Dec 06
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Less HRT, Less Breast Cancer?
A major government funded study recently revealed that the previous popularity of medical HRT hormone treatments for menopausal women may have been linked to breast cancer development more than was initially thought.Â
It had long been speculation that the use of synthetic hormone replacement in women who were going through the menopause period in their life (usually anywhere from age 50-60 in most women), was linked to breast cancer, or the development of unhealthy cell growth in the breasts due to an agressive introduction of high estrogen counts into the body which didn’t know what to do with the suddenly re-introduced estrogen.Â
The big drop in reported cases of breast cancer seems to have started somewhere in the year 2003, and most experts believe that this is because this is the year the negative press about medical HRT started to circulate, and a lot of menopausal women who may have gone for HRT before did not.Â
The decline is a fairly high one considering diseases usually do not just fall off the charts this quickly, around 7%. Since of course no doctor can directly link this drop in breast cancer to the drop in HRT in women, it is only logical, since this happens to be the same year these types of treatment took a dramatic drop.Â
There are natural HRT options available to women, which are a slower, more natural introduction of the female hormones that make the life adjustment a little easier on women who are going through menopause and perimenopause. They are a weaker and less agressive form, and yet they usually can produce excellent results after a few weeks or months.Â
There is something to be said for herbal medicine regarding this, since herbal medicine is in a less agressive form usually than medical treatments – sometimes more is simply not better, and this is one of those cases.Â
