Hormone Harmony To Do for breast cancer survivors

Hormone Harmony To Do for breast cancer survivors

Know your estrogens: find out the ratio of your “good” to “bad” estrogens. Take
action to reduce undesirable estrogens:

• Maintain estrogen-progesterone balance
• Manage your weight and your glucose and insulin levels
• Avoid xenoestrogens wherever possible
• Eat lots of cruciferous vegetables, fiber, lignans, pomegranates, and fermented foods to help convert 16α-hydroxyestrone and 4-hydroxyestrone to 2- hydroxyestrone
• Keep levels of exercise up and levels of alcohol down
• Use targeted supplements such as calcium d-glucarate and IC3 as needed
• Support healthy methylation with B vitamins
• Manage aromatase conversion to estrogens with vitamin D

Last Word

I guess my “aha” moment came when I realized that what my doctor had been telling me
for years about cholesterol was also true for estrogen: it could be both good and bad. This
made immediate, intuitive sense to me, as I don’t believe nature would have us carrying
around hormones in our bodies that are there solely to make us sick. That knowledge was
remarkably empowering, because I now have a way to see exactly how my hormones are
contributing to my health picture, and know what changes I need to make if they become
unbalanced.
—Suzi G., breast cancer survivor