Flu or not flu, the Japanese have one quarter of the US female breast cancer rate and 1/10th of prostate cancer rate. Something to think about.(Tide goes in, seaweed stays out, you can't explain that.) When Japanese people move to the US and change their diets their cancer rate goes up.
https://www.roswellpark.org/cancertalk/201707/breast-cancer-rates-rising-among-japanese-women
"“It's been said that the Western lifestyle and diet contribute to this high incidence rate. In Japan, as the younger generations are adopting the American culture, diet and habits, the breast cancer rate is increasing.”"
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Historical overview. Imagine, the Chinese were using it in seaweed form 5000 years ago. I was slightly off with the 200 years history:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3509517/
Another one:
https://www.optimox.com/iodine-study-14
"By the time Bauman identified large concentrations of iodine in the thyroid gland in 1895, pharmaceutical and apothecary preparations containing iodine, excluding thyroid extracts, were widely used as a panacea for all human ills. To quote Kelley:22 “In the first flush of enthusiasm for the newcomer, physicians and surgeons tested it and tried it for every conceivable pathological condition. The variety of diseases for which iodine was prescribed in the early years is astonishing — paralysis, chorea, scrofula, lacrimal fistula, deafness, distortions of the spine, hip-joint disease, syphilis, acute inflammation, gout, gangrene, dropsy, carbuncles, whitlow, chilblains, burns, scalds, lupus, croup, catarrh, asthma, ulcers, and bronchitis — to mention only a few. Indeed, tincture of iodine, iodoform, or one of the iodides, was applied to almost every case that resisted the ordinary routine of practice; and between 1820 and 1840 there appeared a remarkable series of essays and monographs testifying to the extraordinary benefits to be achieved by this new and potent remedy.”Unfortunately, these monographs disappeared from US medical libraries. "
https://www.roswellpark.org/cancertalk/201707/breast-cancer-rates-rising-among-japanese-women
"“It's been said that the Western lifestyle and diet contribute to this high incidence rate. In Japan, as the younger generations are adopting the American culture, diet and habits, the breast cancer rate is increasing.”"
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Historical overview. Imagine, the Chinese were using it in seaweed form 5000 years ago. I was slightly off with the 200 years history:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3509517/
Another one:
https://www.optimox.com/iodine-study-14
"By the time Bauman identified large concentrations of iodine in the thyroid gland in 1895, pharmaceutical and apothecary preparations containing iodine, excluding thyroid extracts, were widely used as a panacea for all human ills. To quote Kelley:22 “In the first flush of enthusiasm for the newcomer, physicians and surgeons tested it and tried it for every conceivable pathological condition. The variety of diseases for which iodine was prescribed in the early years is astonishing — paralysis, chorea, scrofula, lacrimal fistula, deafness, distortions of the spine, hip-joint disease, syphilis, acute inflammation, gout, gangrene, dropsy, carbuncles, whitlow, chilblains, burns, scalds, lupus, croup, catarrh, asthma, ulcers, and bronchitis — to mention only a few. Indeed, tincture of iodine, iodoform, or one of the iodides, was applied to almost every case that resisted the ordinary routine of practice; and between 1820 and 1840 there appeared a remarkable series of essays and monographs testifying to the extraordinary benefits to be achieved by this new and potent remedy.”Unfortunately, these monographs disappeared from US medical libraries. "
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