Lindsay, Author at DIAGNOSED

June 22, 2019August 31, 2021

The Essentials List for Healing

This is what I followed. It helped me get back to basics.

Water

Drinking water should be distilled / or reverse osmosis. I did the for about 2 years. After which I switched to a filter that removed all the usual plus fluoride.
Avoid plastics, especially water bottles.
Filter your bath and shower water. Your skin absorbs more water than you can drink.

Food & Eating

Intermittent fasting aim for 13-16 hours every day. A must!
Mediterranean diet is an overall healthy diet mainly whole fruits and vegetables with very occasional beef, lamb, or dairy (once a month or less). This is perhaps one of the safest diets and has data to prove longevity.
Ketogenic diet I have to mention this diet, ONLY because it is a hot topic. But after 6 months on the Keto Diet my cancer started growing faster. SO take caution, this diet is only for some cancers while and specifically only studied while on treatment. It is not ideal off of treatment and for long term use. Get keto strips to check your body for keytones. The beginning is hard, you will feel terrible. After 2 months your body will become accustomed to keytones and will not show on the strips anymore. By that point you will be able to tell by your sleep and energy levels if you are still in ketosis.
To eat meats or not? If you do stick to:
Grass-fed beef or lamb. Very occasionally.
Pastured eggs and chicken. Limited.
Eat wild fish, salmon is best.
Going Vegan. I recommend mainly sticking to a mediterranean / vegan diet to avoid any unwanted animal byproducts. However, make sure you body can assimilate omega 3’s and other essential nutrients, if your like me my body cannot break down omega 3 from chia seeds or other vegan products so I need to supplement with fish oils or eat fish.
Organic fruits and vegetables only. Pesticides must be avoided as much as possible.
Very low carbohydrates and starches. This includes quinoa, millet, brown rice, beans, spelt bread, potatoes, yams.
Absolutely no sugar. Only 100% stevia leaf, 100% stevia extract or 100% monk fruit extract, do not use stevia mixed with xylitol or erythritol, this spikes insulin levels.
Absolutely no dairy. Use organic unsweetened coconut milk, other dairy milks are too high in carbohydrates and additives. Or try making your own almond milk. Just soak almonds overnight in filtered salted water. Rinse, remove skins and place in high speed blender with water.
Soy products must be organic non-GMO. There is a lot of controversy around soy, so just keep things in moderation.
No caffeine. Stick to green tea for a boost, chamomile, peppermint, or ginger.
Aim to keep your urine alkaline 7.0. Use test strips to check your urine first thing in the morning and through out the day. If you are unable to get your body to a consistent alkaline state with food, then start off every day with drinking sauerkraut juice on an empty stomach. The shift will take about 2 months. Remember cancer releases lactic acid and like attracts like. Sauerkraut juices are high in lactic acid and help remove excess acid from the body.

Exercise

15-20 mins of cardio exercise daily – rebounding is best for lymphatic drainage. Whatever exercise you choose you must work up a sweat.
In addition to cardio, aim for 10,000 steps a day or more on top of cardio exercise.

Sleep & Rest

Sleep by 10-11pm and aim for 8 – 10 hours sleep. This is crucial for healing, as the liver works to clean the body from 11 to 3am.
Rest. Outside of exercising the other time should be spent resting.
Take care of yourself as you would a baby.

Detoxification

Keep a high body temperature. You can do this through taking hot baths in filtered water, using an infrared mats or infrared sauna daily.
Remove toxicity. This includes eating clean, stress, people, thoughts/emotions.
Stop any bad habits. Smoking, drinking, working long hours…
Emotional healing. Work on healing past emotions through therapy. Look for practitioners that heal past emotions using tapping or through healing journeys.
Aim for 2 to 3 bowel movements daily. You want to keep things moving. Eating a high fibre diet will help get things moving along with drinking plenty of water. Another aid, is using far infrared heat, this helps stimulate the bowel especially in the morning. I also recommend enemas, to help keep things moving and cleared out. To start do a 10 day enema detox and then maintain 2 times per week. See The Famous Coffee Enema for details.
Spend time in nature gaining negative ions. You can do this by walking barefoot on grass, resting by trees or being on water.

Daily Supplementation Backed by Research

Firstly, always take breaks from your supplements and change them up. If you have had or live with cancer, your cancer will learn them and start to ignore them… rotating your supplements every several months will help avoid this. When ever possible try getting your nutrients from food rather than through supplements.

