Hormone Replacement Therapy?
Hi all — I’ve been reading a recent research- esp. from the US, including the book Estrogen Matters, which questions the idea that women with breast cancer should automatically avoid Hormone Replacem...
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Millions of women taking HRT do not get Breast cancer. HRT has not been proven as a cause of BC. As the book Estrogen Matters sets out there have been no studies where HRT has been found to have caused BC. Some researchers found weak correlations but their information as to what causes cancer is incomplete. A situation where assumptions are easily made is one where information is incomplete.
It is easy to assume that as I got a cancer found to be ER/Pr+ and was taking HRT that the HRT was the cause however both estrogen and progesterone are actually hormones naturally produced by women’s bodies throughout our lives.
Research has shown that cancer cells consume more sugar (glucose) than normal cells and yet no studies have shown that eating sugar will make your cancer worse or that if you stop eating sugar your cancer will shrink or disappear.
To be on what I hoped was the ‘safe’ side I maintained a strict intermittent fasting, pescatarian, no added sugar or salt diet. Also no alcohol combined with plenty of exercise especially over the last 14 years. Since my cancer diagnosis, while I still intermittently fast and do a lot of exercise, I now eat chocolate, eat out and drink wine a few times a week. Oh and I still take HRT.