Fred Bloem, M.D.

Dear Visitor,

Thank you for visiting my website. I am Dr. Fred Bloem from Olney, Maryland, and I have a holistic and integrative medical practice.

My basic medical education consists of internal medicine and family medicine. My desire to be a better physician for my patients led me to start my own medical practice and broaden my educational horizons. My advanced postgraduate training includes nutritional medicine, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (including the Wiley Protocol), the Dr. Simeons HCG Diet Protocol and other weight reduction therapies, energetic healing (including NeuroModulation Technique and Emotional Freedom Technique), and maggot debridement therapy for poorly healing wounds and ulcers.

Because my medical practice is unique, I attract patients from many states in the northeastern and midatlantic regions of the United States and some have come from more remote locations.

Many people found me because they have been referred by existing patients. Others have found me by searching the Internet. Many of these have suffered health problems for a long time, consulted with a lot of other physicians, and were not able to find or receive the care that they needed.

Other people are simply looking for a good personal physician for themselves or for their family. These are they who need more than a rushed 15-minutes-or-less face time with a physician in a crowded medical office. They recognize that over the years the mechanic spent more time with their cars than their doctors did with them..

Because of my background in internal medicine and family medicine,  I am comfortable treating both children and adult men and women with a wide variety of health concerns.

After practicing as a traditional allopathic physician for several years, it became clear to me that Western medicine as it is being taught and practiced by most physicians today has its limitations. One of the main concerns that I had was that many of the allopathic treatments do not address the underlying causes of a patient’s illness. I recognized that many common diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, and others were linked to obesity. However, like most physicians, I felt unprepared to help my patients lose weight.

Postgraduate training in bariatric medicine, bio-identical hormone therapies, orthomolecular medicine, and energy medicine (NeuroModulation Technique (NMT) and Emotional Freedom Technique), has made it possible for me to help my patients more effectively, more quickly, and with safer treatment methods.

Besides that, I am now able to help my patients with a much wider variety of health concerns. They include:

• All allergies
• All autoimmune diseases
• Addictions
• Acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions.
• Autism
• Crohn’s disease, irritable syndrome
• Diabetes mellitus
• Emotional, psychological, and sensory/motor neurological disturbances
• Hypertension
• Hypothyroidism
• Infectious diseases
• Obesity

It is the combination of my genuine concern for my patients’ well-being and attention to detail, my traditional medical training, my experience in helping patients with their weight problems, safe nutritional, natural, and energetic treatments that makes my practice unique.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Fred Bloem, M.D.

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A woman send me a message that read: “I used progesterones for about two years until they made my migraines worse so I stopped oral birth control.”

Bioidentical progesterone that is exactly the same as the progesterone that the human body makes does not make migraines worse if it is properly balanced with physiological dosages of estradiol.

However, oral contraceptives do have the potential of worsening migraine headaches. It is important to understand that oral contraceptives NEVER contain progesterone. Instead, they contain non-bioidentical chemicals such as levonorgestrel, norethindrone, norgestimate, norgestrel, desogestrel, and drospirenone. Often, these hormone disrupting chemicals are misleadingly referred to as “progestins” or “progestagens” even though they have very little in common with bioidentical progesterone and even though they have completely different properties. None of these non-bioidentical chemicals are produced by the human body so it is no surprise that they have known side effects that include blood clots, stroke, hypertension, weight gain, headaches, and many more.

That is why I do not recommend oral contraceptives for any reason. Natural family planning and/or barrier contraceptives such as condoms, diaphragms, and cervical caps in combination with spermicide are much safer options.

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From time to time patients come into my office who are using the Mirena birth control method.

Mirena is a T-shaped, plastic IUD (intrauterine contraceptive device) that is inserted by a physician into the vagina, passed through the cervix, and implanted in the uterus. It stays in place for five years while it releases levonorgestrel.

Levonorgestrel is a chemical that is not normally found in the human body. Many health professionals refer to levonorgestrel as a “progestin” or “progestagen”. This misleading term leads many to believe that progestins are somehow related to the hormone progesterone that the human body produces. Nothing could be further from the truth. Because their biochemical structure is different, all progestins have hormone disrupting effects and their effects are opposite to the effects of progesterone. Therefore it is not surprising that many women experience adverse reactions while they are using Mirena.

Levonorgestrel is found in many oral contraceptives and it was also the active ingredient of Norplant which consisted of implants that were injected into women’s upper arms. Some Norplant users experienced significant side effects.

Some women choose Mirena because they tend forget to take oral contraceptives and because they want the security of knowing that for five years they will not have any children unless they remove it. It is believed to be 99.9% effective in preventing pregnancy.

This is how Mirena works:

• It blocks sperm from reaching or fertilizing the egg.
• It makes the lining of your uterus thin (this may also result in less menstrual bleeding over time).
• It stops the release of your egg from the ovaries.