Vitamin D3 with K2 – 20 mins of sun a day on skin, face and eyelids, if no access to sun use 3000 UI per day. Get a blood test to check your vitamin D levels, if low increase supplementation until they reach the high normal range.
Modified Citrus Pectin, PectaSol-C by ecoNugenics – 15 grams daily. Shown to help combat cancer from spreading pre-and post- surgically and keeps your electrolyte balance and potassium levels up.
Vitamin C – 2000mg with bioflavonoids daily minimum and high-dose vitamin C IVs minimum 50,000mg via vein or if you have a port-line higher doses are more beneficial. A blood test is required before starting. This works to boost your immune system and is cytotoxic to cancer cells. However, the benefit is lost when you stop.
Mushrooms – not all mushrooms are equal, look for high beta-glucans, 30% or more.
Resveratrol – Found on skin of grapes this is shown to combat cancer.
Curcumin – CurQFen – combats inflammation associated with cancer.
CoQ10 – must be ubiquinol form – increases energy and cellular health.
Zinc – minimum 25mg – 50 mg daily immune function and healing.
Vitamin E8 – 400mg cellular health and healing.
Selenium 200mcg as essential as magnesium. Take 2 brazil nuts daily or supplement. Shown to work synergistically with tamoxifen to increase efficacy of the drug.
Probiotic taken before bed and should contain Bacillus Subtilis gut health is your foundation for cellular health. Include fermented foods as sauerkraut in your diet as prebiotic nutrition.
Digestive enzymes – Hypo-Zymase by Physica Energetics with each meal or minimum with dinner. Get this from your naturopath.
Melatonin 15-20 mg time-released an hour before bed – build up from 3mg over time and stick with what you can tolerate, for me 15mg is my maximum more than that and it wakes me up. Shown to inhibit breast cancer cells and works synergistically with tamoxifen.
Magnesium 400 – 600mg daily 10pm essential for health and wellbeing.
Calcium D-Glucarate part of your daily detox regime.
BioResponse DIM/ or I3C– 400mg daily – shown to reduce breast cancer risk and recurrence. If you have low testosterone levels I caution with DIM. This lowers testosterone and increases oestrogen levels. Many are not aware of this!
Alpha-Liopic Acid – Detoxes heavy metals in the body, start with 150 – 300mg and build up over time as part of your detox process.
Inositol hexaphosphate (IP6). Good to increase your immune system. Fast to increase your serum lymphocytes counts. One month of use increased mine by .3.

Note: Do not take vitamin B12, Iron, Glutathione, NAC or any precursor to glutathione unless this is part of your treatment plan. These can drive cancer not every naturopathy or physician knows this so do your research.

June 10, 2019June 12, 2019

Tamoxifen Resistance

Tamoxifen is a pharmaceutical drug (Novaldex) given to premenopausal women with estrogen positive breast cancer.

Tamoxifen can also be used in prevention for women at high-risk of developing breast cancer or used in fertility treatment.

It’s main task with breast cancer is to block estrogen receptors on tumour cells. This stops the growth of cancer, in the breast and in the body.

A less known fact among women with breast cancer, is that tamoxifen raises estrogen and progesterone levels in the body.

This seems counteractive to me.

In 2008, a collaborate paper between the top American cancer centres determined that increased estradiol (E2) is significantly associated with a risk of cancer recurrence.

As a side note, there are four main naturally occuring estrogens in women: Estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), estriol (E3), and estetrol (E4).

Each estrogen hormone is most active during the following times:

E1 menopause
E2 reproductive years
E3 pregnancy
E4 pregnancy

On top of that, the increased levels is though to contribute to tamoxifen resistance.

So I would like to know why that when I asked my first oncologist if they would be testing my hormone levels… she answered: No.

For now, I will be testing my hormone levels with urine and serum.

I started testing my hormone levels after my initial diagnosis. I test my hormones after all major changes: My diet, after starting tamoxifen, and through changing different supplements.

My ultimate goal is to see my hormones become balanced.

I am not happy with the wait and see approach, this would mean that I would have to wait for recurrence to know if tamoxifen actually worked.

CYP2D6 gene mutation

There is also another aspect aside from hormones that causes tamoxifen resistance.

This can be tested by buccal swab (mouth swab) done by your physician. The companies name is Genelex located in the USA.

