The New Year is here and running away fast already! I did not even have time to think about resolutions, much less to actually make them.

Breast Cancer And Hormones

I thought I would report on some of the findings of the Women’s Health Initiative study, that was drawn to a premature close in 2002 because of the risks of traditional HRT. There have been two studies since that time. One was a follow up of those women who chose to stop their HRT when the study was abandoned, and compared them to those who chose to continue the HRT because they felt they could not do without it.

Interestingly, those who stopped it had a very significantly reduced incidence of breast caner, compared to those who continued it. Now this may not sound like news, but it is very important for those of you who may have thought that taking the dreaded HRT would improve your “quality of life”, which is something that I hear a lot as a reason for continuing the tablets. If you take oestrogen for MORE THAN 5 Years after menopause starts, then you are at risk. This is why all of my patients have a note on their file of the year that they have to stop oestrogen.

The second study was just reported recently in the 2010 Journal of the American Medical Association.  It states that breast cancer mortality was “indeed higher” in women who have used combination HRT ( i.e. oestrogen and progestin, not progesterone). They have called for a study into the effects of progesterone with oestrogen on breast cancer, which has not been done to date. They suspect (as I do) that progesterone has a better outcome.

What Is Happening In 2011?

Well, The Book is being finished and should be available by mid year. Whoopee! We can then relax and get on with speaking around Australia. The end of 2010 was celebrated with a break away in the USA where I did some talking about hormones and then some skiing (Yeah!) in Vail, Colorado, which was magical. The snow was great and the fir trees looked just like every Christmas card I saw as a child.  For a week, I just read, slept and ate and the rest was fantastic. The shopping wasn’t bad either.

The other thing that will be happening in the next month or so, is the study I have made of my patients whose oestrogen levels was unexpectedly high, i.e. over 1000. Some of those were younger women, not yet menopausal but that is a very high level for a menopausal woman and it is suspected that allowing the level to remain high will increase the chances of cancer of the breast.

I have found an effective way to reduce your serum oestrogen….. stop eating CHICKEN!! I have even been in touch with the chicken manufacturers who had notices saying “Hormone Free chickens” at each outlet. When I said that I would like to get my patients to use their chicken when their hormones are too high, if the company is confident there are no hormones in their chicken. I got a call back saying they did not want to cooperate in a trial as they have “never said they were hormone free, only that they do not have added hormones”!!!!

So my research was correct! Chickens ARE full of hormones and the levels drop drastically when the patient stops eating chicken. It is pretty difficult to give hormones to deep sea fish, girls, so they have go to be a better bet.

If you are one of those people who has no taste for fish, can I recommend a good recipe? After all, poaching only works for salmon, and fried fish can be boring, but if you make a good sauce, fish becomes a delicacy.

My favourite sauce for any white fish is made with bacon bits, fried and removed from the pan, add mayonnaise, mustard, white wine, 1 cup of each, boil until reduced, then add back the bacon bits and pour over the fish! Voila! Scrumptious. And no oestrogen!

Information On Taking The Pill

I know very few of you are still on The Pill, but you may have daughters for whom this next piece of information will be vital.

In the last 5 years I have found 10 girls pregnant while taking the Pill. Why? Because all of them were taking it in the mornings! Morning pill-taking also causes mid-cycle bleeds and all sorts of odd symptoms, whereas the girls who take their pill at night hardly ever need to see the doctor for complications. Why is this so?

Because when she gets up in the morning she has a shower, a coffee, gets dressed and goes to work or university of other chores and the pill which has been in her tummy is mixed with breakfast and the muscle activity required to get going in the morning means that the pill is less quickly absorbed. By the time it is absorbed later in the day, its effectiveness is reduced somewhat.

Try it for those girls who are having problems with their pill, get them to take it in the night time when they go to bed, it will be fully digested within 1-2 hours and they will relieve most of their problems! Voila again!

Manifesting, Channelling And Other Issues Of The Energy Universe.

As most of you know I am very interested in how we can utilise the energy forces of the Universe for our own highest good and that of those we love.  I already use some of the energy work when I am treating patients, even if some of them do not realise it!

Recently I had to counsel a woman whose life was falling apart, which she blamed on her menopause. In face the menopause served to heighten the problem but was not the root cause of it. She found herself facing divorce, abandonment by her children, and loss of her job and house all at the same time. And that was before the Queensland floods took away whatever hope she had of rebuilding her life with her meagre possessions.

She was so depressed and distracted by her terrible circumstances that I told her the only thing to do was surrender to the Universe and ask what she should do next. She was unwilling at first to make any effort herself as everything she “touched turned to dust”. But slowly I managed to get her to close her eyes and concentrate only on her breathing. She was way too stressed to try and count down into her ‘space’ the way I teach on the CDs “5 Minutes Peace” so I just let her breathe.

It gradually got quiet and the tears stopped and she was breathing shallowly. Then I told her to ask the Universe (she does not believe in a God) for help and to know what she should do next and wait for a reply.  There was no thunder clap, and I left her alone in the room for a few minutes.

When I got back, she told me she had ‘felt’ someone there for her, no words, no instructions, but at least a supportive presence. She was very much more settled by then and I asked her to repeat the effort at home again later. She did so and then reported to me that she had felt more positive, feeling that there was help at hand and she has been meditating every day since. After 2 weeks, her husband asked if they could give it another go with counselling, and she had been offered the downstairs apartment in her sister’s house!

Things are certainly looking up, and all because she asked for help. If this applies to you, then you too should go inside yourself, and ask for help. Help is available but you do have to ask.

So I am looking forward to February and to all the things that will be happening this year. I am hoping that your new year will be good also, and I commend to you the process of asking for help for anything that you are facing.