Breast cancer is the black shadow over every woman’s head.  In 2008, it killed 40,480 women, and 182,460 were diagnosed with it, according to the National Cancer Institute.

In view of this, it is frightening how most women wait until the next mammogram or a self-exam reveals the dreaded lump.  At that point, cancer is already inside the body, and it must be fought.

The wise action is to learn how to prevent that lump from revealing itself, ever.  Dr. James LaValle wrote the article “Breast Cancer- Real Prevention” where he explains:  “Most breast cancer is determined by how estrogen is metabolized in the body and whether it is balanced by adequate levels of progesterone.”

Knowing this is key to a woman’s health, because with the correct testing and nutrition, there is no chance for cancer to creep in.  So, know this and pass it on:

Test your estradiol, estrogen metabolites, and progesterone levels.  A progesterone deficiency makes you four times more likely to develop breast cancer.  If tests reveal there is a lack of this hormone, you can find a bio identical hormone therapy available to suit your needs and balance your hormone levels.

An estrogen test will reveal if your body is separating estradiol, the primary estrogen, into safe or dangerous metabolites.  20H, an estradiol’s metabolite, suppresses breast cancer, but 40H and 160H increase the risk, so you want to keep those levels down.

Luckily, you can make your body create more good estrogen and dispose of the bad by keeping your intestine flora healthy and by adding more antioxidant-rich and omega-3 foods and less carbs to your diet.

The thyroid affects breast health also.  A deficient thyroid or thyroid antibodies may prevent you from developing enough natural killer cells, which look for cancer cells and destroy them.  Thus, check your thyroid regularly to ensure its activity is normal.

The essential thing to understand here is that women have the power to reduce the risk of breast cancer simply by balancing their hormones and eating nutritiously. It is not a sickness left to fate or genetics.

If you thought that a yearly mammogram was the best you could do to be safe, you are wrong!  Make hormone and thyroid testing a yearly routine and ensure you never have to face one of the deadliest battles women are threatened with today.

Education is key in every aspect of life.  Imagine how many lives could have been saved if women knew about these preventive procedures.  There is no excuse today.  Information is everywhere, and as you are reading this blog today, many women will find similar information in other places, and they will start investigating more about it, and they will learn.

Do not wait for the medical community to teach you, they won’t!  Sadly, the majority of pharmaceutical companies need you to get sick so that they can make money, and most doctors get the information on research from them.  Obviously, these companies only research what “cures” diseases, not what prevents them.  It is your responsibility to care for your body, so, take control of your life and health right now and eliminate the threat of breast cancer from your life.

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We may say a person cannot BE happy, but can FEEL happy.  What is it that makes you feel happy? A great job? Lots of money in the bank? A fulfilling relationship?

Normally, when you get what you want, you feel happy, but immediately lose that feeling when that thing you wanted disappears; and it eventually will, as life is change and most probably, what you enjoy today will not be there tomorrow.

So, how would you feel if you knew you don’t need anything to feel happy all the time?  How would you feel if you discovered a way to feel happy even after losing what you cherish the most right now?

Believe it… it is possible!  There is a way to feel at peace and content regardless of your external situations.  The secret is to bring happiness into your daily life activities instead of trying to extract it from these, and you can learn to do this easily!

Follow these 5 tips and stop pulling the world’s strings up and down to make yourself happy.

1.    Choose Joy.
We humans tend to focus on the negative instead of the positive.  Our minds give more importance to the negative aspects.  If you don’t believe it, think about this: a person is complimented six times in a day and criticized one, what does this person think about the most in the following days? Yes, the negative.  And most people are like this because it is a survival mechanism. To change this, make it a habit to feel the positive things in your life; the smile of your child, the taste of food, the melody of a song you love, kind words from others towards you.  Take your time to savor these moments and think about them for 30 second periods during the day.  Remember to wear a smile on your face all the time.

2.    Trust the Universe.
Happy people believe the Universe is friendly.  If things go wrong, they try to identify the lesson and gift in the situation instead of feeling victims.  So,     when something not so good comes along, reflect on it and ask: What is the     higher purpose behind this happening?

