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I have the next edition of Bruce West’s Newsletter  out for download.  It has been a while since I put one out and I’m a little back logged, but since so many of you asked about them, here is more great health info.

If you are chronically tense or anxious then there is a nervous system imbalance.   If you have lots of spasms or muscle cramps that’s a good indication that your parasympathetic nervous system is not running well enough to slow your body or mind down.  The primary alkaline minerals that help are potassium and magnesium mostly found in vegetables.

The flip side are the stimulators, grains, cakes, pies, cookies, crackers, pasta contain acidic minerals that stimulate the sympathetic nervous system and keep you going, and going.  The common American diet often contains too much of these and not enough veggies.

Organically bound minerals from Standard Process is our best alkaline mineral supplement.  Most supplement makers get potassium from salt.  Standard Process gets it from Spanish Moss, and Alfalfa.   Also, a chronic dry mouth may be a call for more minerals.

Have you had your rocks today?
Most calcium on the market is Calcium Carbonate (limestone) or oyster shell.  This is very difficult for your body to use, as a result it soaks up lots  of stomach acid leaving you with indigestion.  If you are having reflux issues, check your calcium.

Medical magazine contradictions are too numerous to list here just download and read page 3.  They say one thing to help then give the opposite advice for medical treatment in the same magazine.  The truth about cholesterol and heart disease and diabetes on page 4.

Cancer Fighters

More good news for sulforaphane from things like our old friends kale and broccoli, etc.  They  found good research using these for breast cancer prevention.  If sulforaphane is isolated from it’s food source it loses 95% of its activity.  They may claim anti-cancer activity but forget to tell you that it doesn’t work because it is not in its whole-food form.  This is why  we recommend Standard Process for supplements.

Cruciferous Complete from Standard Process has been proven to detoxify excess estrogen.
as a nice bonus it also may help age-related macular degeneration

Crop Nutrition Declining over 50 years

43 common crops showed declines.  They compared standard soil to organic soil with organic mulch.  The organic soil and mulch plants had 300-500% more calcium, magnesium, potassium.  That was 50 years ago.  Since then there has been even more depletion.

After having dogs most of my life, there is some wonderful info on pets and having healthy pets.

Download Bruce West’s newsletter May 2009

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.

New England Journal of Medicine

New info came out today.  Seems that breast cancer patients have been getting bad advice.  Doctors have been telling women to not to lift weights.  Well it turns out that there were some people who bucked the system and did very well.  Researchers found that after treatment, women who lifted weights had less arm swelling because they had better arm muscle tone.

Sometimes I wonder why we have to research common sense, they found:

Weight lifting:

• Boosted mood
• Improved muscle mass
• Decreased weight
• Improved bone strength

Women:  Hit the weights.  You don’t need to be lifting the big manly ones, but a regular course of lifting will do the trick.  My only observation is that women often lift much lighter weights than they can.  I think that women often feel if they lift heavier weights they will get big and bulky.  Not true.  In our area365.com program women start with 13-17lbs and they can do it just fine.  2 1/2 lbs. isn’t really heavy enough for most of you.  The bonus of using more weight, you don’t have to workout so long.  We all need more time.

Men:  If you have a significant female in your life, make sure she is lifting some weight.  Cardio isn’t enough.  The health benefits are significant.  My wife is a living example, she feels better, is nicer to me, and is looking better every year she gets older.

As a side note:  Use free weights, not machines.  The benefits are infinite.  So as a bonus, you can workout at home easily.  Save the gas and time of driving to a gym.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I want to give you some practical advice you can use to increase your odds. Because a cure isn’t coming any time soon. Here are some of my notes for a recent class. If you are unfamiliar with some of the topics or are confusing, just email and I’ll try and fill in the gaps. This is the short and sweet version of what your doctor should have told you. Breast cancer has to be thought of as a long term problem that starts 10+ years prior to diagnosis. Mammograms are too late, they are not prevention devices, they are early detection devises. This advice is designed for prevention.

What are the “Classic” risk factors?

