Your Breast Health Questions Answered

When you’re constantly worried about your breast health or getting breast cancer, fear and anxiety take over your life. The numbers are scary, and cases seem to be increasing. Whether you have family history, the BRCA gene, or have had breast cancer, we know the toll, emotionally, physically, and mentally, that keeping you and your breasts healthy can bring.

Luckily, there are safe, gentle, and highly effective alternatives to preventative breast care or surgery that can promote healthy breasts, preserve your fertility, and free your mind from the constant worry.

These proactive steps can help you find a daily routine to promote your long-term breast health. Here’s everything you need to know.  

When it comes to women’s health, we’ve all heard the risks around breast cancer. And breast cancer continues to threaten women’s health at an alarming rate.¹ 

In 2022 alone, approximately 287,850 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. And another 51,400 are expected to be diagnosed with non-invasive breast cancer. That will add nearly 340,000 more women to the 3.8 million existing breast cancer patients in the U.S. And those numbers grow every year.

Luckily, death rates from breast cancer have been declining steadily, though it still takes the lives of too many women every year. Your best chance of defeating it: Stop it before it starts. And to do that successfully, you need to learn everything you can about effective, safe options that can keep you and your breasts healthy.  

Breast cancer isn’t just one disease. It comes in different forms that each need to be managed in different ways.² 

1. Estrogen Receptor (ER) Positive breast cancer: cancer cells are fueled by estrogen, so blocking or reducing estrogen can stop this cancer
2. Progesterone Receptor (PR) Positive breast cancer: cancer cells are sensitive to progesterone, so inhibiting progesterone can stop this cancer
3. HER-2 Positive breast cancer: cancer cells have extra copies of a gene that makes a protein called HER-2 and use it to grow more quickly, so shutting down this the HER-2 protein can stop this cancer
4. Triple Negative breast cancer – meaning ER, PR, and HER-2 negative: cancer cells don’t respond to hormone or HER-2 blockers, so this cancer may be trickier to treat than other forms
5. Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) – a rare form where cancer cells block lymph vessels to the breasts causing them to rapidly become red, sore, and swollen

There are many different factors that affect your breast health risks including:  

• Having a secondary relative, like an aunt or cousin, with breast cancer
• Taking birth control pills
• Exposure to xenoestrogens (common chemicals that mimic the effects of excess estrogen in your body)
• Being older than 50
• Getting your first period before age 12
• The BRCA gene mutation
• Smoking  
• High sugar diet  
• Heavy metals, pesticides, and toxin exposure  
• Sedentary lifestyle  
• Excess alcohol consumption  
• Poor sleep  
• Chronic stress  

There are things you can do to protect your long-term breast health– even if you have a family history. And the sooner you start taking proactive steps, the safer your breasts will be. These steps can help you promote your long-term breast health.  

1. Regularly check your breasts and do a self-examination: Making sure to do your self-exam, or getting your mammogram, breast screening, thermogram, or other breast health care and lump checks are key to supporting your long-term breast health.  
2. Stay Hydrated: Always drink enough of water to help clean out toxins from the body.  
3. Eliminate processed foods! Eating an unprocessed and anti-inflammatory diet and avoiding processed food, sugars, and carbs, will help promote healthy inflammation responses, enhances your energy, and more.
4. Get some rest: Sleep is essential for repairing and rejuvenating your body systems. Prioritize your rest with a nighttime routine.
5. Move your body. Even low-impact exercise like walking and yoga, or harder workouts like Pilates, barre, crossfit, or strength training, can help promote your heart, circulation, and long-term wellness.  
6. Stress Management. Find healthy stress relief practices that keep you calm. Prioritizing your mental health with therapy, journaling, meditation, and other forms of self-care will help your body relax and rest.  
7. Natural ingredients and supplements: Natural ingredients and supplements have been shown to support healthy and long-term breast health. Incorporating these health solutions to your daily routine is a simple way to promote your breast health and take a proactive step towards your long-term wellness. With ingredients like modified citrus pectin, medicinal mushrooms, DIM, and antioxidants, you can naturally promote healthy aging and long-term breast health.

When you’re dealing with something as crucial as your breast health, you want solutions you can trust. That’s why Integrative Medicine Expert and ecoNugenics Founder and Formulator, Dr. Isaac Eliaz, created BreastDefend – a comprehensive formula designed to protect all levels and stages of breast health.  

BreastDefend’s effectiveness is backed by four peer-reviewed studies published in high impact scientific journals. So you don’t have to just hope it works to maintain long-term breast health—you can trust that you are doing everything you can for your long-term wellness.*^3-6 

This breast health supplement contains powerful clinically studied botanical extracts shown to successfully:

• Regulate breast cell function*
• Promote hormone balance and estrogen control*
• Detoxify excess estrogens and xenoestrogens*
• Support your body’s own DNA repair activity*
• Maintain long-term breast health*  

If you want to keep your breasts healthy, BreastDefend is a studied, safe, and effective daily strategy.* 

1. DIM (3,3′-diindolylmethane)
2. Curcumin
3. Astragalus root
4. Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor) 
5. Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) 
6. Meshima (Phellinus linteus) 
7. Quercetin
8. Scutellaria barbata (Chinese Skullcap)

Each of these individual powerhouses delivers significant breast cell protection. And when they work together, their benefits are maximized to keep your breast healthy for the long haul.*

BreastDefend can help you maintain healthy breasts while improving your overall well-being, body and mind. Its combination of proven ingredients actively supports and safeguards your breast health. From maintaining healthy hormone balance to supporting optimal DNA repair to encouraging strong immune defense, BreastDefend provides a comprehensive wellness plan for your breasts… and your peace of mind.*  

While there may not be many resources you can turn to, you can trust these researched health solutions for your breast health. Taking care of your breasts and promoting your long-term wellness can be helped with a healthy lifestyle, daily exercise, stress management practices, and natural researched support with ingredients, supplements, and a natural diet. These simple steps can help you feel your best long-term.  

Sources:

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2. Sun YS, Zhao Z, Yang ZN, et al. Risk Factors and Preventions of Breast Cancer. Int J Biol Sci. 2017;13(11):1387-1397. Published 2017 Nov 1. doi:10.7150/ijbs.21635

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4. Jiang J, Eliaz I, Sliva D. Integr C Ther. 2013 Mar;12(2):145-52.

5. Jiang J, Thyagarajan-Sahu A, Loganathan J. Oncol Rep. 2012 Oct;28(4):1139-45.

6. Cheng S, Castillo V, Welty M, et al. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2017;17(1):115. Published 2017 Feb 16. doi:10.1186/s12906-017-1621-7