Functional Medicine Approach to Managing Oestrogen Metabolisim and Reducing Breast Cancer Risk

 In Australia it is expected that 1 in 3 women and 1 in two men will live with cancer before the age of 80.  In many of these cancers oestrogens are a recognised risk factor.  It is not any wonder that I loved listening to Dr Eleanor Rogan from Nebraska at the recent International Congress on Natural Medicine.
Her work is based on balancing oestrogen metabolism and inhibiting the formation of oestrogen-DNA adducts.  High oestrogen-DNA adduct ratio in women at high risk for breast cancer are consistent with the formation of oestrogen-DNA adducts initiating a series of events leading to breast cancer.  She has discovered two supplements that help prevent oestrogen initiated cancers by reducing oestrogen-DNA adducts..  They are resveratrol and N-Acetylcysteine (NAC).
This is the first study to show that we can achieve statistically significant decrease in oestrogen-DNA adducts and presumably, risk breast cancer.  N-acetylcysteine and resveratrol are two dietary supplements that appear to stop oestrogen-induced cancers from starting.
We have made them up into a simple monthly pack and are available from Cranes Pharmacy Clinic.