I have not yet done this testing but will be ordering it and will let you know the results!

Mushrooms Supplements: Look for β Glucan from fruiting body

Hand Picked European Mushrooms from the Tatras by Lindsay

β-glucans are the most important aspects to look for when sourcing mushroom supplements.

β-glucan is higher in mushroom extracts from “fruiting body” than the more commercially known mycelium”.

Many supplements use extracts from “mycelium”, which are significantly less in β-glucan than fruiting body extracts!

It is also extremely important for mushrooms to be cultivated in their natural environments.

Each mushroom has a particular source in which it likes to grows on. Some only grow on birch bark, while others on moss or manure.

Cultivated mushrooms on the other hand, are typically grown on rice or cereal grains, depleting β-glucan by more than 50%.

We should also consider increasing absorption of mushroom extracts.

Vitamin C or ascorbic acid should also be taking in combination with the extracts to increase absorption.

Mushrooms are a powerhouse to our immune system and in order to make sure you are getting the maximum benefit, use the quick list below next time you are looking for mushroom supplements.

Checklist:

Also look for mushroom extracts from “fruiting body”
Take your supplements with Vitamin C
Source your mushrooms from North America or Europe to reduce toxin exposure
Eat plenty of fresh mushrooms from organic sources in your diet

Additional reading recourses:

May 31, 2019June 15, 2019

Tylenol meet your match: Turmeric!

I decided to avoid Tylenol post MR biopsy… in keeping with wanting to keep my body as clean as possible, I googled natural options to help with pain, but I also wanted to make sure it wouldn’t increase bleeding.

At the top of the charts were turmeric and cloves… so I decided on a turmeric chai latte!

After two latte’s (a total of two tablespoons of turmeric) I can successfully say it did the trick. My breast went from throbbing to just some slight twitches two hours after my last latte.

My latte entailed of turmeric, cinnamon, cloves, cardamon, nutmeg, and ginger. I heated some coconut oil and mixed in these dry ingredients, then added coconut milk and a little honey. Simple, yummy and effective!

And I should not forget to highlight so much better for my body (mainly my liver)!

Turmeric Chai Latte Recipe:

3 cups organic unsweetened coconut milk
2 tablespoons of coconut oil
1 tablespoon turmeric powder
1/2 tablespoon of equal parts of (cinnamon, cardamon, ginger, nutmeg) powder
pinch ground cloves powder

Heat oil, mix in powders, add milk, bring to a boil and add honey to taste.

May 30, 2019June 1, 2019

Biopsies: The good, the bad and the ugly.

After having two biopsies: one with ultrasound, to confirm my diagnosis; and the other with MRI to implant surgical clips – all I can say is BIG ouch.

A regular biopsy is painful yes, but the MR biopsy is not exactly humane.

What got me through the MR biopsy was the wonderful radiologist and technologist. This is when your health team really matters.

They took turns hold my hand and consoling me during the entire procedure.

First hooking me up to IV
Laying face-down on my stomach and squeezing my breast in a grid-like vice
Putting me in and out of the MRI, 5 times or more
Injecting me with contrast dye
Injecting 3 sets freezing in my breast
Using their state-of-the-art DRILL to both take tissue samples and inject titanium clips in my breast

I don’t think I need to say how difficult or painful it was. It also takes some days to recover. It was definitely worse than surgery.

Are biopsies good to do?

All in all. I don’t know how I feel about biopsies. I know in some cases they can cause cancer to spread or risk infection – as with biopsies of the eye and difficult to reach areas as the prostate.

With breast biopsies, I am just not sure.

My first biopsy, was to confirm diagnosis of my breast cancer. It feels like a necessary procedure.

The second biopsy was required to mark out my surgical area, which was only visible on MRI.

You see, now after 14 months, I have had 5 breast MRI’s and 2 lumpectomies. And we can finally see margins lighting up on the MRI.

You might think this is bad, but after positive margins on my second surgery this was good news! We now had a road map to guide the surgeon on where to cut.

The other big part here is, this is all to save my breast. To me if we can get clear margins with a lumpectomy or three, then I can keep my breast.

And honestly after going through all this, I wish that I was open to mastectomy.

If I was I would have opted for that from day one, this whole thing would have been over… mastectomy just didn’t feel right for me at all.

I would say that depending on what you want your outcome to be, biopsies can be very necessary! In my case, to save my breast, it is totally my choice and worth it.

