Infertility & Breast cancer

I opened my internet this morning to see a story about Guiliana Rancic and her decision to undergo a double masectomy. I have followed her and her husband's struggle with infertility over the years but I had not heard that she was fighting breast cancer. Sadly, I wasn't surprised.


So what does breast cancer have to do with fertility?
The answer is hormone imbalance.

Hormone imbalance comes in many different forms:

• infertility



• breast, uterine, ovarian cancers



• severe menopause symptoms



• early puberty



• PMDD, severe PMS



• Prostate hypertrophy & cancer in men
  

Unfortunately we are living in a toxic pool of hormone disrupters and while hormone imbalance is common, it is not normal.

There are some easy lifestyle tips you can implement to improve hormone balance:

1. Stop all forms of HRT and hormonal birth control (esp. Yaz & Mirena)



2. Eat one serving a day of cruciferous vegetables/day (broccoli, kale, brussel sprouts)
   


3. Avoid soy & plastics
   

These tips may not be enough to restore balance which is where nutritional therapy can help.
*A special note to those woman who have gone through IVF or are planning to go through IVF, the drugs are powerful hormone disruptors by design. Helping the body clear them safely through nutritional therapy helps to prevent other problems down the road.

Body Messages - Red Dots on Your Skin

Our bodies are often giving us messages, so do we know what they mean or that it is a message?
Red dots on the skin are an important message. They can show up anywhere on the body; arms, back, chest, face.
These little dots are an indication of too much estrogen in the body. They can show up on women or men. Men can get lots of them if they are taking synthetic testosterone since excess testosterone in a man's body will turn into estrogen. Women can get them when the body is not filtering estrogen properly, from birth control or HRT. Anyone can get too much estrogen from non-organic animal products, plastics, soy, pesticides and many other sources.

If you have too much estrogen in the body, it can put women at risk for breast, cervical, ovarian and uterine cancers and men at risk for prostate cancer. If you find little red dots on you or your family, pay attention to this very important message.

There are things you can do to help reduce estrogen in the body:

• Eat 1 serving of cruciferous vegetables / day (kale, broccoli, brussel sprouts)


• Avoid soy products


• Switch to organic sources of animal products (milk, cheese, butter, meat, etc)


• Seek natural alternatives to birth control & HRT


• Avoid using all pesticides and herbicides