natural girls

Oh gosh, I love this thread, but I wish it was broken into separate subjects....love you ladies.

Deana & Luan:  Thank you so much for the recent links--so informative!  I was tested for heavy metals and this wasn't a problem for me though I have to watch my mercury levels due to my eating lots of fish.

MsBliss:  That's an important reminder--good cholesterol is necessary!

Yes, I take 25 mg Melatonin because it is an Aromatase Inhibitor...but you can tell how little my body makes on its own if I can take that much.  I don't know if I can sleep without it or not.  Mentally, I probably "think" I need it.  I also supplement with aspirin and the weirdest thing is if I get in bed and can't fall immediately asleep...then get up and take my aspirin...then I go right to sleep...placebo effect ???  I'm not even sure if I should take the aspirin at bedtime ... just seems like I would like for my blood to be nice and thinned if early morning is a scary time for blood pressure related incidents.

MBJ  Why sublingual ONLY ???  I have been mixing them...taking 10 to 20 mg before 9 pm and then 5 mg sublingual either then or at bedtime.  What is 5HTP ? 

Hmmm... two headlines within 2 days about the dangers of environmental chemicals.  Could the tide possibly be turning?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/health/11cancer.html?_r=1&hp

Melatonin is also an antioxidant.

MJB



The sublingual Melatonin makes perfect sense, thanks!

Hi ladies, I'm catching up after not reading here for a few days.  Sheila, I'm an ILC gal too, and thanks to the bozo I went to, my tumor got an extra 9 months to grow.  He told me I had 'aging breast tissue' to describe the hardening, thickening quadrant of my breast -- a term I've never heard anywhere else.  By the time I was dx'd and did just 5 minutes of reading about ILC, my jaw was on the floor in anger and disbelief that dr bozo clearly was unaware that ILC exists. 

vivre, hope your speech went great today.  You're quite the mover and shaker these days!  

I was movin and groovin at the beach this week with another in-person meeting with a bco sister.   I don't visit the stage iv section much these days, but I like to keep up with konakat who is one of my favorite people on the planet.  She's been mia for days going on weeks now.  I'm very concerned about her and another post caught my eye.  Turns out a bco sister lives an hour away in a small town and was dx'd shortly after moving to said podunk town.  She and I and her  2 young kids all went to the beach for a picnic and had a blast.  Might have to change my moniker to miss social butterfly.  lol  

Hey everyone, have you heard about the new documentary about Dr Byrzynski?  He's one of the doctors interviewed by Suzanne Somers for her book Knockout.  There's free viewing of the film from now til June 13 at this link

Corian thanks very much. i,m on the e-cadherin thread and can,t figure out if my being positive means loss of e-cadh. read that the latter and p 53 work hand in hand ? We need a doctor in the house !

Luan~

 In my opinion these mutated tumor suppressor genes are more  likely the reason we get cancer. They are mutated by toxins & environmental exposure to pesticides & such. BRCA's are not the only genes that could indicate an increased cancer risk. Our bodies were designed to fight disease but they were not designed to ingest all the pollutants. Irreversible damage  damage is inevitable if we do not have tools to fight back. We need to protect our suppressor genes! I just wish I knew about them along time ago!! oh well.

I haven't had a chance to read all this but I will try to read as much as I can.

For now, I drink tons of green tea and a tea called Rooibos. I also chop up cloves of fresh garlic and let them sit for 15 minutes and swallow them with water all day long. I definately changed my diet by adding more vegetables and fruits.

Everybody, gotta watch the movie! Link pretty busy, u can access through the Mercola,s site.



Corian, Pip, watched very good doc on environmental toxins last night. In just 20 years, male sperm has decreased by more than 50% in fertility. They found male frogs which had been exposed to the herbacide atrazine to have developed testes with eggs instead of spermatozoides (((

Pip, u could just access his site and read at your leisure, i think there was a pretty good written summary of the contents of the documentary. Am not familiar with s. summers, should i be ?

Pip, that,s probably because the link takes u directly to the movie. try typing his name, i did it earlier today and it worked. good luck but if u did have a chance to see the movie, it,s extremely compelling, touching and...upsetting