When you were young and you skinned your knee on the playground, your mother would put some iodine on the wound to disinfect it.  Despite your desperate pleas for her not to do it, the world did not come to an end and it didn’t kill you.  It actually made you better.  Go figure?

Iodine is one of the greatest detoxifying agents that you can use to clear your system of unwanted toxins.  Iodine is commonly found in plant cells and in particular seaweed and other aquatic plants.  People whose diets are based around seaweed or involve crops that are grown in soil that is fertilized by seaweed tend to have the optimal levels of iodine in their system while those who don’t base their diets around this have lower levels. Hence, many diseases that are found in Western civilizations are not found in populations whose diets are mostly based on products from the sea.  The supplementation of iodine in the diet provides a much needed boost to the immune system which may be the reason for the lower rate of degenerative diseases in people with diets rich in seafood and vegetables grown near the sea.

Iodine has many antiseptic properties that help fight germs being fungal, viral or bacterial in nature.  Iodine is extremely helpful in removing heavy metals in your system. We tend to accumulate heavy metals in our system through everyday activities like eating food cooked in certain types of pots and pans or through breathing in smog and industrial pollutants.  Iodine is a great detoxifier of heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium, lead and aluminum.  Iodine is also very beneficial to regulating your metabolism, supporting a healthy thyroid, maintaining a healthy immune system and fighting infections but its main purpose in using it in detox drinks and detox capsules is to help your body with the detoxification process of unwanted toxins.