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Soy and Breast Cancer: What you need to know!
Quick Read: Fermented and whole soy (Haelan 951, organic miso paste (recipes), pickled tofu, etc.) are healing. Soy isolates (GMO soybeans, meat substitutes, soy protein powder, etc.) are harmful. Phyto-estrogens are plant estrogens (from flax, soy, and many other things) that are safe, gentle, and healing. There’s a ton of confusion and misleading information around…
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How Hidden Metalloestrogens Actually Threaten Breast Health
First and foremost, if you do not remember anything else from this blog, always keep this in mind: Your balanced hormones do NOT cause cancer. However, metalloestrogens, which are a class of xenoestrogens (toxic estrogens), can absolutely be a cause of cancer. Your hormones, including estrogen, are integral to keeping your body strong and healthy.…
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Warning: Use Home Water Filters Now
Your beautiful, powerful body is about 75% water. Daily consumption of clean water is the foundation of your life, especially when on a healthy breast journey. Water flushes impurities from your system, helps your body absorb nutrients, prevents constipation and dizziness, keeps your brain hydrated, regulates the digestive process, and provides countless other benefits. However,…
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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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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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Five Life-changing Lessons from Breast Cancer
I have come face-to-face with cancer many times in my life. I can honestly say that my journey with Breast Cancer has been one of the greatest learning experiences of my life. If I had to boil these lessons down to just five things Breast Cancer has taught me, this would be it. What…
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Dense Breasts and Breast Cancer: Is There a Link?
In 2003, Dr. Nancy M. Cappello got her regular mammogram, and a clean bill of health. But six weeks later, her doctor felt a lump in her breast during a physical exam. Another mammogram did not see the lump, but a subsequent ultrasound did. Cappello was shocked to discover that she had stage 3C Breast…