Here is a list of common side effects:

• Prolonged menstrual bleeding
• Prolonged uterine cramping
• Dizziness
• Weight gain
• Low back pain
• Headache
• Stuffy nose
• Depression
• Abnormal Pap smears
• Ectopic pregnancy (which can be life-threatening and result in infertility)
• Intrauterine pregnancy (birth defects are a possibility)
• Sepsis (an infection which can be fatal)
• Pelvic inflammatory disease (which can result in infertility)
• Irregular Bleeding and Amenorrhea (no periods)
• Embedment (in the uterine wall)
• Perforation (of the uterus or cervix)
• Ovarian cysts (can cause severe mid-cycle pain)
• Breast cancer
• Risk of Mortality (risk of dying is low)
• Lower abdominal pain
• Upper respiratory infection
• Leukorrhea (abnormal vaginal discharge)
• Nausea
• Headache
• Nervousness
• Vaginitis (irritation or inflammation of the vagina)
• Dysmenorrhea (cramps or painful periods)
• Breast pain
• Skin disorder
• Acne
• Decreased libido
• Hypertension
• Sinusitis

Many women don’t even come back for follow up with the physician who inserted the IUD. As a result physicians often don’t make the connection between these women’s health complaints and the levonorgestrel that is being released from their Mirena IUD. Some women even forget to mention to their physicians that they are using Mirena because they don’t consider it a medication or a drug that they are using. Something else that may make it difficult to correlate certain symptoms with the Mirena IUD is that many of the side effects are nonspecific and that they may be ascribed to other factors.

Some women consider the lack of menstrual periods to be a blessing. However, having normal, regular menstrual periods is a normal and essential part of being a healthy woman.

Medications and devices that contain levonorgestrel are marketed without regard to the health of women and children. They are marketed to pregnant women for use after pregnancy. A study done in Mexico with breastfeeding Norplant users found that their infants had significantly modified thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels.

According to Bayer, the manufacturer, the Mirena IUD is an effective, long-acting and reversible method of birth control that delivers 20 µg/day of levonorgestrel directly into the uterus and protects against pregnancy for up to 5 full years. Due to the local action of levonorgestrel on the endometrium, there is often frequent irregular bleeding or spotting during the first 3-6 months of use. The number of days with bleeding or spotting decreases gradually, and by the end of the first year approximately 20% of women will experience a total absence of bleeding. A decision to use Mirena® must include consideration of the risks of PID [pelvic inflammatory disease]. Candidates should have no history of ectopic pregnancy or a condition that predisposes to ectopic pregnancy.

In Norway there was a one six-year followup study that followed breastfeeding infants exposed to levonorgestrel (Norplant) and that found that they had higher incidence rates of respiratory infections, skin conditions and eye infections than the control group. They were later were found to have a higher proportion of neurological conditions.

My advice to women who are using Mirena is to have it removed as soon as possible. It’s not worth it. Please don’t gamble with your health. Stay away from any chemical contraceptive method, including oral contraceptives and contraceptive injections such as Depo Provera. I have seen many women whose health was drastically altered because of these poisonous drugs. Instead, I recommend natural family planning or barrier contraceptive methods such as condoms, cervical caps, diaphragms in combination with the use of spermicides.

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A couple of weeks ago three women traveled together to my office from the Eastern Shore of Maryland for treatment of obesity with the Dr. Simeons HCG Protocol.

Yesterday I spoke with one of them and she excitedly told me that she, her mother, and her mother’s friend had all lost 12 pounds.

They had all been using oral HCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin) and were very happy with the weight reduction that they had achieved.

The patient did complain of having a metal taste in her mouth. I explained that this is a known side effect of the potassium iodide/iodine supplement that I had given to her and that reducing the dose would eliminate it. However, she was reluctant to do this because the supplement made her feel so good. She took the first dose as soon as she left my office and within 30 minutes she started to feel better.

Iodine is an essential element that the body needs to make thyroid hormone. Iodine combines with tyrosine to make thyroxine also known as T4 which contains four iodine molecules. T4 can be converted into triiodothyronine (T3) which is a more active form of thyroid hormone.

Unfortunately, the Standard American Diet contains very little iodine. Iodized salt contains insufficient amounts of iodine and many of the people who need it most are on a low salt diet. Sea salt usually does not contain any iodine.

Fortunately, iodine supplementation is affordable. There is a way to check for iodine deficiency by checking the urine. I found that all the patients that I tested were iodine deficient.

I know recommend iodine for everyone, especially if they have symptoms of hypothyroidism such as fatigue, cold intolerance, constipation, and dry skin.

Iodine is available by prescription in the form of Lugol’s solution or you may purchase it online here.

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