Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer

Let’s discuss estrogen receptor positive breast cancer and natural ways to treat it.

The first thing to understand about estrogen and all hormones and that they all function in balance just the way that nature does. Just as we need day and night, which is the opposite of things, this action allows balance and health. We are going to discuss why synthetic chemicals that try to mimic nature are not needed in treating estrogen receptor positive breast cancer.

In all of nature and all biochemical processes whatever promotes something, there will be something to take it away as this is the way nature works. Neither one is good, both are required and it’s the balance that is needed.

In general, estrogen requires progesterone, however, there are a lot of other things involved in hormone balancing. For example, with estrogen positive breast cancer, it’s not that estrogen is bad thing, it’s just that estrogen has a quality to make things grow. Estrogen sensitive tissues which are tissues that have estrogen receptors that respond to estrogen around them.

If it’s breast tissue, ovaries or vaginal tissue for example, they all require estrogen for growth. If we look at the menstrual cycle, the beginning of the cycle is dominated by estrogen where we see a growth and build up of the endometrial tissues and then when pregnancy does not occur, progesterone dominates the second part of the cycle where the shedding or getting rid of occurs.

Our current diets and lifestyles produce a very estrogenic environment. There are many estrogen like chemicals in plastics and pesticides that are affecting the estrogen receptors.  Also, progesterone is one of the hormones that starts to decline early as we age. All of these factors combine to create an estrogen dominant system.

An estrogen dominate system can result in lumpy breasts, fibrocystic breasts, ovarian cysts, etc. In men, this can result in prostatic hypertrophy which is the growth of the prostate. So, the question is, do we need to block the estrogens? In one sense we do and in one sense we need to bring about the rebalancing of the estrogen and progesterone in the body because remember, health is based on that balance.

Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer And How To Treat It

There are several different estrogens that need to be looked at but the three main ones are estrone, estradiol and estriol. Estrodiol and estrone are involved in the growth of tumors. Estriol is a very benign estrogen and does not promote growth.

There are two types of estrogen receptors, alpha and beta. One is involved in stimulating growth and the other is not. It turns out that estriol is very protective and can safely be given to a women with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer.

This is the estrogen that dominates during pregnancy. Estriol cream becomes incredibly important and when taken in a bio identical form, it actually blocks the estrogen receptor that stimulates growth. So, this is very important thing to do and is far better than tamoxifen.

Another important thing to know is that fermented soy gets into the body and blocks the receptor that would normally cause the growth. Fermented soy products such as natto, miso and tempeh become very important as they will block these receptors that cause growth.

These are the products that you would want to take as they produce positive results and have none of the side effects that the synthetic estrogen products produce.

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