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  • Iodine and Breast Health: What is the Connection?

    Iodine and Breast Health: What is the Connection?

    Iodine is needed for creating thyroid hormone but there is a lot more to this essential mineral than this. A 2016 study conducted at University of Michigan found that 13% of all U.S. women have low iodine levels. This means that over 20 million American women are at risk for both thyroid imbalance and Breast…

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  • How Does Sea Cucumber Affect Breast Cancer?

    How Does Sea Cucumber Affect Breast Cancer?

    Once again, evidence-based natural medicine provides us with some insight on supporting women on a healing journey.  Recent studies confirm that glycoside extracts of sea cucumber may be greatly beneficial for breast cancer prevention as well as after a breast cancer diagnosis. Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor, worldwide. They are interesting looking…

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  • S-t-r-e-t-c-h Yourself Towards Health!

    S-t-r-e-t-c-h Yourself Towards Health!

    It just makes sense: If you want to be healthy, you must MOVE YOUR BODY! Besides cardio workouts, however, there are other types of movement that can be incorporated into the daily routine of anyone on the Healthy Breast path. One of them is stretching—and the specific benefits of these movements may surprise you! What…

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  • Can PTSD Increase Your Breast Cancer Risk?

    Can PTSD Increase Your Breast Cancer Risk?

    A few weeks ago I discussed the physical and mental benefits that go along with “turning on” the Relaxation Response and offered some tips on how to elicit this healing response within you. If you have not read that blog post yet, you can check it out HERE. But what about when a person cannot…

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  • The Relaxation Response: What It is and How to “Turn It On”

    The Relaxation Response: What It is and How to “Turn It On”

    In honor of “National Relaxation Day” (yes, there really is such a thing), let’s take a look at an amazing phenomena called the Relaxation Response and just how easy it is to “turn it on” inside your body for ultimate healing! What is the Relaxation Response? Basically, the “Relaxation Response” is the exact opposite of…

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  • Vitamin D: An Absolute MUST for Breast Health

    Vitamin D: An Absolute MUST for Breast Health

    I have written a lot about vitamin D over the years —  and there is a very good reason for this. If there is one supplement that would be at the very top of my list for helping prevent and support the healing of Breast Cancer, it would be vitamin D! Vitamin D Deficiency: A…

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  • Are Your Hormones Balanced?

    Are Your Hormones Balanced?

    Hormones have a deep impact on your health and affect physical and mental health on all levels. With the increase in toxins in the environment and other stressors that occur as a part of modern life, hormone imbalance is becoming more and more common among all individuals globally— not just for women, but for men…

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  • Heart Health and Breast Health Part 2

    Heart Health and Breast Health Part 2

    In Part 1 of Heart Health and Breast Health, I spoke about the emerging field of neuro-cardiology, which is the study of how the heart and the brain communicate with one another. Remember that science now knows that it is the heart which actually sends more cellular and chemical signals to the brain than the…

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  • Is Your Heart Health Connected to Your Breast Health? – Part 1

    Is Your Heart Health Connected to Your Breast Health? – Part 1

    February is National Heart Month. When President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the first Heart Month in 1963, lifestyle-related disease rates were beginning to rise dramatically nationwide. In fact, in that same year roughly half of the deaths recorded were attributed to cardiovascular disease. Unfortunately, today the state of our hearts is not much better. Heart disease…

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