Breast Cancer, FIND THE CURE OR ADDRESS THE CAUSE
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Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers and each year many women are diagnosed with it. While scientists and medical researchers are trying to find the cure for it, there are several simple steps every woman should take to prevent getting breast cancer.
Very often genetics are stressed out as a very important factor; however your genes cannot find expression without the appropriate environment. You have a lot of control of your environment.
The environmental factors that significantly increase your risk for developing breast cancer are:
- Pesticides, herbicides and other chemical substances that are often labeled as "lawn care"
- Chemicals out gassing from dry cleaning of your clothes
- Phthalates from plastics (plastic bottles and containers)
Another controllable factor is your diet. An excess of hydrogenated oils and charred meats, such as from grilling, increases your risk for breast and colon cancer.
Breast cancer risk is very much influenced by hormonal imbalances.
If your body's estrogen is metabolized mostly through the16-hydroxyestrone pathway, this can significantly increase your risk for breast cancer. Pesticides, being xenoestrogens (chemical compounds that exert negative estrogenic effects on the body), significantly disrupt estrogen metabolism pathways.
Hormone replacement therapy using synthetic progestins can increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer by 69%.
By contrast bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) through the utilization of bioidentical progesterone decreases one's risk of breast cancer. Studies have shown that women with high progesterone levels had a 70% lower breast cancer risk as compared to women with low progesterone levels.
It may seem surprising that many young premenopausal women are diagnosed with breast cancer. The majority these women had been using birth control pills (BCPs) for years. Due to the fact that BCPs (birth control pills) significantly decrease the body's natural progesterone levels, my observation is that birth control pills may increase a woman's risk for breast cancer.
Avoiding the above mentioned health hazards will help you decrease the odds of developing breast cancer and improve your overall health status.
You can wait and hope that someday a cure will be found "a miracle pill", or you can decide to eliminate the risk factors that trigger negative changes leading to breast cancer.
Posted by Bioidentical Hormone Community at Wednesday, October 07, 2009 9:31 PM 
Categories: Women's Health,Breast Health
Tags: pesticides and breast cancer hormonal imbalances estrogen bioidentical progesterone bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT)
Categories: Women's Health,Breast Health
Tags: pesticides and breast cancer hormonal imbalances estrogen bioidentical progesterone bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT)
I wish I would have known about this sooner, like 20 years earlier. I had been diagnosed with breast cancer last winter and I am certain it was because of my lifestyle and the poor health choices that I made. Back then I would have never suspected that taking my clothes to the dry cleaners (something I did very often) could be so harmful to my health and I recall using weed killers on my lawn several times every spring/summer. Seems like the weed killers are now killing me. Though I am not giving up hope, I have completely changed my lifestyle and removed all these poisons from my home (even if it may seem a little too late). I am grateful though that I was able to share this information with my two daughters who thanks to these types of articles are in a much better position then I was, to live long and healthy lives.
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Susan, You should NEVER NEVER give up hope.
That is the one thing that can get you through this. I realized this many times before, that people who have hope and truly strongly believe that they can and will overcome whatever condition is keeping them down, whether it be breast cancer, or any other disease, always are able to defeat it.
If you keep on having strong hope, I know you will overcome your breast cancer
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Yeah mind set has alot to do with a persons health. Just keep staying positive you'll get through it alright as long as you keep on keeping on (with a smile on your face).
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Everyones gonna get brest cancer sooner or later no matter what you do. There's just nothing you can do about it.
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Listen Kindra if everyone would have your att then any disease including breast cancer would literally be a death sentence, and most of us wouldn't be here to write these comments.
You obviously have no clue what you're talking about. I suggest you stop trying to infect others with your pessimisim and depression.
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I had been searching for articles on breast cancer on different natural health sites and came along this post. My sister just got diagnosed with ductal carcinoma breast cancer. She is approaching it the right way, she always was a positive person. Its her nature.
I'd better share this info with her. Might lift her spirits and encourage her even more.
Thanks for posting this.
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I was diagnosed with a breast cancer recently. It was discovered on my mammogram. I believe, that my breast was injured by those mammograms I had every year for many years.
That is a lot of radiation and I am certain that the pressure that machine applies to the breast can increase a woman's risk for cancer.
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"Hormone replacement therapy using synthetic progestins can increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer by 69%.
By contrast bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) through the utilization of bioidentical progesterone decreases one's risk of breast cancer. Studies have shown that women with high progesterone levels had a 70% lower breast cancer risk as compared to women with low progesterone levels."
-Bioidentical Hormones DECREASE breast cancer risk. The synthetic hormones are the ones that are responsible for increasing breast cancer risk. GOOD TO KNOW. Especially when going on hormone replacement therapy, go the bioidentical way:->
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Birth control pills disrupt a woman's natural cycle, our ancestors didn't have BCPs and I doubt very much that they were developing these types of problems we're being confronted with today.
Many of the so called "Modern Advances" today cause more damage then benefit to our bodies (with the exception of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy).
What's worst is that the damaging "discoveries" are being praised and accepted with warm hearts while natural alternatives are being criticized, slandered, and pushed aside to make way for the next pharmaceutical poison.
As long as there continues to be a monopoly on wellness, the environment, (big pesticide and agri-chemical companies, Yes, I mean you Monsanto), healthcare (being controlled entirely by insurance companies,) then not only will the rate of cancers sky-rocket, but as will the instance of all other diseases directly related to these corrupted practices.
THANK GOD for sites like these that raise awareness. It is our choice to either let monopoly and corruption control the way we live our lives, or support the natural ways that have proven to be most effective time and time again. Hopefully we will get there.
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Cynthia,
I agree with you, we have to raise awareness, inform and educate our family, friends, neighbors, we cannot allow those corrupted and money hungry big pharma and insurance companies to sacrifice our health for their profits.
It is grass roots movement, but we can persevere.
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Well Obummer just disposed of that idea. Hoping to force use into for-profit health insurance (something I strongly oppose) to give insurances bigger bonuses for defrauding trillions of dollars worth from innocent American families. Now he's crowning CEO's from Monsanto and granting more power to pesticide manufacturers. To put it gently, it pisses me off my dear. :S
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Never did support those "cancer charities". With all that money they get in donations they're still not able to find any cure for cancer. As the post says, breast cancer and other cancers are the result of our bad lifestyle choices. Its our fault that we choose to believe and support what corrupted organizations push at us through the media and press. They brainwash us and make people think that cancer is inevitable and that most everyone is destined to get it sooner or later.
Cancer treatment is a multi-billion dollar industry, so if a cure would be found those monies would be lost.
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Please people open your window and smell the 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine ......... Refershing ain't it!
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