Avoiding Breast Cancer While Balancing Your Hormones: The Fem Centre Breast Care Plan

By Joseph F. Mcwherter

Book Overview

Dr. McWherter reveals the steps that you can take to help avoid breast cancer, and how bio-identical hormone replacement can be used without increasing cancer risks. Expalins how a special type of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977248704
• ISBN13: 9780977248704
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Ae Rosebud Llc
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Natural Hormone Program to Decrease Breast Cancer Risk

Avoiding Breast Cancer While Balancing Your Hormones by Joseph McWherter MD Any woman hesitant about hormone replacement because of fear of breast cancer should read this book. Joseph McWherter MD, an OB/Gyne doctor in Texas with a large natural hormone practice, wrote this book in response to the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHI) published in JAMA in 2002. The WHI Study was halted early because of increased heart disease and breast cancer. As usual, the newspaper headlines were misleading and got the story wrong, failing to mention the important distinction between the unsafe synthetic hormones used in the WHI study, and the safe natural hormones used by Dr. McWherter and many others. Chapter 2 discusses the causes of breast cancer, namely accumulated DNA damage related to junk food diets, stressful lifestyle, environmental toxins, radiation, hormonal imbalance, and genetic predispositions, etc. Chapter 3, Estrogen Explained, goes over rather detailed and technical information about the three types of human estrogens (E1,E2,E3) and their metabolism. Also clarified are the differences between synthetic estrogen, natural estrogen, xeno-estrogen and phyto-estrogen. Chapter 4 is devoted to explaining the WHI Women's Health Initiative Study, and a discussion of the importance of testing estrogen metabolites, namely the 2/16 hydroxy-estrogen ratio. Increasing this 2/16 ratio by consuming broccoli, or with supplements such as I3C and DIM reduces breast cancer risk. Separate chapters are devoted to exercise, diet, and detoxification, all very detailed and complete. Before studying medicine, Dr. McWherter was a mathematician, and he covers these topics with mathematical precision. The exercise chapter contains actual photos showing how to do each exercise. The diet chapter contains menus and a glycemic index chart. The detoxification chapter includes a questionnaire and 21 day Detox diet. The real crux of the book, of course, is the hormone chapter in which McWherter discusses natural hormones called Bi-Est and Tri-Est topical preparations. McWherter found that blood testing under treatment usually shows an estradiol level in the 20-50 pg/ml range. On page 140, McWherter reveals startling information about the low incidence of breast cancer in his treatment group. There was only one case of breast cancer in 2,300 women over 5 years on his clinic program. This single case is compared to the 60 cases expected based on the WHI placebo arm data. Needless to say, this is an excellent result. Chapter 10, Breast Care Nutrients, covers McWherter's Nutritional supplement program to prevent breast cancer, and the first item mentioned is iodine supplementation. Mc Wherter is familiar with the work of Derry and Brownstein on Iodine as the key to breast cancer prevention, and he gives credit to their work. Other supplements such as I3C, DIM and Calcium-D-glucarate are also mentioned. A final chapter is devoted to breast cancer surveillanc

Good book, but it didn't keep my wife interested

Good book, but maybe it need better promotion. My wife is a nurse, and she was the most interested in reading it, and she doesn't finished yet!!

Hormone Book by my doctor

This book was purchased when I visited Dr. McWherter recently. It was written mainly for his patients to explain the myriad of things that usually go right over the top of their heads. Though much of it is too deep for me, it does explain how to determine hormone levels by symptoms, and gives much important, practical information in many various areas (including exercise, stress reduction, and nutrition) which will help us to avoid not only breast cancer, but most of the diseases of aging. Lots of questionaires and lists in the appendix and specific ways to detoxify our bodies.

A BOOK YOU MUST READ

This book will deminish the fear from breast cancer . For the women who have been using HRT DR McWherter porvid a detail prevention plan to protect and improve the health of the breast Uzzi Reiss ob/gyn and the author of "NATURAL HORMONE BALANCE FOR WONEN"