Re: Not a bandaid, a nutrient

"That's pretty scary (and hopefully, unbelievable)...the effect of Iodine on estrogen receptor disappears in DAYS? It's scary because that would mean that iodine's effect on hormones/receptors doesn't actually cure, heal, or fix the body permanently - it only puts some type of a "symptom bandaid" on the whole picture."

----No, no no.

Iodine isn't a bandaid anymore than magnesium is a bandaid. Iodine is an essential nutrient which needs constant replenishing. Once you stop taking it, the deficiency starts to return again and so do any raging symptoms such as breast pain. If you breasts are deficient, then other places in your body which get Iodine after the thyroids, breast and ovaries (pecking order) are also lacking. They just might not be noticable. Sore breasts may be the "canaries in the coal mine" in terms of alerting us there is a body-wide iodine deficiency.

The deficiency is most likely caused by the bromination of of our food supply via additives and pesticides.

Studies have been done on rodents to look at what happened when researchers first supplemented and then blocked iodine from their diets. The progression of breast disease resumed right where it left off when they started supplementing. According to the studies, this parallels what they saw in women. (see Eskin's work) And it parallels what we've seen in women.