What Doctors Don't Tell YouOur two part series on HRT (WDDTY vol 4 nos 9 and 10) generated perhaps more mail than any other subject we've ever covered. Among your comments were a number of questions that deserve thoughtful ...
Menopause is not a disease or a state of oestrogen deficiency. It is an age-appropriate, natural decline in oestrogen levels. Even though alternative therapists accept this, they are still passing out ‘prescriptions’ for natural oestrogen and...
What’s a girl to do? Five recent studies have shown that soy is worthless for treating the symptoms of menopause.
Research from Australia shows that diet can play a crucial role in lowering women's risk of developing breast cancer. ...
New evidence suggests that eating lots of soya products while pregnant may increase the risk of breast cancer in female offspring. ...
Touted as the 'natural cure' for menopause, the high dose plant supplements may have strong oestrogenic effects on the body, with all the dangers of large doses of ordinary oestrogens. ...
Oncologists often have only one strategy when dealing with breast cancer: stop the flow of oestrogen to the tumour. Although only half of all breast cancers depend on oestrogen, it’s become a one-size-fits-all approach.
Cancer is mostly preventable - even for those with a genetic predisposition. In fact, genetics accounts for only around 30 per cent of cancers. The rest is down to lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise and environment. Go vegetarian or, at the...
Q I’m a 30-year-old woman and, since December 2003, I have suffered from hair-follicle abscesses at the back of my head (folliculitis) and ringworm on my forehead. Recently, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).
Re HRT (WDDTY vol 13 no 2), if the risk of death or disease is increased by a certain percentage, then I feel less than informed if you don’t say what the original percentage of risk was.