1. Over 50 y.o.

2. Started menstruation early

3. delayed child birth or no kids

4. family history

5. lumpy breasts / fibrocystic breasts

6. Eating fat increases your risks (see below)

 

JAMA Dec. 2006 Has called these risk factors weak or not effective in predicting who will get breast cancer.

 

 

Old Theory

“Fat is bad” This looked at studies from western culture with high fat and other countries with lower breast cancer rates and lower amounts of fat. Saturated was the enemy.

 

Not any more

Western diets and non-western diets are far more different than just in fat intake. Westerners eat more junk food, less fruit and veggies, and exercise less. Some parts of the world use up their entire calorie intake just working in the fields.

 

According to Dr. John Lee’s research, “saturated fats, in moderation, aren’t as dangerous as once thought, and the majority of studies show absolutely no connection between saturated fat intake and breast cancer. The latest research shows that trans-fats in margarine, and the polyunsaturated oils they’re made from, are actually more dangerous to your health than the saturated fats.”

 

March 1999 JAMA study

88,795 women tracked.

2,956 developed breast cancer

No difference in risk factors between high or low fat diets except…

Those who ate less then 20% of calories in fat had 15% more breast cancer.

 

Another study looked at mono vs. polyunsaturated.

Less breast cancer in women who ate monounsaturated oils.

Theory is that polyunsaturated oil oxidize faster and easier.

 

 

Remember fat doesn’t make you fat.

 

Carbohydrates beyond your exercise capacity increases your weight.

It is not necessary to count fat grams or grams of anything when you eat a variety of natural whole foods.

 

Increases in weight (fats cells) increase estrogen output.

 

Estrogen tells cells to GROW. Excess estrogen can kick cancer into high gear.

 

 

 

 

Oils

1. Use Olive oil- use liberally, extra-virgin and not “PURE”

2. Use Saturated fats: butter, coconut oil, lard- stable and good for you, support hormone production.

3. Avoid Hydrogenated oils: Block good hormone production

4. Use Omega- 3 fatty acids: fish, flax, green leafy veggies, walnuts, keeps inflammation down and good source of fats

5. Avoid Omega- 6 fatty acids: safflower, sunflower, other vegetable oils go rancid easily.

 

 

More knowledge to ponder.

-80% of breast cancer is related to diet and toxin exposure

-20% is Genetic

 

 

 

Positive Things To Do

1. Avoid estrogen hormones

2. Exercising can decrease your risk by 35%

3. Stop eating hydrogenated oils.

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. See below

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.

11. Do drink clean water

 

 

Liver lesson of the day

 

Methyl compounds provided by meats, eggs, and dairy are necessary to get rid of toxins,

 

 

Bad estrogen comes in to your body–> converted to really bad estrogen in your liver–> Methylation occurs and your liver says bye bye to the toxic estrogen. This is one reason to avoid being a strict vegetarian. The one wrinkle is that the meats
must be hormone free-and RBGH free milk.

U. 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”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How some foods help

Broccoli Removes carcinogens from cells, helps estrogen break down to its harmless form.

Cauliflower helps estrogen break down to its harmless form.

Cabbage helps estrogen break down to its harmless form.

Citrus fruits help prevent cancer causing hormones from hooking on to cells

Onions detoxify the body

Garlic detoxify the body

Hot Peppers help prevent cancer causing hormones from hooking on to cells

 

Properly Prepared Soybeans

Good Parts

Inhibits vessels growth to cancer cells

antioxidant

inhibits glucose uptake

 

Bad Parts

some estrogen effects

blocks thyroid hormone production

can inhibit good vessel production (hair growth and vision)

We currently do not use soy products of any kind in our house. The risk is too high.

 

 

#1 thing to do

Stop eating so much sugar. Sugar Feeds cancer and promotes insulin resistance.

 

Insulin resistance messes up hormone production

 

Junk food increases fat and insulin production, smoking and birth control pills makes it worse –> Insulin resistance increases carb cravings –> more weight gain –> more fat=more estrogen –> girls develop earlier = more menstrual cycles –> Increased breast cancer risk.

Insulin resistance also leads to PCOS –> With PCOS there is no ovulation –> now there is even more estrogen –>Increased breast cancer risk.