Hi birdlady,

Thanks for mentioning this. I am sorry this has happened to you. Was any reason given for why either of those things may have caused hair loss? I know that I was losing hair once with mercury toxicity, but thankfully it came back after I changed my diet. Has yours improved at all? any sign of new growth?

You are right about the effects of iodine and detox. I should have mentioned what happened to me when I started taking some and even then I was taken a diluted form of "lugol's iodine". Like yourself, the symptoms were like I had drunk a load of caffeine! I could not settle down, I could not slow my heart rate down and I became rather frightened by the reaction and had to keep taking breaks and stopping. Even two drops would cause it, yet it was diluted. One drop I could get away with it much more. But I think it was obviously detoxing certain chemicals, like the ones you mentioned maybe?

Or, it was the shock of my thyroid getting a sudden dose of iodine which it desperately needed and wasn't used to. So things went into overdrive. I honestly felt very very strange indeed. I also couldn't stop talking. Everything was hyped up.
I also recall detox symptoms with some metal taste too.

Definitely for anybody, start low! Really low. And then build up to a recommended dose if you need to. Depends on what effects there are. one may find benefit on a certain dose and do just fine on that.