Re: Progesterone levels and iodine

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Lynn. I had this article under seaweed, and my tiny brain hadn't connected it with progesterone....The link is now listed not only under seaweed, but also under "estrogen", "progesterone", and "breast". And, hopefully, the information has made some small link within my brain....

This is potential evidence that seaweed (iodine ?) may increase progesterone and decrease estrogen.

Zoe

Progesterone levels and iodine

Found this on progesterson again too:The effect of Fucus vesiculosus, an edible brown seaweed, uponmenstrual cycle length and hormonal status in three pre-menopausalwomen: a case report F Skibolahttp://tinyurl.com/96k3h Mean baseline progesterone levels rose from 0.58 ± 0.14 to 8.4 ± 2.6 ng/ml withthe 700 mg/d dose (P = 0.1), which increased further to 16.8 ± 0.7 ng/ml with the 1.4 g/d dose (P= 0.002).Conclusions: These pilot data suggest that dietary bladderwrack may prolong the length of themenstrual cycle and exert anti-estrogenic effects in pre-menopausal women. Looks like a fair increase in progesterone to me but maybe I'm reading this wrong.Lynn

[Guest guest]

Even tho this study was on three people it reflects what many of us suspected from our own experience-- that iodine raised our progesterone. Somebody should email Skibola at Berkeley and find out if similar studies are going to be done.

This area of research has implications for progesterone takers-- as well as estrogen takers.

That one woman's blood level was huge.

Lynne

Lynn writes:

The effect of Fucus vesiculosus, an edible brown seaweed, uponmenstrual cycle length and hormonal status in three pre-menopausalwomen: a case report F Skibolahttp://tinyurl.com/96k3h

[Guest guest]

Lynn,

I drink lots of raw milk for the calcium, but what do you eat to get magnesium? Do you have to supplement?

Bonnie

[Guest guest]

This area of research has implications for progesterone takers--

as well as

> estrogen takers.

>

> That one woman's blood level was huge.

>

------>I wonder if those of us who have been " progesterone dominant "

which I highly suspect I am, need to handle taking iodine

differently.

LOLOL..now the question is how to do this???

Maybe the iodine helps control the path of progesterone also keeping

it from going down the DHT route. My skin is clear and this hair

growth has me really wondering. Actually the last 2 days I washed my

hair I little fallout.

I'm still wondering also about the Ca/mg roles in iodine metabolism.

Seems to be linked by Abrahams suggestion to up Mg but I can't find

much there. Mg's ablity to get in and be utilized is controlled by

Ca so gotta have both. And of course estrogen plays a role in all

this stuff...Accckkkk LOLOL. Better stop on all this for now.

BYe

lynn

Lynn

[Guest guest]

> Lynn,

> I drink lots of raw milk for the calcium, but what do you eat to get

> magnesium? Do you have to supplement?

>

----> Ho Bonnie,

I've been supplementing it but it's notoriusly hard to get it in.

Although when I do too much either by bath or supplement I get heart

palps so it must be getting into me.

I saw a chart once that consolidated all weston prices Ca and Mg

levels with dental caries for the native people he studied. I was

stunned at the amount of Mg the groups with the lowest caries were

consuming. Don't have the numbers but I think it was in one of Jordan

Rubins earlier books. Anyhow...they were on the Pacific Islands and

in New Zealand. Prehaps the volcanic soils there are rich in Mg???

Have you been to the Mg waters site http://www.mgwater.com/list3.shtml.

They advocate getting adding it to water or transdermal like baths.

Lynn