Breast cancer is so common that almost every female will get it or know a close relative or friend that will get it.  It is on everyone’s mind lately because it is October.  Even football players are wearing pink.  The following list will help you far more than wearing pink.  If you want to be involved, here are some better ways so spend your money, rather than buying pink shoes.

1. Start using Thermography as a screening tool and for early detection.  The use of mammography is very controversial.  If you watch T.V. you’d never know that.  Here’s Why.

2. Tamoxifen is the drug of choice for hormone dependent breast cancers because it blocks estrogen receptors.  Basically, it keeps estrogen from growing the cancer.  Interesting how a drug gets such attention, but lifestyle to eliminate excess estrogen and a diet that helps clear estrogen has no interest to treatment.  The American Cancer Society lists tamoxifen as a known carcinogen, stating that it increases the risk of some types of uterine cancer while lowering the risk of breast cancer recurrence.^[38]  The risks may be worth the trade off, but many women don’t know they may be trading one cancer for another.

In 1993 Imperial Chemical Industries demerged their pharmaceuticals business (AstraZeneca, the makers of Tamoxifen), as well as its agrochemicals and specialties businesses, to form Zeneca Group plc.^[4]

So the makers of Tamoxifen were part of a large chemical company potentially causing the very problems their drugs are meant to help, interesting.

3.  Breast Cancer is the leading cause of death for middle aged women, and only 5% of the National Cancer Institutes budget is allocated to research on prevention, as of 2002.

4.  High levels of estrogen are the primary cause of Breast cancer.  See John Lee’s Book  often from pesticides used around the home, or farming, and hormone treated meat.  So eat organic when possible.

5. Oral Contraceptives given to teenagers increases the lifetime risk by 600%.  The younger they start the more they are affected.  If they are being used for cycle regulation instead of birth control, Chaste Tree often works very well.

6. Eating sugar increases risk.  Yes, I know sugar increases risks for everything.  Too much sugar leads to insulin resistance.  If you get your cholesterol checked and your triglycerides are high you are likely at risk.  Insulin resistance leads to Luteinizing hormone (LH) and Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) imbalances.  This leads directly to PCOS and a shift to male hormone dominance and no ovulation.  Combine insulin resistance and PCOS and no ovulation and you get a higher level of estrogen, acne, fat around the waist, and increase in facial / body hair.  Plus, the more fat, the more estrogen produced.

7.  The use of “soy” is very controversial.  Some research suggests it protects and other research suggests it promotes breast cancer.  Unless soybeans are fermented they are filled with toxins that can easily mess up your digestion and more commonly your thyroid.  Soybean fields are also heavily sprayed or genetically modified plants.  Above all, they do have estrogenic effects that mimic natural estrogens.

8. March 1999, JAMA study tracked 88,795 women between ages 30 and 55 from 1980 to 1994.  Women who kept their fat intake less than 20% of total calories were no more likely to develop breast cancer than those with a high-fat diet.  There was a group of 1000 women who kept their fat intake less than 20% that actually had 15% more breast cancer.  Any and all fat consumed whether as olive oil or a steak should be organic, thus hormone-free.

9. University of Illinois toxicologist Samual Epstein, M.D. “all women from conception to death will now be exposed to and additional breast cancer risk due to milk from cows treated with RBGH”

Bad estrogen (RBGH and other synthetic estrogens) comes in to your body  –> gets converted to really bad estrogen in your liver  –>   Make sure your milk is hormone-free or it says RBGH free.

10.  Positive things to do besides wearing pink.

1. Avoid estrogen hormones
2. Exercising can decrease your risk by 35%.  I use High Intensity Training.
3. Stop eating hydrogenated oils (trans-fats)
4. Eat good hormone producers -raw butter, extra virgin olive oil, cod liver oil, coconut oil
5. Wearing a bra less than 12 hours per day can decrease risk by half.
6. Lots of raw fruits and veggies
7. Save your liver- less alcohol, medications, toxins in general.
8. Eat as many anticancer foods as possible: kale, beets, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, garlic, onions, and leeks
9. Get you vitamin D naturally. Sunlight is best then cod liver oil
10. Eat organic as much as possible. More nutrition, no pesticides, herbicides, artificial fertilizers, or injected hormones.

When I look at this list I see a lot of work to do.  Too many women are dying needlessly and the standard treatments aren’t good enough.  We need to back up and look at prevention and promote it better, stop using so many chemicals and promote better diets.  Companies are so focused on making money that health has been sacrificed.  The sad reality is that there will never be a cure for cancer because cancer is the cure.  I know it sounds like double talk, but it is isn’t.  This is the most profound thing I ever learned about cancer and it came from a chiropractor.

You can burn, cut, and poison cancer all you want but it never addresses the cause, the toxicity or our world and the altered metabolism of our bodies as a result.  That is why most people have a reoccurance of cancer.  If you look at cancer as the cure you’ll understand that prevention is the only way to effectively help women live longer.

You owe it to your mother, sister, aunt or significant other to care about breast cancer and its prevention.

The quickest things you can do today.

#1 Start buying only hormone-free meat and milk.
#2 Stop using chemicals (ie…lawns, cleaning, perfumes, etc.) natural alternatives exist for everything you want.

#3 ALL women should read Dr. John Lee’s book

“What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer.”  It is the single best resource out there for information.  Don’t worry there is no kind of affiliate link, just information you should have.  Reading it will change your life forever.

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