The good news for women is that there are things they can do to reduce their chances of contracting this disease. We know that regular exercise is extremely important for many reasons concerning our overall health: weight loss, cardiovascular strengthening, balancing blood sugars, and much more, but did you know that exercise might also help you avoid breast cancer?

My clinical experience brings to me women who are experiencing signs and symptoms of estrogen dominance and there is evidence that this estrogen dominance may lead to breast cancer over a period of time. Dr. John Lee states in his book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause:

“Since many women in their mid-thirties begin to have nonovulating cycles, they are producing much less progesterone than expected, but still producing normal (or more) estrogen….They develop signs of estrogen dominance relative to progesterone deficiency resulting in fluid retention, weight gain (especially around the hips and torso), depression and decreased libido.” 2 But this extra estrogen could have a more ominous effect.

Dr. Bob Arnot, in his excellent book The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, cites many good studies that associate high estrogen levels with a high risk of breast cancer:

“Researchers at NYU measured estrogen levels in women long before they ever developed breast cancer years later the NYU health study found that those post-menopausal women who developed breast cancer had a markedly higher amount of estrogen measured in their blood than those who did not have cancer.”

Arnot also points out that exercise intercepts the estrogen pathway at several critical junctures. This results in a decrease in estrogen dominance. The more women exercised the less likely they were to get breast cancer. In America, a study at the University of Southern California of 1,000 women concluded that those who exercised 3.8 hours or more a week had less than half the breast cancer of those who remained inactive. 3

Here’s what I recommend for my patients:
For young women-high intensity aerobic activity 4 or more hrs/week
For middle-aged women-moderate aerobic activity 4 hrs a week. Moderate intensity of exercise helps to stabilize insulin levels and lower body fat better than more intense exercise. Also, moderate intensity exercise may prevent adrenal fatigue in middle-aged women as compared to high intensity aerobic exercises.

Obviously, if you have had limited or no exercise recently you should start slowly and work up to the 4 hour/week mark. The important thing is consistency and persistence in following your exercise program. So what are you waiting for? Get moving and get (and stay) healthy!

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1. Deciding If Breast Augmentation Is Right For You

There are many options which are available to a woman who wishes to enhance her breasts. For starters, can you accomplish what you need through a simple lift procedure? If you can, then you should take the option of undergoing a breast lift as a means of augmenting the breasts, but if not, you then have to make the decision of implant type. There are currently 3 types of implants. The three types of implants are the silicon filled, the saline filled as well as the solid silicon or gummy bear implant.

Once you have decided on which implant that you will want, you then have to decide how big your breasts need to be, do both of them need to be enlarged or just one of them. This size decision is important, too large and you can have back issues as a result, too small and the increase may not be noticeable, furthermore, if only one breast needs augmenting, do you only have one implant added to make them symmetrical or do you get two different sized implants and augment both breasts.

The final decision has to do with the shape of the breast implant, you can choose from a round implant or several different ergonomically shaped implants like the teardrop. Furthermore, all these implants can come in both textured as well as smooth exteriors.

Once these decisions have been made, you will then have several choices of incisions depending on the type of implant you chose. While some implants can be inserted through any incision type, others have only a couple incision choices to choose from.

When it is all said and done, after going through the possible risks and complications like a hematoma, seroma, bruising, scars as well as the possibility of an implant rupture, you will be able to schedule your breast augmentation. In most cases, this augmentation is an elective procedure and as such you will be responsible for paying the costs of the procedure which can range from $5,000 all the way up to $10,000.

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