Iodine Deficiency, Cancer
In this video, Jorge Flechas spends about 26 minutes speaking on "Iodine Deficiency, Cancer" at the 36th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Jorge Flechas
JORGE FLECHAS, M.D., M.P.H., born in Puerto Rico, received his Medical Doctorate Degree and Masters in Public Health at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California. He completed his Family Practice Residency at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida.
Dr. Flechas over the years has published articles in the fields of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome. Lately, he has been involved in research in the field of iodine deficiency, which has been associated with fibrocystic breast disease, ovarian cysts, breast cancer, thyroid goiter and hypothyroidism. Recent work in the field of iodine deficiency has shown that replacement therapy decreases the risk of breast cancer and promotes the reversal of fibrocystic breast disease.
It has been thought that iodine deficiency only manifests as hypothyoidism. Work done by many researchers over the last few years has shown that iodine is utilized by many different sections of the body. Twenty percent of all of the iodine sits in the human skin. A lack of iodine in the skin manifests as very dry skin and skin that does not sweat when an indivdual becomes hot. In newborn children iodine is responsible for the development of the babies’ I.Q. Recent research shows iodine deficiency is felt to be the source of attention deficit disorder in children.
Iodine is utilized by every hormone receptor in the body. The absence of iodine causes a hormonal dysfunction that can be seen with practically every hormone inside the body. Dr. Flechas has recently been able to show that patients with insulin resistant diabetes have a partial to full remission of their illness in the presence of taking iodine. Iodine deficiency is also felt to be the source fo ovarian cysts. With iodine replacement therapy the cysts disappear and women have stopped having ovarian cysts.
Dr. Flechas with the help of Dr. Guy Abraham, GYN/Endocrinologist from Torrance, California has been able to develop an iodine testing laboratory. Dr. Flechas is now the Director of that laboratory. Iodine deficiency can now be measured using the Iodine Loading Test. Kits for doing this testing can be ordered from 1-877-900-5556. The test is available through FFP Laboratories. Dr. Flechas can be reached at his Flechas Family Practice in Henderson, North Carolina by phone 828-684-3233, fax 828-684-3253, and website www.helpmythyroid.com. Articles concerning iodine deficiency have been published and are available via his website.
Transcription
If there's any one statement that I need to have all of you walk away from here with is a statement that says the absence of I dying in the human body is a promoter of cancer.
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What we have when you go back in history and you look at the relationship of by Dine and cancer, we note that patients who have a lack of eye down to the thyroid get problems with goiters, enlargement of the fibroid.
They also get problems with hypothyroidism.
And about a hundred years ago in research, studies were done. They noticed that people who had goiter had a higher incidence of thyroid cancer. But patients with goiters also had problems with increased breast cancer, ovarian cancer, esophageal cancer, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer and breast cancer. So that there was organs that had problems associated with that. As we've gone through time, we have seen that there are intermediary diseases that will show up long before the cancer does, such as in the thyroid. You go from a normal thyroid to a thyroid that has a goiter nodules, enlargement to thyroid cancer in the breast. You go from normal breast tissue to fibrocystic breast disease, which is nodules, cyst scar tissue enlargement. Pain and about two or three years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine, they showed that women with fibrocystic breast disease ended up having a higher rate of development of cancer. And the O'Berry, you go from normal ovary to ovaries with cyst nodules, scar tissue enlargement, pain. We call that polycystic ovary disease. And we've known for years that women with polycystic ovaries had problems with ovarian cancer by the time they're in their late 40s, early 50s. And so what we're looking at is what other diseases are associated with cancer? Now, it's interesting that there's a drug out there called amiodarone and amiodarone is a organic I don preparation that's used to control cardiac arrhythmias.
And what they have noted is, is that people die with their cardiac arrhythmia as they then look at how much I die in is in the body after they die using amiodarone. What they discovered is that, like right now, most of you sitting here probably have around 20 to 30 milligrams of iodine inside your body under the influence of amiodarone. They've discovered that the body can can hold up to 1500 milligrams of iodine. The fibroid at its maximum can only hold 50 milligrams. So the thyroid where medicine trends to focus is holding less than three percent of the total. I doubt that the body can hold. And so we specialize in