3.    Surrender to Love.
Make it a habit to focus your life on love.  Love for your family, friends, and strangers.  Feel how everyone is in your same situation and bless them while on a traffic jam, on line at the bank or supermarket or just when walking next to them.  Just by wishing others good you will boost it in your life.

4.    Take care of your body.
Your brain is in charge of producing the endorphins, serotonin, oxytocin and     dopamine which are essential natural chemicals that thrust happiness into     your     system.  Your eating, exercising, resting and even, expression habits     greatly influence the way these chemicals spread through your body.  So,     again, smile all you can to get the ball rolling inside you and, if you feel kind     of imbalanced somehow, get some help, there are excellent natural balancing procedures like the bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, check it out!

5.    Choose Happy People.
The energies of other people affect us directly, so select your friends and     acquaintances well.  Get close to people who are happiness magnets and     keep your distance with people who like to be doomed.  Meet regularly with     friends who cheer you up and make you have great hope.

Feeling happy all the time is not difficult, you just have to understand what your life is all about and see it as the blessing it is in itself.  How everything that happens, good or bad, has a greater motive of wellness for you and the whole Universe and if you catch that opportunity to grow, happiness and bliss will fill your life every single day of your existence, no matter what.

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These women were girls in the 80’s, when they discovered friendship, loyalty, treason and yes – love. The Brat Pack made their debut back then and brought these then young girls their first taste of silver screen emotional roller coasters. However, you may be surprised by the fact that only two of the top five picks are 1980’s films. Women between 35 and 45 were asked about their favorite all-time movies, and these were their top picks:

1-Titanic (1998)
Why did this not surprise us? Let us see; great period outfits, unbelievable hairdos, a leading actress who doesn’t have a wasp’s waistline and huge chest, a leading actor who looks more dreamy and innocent than your three-year-old, the jerk fiancée, and three-and-a-half hours of syrupy  romance. Boy stows away on ship, boy impresses uppity first class passengers, boy gets girl, ship sinks.

2-The Body Guard (1992)
Ah! To be carried to safety in the arms of a strong, silent type with boyish looks… Whitney lost her mojo after that flick, but we’ll never forget what her sweet and potent voice did to Kevin Costner’s tough guy. The prize was such a confident straight-shooter, with a mysterious and exciting past as a secret service agent to boot! A movie for women who still seek real men…

3-When Harry Met Sally (1989)
The angst! The angst! Meg Ryan actually makes us feel compassion for a dumb blond! It’s all thanks to her honest and lovely portrayal of the single professional woman – tired of trying and still hoping for love true and pure. Billy Crystal is the comedic, unlikely beau – which makes for an even better movie about love triumphant over self-centeredness and social formulas.

4-Pretty in Pink (1986)
A true 1980’s teen movie in the style that Howard Deutch made so famous and successful. The Brat Pack – as the group of young actors came to be known – started their meteoric and – sadly – short careers (ok, there are exceptions) in the movie business back then. It doesn’t matter if you saw this one when you were twelve or twenty-two, you were surely captured by the conflicts faced when Andie must choose between true friendship and popularity… the eternal high school dilemma!

5-Pretty Woman (1990)
This was a surprise to us, as we did not expect a movie about a rich, arrogant loner and a hooker to make the top five. But that’s only the surface of the plot; this is really a classic fairytale. The witty, street-smart , gorgeous and ever-aspirational  sex professional meets a gorgeous man in his forties who appears to have everything but is terribly empty inside. Aside from the oft-times annoying Roberts laugh, the plot is excellent and the outfits – oh my God! How many times did you dream about spending a day walking into every top boutique on Hollywood Boulevard, trying on everything you like and taking it with you? Personally, I think that’s what the women who picked Pretty Woman loved best.

There you have it, the top five movies for women 35 to 45. Agree? Disagree? If any of these make you bawl like a baby, ladies, it doesn’t mean that your bioidentical hormone therapy is not working. These are classics no woman would dare to watch without a handy box of Kleenex nearby.

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1. You have the experience to make fewer mistakes.
Of course that some of us never learn, but as you may have, you should make the best use of it. It is a privilege to gain experience and accumulate stories over the years, and now is the moment to use them to your own advantage, as well as for helping others. Younger women will appreciate whatever you can tell them. Even if it doesn’t seem that they’re really listening to you, they will not forget your words.

