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Lorna Vanderhaeghe, has been researching on the subject of nutritional medicine for over 20 years, she is the author of seven books including the best-selling books The Immune System Cure and Healthy Immunity. Her latest book is: Available on: Amazon.com Looking for natural pain relief? click here If you have received this newsletter from a friend and you would like your own FREE subscription to Lorna's newsletter please visit healthyimmunity.com and sign up. We respect your privacy and do NOT sell or use your email address in any other way than to send you the Hormone Help newsletter and periodic updates from Lorna's desk. ASK LORNA: I am doing a mini eletter in addition to my main eletter to provide answers to common questions I receive. If you would like to ask me a question send your question to [email protected] Look for my new Q & A section coming this summer to my website www.healthyimmunity.com. Q: I have been taking EstroSense for Breast Cancer. I have Ductal Carcinoma In Situ. I just read on the internet that Milk thistle should be avoided by anyone with breast cancer because it is estrogenic. EstroSense contains a small amount of Milk thistle. Is this a problem? A: Milk thistle is not estrogenic. Milk thistle is an herb that helps your liver detoxify toxic cancer-causing estrogens. The entire formula of EstroSense which contains I3C, sulphoraphane, D-glucarate, Milk thistle, curcumin, lycopene and rosemary is designed to reduce your risk of breast cancer and to eliminate the toxic forms of estrogen that promote breast cancer. Several of the ingredients have been used in clinical trials for breast cancer treatment. I have a family history of estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer as my grandmother died of this disease. I developed EstroSense for myself, my daughters and all the women I love. I am including three research studies on Milk thistle's active ingredients Silibinin and Silymarin used in combination with chemotherapy for better treatment of breast cancer. In answer to your question there is plenty of misinformation on the internet. If you want to search the internet use Pub Med. This is where peer-reviewed research studies are posted http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Milk thistle is a very safe herb. Abstracts: Synergistic anti-cancer effects of silibinin with conventional cytotoxic agents doxorubicin, cisplatin and carboplatin against human breast carcinoma MCF-7 and MDA-MB468 cells. Inhibition of human carcinoma cell growth and DNA synthesis by silibinin, an active constituent of milk thistle: comparison with silymarin. Anticarcinogenic effect of a flavonoid antioxidant, silymarin, in human breast cancer cells MDA-MB 468: induction of G1 arrest through an increase in Cip1/p21 concomitant with a decrease in kinase activity of cyclin-dependent kinases and associated cyclins. Q: I have read in some magazines that omega 6 oils should not be consumed when you have breast cancer while other magazines say it is beneficial. Can you clear up this confusion? A: Omega 6 oils should be broken down into two types: Omega 6 oils that contain Gamma Linolenic Acid (GLA) these are "good" GLA containing Omega 6 oils and those that do not contain GLA the "bad" Omega 6 oils. Those that have GLA, including black current seed, evening primrose, and borage, have been shown in clinical studies to be breast protective. Those that do not contain GLA, including corn, safflower, canola and soy, have been found to be disease-promoting. The reports that linked Omega 6 oils to breast cancer are misleading because the studies they are based on did not consider the type of Omega 6 oils that the participants were using. Nor did they expose whether the oils consumed were refined, genetically modified or organic. Studies that did consider the type of Omega 6 oil found that evening primrose oil and borage oil reduce the risk of breast cancer, eliminate breast pain (a risk factor for breast cancer), and improve fibrocystic breast disease. For example, an important British study published in 2000 found women with breast cancer who received GLA along with Tamoxifen demonstrated faster clinical response than those on Tamoxifen alone. Read the studies below for further validation that GLA containing Omega 6 oils are healing and breast cancer protective. The reported negative Omega 6 studies also did not consider the total amount of fat from all sources. This is important because consuming too many of the “bad�?Omega 6 oils (highly refined safflower, sunflower, soybean and canola), too many saturated fats from red meat and dairy, and not enough of the good Omega 3 oils (e.g., flaxseed, fish) disrupts our essential fatty acid balance, setting the stage for disease. Abstracts: Effect of gamma-linolenic acid on the transcriptional activity of the Her-2/neu (erbB-2) oncogene. Inhibition of fatty acid synthase-dependent neoplastic lipogenesis as the mechanism of gamma-linolenic acid-induced toxicity to tumor cells: an extension to Nwankwo's hypothesis. Omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid gamma-linolenic acid (18:3n-6) enhances docetaxel (Taxotere) cytotoxicity in human breast carcinoma cells: Relationship to lipid peroxidation and HER-2/neu expression. Synergistic interaction between vinorelbine and gamma-linolenic acid in breast cancer cells. Effect of dietary GLA+/-tamoxifen on the growth, ER expression and fatty acid profile of ER positive human breast cancer xenografts. Gamma linolenic acid with tamoxifen as primary therapy in breast cancer. Read My Books for FREE Back to Top Books available to read free online for my subscribers. Just click on the link and you can read An A-Z Woman's Guide to Vibrant Health and/or Get A Grip On Arthritis. The first chapter of The Body Sense Natural Diet is also posted so that you can read this first chapter and decide if you would like to purchase the book. Tell a friend the books are available on line too.