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

by Lee, John R.,M.D./Zava, Davis

• ISBN13: 9780446526869
• ISBN10: 044652686X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-01-02
• Publisher: Grand Central Pub

Summary

Since 1950, breast cancer incidence has risen by 60 percent -- and each year over 40,000 American women die from it. Conventional treatment protocols are simply not working and -- worse -- they may even be harmful. But women do have prevention and treatment choices their doctors may not be telling them about. Now John R. Lee, M.D., and David Zava, Ph.D., explain these options and offer potentially lifesaving strategies to lower risk and help stop this devastating disease. Bestselling author Dr. John Lee has led the way in using natural progesterone therapy for lifelong health for pre- and post-menopausal women. Now he joins forces with breast cancer researcher Dr. David Zava to create a breakthrough hormone balance program that could help save your life. Discover: The problem with conventional ERT and HRT: how synthetic hormones may trigger cancer. The long-term risks of birth control pills. The breast cancer drugs currently used that may be doing as much harm as good -- and why doctors use them anyway. The unsettling truth about mammograms and radiation therapy. The protective benefits of using natural hormones to create balance The potential dangers in our homes, our water, and food. With a revolutionary program featuring natural progesterone, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer shows women how they can help prevent breast cancer and help eliminate a recurrence if they have already had the disease. Based on cutting-edge research, this progressive approach to hormone balance is both eye-opening and empowering. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John R. Lee, M.D., is an internationally renowned pioneer and expert in natural hormone replacement therapy. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Minnesota Medical School, he currently teaches lay audiences and medical professionals about hormone balance and health David Zava, Ph.D., is the director of ZRT Laboratory in Portland, OR. He is a biochemist with extensive experience in breast cancer research Virginia Hopkins, M.A., is a medical writer specializing in women's health and nutrition

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
PART I THE HISTORY, POLITICS, AND NATURE OF BREAST CANCER	1	(86)
The History and Politics of the Breast Cancer Industry
Why We Can't Seem to Prevent or Cure Breast Cancer	3	(21)
Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
Why It All Points to Estrogen	24	(16)
The Nature of Cancer
Normal Cells That Refuse to Grow Up	40	(17)
Other Factors that Affect Susceptibility to Breast Cancer
Insulin Resistance, Birth Control Pills, Early Puberty, DHEA, Prolactin, Melatonin, Thyroid	57	(19)
The Nature of Breast Cancer
Nurturing Gone Awry	76	(11)
PART II THE SEX HORMONES AND HOW THEY AFFECT BREAST CANCER	87	(106)
The Nature of Estrogens
Angels of Life, Angels of Death	89	(17)
How Estrogen Talks to Your Cells
The Right Communication Is Everything	106	(19)
Estriol: A Safer Replacement Estrogen
Mother Nature's Designer Estrogen	125	(16)
The Nature of Progesterone
The Great Protector	141	(17)
The Nature of the Androgens
The Part ``Male'' Hormones Play in a Woman's Hormonal Orchestra	158	(10)
The Problem of Ert and Hrt
How Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Cause Cancer	168	(13)
Tamoxifen and Raloxifene
Why Synthetic Drugs Create New Problems	181	(12)
PART III PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR PREVENTING AND HEALING BREAST CANCER	193	(122)
How and When to Use Natural Progesterone
The Guardian Angel of Breast Cancer	195	(20)
How and When to Use Other Hormones
Estrogen, DHEA, Pregnenolone, the Corticosteroids, Testosterone, and Androstenedione	215	(11)
Testing and Symptoms
How to Determine Your Hormone Balance	226	(15)
The Light and Dark Sides of Soy
How to Eat Soy So That It Helps	241	(21)
How Nutrition Affects Your Breast Cancer Risk
Making Good Choices Can Make the Difference	262	(29)
Protecting the Present and the Future
Creating an Environment Where Cancer Can't Get Started	291	(24)
Resources	315	(10)
Recommended Reading	325	(4)
References	329	(64)
Appendix	393	(5)
Index	398	(10)
About the Authors	408