I'm just sick of my mom right now...

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Yeah, except that if its NOT hormonal, then actually giving yourself artificial hyperthyroid with iodine supplements is a great way to ruin your health. You'll live much longer just being fat. (And then, naturally, your body goes and says, "Wait a minute, too many thyroid hormones! Let's downregulate this! and you get hypothyroidism...)

Plus, hormone problems that cause weight problems have extra symptoms. Which are fairly bothersome. Which I do not have.

The dosage you get in seaweed pills generally isn't enough to do that, though it suffers from the usual problem that many unrefined substances have--you never know how much of the active ingredient you're getting.

You can make yourself hyperthyroid with iodine? Really?

It's complicated... but technically yes, or you could get hypothyroidism depending on how your body reacts. Too much or too little iodine messes with your thyroid.

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/minerals/iodine/

Scroll down to "safety".

I just remember my babies being fussy after and they said it's normal for the baby to run a slight fever. My daughter was fine and my son was slightly feverish. I'm just not gonna have the mega shots this time, the baby will have all her immunizations, but just not all at once. I remember they asked me if I wanted a mega-shot or if I wanted to do all the shots separate, I just went for the mega-shots but I remember reading things like a fever is normal, etc, and it just sucks to see your baby like that after. I just remember it made me feel real bad, but no, I do believe vaccines are very very important. I wouldn't not have them. I have a GF whose son 1 year old and he's had nothing, I get worried for him! but she refuses to have him vaccinated.

I think the fever is probably a reaction to the vaccine itself, not the fact that there's more than one at a time, most likely because they had to use a live, weakened version instead of killed. That's why kids tend to get fevers after their MMR, because their immune systems are getting activated in response to a very mild version of the actual threat. (This is from a nurse who gives a lot of vaccines, not from my own research; I asked when I got my flu shot this year.) It's worth it, though; measles is actually a pretty deadly disease which is not yet properly controlled... I think the figure is something like five hundred thousand deaths a year or some such, about 1% of the total, right behind malaria and tuberculosis, about half as many people as die in car accidents. Pretty scary, IMO. Definitely worth protecting your kid.

wat. Aren't there studies on cell phone usage and electromagnetic waves causing cancer? some also noticed a correlation between magnetic fields from high-voltage power lines and that

Correlational studies. As in, "this is more common in this particular group of people," with no way to prove cause and effect. Cell phone users also have, on average, a different lifestyle than those who don't use them--including in general a higher stress level. The higher stress level is something that's already connected to higher cancer rates.... wanna guess what could be the real causal variable here?

Ah, correlation/causation... I can, for example, measure a child's wrist-to-elbow length, and predict how good a reader that child will be. Why? Do longer arms make you a better reader? Not really. Older children have longer arms and are better readers. The cell phone/cancer thing is almost certainly similarly spurious, with a third-variable connection related to things like socioeconomic status, lifestyle, etc.

The ironic things about my GF who won't immunize her son, her husband is an emergency room medical doctor. She's my friend but he needs to take that boy on the sly and get him vaccinated! Baby didn't even get the Heb B vaccine they give at birth. I guess she went in knowing her rights and her right to refusal. She told me she needs to make sure I'm informed before I go, but I've had 2 other kids, I don't mind about the Heb B.