"Waiter, there's a persecution psychosis in my water."
On Medicine & the Priest class. Part 1.
Eyebrows are window frames to the soul. Physiologically, they’re a ‘gutter system' to draw sweat away from the eye. Through several decades of the last hundred years, the western feminine ideal was very fine brows plucked to oblivion, from dolls to actresses to fashion.
In the late 1800’s, scanty brows were (in part) criteria to diagnose myxoedema, known today as severe hypothyroidism, or an under-active thyroid.
Once upon a time, Harvard student Jan Wolff was drawn to work at Dr. Israel L. Chaikoff's laboratory because said lab offered a salary of US $100 a month.
In the late 1940’s the two men co-wrote a paper describing what became known as the ‘Wolff-Chaikoff effect’.
In the late 1960’s, after Chaikoff had died, Wolff published in the American Journal of Medicine an article addressed to clinicians. It came from the National Institute of Health which made it credible.
The results saw iodine pulled from the food supply and medical industry (except for radioactive iodine for hyperthyroid cancers, increasing risk of death from solid cancers as recently proved in a study led by the National Cancer Institute.
Physicians assumed that the Wolff-Chaikoff effect had been demonstrated in human subjects, as insinuated.
Medical students are taught that iodine is only used by the thyroid, but in reality it's used by the thyroid, breasts, brain, heart, gastrointestinal system, skin, ovaries, lungs, eyes, mouth, bones, blood, used in the production of hormones and is accumulated by the immune system.
The thyroid gland is a small, butterfly-shaped gland at the base of the neck.
In 2005, Doctor Guy E. Abraham, owner of a thyroid practice in the US and developer of Optimox, a medication to stabilise the thyroid gland wrote a paper, 'The Wolff-Chaikoff Effect: Crying Wolf?'
It is an interesting paper and not just for the apparent exposé of his fellow doctor/s.
There is one paragraph about the Hindu god Shiva, which seems jarringly out of place, even in an informal medical paper such as Abraham's.
This subject will be returned to in a following post, but for now, to quote Dr. Abraham on the technicalities of the Wolff-Chaikoff effect:
“The Wolff-Chaikoff effect is supposedly the inhibitory effect of […] (uptake) of iodide by the thyroid gland of rats, resulting supposedly in hypothyroidism and goitre. These rats never became hypothyroid and thyroid hormones were not measured in their plasma. Nevertheless, the Wolff-Chaikoff effect, [...] was extrapolated to humans.
The correct interpretation of the results [...] is: Iodide sufficiency of the thyroid gland was achieved when serum inorganic iodide levels reached 10-6M, as we previously discussed.”
The strange paragraph appears in much less technical language in the third page of Dr. Abraham's paper;
"Supplying thyroid hormones to iodine-deprived individuals masks the iodine deficiency and results in a population of zombies, capable of performing physical work but not able to think and reason properly.
For maximum effect, combine iodine deprivation with goitrogen saturation, using the potent goitrogens bromide, fluoride, and perchlorate in the food and water supply. This population of zombies then becomes easily influenced through repetition and subliminal programming to believe lies and deception even in the spiritual sphere.
Iodine deprived Christian America became vulnerable to the pagan influences of Eastern Mysticism, and New Age Occultism, which were incorporated in the practice of medicine and adopted by the public at large. Eighteen million Americans practice yoga, a form of worship of the Hindu god, Shiva."
A Judeo-Christian specialist thyroid doctor worried about Judeo-Christian hypothyroid patients turning to yoga, an Eastern metaphysic tradition in an informal yet scientific iodine exposé on his peers? Peculiar indeed. But then, Reality is increasingly glimpsed through the drifting veils of illusion these days.
Fluoride had already been put in the water supplies of many English-speaking cities from the 1940's and 50's, thus parents of Generation X were already under the epigenetic influence of iodine deficiency and industrial foods.
Dentist Weston A. Price raised alarm bells in the 1930's about the industrial food supply causing mental and physical degeneration even without fluoridation, stating that Nature had a 'Three generations' rule of genetic health: after the third generation of industrialised food consumption, fertility declined due to genetic deformity.
Price wasn’t alone in raising the alarm.
‘FLUORIDATION: The Great Dilemma’, (published 1978) by George Waldbott, M.D., quoted many of those who protested and were struck off the medical register, ignored, abused verbally, humiliated and threatened or worse, making it clear that the organisations behind pro-fluoridation and iodine disappearance -who/whatever they were- were unstoppable.
