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and this: "xenoestrogens for example might desensitize estrogen receptors." makes a lot of sense too.. at the time of my weight loss my nutrition was horrible and I knew I was taking in a lot of xenoestrogens.. but why would I have the same issue on something like PM which has no xenoestrogens? I feel like me and E just dont get along for some reason!

but after cleaning up my diet, I have noticed big changes.. I do know it is because I stopped taking in as many xenoestrogens.. do you know how one might flush out more xenoestrogens? (besides DIM)

You are under a slight misunderstanding of what xenoestrogen and phytoestrogen means. A xenoestrogen is ANY form of estrogen that originally comes from outside the body. A phytoestrogen is a xenoestrogen whose source is specifically plants. So you WERE having the issue from something with xenoestrogens. PM, which has phytoestrogens, which are xenoestrogens from a plant. DIM is actually a phytoestrogen as well, since it comes from cruciferous vegetables, but, as I said, all phytoestrogens are in fact also xenoestrogens. The opposite is not true though, there are certainly xenoestrogens in the environment that do not come from plant sources, many more than are in plants are in industrial pollutants.

Okay, I see. Thank you. I was thinking that xenoestrogens were found in bad food and is basically "bad estrogen" and can unbalance good estrogen in your body. Could my fluctuations come from too much estrogen, maybe? That was my theory-- that I was E dom.

and yes, ultimately you are right because no matter what estrogen was going into my body, it was causing me to shrink. So weird.