[Kritters]

Hi Terri

By 'Endoc' do you mean your Endocrinologist? I'm curious why he/she would say you're not supposed to have iodine. If you do a search from home page and put in 'iodine' you'll see how it is necessary and a deficiency can have serious consequences.

I'm working on the summation, Terri, at least for myself since I doubt we all have the same thing, but I think there are certain key similarities with all of us. I think Sadsack summed it up really well in that it's a soup of things. This is why I have been asking for a poll extension to this forum to see what similarities we all have so at least we can isolate and identify some common denominators.

Everyone here is doing such a tremendous job of researching and bringing information to our members to absorb and hopefully ring a bell.

I believe personally that without any doubt fungi is implicated in my 'situation' I believe that candida is at least one type involved. However, from what I read, either candida changes from symbiotic to pathogenic because of an imbalance of body flora (good bacteria) and takes off on your system, or the presence of actual parasites like the Lyme spirochete, for instance, actually can destroy flora and create the balance that way. Then all kinds of organisms can join the party.

I think we have the presence of mycoplasma in our systems which when triggered by some trauma (which is what Godsgrace was trying to explain )becomes a mutation and pathogenic as well.

I think that bio-engineered crops are introducing foreign and dangerous recombinant genetic pathogens into our bodies.

These things can trigger flora imbalance and IMO the pH balance which is key to all disease in the body. I also want to add that deficiencies of necessary nutrients in our systems, for whatever reason (even if you injest these nutrients, the body may not absorb them for several different reasons, such as allergies) create a host center for parasites, IMO.

So, these are my thoughts. There are many others here who have their own, and we are all part of a great team with the purpose of finding answers to help each other.

love
Kritts