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Phytoestrogens Vs. Xenoestrogens
Navigating the complex world of estrogen and breast cancer can be incredibly confusing. Estrogen can range from naturally made in the body to phytoestrogens from plants and xenoestrogen pesticides sticking to your strawberries. This blog post aims to clarify the different types so you can stay balanced, happy, and healthy! Before I go further, here…
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How Your Estrogen Quotient Ratio Affects Your Breast Health
Why is your Eq ratio so important? Hormones significantly impact your emotional, physical, and mental health. They are the main substances responsible for directing the mechanisms of the body at the cellular, subcellular, and even genetic levels. In other words, hormones are your body’s messengers. If your hormones are not balanced—neither are you. This could…
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Aromatase Inhibitors, Estrogen & Breast Cancer
Navigating the complex world of estrogen and breast cancer can be incredibly confusing. New and hard-to-say words, such as aromatase inhibitors, are entering your vocabulary, and their concepts seem tangled up. On top of everything thrown at you, the shock of breast cancer is still making its way around your mind. What should I take? Are…
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Ditch Your Toxic Laundry Detergent NOW
Volatile Organic Compounds, or VOCs, are gases that are emitted from chemicals used to create scented products—and your toxic laundry detergent may contain dozens of them. A groundbreaking study conducted by the University of Washington found over 100 Volatile Organic Compounds in common commercial laundry soap, many of them known carcinogens. Volatile Organic Compounds in…