What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Breast Cancer How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life

by Lee, John R.; Zava, David; Hopkins, Virginia

• ISBN13: 9780446679800
• ISBN10: 0446679801
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

An informative and absorbing read for both medical practitioners and their patients, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer takes aim at "the breast cancer industry" with a barrage of thought-provoking ammunition. The book is equal parts criticism and suggestion. Current health treatments, including HRT, receive serious condemnation, and authors John Lee and David Zava carefully provide plenty of medical research to back up claims that excessive estrogen is a main source of cancer-causing irregularities. While the names of all the different natural and synthetic hormones can get overwhelming for the lay reader, with perseverance your new vocabulary of terms like androstenedione, estradiol, and cortisol will enable you to communicate more effectively with your doctors. The authors credit these hormones not just with a role in cancer, but with culpability for everything from insomnia and acne to fatigue and migraines. A full chapter extols the virtues of natural progesterone cream, and urges women to order their own saliva tests for proper evaluation of their hormone levels. Diet and exercise recommendations are simple, outlining reasons to limit fats, sugars, and meats while increasing vegetables and adding a multivitamin. These recommendations extend to adolescents and urge getting off the couch and beginning a gentle exercise program to women of all ages and in each stage of life. --Jill Lightner

Author Biography

John R. Lee, MD, is internationally acknowledged as a pioneer and expert in the study and use of the hormone progesterone and on the subject of hormone replacement therapy for women.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
PART I THE HISTORY, POLITICS, AND NATURE OF BREAST CANCER	1	(94)
The History and Politics of the Breast Cancer Industry
Why We Can't Seem to Prevent or Cure Breast Cancer	3	(23)
Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
Why It All Points to Estrogen	26	(18)
The Nature of Cancer
Normal Cells That Refuse to Grow Up	44	(19)
Other Factors that Affect Susceptibility to Breast Cancer
Insulin Resistance, Birth Control Pills, Early Puberty, DHEA, Prolactin, Melatonin, Thyroid	63	(21)
The Nature of Breast Cancer
Nurturing Gone Awry	84	(11)
PART II THE SEX HORMONES AND HOW THEY AFFECT BREAST CANCER	95	(114)
The Nature of Estrogens
Angels of Life, Angels of Death	97	(19)
How Estrogen Talks to Your Cells
The Right Communication Is Everything	116	(20)
Estriol: A Safer Replacement Estrogen
Mother Nature's Designer Estrogen	136	(17)
The Nature of Progesterone
The Great Protector	153	(18)
The Nature of the Androgens
The Part ``Male'' Hormones Play in a Woman's Hormonal Orchestra	171	(11)
The Problem of ERT and HRT
How Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Cause Cancer	182	(14)
Tamoxifen and Raloxifene
Why Synthetic Drugs Create New Problems	196	(13)
PART III PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR PREVENTING AND HEALING BREAST CANCER	209	(135)
How and When to Use Natural Progesterone
The Guardian Angel of Breast Cancer	211	(22)
How and When to Use Other Hormones
Estrogen, DHEA, Pregnenolone, the Corticosteroids, Testosterone, and Androstenedione	233	(12)
Testing and Symptoms
How to Determine Your Hormone Balance	245	(17)
The Light and Dark Sides of Soy
How to Eat Soy So That It Helps	262	(23)
How Nutrition Affects Your Breast Cancer Risk
Making Good Choices Can Make the Difference	285	(31)
Protecting the Present and the Future
Creating an Environment Where Cancer Can't Get Started	316	(28)
Resources	344	(9)
Recommended Reading	353	(4)
References	357	(70)
Appendix	427	(5)
Index	432	(11)
About the Authors	443