May 22, 2019May 23, 2019

Tamoxifen: A way without side effects

Deciding to take tamoxifen is a tough decision, considering it is also considered a carcinogen! On top of it, you are committing to 10 years of taking this drug!!!

They are finding in research that certain cancers, such as ILC (Infiltrating Lobular Carcinoma), is not very effective with tamoxifen. This is the type of cancer that I had developed.

Hopefully, a test will be available in the near future to test the efficacy of tamoxifen for ILC patients. Tamoxifen didn’t’ get the name Jekyll and Hyde for no reason. It works amazing on some and the opposite for others. I will save this topic for another blog post. In the meantime, lets talk about how to improve your QoL – quality of life while on tamoxifen.

Nolvadex is the brand name of Tamoxifen. I started off on a generic brand that made my ears swell: literally. Most pharmacies in Canada don’t carry the brand name in house, so I went with generic. The cost per month is relatively the same and quite inexpensive at about $55 CAD per 3 months.

After having this crazy experience with the generic brand, my oncology team suggested I try the brand name. Sure enough, I had absolutely no issue on the brand name drug, as compared to the generic brand. I could only tolerate 5 mg on generic without having my ears swelling up. With Nolvadex at 20 mg, a full dose, I was fine.

What to do when you have side-effects:

That being said, I had sleep disturbances, spinal pain and hot flashes during the start of my treatment and also again after going off of it for surgery. I take Tamoxifen with Selenium, Vitamin E, I3C and Melatonin to increase the efficacy of the drug, and if I have to take it, I want to make sure it does the best job it can!

I also noticed that with 15-30 minutes of cardio each day the side-effects were non-existent.

On top of that, I make sure that my body is in detox mode! I do not want it accumulating in my body and damaging my liver or causing secondary malignancies. To help my body detox I take NAC, ALA, and Calcium D-Glucarate, which also helps detoxify estrogen.

Another aspect is making sure to have at least 2 good bowel movements a day, include wheatgrass and a high fibre diet.

Weekly I make sure I give my bowel a good cleanse with food and enema. I switched from doing coffee enemas as they seems to give my adrenals pain in my lower back. So I use chamomile tea or chlorella now.

To reduce side-effects from tamoxifen (recap):

Include selenium from food sources, I3C, vitamin E and melatonin
15-30 minutes cardio exercise per day
Detoxifying foods & supplements – high fibre and cruciferous vegetables

April 1, 2019May 23, 2019

Protect Your Sleep ?

I am a very deep and good sleeper but anything can throw me off as my body is so hyper-sensitive.

The one thing I have learn’t over the last year is nothing is more important than good sleep! I am very mindful during the day of what will help me get good sleep.

At the top of my list is being careful about what I put into my body past 4pm. Supplements and medications can activate the body so profoundly that you just are mentally too active to sleep. So as a general rule, I finish all my supplements before 4pm and avoid green tea or 100% cacao. If you a supplement, it’s better to wait until the next day.
Next is keeping my sleep environment cool and relaxing. It should be as zen as possible, with calming colours and no distractions, as cellphones, televisions or clutter.
Keeping my body at a cooler temperature before bed. This means no Far infared saunas before bed or taking any medications that heat the body. Far infared heats the body for 8 hours after an hour of use. So make sure you have enough time to cool down before sleeping.
This has been the most challenging for me: sleeping at the same time and by 10pm every night. I do try, but this is a difficult one for me. At the very least I have started waking up at 8am everyday… more work to do in this area.
Supplements that really help with sleep are magnesium, melatonin, probiotics, vitamin C, and GABA. I take these, with or without GABA, an hour or more before I head to bed.
Teas. Lemon balm, lemongrass, and chamomile are at the top of my list. Try to have them at least an hour before bed… otherwise they wake you up to go to bathroom…
Bed time activities. Reading a spiritual “book” before bed as the Bible really helps your mind shut down and gives you some food for thought, keeping you attention above yourself or your situation.
Stopping electronic use 1 hour before bed. Need I say more… I think we hear enough about this one.
Enough exercise during the day. I find if I have not done at least 60 minutes of moving around during the day, I have a hard time sleeping. Aim to do your cardio in the morning and keep it to walking closer to bed time.
Too full or too hungry. If you are doing intermitted fasting as I am, I find that I can’t sleep if I am hungry so I have my last meal by 8pm and first by noon. This way I am not hungry before I sleep.
Dark sleeping area. Block out light as best as you can. There are some good drapes out there, and even better… get to bed early and wake up with the sun.

