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- The stress from having to redo my diet again has just hit me in a somewhat bad and jittery way. It's much easier to adhere to a food restriction that causes instant suffering than one that may prevent me from getting cancer in two or three decades. I'm not going to throw out everything of mine in the house that is soy-based, but after it's gone, none of it will be repurchased. I am wondering if I need to worry about things that may have soy contamination, or if little quantities don't matter. As you might guess, lots of my gluten-free foods contain soy. No more chicken nuggets or buffalo sauce! I haven't checked the pizzas yet. I do get to keep the croisants and the brownies.

- I really need to stop getting into fights with chicks in my neighborhood. On the other hand, they really need to stop throwing bagels at me.

- I just accidently whapped myself right between the eyes with the headphones at work and am hoping it didn't bruise.

It's been a hard morning, kids.

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[mysduende.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to post to you. My sister was diagnosed with breast cancer end of '05 and spent the whole year dealing with it via chemo, etc. We never had breast cancer in our family - let alone any cancer - prior. My sister's cancer turned out to be estrogen related. Something I had suspected of her for quite a long time as she had very heavy periods while perimenopause. All her doctor ever prescribed was 'the pill' or 'the ring' to address this. My feeling was that this created more problems regarding her hormonal imbalance. Currently, she is taking a pill - something other than Tomoxifin (which has proven to had horrid side effects) to help control and block her estorgen-levels. Unfortunately, she has other side-effects with these drugs that cause unbelievable soreness of random areas of her body - the likes of which would make you think she has Lupus or Fibrilmalagia or the like. It's scary to think that these drugs that are supposed to be preventing cancer relapses are causing such pain in her body. She finds herself needing to take vicodin periodically to control the pain (but hates taking meds of any kind period.) Recently, she made a decision to go off this drug temporarily to see if the medication detoxes from her system and lessens the amount of pain.

At any rate, what I meant to say here is.. they are finding out that much of cancer in women is related to tooo much estrogen in the system - from external things in the environment ( plastics, etc.) and also estrogen is still produced in women past menopasuse by way of other parts of the body still creating the hormone. Essentially, excessive exposure to estrogen over our lifespan is the culprit. I'm not exactly certain of your mom's situation but it's probable that this is what happened. My sister has been talking to her friend recently who is into eating only whole, raw foods, and she told her about a new supplement called 'Brevail' that one can take to help naturally balance and control the estorgen in your system.

http://www.brevail.com/content/proactive-breast-health.html

Another thing that you can do, which I read about and also heard about on Oprah is applying natural progesterone cream. Applying a dime sized drop daily to your skin helps to balance out the hormones.

Anyway, thought this could be helpful to you in preventing the 'Big C' happening to you later on in life.

[mysduende.livejournal.com]

I just read some of the other posts here and the discussion about soy products. My sister went through that whole debate of should I or should I not do soy. The concensus was that if you are not experiencing cancer having a bit of soy is not harmful to you - all things in moderation. If you are experiencing cancer, you should avoid it.