2. You only worry about important matters.
It is true that we live in a constantly changing world, and at this point in your life you must know that there are things which are not worth worrying about. Take the chance to use this knowlege to free your life from stress. Everybody knows that money is important and that getting it is hard, and it’s not like you shouldn’t care about it. But if you take the time to get closer to your loved ones; you will find out what is really worth fretting about.

3. You can spend more time with yourself.
Letting go of time-stealing activities like working all day or taking care of children gives you plenty of time to do, well, whatever you want to do. It could be reading, learning something, painting or spending a whole day at the hairdresser’s. Do what you please! Take all the spare time to do the things you have been postponing over the years and you will feel absolutely renewed.

4. You are as young as you feel.
Nowadays being 50 does not mean that your life is over at all… Not even close! There is a world of possibilities out there and it is just waiting for you to go discover it. What about an extreme make over? Or even a divorce, if you are not happy? Unlock yourself and do what you never thought you could do. It is never, ever, too late.

5. You are interested in taking care of yourself.
It could be entirely about health, or even about looks. Nobody is going to take better care of you than yourself and, luckily, there are many things that you can do to feel (but most importantly be) better. From bioidentical hormone therapy to ethics therapy, and many, many others. Your mind and body are the most precious things you own and the responsability of keeping them in top condition is only yours. Don’t feel bad when you have real possibilities of feeling great.

6. You appreciate little things.
This detail may seem quite corny but if you make a pause and think about it, you will see that we work all our lives to get big, important things; they may make us happy to some extent but, in fact, the only things that survive through time and make you a better woman, are details. You are in a position of appreciating the details, and this makes your life better everyday.

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“There’s no woman out there
with a Prozac deficiency.”
—Suzanne Somers

At 60, says former Three’s Company star Suzanne Somers, “you can choose fifty old medicines—if that´s what you want, fine, take all your pharmaceutical drugs and end up in a nursing home— or… you can jump on this fast-moving trend”.

What trend is she talking about? Watch this 10 min Metacafe video featuring her sharing with us how a bio identical hormone therapy relieved her from those awful symptoms, you know what I mean. She has something to say about a crossroad we are witnessing these days, when we can live longer and still enjoy our menopause (and regain sexual drive, too!).

Suzanne Somers Speaks About Bio-Identical Hormones at the 15th A4M Conference in Las Vegas

She addressed that lecture at the 15th American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) Annual Congress held in Las Vegas in 2007. (1)
A couple of years before this conference, Somers had released her book “The Sexy Years: Discover the Natural Hormone Connection: The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health and Vitality, for Women and Men”. Two years later, the sequel “Ageless: The Naked Truth about Bioidentical Hormones” followed.

In Ageless, Somers mentions the now famous Women’s Health Initiative Study, an experiment in which doctors expected decreases in cancer in women who were prescribed synthetic hormones. (2) To their surprise, doctors discovered shocking outcomes, such as 26% more breast cancer and 2,100 % more cases of lung blood clots.

“Yes, that is correct”, writes Somers, to assure you it wasn’t a typo. And she adds:
“So much for synthetic hormones! […] Those of us who were on the original birth control pills for any length of time were actually on synthetic hormones. Any wonder why women of our generation are under siege from an epidemic of breast and ovarian cancers? There is a link.”
Somers endured a cancer herself and recovered. Another excerpt from Ageless about her bio identical hormone therapy:

“I approached my cancer through balanced bioidentical hormone replacement and complemented this replacement with Iscador. (3)

“I believe this was the best decision of my life.
“[…] My health has never been better. I have not had so much as a cold during this time; upon my last checkup, my immune system was so high that my doctor was ecstatic. He said he had never seen an immune system this strong in any of his adult patients.”

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(1) Note: according to its website, the A4M seeks the dissemination of info “concerning innovative science and research as well as treatment modalities designed to prolong the human lifespan”.
(2) The study included 162,000 women, some of whom where prescribed estrogen or progestin and others a placebo. Estrogen was synthesized from horse urine. The experiment was terminated because of the dangerous side-effects observed in an unexpected number of women, mostly related to blood clots.
(3) Iscador: extract of mistletoe, used to treat certain cancers.