The Weston A. Price web page titled 'The Great Iodine Debate' states:
"Iodine was discovered in 1811. It was used in large amounts until the mid-1900s […].
The Nobel laureate Dr. Albert Szent Györgi (1893-1986) wrote: “When I was a medical student, iodine […] was the universal medicine. […] We students used to sum up the situation in this little rhyme:
If ye don’t know where, what, and why
Prescribe ye then,
K and I. [KI - potassium iodide]
[…]
The pharmacological action of compounds containing potassium iodide, “is as obscure as their effects in certain diseased conditions are consistently brilliant.
Our ignorance of their mode of action is cloaked by the term 'deobstruent', which implies that they possess the power of driving out impurities from the blood and tissues."
Today, instead of the consistently brilliant iodine, synthetic thyroid is used and listed among the top ten most prescribed medications in the US. A natural version ‘Armour Thyroid’ is available, made from the dried and desiccated thyroid of sheep and pigs.
Either way, the hypothyroid patient is bound to medication for life. Unless something moves in them to seek freedom from their Wolffishly imposed limits.
Back to the 70's/80's:
-Iodine was removed from bread, replaced with one of its three nemeses (bromate) and rebranded a dough conditioner.
-Furniture, mattresses and car interiors were treated with bromide and called a 'flame retardant'. (Surely another esoteric in-joke.)
-Fluoride and chlorine were added to most water supplies across the english-speaking world causing strange headaches, weakness, dizziness and nausea, arthritic changes especially in the spine, spastic pains and numbness in the arms and legs, gastrointestinal upsets, ulcers, blurred vision due to early changes in the retina, and skin eruptions- a veritable smorgasbord of relatively mild 'over-the-counter' issues.
-Doctors stopped house calls because the imminently capable pharmacologist’s drugstore/chemist/pharmacy sprouted everywhere like fungal spores. Ah the steady rate of first world progress, one nods approvingly.
Severe hypothyroidism was once called myxoedema. Scanty eyebrows were one of several distinguishing characteristics along with swollen flesh, ruddy dry skin and hair loss, and perhaps most peculiar of all- a persecution complex.
Many online blogs detail the thyroid sufferer's years spent attempting to get a correct diagnosis and/or balance of medication from their doctor, and are often prescribed anxiety-reducing, fluoride-enhanced medication like Prozac only to exacerbate the problem.
New Zealand is a beautiful, petrie-dish-experiment of a country and part of the fluoridated Five Eyes Intelligence Agency which includes Canada, USA, UK & Australia.
All five countries boast ‘flourishing liberal cultures'. One could joke without much humour that the Five Eyes have had their 'I' removed.
The pineal, aside from regulating all-important melatonin and hormone production is also known as the Eye of God.
Diving straight in to Manly P. Hall's description of the pineal from The Eye of God;
‘Was not the uraeus [raised head of snake on Egyptian headdress] the symbol of wisdom and is not the pineal gland the organ of a method of acquiring knowledge which is no longer employed in general but is a secret preserved by the elect?
As an emblem of divinity, the pineal gland would naturally be associated with royalty, for the kings were the shadows of the gods upon earth.
[...] In the religions of the Latins it was […] referred to as Janus, the two-faced god and keeper of the gates of sanctuary. This divinity was the antitype [something represented by a symbol] of St. Peter who succeeded him as the warder of the heavenly portals and who carries the two keys of his office — one to the golden mystery of the spirit and the other to the silver mystery of the body.
Two-faced gods are frequently spoken of in ancient records.
Hermae like the bifrons Janus may still be seen in old Roman villas, with the occasional and intriguing exception that one of the faces will be male and the other female — the hermaphroditus again? The female face represents the animal soul and the male the divine soul, and the whole figure is indicative of the occult structure and function of the pineal gland.'
In 1949, a year after the Wolff-Chaikoff paper was published, fourteen case studies of severe hypothyroidism were written up in a paper named 'Myxoedematous Madness,' by R. Asher M.D., published in the British Medical Journal. A quick, edited view of this utterly fascinating paper:
"MYXOEDEMATOUS MADNESS
BY R. ASHER, M.D., M.R.C.P. Physician, Central Middlesex Hospital
Myxoedema is one of the most important, one of the least known, and one of the most frequently missed causes of organic psychoses - important because it may respond so gratifyingly to treatment. […]
Fourteen cases are here described, all of which had myxoedema and psychotic changes. They all showed a psychosis amounting to complete "madness," ten being admitted to the mental observation wards under the Lunacy Act, one referred to the neurosurgeon for cerebral tumour, and three to general medical wards with other diagnoses.
