Seer Stats fact sheet estimates that 192,370 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during 2009 and of those 40,170 women will die of cancer in the same year.
The Chinese say that breast cancer is a rich woman’s disease and indeed there is a very small incidence of it in China and Japan. Families in both countries eat a diet rich in soybeans and tofu. The health benefits of soy are in isoflavones which are a class of plant estrogen found in a high concentration in soy. In particular genistein occurs in soy products such as tofu, soy protein isolates, soy flour and some estrogen dietary supplements.
Estrogen regulates the growth of the mammary glands, and it function is mediated by receptors that allow certain to absorb estrogen. The relationship between steroid hormones and postmenopausal women has been assessed in at least fourteen studies over the last twenty years, and most of them have provided strong evidence between estrogen and cancer. This link is harder to assess in premenopausal women because of the fluctuating levels of estrogen in their system because they are still having periods. Further medical research is now investigating the role of insulin resistance on estrogen.
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief,
than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”
– Marcus Antonius (83-30 BC)
Diindolyimethane does not actually reduce the amount of estrogen in out bodies but it does change the way our bodies’ method of expelling estrogen. It creates less bad 16-hyroxy metabolites and more good estrogen 2-hydroxy metabolites, which in itself helps to regulate estrogen dominance.
