Breast Health

Protect “The Girls”: Six steps every woman (& her daughter) can take to protect breast health for life

Solid medical science and clinical studies firmly establish that an underlying and untreated condition of estrogen dominance will significantly increase your breast cancer risk.  The reason is that one of estrogen’s functions in the body is to foster cell growth or proliferation.  At a cellular level, unchecked cell growth can be a precursor for cancer. 

Estrogen dominance occurs when the body’s ratio of estrogen to progesterone is out of balance.  Several factors predispose you to be estrogen dominant:  your aging ovaries, body fat, a diet high in saturated fats and processed foods, alcohol consumption, chronic stress, frequent exposure to foreign environmental estrogens (xenoestrogens) and/or taking prescription synthetic hormones including birth control pills. 

All of us women age and most of us put on a few pounds as the years go by.  And as for stress, few of us modern day suffragettes can be said to be in a Zen zone the majority of our hours.  We live in an industrialized nation so of course we are innocently yet constantly exposed to environmental toxins.  As for “the pill”, wasn’t that our baby boomer’s ticket out of a world of barefoot feet in the kitchen and into heels, briefcases, board meetings and personal checking accounts?  So, are we all just doomed to sit and fret and wonder which of us will be that “1” out of 8 women who has breast cancer in her lifetime?  No we are not. 
You and I can take proactive steps every day to keep our breast tissue healthy by eliminating – or neutralizing – estrogen dominance at a cellular level.  Read on to learn how you can start to taking six simple – yet powerfully protective – breast health steps every day!

Genie James, M.M.Sc.
Executive Director, The Natural Hormone Institute

Bioidentical Progesterone Turns Back the Clock on Your Aging Ovaries

Remember that the number of years you have lived is only one factor contributing to how rapidly your ovaries will age.  Other factors that will cause your ovaries to age more rapidly include how young you were when you had your first period, the age at which you had your first child, the number of pregnancies you have had and the age at which you enter menopause. 

So what can you do to turn back the clock on your aging ovaries and reduce your breast cancer risk?  Neutralize estrogen dominance and restore your body’s optimum hormone balance.  How is that possible?  You safely and naturally replace the progesterone your body is sorely missing with bioidentical progesterone.  Bioidentical means the molecular structure of the progesterone you introduce back into your system is exactly the same molecular structure as the progesterone your ovaries used to produce.  At a cellular level, your body recognizes, receives and positively responds.  At a cellular level, when your body’s overabundance of estrogen is neutralized with bioidentical progesterone, your breast cells are no longer bathed or steeped continuously in too much estrogen and a causative factor for breast cancer is held in check.

A bit skeptical? You should be. These are “your girls” we are talking about.  You shouldn’t take anyone’s – not even ours – word when it comes to your breast health.  Multiple clinical studies validate the premise that bioidentical progesterone replacement promotes breast health. 

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