In nine of the cases there was a dramatic and complete recovery of sanity with thyroid treatment.[...]
The condition […] was recognized as exceedingly common by the Committee of the Clinical Society of London (1888) [...] I want to make it clear that I am not describing something new, but something old that is nowadays often forgotten.
Case 11
A housewife aged 53 was admitted on Feb. 23, 1948, complaining of tiredness and undue gain in weight. […] She complained of chronic catarrh and said her voice had become coarse and her skin rough. On examination she was slow and rather drowsy, but appeared rational until a week later, when she showed delusions of persecution.
She said she had been accused of wrongdoing by the hospital staff and believed that she had been admitted for punishment.
She told me that all the other patients were whispering to each other, saying unpleasant things about her. She had to be transferred to the mental observation ward on March 8, as her paranoid ideas were getting worse.
Physically she had the typical appearance of fully developed myxoedema. Her features were swollen, the normal facial creases being ironed out by the swelling. Her face was a waxy yellow colour.
Her eyebrows were scanty, her skin dry, her speech thick and indicative of nasal obstruction. […]
Progress.
She was given thyroid, I gr. three times a day, on Feb. 27, increasing gradually to 2 gr. four times daily on March 19. At first her mental symptoms grew worse, while her appearance improved. By March 11 she had some insight into her previous irrationality, and by March 13 she was mentally normal, remaining so until her discharge to the outpatient department on March 25.
Discussion
It is hoped that publication of these fourteen case reports may call attention to the very important fact that myxoedema [hypothyroidism] causes psychosis.
If one observer can encounter this number in four years it must mean that there are many others. Possibly there are many cases in mental hospitals which have not been diagnosed.
If the diagnosis is borne in mind by psychiatrists a number of otherwise hopeless psychoses may be cured, and the awareness of an organic cause for one psychosis may lead to the discovery of physical causes for others which are at present dismissed as of psychological or idiopathic origin."
So!
Why remove iodine and replace it with its opposite- industrial neurotoxin fluoride which calcifies the pineal gland (Eye of God) among other things?
It would be prudent to examine the etymology of 'doctor':
doctor (n)
-c.1300, doctour, "Church father," from Old French doctour and directly from Medieval Latin doctor "religious teacher, adviser, scholar."
In classical Latin "teacher," agent noun from docere "to show, teach, cause to know."
Originally "make to appear right," causative of decere "be seemly, fitting" (from Proto-Indo-European root *dek- "to take, accept").
-Meaning "holder of the highest degree in a university, one who has passed all the degrees of a faculty and is thereby empowered to teach the subjects included in it" is from late 14c.
Hence "teacher, instructor, learned man; one skilled in a learned profession" (late 14c.).
-The sense of "medical professional, person duly licensed to practice medicine" (replacing native leech (n.2)) grew gradually out of this from c. 1400, though this use of the word was not common until late 16c.
doctor (v.)
1590s, "to confer the degree of doctor on," from doctor (n.). Meaning "to treat as a doctor, administer medical treatment to" is from 1712;
sense of "alter, disguise for the purpose of deception, falsify" is from 1774.
Related: Doctored; doctoring.
-Etymonline
Once upon a time, a doctor was a church father, scholar or religious advisor.
As time progressed and 'doctor' was verbed, one could create a doctor by conferring a degree upon him, and one could also doctor something: 'alter, disguise for the purpose of deception and falsify'.
As seen in these connections everything is moving along swimmingly, and there are no accidents or meaningless coincidences.
Next up; the Phoenicians and the Salerno Medical School.
Because verily the plot thickens.
Unlike the scanty brow.
Part 2 here
Part 3 here
TL:DR; Conclusion.
We have tonnes of iodine here in Australian sea salt. Tonnes of the stuff. For whatever reason has a massive iodine content compared to Celtic or that Pink Himalayan stuff that by all accounts has almost none, despite everyone paying heaps for it.
Yes, boron or borax I have yet to try it though. I saw a good video earlier this year promoting it and suggested that these option could be restricted in future