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This can be a dangerous stance to take as default when interpreting negative effects of a drug or supplement.  I've seen people get themselves in serious trouble by thinking every undesirable thing happening to them was detox.  Sometimes you are just poisoning yourself.

Some version of this thinking is rampant in most chronic illness communities.  For example, in the chronic Lyme world, their antibiotic drugs with a laundry list of documented adverse effects can do no harm when viewed through this lens -- everything is attributed to the Herxheimer effect.  The error that is obvious from the outside looking in becomes less so once you are immersed in the community.

On the topic of iodine specifically, I would just add that any supra-RDA amount makes me feel like garbage, and 99.999% of the healthiest people you can find are not supplementing with high doses of iodine.  Don't let the internet trick you into thinking it's a remotely normal thing to do or necessary in some way to thrive.