April 1, 2019May 26, 2019

83%: Healing is in your control.

I was seated in a private clinic in Nevada waiting for one of the doctors to enter the room. Until this far, everything I had heard had to deal with medical intervention. I did not expect that this doctor would look at me and ask me “do you love yourself”?

He went on to say that scientifically 83% of your recovery is due to your mindset.

This means that 17% is what doctors can offer and the overwhelmingly power of healing lies with us: our thoughts, emotions, and those we surround ourselves amongst.

So then how do we make sure we are fulfilling the 83% of our commitment to healing our bodies.

Living in gratitude is one. This makes it so easy to keep a healthy positive attitude. If you find it hard to be thankful for anything, start a gratitude journal and you will see within a couple of days that you have a lot to be grateful for.
Another way is getting locked in with your faith community. For me God is always present so I always have the sense that He is working on my life through my disease to make me more of the person He wants me to be. This is a very humbling experience. Getting amongst people of your faith will encourage you and keep you on track for the moments that come when you loose hope, because they do come, if only for a second and rarely but they show up and you need to be well guarded.
I recently heard about tapping. It’s used to help calm and reset your nervous system especially when diving in and going through some painful memories. It’s important to work with someone to get to some emotional roots that harbour in the body. This can help with resetting your response to these events in the body releasing their hold on you.
Meditation, yoga and Chi Gong are also very practical daily tools to keep your mind set positive and help move energy.
Cardio or brisk walking keeps the energy moving, blood oxygenated and releases stresses.

From Kelly Turner’s research and book (Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer) and Radical Remission Project found online here, Kelly concluded 9 commonalities amongst those who went into remission without any or full intervention.

Radical change of diet
Taking control of your health
Following intuition
Supplements
Releasing trapped emotions
Increasing positive emotion
Embracing social support
Deepening spiritual connection
Having a purpose for living

Interestingly, I had not seen this list until recently and I have passed the one year mark since my diagnosis. Instinctively the very first thing I did was change my diet. I have not touched sugar for over a year now and have never eaten so many vegetables in my life.

Secondly, I was point blank told that if I want my body to change I need to take responsibility for my illness, as “…only owners can make changes“. As, I made the shift my social support from Family and Friends also shifted to create a very supportive and nurturing community for me.

Thirdly, my naturopath, in my research and my oncologist, Dr. James Forsythe in Nevada highly recommended supplementation. It took me about 6 months to get on the right path with supplements, basically taking all the data and figuring out what exactly what works for my body.

One important finding I found was that Diindolylmethane (DIM) caused my breasts to swell. DIM had a counteractive effect on my body. It is definitely not one size fits all when it comes to breast health. Almost every single breast vitamin has DIM in it. I had taken it prior to my diagnosis and I had the same reaction. This deserves a separate blog page and further investigation.

Now I am working on the other 4 emotional aspects Kelly mentions, though my list above. I incorporate all of these aspects and in addition make sure I get enough silent time.

Very good friends sent me on a silent retreat in Quebec with the Art of Living over New Years. I must say it’s the best time I have spent with myself. I find since this experience I crave days of just simple food and time to myself.

The Art of Living basis is the Happiness Program which teaches you some powerful breathing techniques that definitely reduce stress and increase oxygen in the body.

March 17, 2019April 1, 2019

Sick Care System > Health Care System!

Understanding the limitations of a treatment based medical system and the responsibility of the ‘government’ and ultimately what we need to do in order to keep healthy can only be accomplished if we understand the limitations we are working with.

Allopathic medicine or Medical Doctors (MDs) are not in a position to prevent disease when incentivized to care for only the sick. Furthermore, a portion of the responsibility falls on the ‘state’ to keep their citizens healthy and safe through regulatory measures from banning smoking in restaurants to providing food labelling on menus and grocery store products.

For so long, I assumed it was my family doctor that was suppose to keep me healthy, but in reality family doctors are the gateway into the medical system that only want to see you if there is something medically wrong with you.

If you want to stay out of the system, then the government needs to promote health seeking behaviours, which is a blanket to the general public but definitely doesn’t include the outliers.

