This page contains a Flash digital edition of a book.
• Increase consumption of cruciferous vegetables: in- • Drink filtered water, and avoid drinking hot liquids or
cluding cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower eating hot foods out of plastic and styrofoam: when heated,
and bok choy. These foods contain I3C (see above) and other
these products release plastics into the food/beverage that act
sulfur-rich compounds that are powerful antioxidants, detoxi-
as estrogen mimickers in the body and disrupt the endocrine
fiers, and protectors against cancer.
system. Filtered water is essential for reducing your exposure
to xenoestrogens (estrogen-like compounds from plastics).
• Drink Green tea: the compounds found in green tea,
particularly ECGC, make it a powerhouse among foods for
• Exercise and maintain a healthy weight: there are doz-
cancer prevention. Green tea offers protection against smok-
ens of studies demonstrating physical fitness and optimal body
ing and dietary/ingested carcinogens and reduces cell growth
weight as being protective against cancer. Remember that fat
and proliferation of abnormal cells. In both human and animal
is an endocrine organ and secretes estrogen. Excess pounds of
epidemiological studies, green tea has been shown to protect
fat add to the estrogenic load of the body
against breast cancer.
• Minimize coffee and caffeinated products: in women
• Wear wireless bras: to prevent the stagnation of lymph
who have tender, swollen breasts and/or fibrocystic breasts, it
and blood flow to and from the breast. Victoria’s Secret carries
is recommended to minimize or completely avoid coffee and
a line that features wireless cups while still providing excellent
colas in order to reduce symptoms.
support.
• Eat a high vegetable/fruit diet: contains innumerable
• Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols): helps
antioxidants, fibers and protective nutrients that promote
to reduce symptoms of fibrocystic breasts, particularly in caf-
breast health, proper estrogen detoxification and protect
feine sensitive women. Remember to take a product that has
against cancer and fibrocystic change. Lemons and citrus peel
mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols.
are particularly useful for detoxifying estrogens.
• Vitamin D: is becoming a rising star in women’s health,
• Avoid conventionally raised animal and dairy products:
shown to protect against cancer of the breast and ovaries.
as they are contaminated with hormones, steroids and antibi-
Many women are deficient so ask your doctor to check your
otics - which mimic estrogen and create body-wide endocrine
levels.
disruption.
• Iodine: important for reducing the number and activ-
• Eat flax and other seeds: contain lignans and other
ity of estrogen receptors in the breast tissue. Sources include
compounds that help reduce cell proliferation in breast tis-
iodized salt, seafood, sea vegetables and sushi.
sue and help the liver to metabolize estrogens optimally. They
Submitted by Jillian Sarno, who is a Naturopathic Doctor also
also enhance fecal excretion of estrogen, improve microbial
specializing in NeuroCranial Restructuring. For more informa-
balance in the gut and increase levels of sex hormone binding
tion, visit www.NHCNC.com.
globulin (SHBG).
October 2009
43
Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64
Produced with Yudu - www.yudu.com