Breast Cancer & Hormones

Eyes Wide Open!

It’s very odd that we live in a country with so much misinformation and so much being done or not being done to our bodies based on profit, money, greed and fear, it gets so so so so old.

Hormones in and of themselves do not cause cancer.

I just heard a huge expert with a large following on a podcast yesterday say that Premarin, conjugated equine estrogen, causes cancer.

Estrogens protect against breast cancer. Certainly in healthy women. All estrogens.

Even Premarin (Not that I am recommending it, read more below).

The largest study ever run on hormones, the 10 Million study run by our own NIH last year (citation below), showed that all estrogens statistically reduced a woman’s risk (especially older women) of getting breast cancer.

If a woman is on estrogen therapy (balanced) for at least 5 years.

Estradiol was protective.

But so was Premarin. Premarin is oral estrogen from pregnant mares.

In fact, Premarin was the MOST protective of all estrogens.

But it has other issues (oral estrogens cause downstream pro-coagulative and pro-inflammatory issues) and who wants estrogen from another species).

We have better bioidentical micronized estrogen. So we don’t recommend Premarin.

But still, like it or not, Premarin was hugely, statistically (beyond chance) “breast protective”.

Because all estrogens are now shown replicatively and scientifically to protect against breast cancer.

It’s the synthetic hormones that are linked, consistently, to higher risk of pathologies.

Yet our government in it’s “paid off” wisdom made these oral contraceptives (with dangerous synthetic ethinyl estradiol and progestins, that cause cancer and bone loss and gut issues and turn off hormones and create havoc) available over-the-counter for any young girl to buy. In July 2023.

Wonder why younger girls are getting more cancers?

Wake up!

Eyes wide open!

They take birth control, get cancers, and boy are they now part of a system that sells and profits from lots and lots of more and more meds.

Once a woman gets breast cancer, hormones become more nuanced.

We will be teaching a CME course next year on this. Not sure of timing yet.

But every woman is different.

There is NO study that shows that early and moderate stage breast cancer patients, who take hormonal therapies, have worse outcomes, compared to matched cohorts (similar aged, staged, sized breast cancer patients).

The studies always touted to demonstrate hormones are BAD for women with breast cancer, were all eventually shown to have serious flaws and not actually (statistically) say that.

The real ONLY study that showed an increase in recurrence in women with ER+ breast cancer women, was the HABITS study.

But a deeper dive shows that the ONLY women who got breast cancer while on estrogen, in this HABITS study, were at the SAME time on estrogen blockers.

So even though these ladies were on estrogen, they could NOT get the PROTECTION and BREAST BENEFITS of estrogen.

Our government is lobbied by companies that want profits over health.

Information is thrown around to keep women OFF hormones.

So then they are need and get on all other kinds of meds.

Because when our hormones go south, then our blood sugars rise, blood pressure rises, anxiety ups, bones thin and we are then offered more and more meds.

Many of our doctors are trained by schools prompted and paid by Big Pharma.

Sadly these docs you look up to, many (not all) no longer are taught to think about physiology, “root cause” and how to really get this patient supremely well.

They do not believe 60 or 70 or 80 year old women can or should achieve supreme wellness.

You will often wrongly hear, “You know, you are not getting any younger.

We are told we are aging, suck it up and accept it.

Today’s docs are taught to diagnose, get the code, get the possible drugs, write a script for birth control pills, send the patient off.

As fast as you can.

We are in a total mess.

If you can’t find a “thinking” provider - you are sunk.

It is NOT safe to get seriously ill in America today. (But ER docs are very smart docs and I think you get some of the best care in the ER for thousands and thousands of dollars but still it is not “root cause” medicine).

Everyone one in the world knows our food is shit and our air and rain is polluted and still expensive bills with huge money to back them want the rights to pollute our food, air and water more and more. With no concern for the person who may be damaged by their nefarious products.

We get cancers more and more.

I just had a 20 year old with a rare aggressive cancer. UGH.

Women are denied hormones to have a quality life. With less cancers. Or better “acting” ones if they do get it.

It has now been well established that in both genders - males and females - (not the other 8 or 9 genders that I do not understand, god give me strength) that if you are ON hormones and then go on to get a hormonally driven cancer, you are in a BETTER position than if you had NOT been on hormones.

But your doctors, not “fluent” in hormones, will emphatically state with complete assurance, arrogance and wrongness, that the hormones caused your cancer. Caused your stroke. Caused this pickle you now find yourself in.

Why or why does money always run the show?

Don’t the owners of these companies have wives and grandkids?

Why is there evil is an old time perhaps even Biblical question.

But women just continually miss out.

Men too.

And now our younger daughters have less and less estrogen.

Our young males have less and less testosterone.

While binding proteins (SHBG) are elevating. This reduces hormone signals even more.

Articles all around the world are being written on this.

When hormones lower and binding proteins elevate, you have more and more anxiety, suicides even, ill health, bone loss, brain volume shrinkage, way before its time.

Hormones rule the body’s physiologic WIFI.

When signals freeze (like with birth control pills) the humans on these meds gets ill.

Then needs more meds.

Hormones are under attack from every which way.

From pollution, to birth control, to ultra-processed foods, as hormones need nutrients to keep these WIFI signals jamming.

Our national treasure, Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, has been saying this for years regarding males, too.

it’s not just about women.

There is supposed to be an “expert” panel on menopause by our government today and I could not even find out who these “experts” were. Bet it will be more of Big Pharma pushing their way into our lives. Not for the better. But we shall see.

Listen to what my dear pharmacist friend Jim Hrncir, owner of the truly state-of-the-art compounding pharmacy has to say about hormones and breast cancer.

He owns the amazing Las Colinas Pharmacy. In Texas. Near Dallas.

His wife has had breast cancer and uses hormones. Hormones have helped her through her journey before, during and after. Even oxytocin nasal spray has helped her blood sugars as she is one of the rare (amazing) folks that has both type 1 and 2 diabetes. Oxytocin is blood sugar’s best friend (stay tuned for my latest book coming soon Oxytocin Medicine).

She has battled illness all her life. Now she is doing fabulously! (I adore her!).

The world has always been nuts.

This is not heaven.

But we have so much to be grateful for.

If you feel great.

If you are not ill.

But you cannot lean on your regular doctor with regular “tools” to stay resilient and younger longer. They do not even believe, have not been taught, that this is an older woman’s legacy.

Older women’s lives often do not often matter, near as much. As the younger patient walking in that door.

No one is marching for us.

But I am!

Knowledge is power.

If you enjoy my lifelong and enormous output of energy to try to keep YOU and myself safe, and our providers on aim and smart, please pass my work along.

It takes a lot of elbow grease and hormones to keep doing this.

If you care to make a one time donation to these continued efforts to “Keep our eyes wide open” and us all “agile thinking” you can do so here:

https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/6KB53SWQ2E4KG

You can feel better!

No matter your age, condition or diagnosis!

But you gotta have a team of thinkers.

Plus testing, tracking and optimizing your hormones, NO MATTER your state of illness or wellness or age.

Hormone health is a HUGE part of you turning back the clock, but who do you go to get this?

We addressed how to find a quality hormone provider in V2V, now available in my store.

I really really care.

No BS here.

Not selling some snake oil or face cream.

But wanting us to be all that we can be. Without joining the damn army.

Dr. B.

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Reference:

(10 Million Study) Use of menopausal hormone therapy beyond age 65 years and its effects on women's health outcomes by types, routes, and doses. Menopause. 2024 May 1;31(5):363-371