Early Stage Natural Girls!

Lots of controversy on that guy, Purple. It might be something that works, but until it gets FDA approval and is covered by insurance, you have to have big bucks to go to his clinic. Could be a while.

Check out quackwatch.com.  I sure wouldn't trust him.

Maud,

Please don't cave to the harridans who sputter whenever Suzanne Somers or Dr. B are mentioned. I wouldn't call those two brave thought leaders personnae non grata. I would call them too smart for the status quo. They are trailblazers.

Let the non readers carry on. LOL.

Happy weelkend, kids. Blessings to all!

There's a farm close to where I live, although I live in a surban neighborhood. The farmer asked us if we would like goats milk in exchange with helping him in milking his goats. We were pretty pathetic in the beginning. My family and I are improving  

A friend,who has cancer e-mailed me info on goats milk. So...adding goats milk to our diet.

"Goatmilk has an alkaline reaction the same as mother's milk. Cow milk has an acidreaction"
"Goatsmilk contains a higher evolved carotene (pro-Vitamin A). Researchers have foundthis to have cancer preventing properties."

As said, earlier, our female bodies need good estrogen. I think the estrogen from the goats milk is good estrogen. Right now, with the Herceptin damage to my heart, I need good estrogen.

It's encouraging to see a great group of alternative ladies here. Yea!

Suzanne Sommer's books were the first ones that I read when I was first dx with bc.  My decisions to avoid chemo and rads came from her discussions with doctors on these subjects.  The ND that I go to in Florida was recommended in her book, and he follows a lot of her philosophy regarding supplements.  She is clearly a trailblazer in the use of BHRT for hormone replacement.  She is also a breast cancer survivor.

I suspect some ppl. have an issue with Somers for a few reasons.

First of all, who can afford to have their breast grown from stem cells ?

Secondly, it's difficult to respect someone  who is 110% against conventional med when that is the VERY method she used for her own cancer. She had rads but claims she later regretted it..... still got the benefit of it,. I guess.

I dunno'.

The jury is still out as far as I am concerned.  Just saying I do see why some people feel conflicted.

Everyone has a right to their own opinion.

Just a word on Dr. B - no matter what you think of him, he isn't currently giving his antineoplastons to BC patients.  I guess he's trying to do a study on brain cancer, so only brain cancer patients are getting it.  If you go to him, he will give you chemo and Vit C, which you can get elsewhere (and your insurance will cover the chemo at an actual oncologist's office).   I'll admit, I'm extremely skeptical of the man, but I will wait to see the results of his study.  Until then, I think it's a waste of time for a BC patient to go to him, since you won't be getting anything different. 

Dr. B has had the best results in treating children with brain tumors.  He has had completel remission in many of them and they are alive today as proof.  It works better if the child has the treatments before any conventional therapy, so that their immune systems are still intact, but it isn't mandatory.  If one of my DGC were dx, I wouldn't hesitate to go see him for a consultation.  The only reason he get a bad rap is because he refuses to bow down to the conventional medical community and turn all of his work over to them to bury forever.

I tried dim plus and it caused me to have to increase my levothyriod medication. Then I read that you should not take it if you are.on a thyriod medication. I stopped taking dim plus, anyone else had this problem?

Hypo thyriod. Low underactive.

Hi Mini, it is so good to read your post, because I am going to be following the same path and I too was feeling quite alone!  I had lumpectomy and SNB, no nodes, stage 1, grade 2, oncotype score 11.  On my 4th week of radiation now w 2 wks to go.  Have read many things about tamoxifen that I did not like.  Most specifically how they manipulate the math to make it marketing.  If 4% of women got BC on a placebo and 2% on tamoxifen, that means tamoxifen improves your chances by 2%.  But they are saying 50% since 2 is half of 4.  Not accurate!  Not to mention SEs and risk of other cancer and everything else.  I have not told my oncologist yet.  Meanwhile, I have been doing so much research to put together a plan for myself as far as supplements, etc.  We may be in the minority but I know it can be done!  There is so much good information out there about natural solutions.  There are several centers that look at complementary approaches to treating cancer too and once I finalize my plan, I may consult with one of them to see if there's anything I'm missing.