Iodoral is much more expensive than the Lugol’s solution.

Using iodine for optimal health, or therapeutically to correct some chronic disease, is very new and edgy (or very retro) and is not yet embraced by mainstream organic foods, health products type stores. Hence the unfortunate need to go to a fish & aquarium store.

For instance at one of the best health food and supplement stores in Vancouver (perhaps the most self-consciously natural-health-minded city in Canada) it was only possible to buy ‘Liquid Iodine’, which is an extremely diluted form of Lugol’s solution (with only 1/42nd the amount of iodine in it compared to Lugol’s by volume) that sells for essentially the *same* price as Lugol’s from the aquatics store! In other words you’d be paying a 4167% premium on the iodine. If your health promoting aim is to to consume 2 drops of Lugol’s solution–or one tablet of Iodoral–per day, then you would have to put 83 drops of that product in a cup of water instead of 2 drops of Lugol’s.

Iodoral is probably over-priced, but the taste of Lugol’s is very strong and sharp, while these tablets are completely tasteless, and avoid the messiness of dealing with iodine from an eyedropper. This product is one of the best choices if you want to increase your iodine intake to levels found among the Japanese without sharing the Japanese seaweed diet AND don’t want to use Lugol’s solution. I am a former Iodoral user who now simply uses Lugol’s solution.
Rating: 3 / 5

For many years, I suffered from an on again off again cyclic pain (months at a time) which only seemed to progress. Various diagnosis were given, numerous specialists, all types of pain medications.

By Sept. 2008 (approximately year five), I was used the pain I would wake up with. The headache, the stiff and sore legs, the backache, the extreme fatigue, the difficulty thinking…

And I’m only 34, a vegetarian, non-smoker, non-drinker who is not overweight!

I’d tried all types of supplements for my energy levels, pain and my daughter’s ADHD. I’d even tried this before back in March, but I made the mistake of allowing it to be one of many things and wasn’t very consistent.

After reading a study and then Brownstein’s book, I tried again. I took it religiously for two weeks and the difference was amazing. I’ve given it to my daughter and within a month, I was able to stop her Adderal.

Not only was the pain gone, I could go back to drinking coffee (I found caffeine made the pain much worse and it was difficult to even lift a drink plate if I were to have two cups of coffee in a week). Not only could I once again have coffee if I wanted… I no longer desperately needed something to stay awake and get moving!

I’m an engineering major with a demanding schedule and course load. Before Iodoral, finding the effort to tackle and understand my work was an uphill battle. My energy levels and memory were so shot, I began to worry I wouldn’t graduate (after making it to year four of five!), doctors were trying to tell me I was depressed and my child was bouncing of the walls, driving everyone crazy.

Two months later, I completed the term (Economics, Experimental Engineering, Synthetic Polymer Chemistry, Mechanical Behavior of Solids, and Electric Circuits, A, A, B+, C+ and C respectively) when I thought I’d need a medical withdrawal/was barely functioning the first four or five weeks of it (11 week quarters) and my child is actually, relatively… CALM!

BUY THE IODINE!

Yes, it’s really THAT good.
Rating: 5 / 5