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


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Book Description
Each year, over 40,000 women in the U.S. die from breast cancer. With statistics rising, conventional methods of treatment are simply not working, and in some cases may even be harmful. Now, Drs. Lee and Zava explain the potentially life-saving facts, such as: likely sources for the increase in breast cancer, including environment, excessive estrogen, progesterone imbalance, and diet, and the dangers associated with traditional hormone replacement methods. Readers will learn strategies for lowering their risk and preventing this devastating disease through a revolutionary hormone balance program.


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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.


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Pocket-sized consumer text presents a hormone balance program to reduce the risk of breast cancer and help eliminate a recurrence if the disease is already present. Covers HRT and ERT, risk factors, mammograms and radiation therapy, natural hormones, dangers, and more. Softcover


About the Author
Dr. Lee is an expert on natural progesterone and hormone replacement therapy. Dr. Zava is a biochemist with extensive research experience on how hormones effect breast cancer. Hopkins is the co-author of many books on natural hormone balance and nutrition.John R. Lee, M.D., lives in Sebastopol, California. David Zava, Ph.D., lives in Portland, Oregon. Virginia Hopkins lives in Santa Barbara, California.

FROM OUR EDITORS

Breast cancer is, unfortunately, a hot topic. According to the American Cancer Institute, one in eight American women will develop this disease during her lifetime. Each year, 40,000 American women die of breast cancer, and the number is rising. According to the coauthors of this book, a breakthrough program of hormone balance can reduce the risk of this devastating malady.

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Breast cancer incidence has risen by 60 percent in the last fifty years. Conventional treatment protocols are simply not working and -- worse -- they may even be harmful. Now Dr. John Lee, an internationally renowned pioneer and expert in natural hormones and author of the bestselling What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause, teams up with breast cancer researcher Dr. David Zava to present a revolutionary hormone balance program to reduce your risk of breast cancer and help eliminate a recurrence if you already have the disease.

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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.

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