This realization has made me think about my own disease and how it could be prevented in others and essentially have people be the healthiest versions of themselves. I had come across the video below by Matthias Mullenbeck who really hits the nail on the head…. our current system is a Sick Care System…his thoughts on changing the mindset to only pay physicians to keep people healthy is brilliant.

Beyond just changing the mindset within modern medicine, I would add that integration of natural medicines that seem to understand the body in ways outside of medications and surgeries sound also be integrated.

If I were to ask someone in Traditional Chinese Medicine or Ayurvedic Medicine they would describe being healthy as having balance in the body through the flow of chi or in the balance of the doshas.

Naturopathic medicine works to combine all forms of natural medicine and if integrated into our medical system would provide the perfect base to provide primary prevention: that is making sure people never get sick. I also feel that because men and women are so different, it doesn’t make sense to have one provider for both. There is already a lot to know, why complicate things even more.

Specializing primary health care by age and sex would help make sure patients are getting the best possible care and allow the provider to be able to stay up to date on the latest and greatest. It’s a win win!

So in the meantime, until we get there as a system, you can choose to learn more about your body and it’s limitations through DNA testing, hair analysis and hormone testing for starters and find yourself a good naturopathic doctor and a family doctor that is responsive to your needs. Build your health care team to work for you, to keep you healthy and if your like me, never get sick again.

Further reading:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4339086/pdf/nihms663715.pdf

Healthy Incentives

March 16, 2019April 8, 2019

The Epidemiology of Breast Cancer and Individualized Medicine

There are 4 basic aspects to epidemiology: figuring out the cause of the disease of concern, the incidence or frequency (how often it occurs), distribution (who it affects and where), and ways to control or treat the disease.

Of anything I have ever studied, breast cancer seems to be the most vaguely touched on when it comes the “cause”. As far as my physicians are concerned the cause is not important, it’s getting rid of it that is.

However, if we are truly offering individualized care, as it so clearly says on the side of the hospital I have been attending, then as an epidemiologist, in order to prevent a disease we must know the cause for each person in order to prevent recurrence. Even more importantly what we learn from these individuals we can extrapolate to family practice to prevent our society from ever getting cancer. This to me, is what continues to attract me to epidemiology and what I feel is my responsibility to others.

As a side note, one huge missing link is getting this information back to primary care providers… so that we can prevent the disease from occurring. In my opinion, family medicine should require more years of training and also should be defined or sub-specialised in terms of male or female, and age. With the amount of information that is out there it is virtually impossible for a family doctor to be able to help keep society healthy with so many differing variables.

I do not see individualized care when it comes to breast cancer and I don’t see anything being done in regards to prevention.

There are many such “approved” tests available, that still at the doctors discretion are employed; as OnchoType Dx, a test that examines a sample of your tumour post surgically to assess whether the risks of chemotherapy out weight the benefits.

For me it was crucial to understand the cause of my disease. This is truly the only way to prevent it.

Cancer is not simple and there is definitely more than one contributing factor in order to develop this disease, but knowing the triggers can help you take control from ever being sick again.

From my research there where several tests that led me to understand how I developed breast cancer including emotional manifestations that impact these ‘weaknesses in my DNA’, when I didn’t have any of the ‘so called’ associated risks: smoking, drinking, BRCA1/2 gene mutation, and family history.

So then how did I get this? A relatively young 40 year old women. I would have also included healthy, but for me there were so many warning signs from the age of 20 that to me I didn’t feel healthy, even though doctors would have described me as healthy.

At first glance I thought the best place to first look was at my hormones,
considering I was diagnosed with estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) positive cancer. The dutch test, is the only test I would recommend for hormone investigation. This test on me clearly showed that my hormones had taken a walk down a dangerous path that would make them carcinogenic. However, they also showed that my testosterone was low which is caused by increased cortisol levels. Combined with my years of insomnia, I knew this was correct and one very crucial piece of the puzzle in learning about my risk factors in developing breast cancer.
Second, was understanding my body’s genetic capabilities.
This can be done though DNA testing from 23andMe or Ancestry.com and then requesting the raw data and sending it to your naturopath to analyse in PureGenome free software.

After learning that I am unable to methylate estrogen, it become clear to me that my cancer could be prevented through B vitamins, magnesium and other supplements that encourage detoxification of hormones as Indole 3 Carbinol, Calcium D Glucarate, glutathione, and a diet rich in cruciferous vegetables.

Knowing all this, I feel it is important to educate other women in hopes they can avoid ever having to walk this path…