About the Natural Iodine in The Iodine Protocol
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Your body uses iodine all over your body, in all of your organs and especially the breasts and prostate. Trillions of cells have a receptor site for iodine and need it — and, sadly, many people are starving themselves of iodine because they think it is radioactive or they think...
Breast Pain, Menstrual or Menopausal Mood Swings, Endometriosis?
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Iodine can relieve breast pain, ovulation pain, premenstrual mood symptoms and help to prevent ovarian cysts. It works by promoting healthy estrogen metabolism, down regulating estrogen receptors and stabilizing estrogen-sensitive tissue in the breasts, uterus, ovaries, and brain. As one paper says, iodine has 'a net anti-estrogenic effect.Iodine’s anti-estrogen effect...
Signs of Low Progesterone And How To Raise It Naturally
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
When your progesterone is low, due to low levels or progesterone resistance, estrogen dominates. The consequences can be rage, headaches, cysts, miserable periods, and sleep disorders. Progesterone is important for your overall sense of equilibrium or well-being and it balances out estrogen. Progesterone provides contentment, which is often lost when...
Fibroids: Alternative Therapies To Avoid Surgery
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Recently on The Today Show, they ran a story about an NBC journalist with life long fibroids who had been to many doctors only to be dismissed by them. A familiar story for many of us. She ended up in the ER, then found a doctor who ultimately removed her...
Iodine Is Not Just For Your Thyroid And There's Mass Confusion On This Topic.
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Iodine is used all over your body, in all of your organs especially your breasts and prostate. Trillions of cells have a receptor site for iodine and need it — and, sadly, many people are starving themselves of iodine because they think it is radioactive or they think they are allergic to it because of an allergy to shellfish which is not an iodine allergy, it's an allergy to a protein in shellfish.
The thyroid cannot function without magnesium.
Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP
Here is a list of very important functions of magnesium and how it relates to your thyroid gland health. Magnesium is responsible for converting the inactive T4 thyroid hormone into the active form of T3. This is extremely important because of the metabolism of your body cells by T3, not inactive T4.