissue we depend on for life ends up being damaged by—and inadvertently used as—toxin storage.
Eventually we run out of cells to tuck more toxins into. We start to feel symptoms based on the type of pathway breaking down due to the types of bioaccumulated toxins in various tissue compartments.
When a nutrient helps us feel better...
That nutrient is helping our current configuration run.
When we mega-dose, we override the system and tell it what we think it should do.
Feeling better is great, but this is similar to giving an old lawnmower spicier fuel or some kind of special oil so it can get through a long-term lack of maintenance.
We need to rebuild the machine back to spec if we want it to function properly.
Most of us are getting caught up using larger amounts of nutrients or larger stacks of supplements to push the system forward—which is very likely digging into oxidative stress somewhere else.
We need to dig into the bioaccumulated toxins.
The ones in various tissue compartments that are inhibiting our abilities.
This requires rebuilding the biochemical pathways that clean and rebuild our cells.
Why iodine is different.
This isn't about overemphasizing one nutrient.
It's about understanding the unique role iodine plays in cellular turnover—and how this differs from simple chelation or displacement.
Other nutrients chelate.
Iodine helps eliminate the storage sites themselves.
Iodine is allowing us to reinvest in real estate someone has taken from inside our own bodies. It's a key player, but now we need a solid supply chain and so much more if we want to do this right.
The catch-22.
When iodine triggers apoptosis in damaged cells, we're mobilizing sequestered toxins from storage sites into our active metabolism.
The same metabolism that's barely keeping up. The one that already has us feeling like crap.
So we go slow.
If we slowly increase iodine while reducing stress on our system and providing dense nutrition, our cells give us feedback about what is standing in their way.
These symptoms mean something. A lot of other people have experienced them. Sometimes we can use this information to figure out what nutrient(s) our cells are asking for.
Our cells don't just want this stuff.
They physically require it.
And they can't think straight when we have:
- -Circadian rhythm disruption from excessive blue light
- -Our phone in our pocket all day
- -Carbs for breakfast
- -Diet soda
- -...and the endless list of things we're not paying attention to
...as we collectively say "something isn't working."
It's about figuring out what your system needs.
Enough energy to get past the next layer of bioaccumulated toxins so we can rebuild it and continue.
If we don't figure out how to reduce the stress enough—and provide our system with what it needs to work on the actual roadblock—we're just spinning our wheels.
Videos to help visualize this
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