Estrogen/Bromide/Progesterone - observations from patient reports
Over the last two and a half years, I've made some observations from patient files I have access to. (I'm not a clinician.) It's an ongoing mystery to connect the dots. Maybe somebody else will be able to make sense of these reports.
FROM PATIENT REPORTS
--Bromide detox symptoms can persist on 6 WEEKS or more after stopping iodine. Even micrograms of iodine from multivitamins can stir up bromaderma once a bromide detox "storm" has started and remains untreated by salt loading.
--Iodine's effects on estrogen receptors disappear in DAYS according to the FDB patients and bioidentical HRT patients.
--Iodine has not been reported to effect blood estradiol levels. Neither has bromide. But "hormone disruption" at the receptor level is effected. Cycles are altered. Women on bioidentical HRT report needing to increase estrogen when taking iodine. This may validate Bernard Eskin, MDs' observation that iodine doesn't reduce estrogen levels, it "reorganizes" the proteins on the receptors.
--Progesterone dominance (in women not taking iodine) has caused several women to lose 2/3 of their hair-- this was caused by excess progesterone supplementation.
Brainstorming welcome!