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Withdrawals from Stopping Bioidentical Hormone
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Apr 30, 2022 | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
@lholiway
Baby and mama are doing great, thank you!
Yep -- wine will do it so just know if you have a glass of wine, you could get more sweats. I've noticed that over the last year it's not quite as horrid as in the beginning. I'm trying to lose weight to cut down on the fat in my body (I need to lose about 50 pounds) as I've learned that even though I haven't had ovaries for 35 years, the oncologist informed me that fat creates estrogen. Now what the heck? It's just one thing or another. Hang in there...how you feel today is not how you'll feel in a year.
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The endocrinologist I saw was adamant that fat is a very active 'system, the complexity of which science is only now relooking at. And that, at least in women, it's a big contributor to estrogen-sensitive cancers. As someone with the world's worst sweet tooth (but no metabolic syndrome makers which surprises me), 5hat is bad news. Insulin resistance is also a factor for estrogen-fueled cancers. But here's some good news. I've read, in several places including comments in the NY Times, that fasting for as little as 12 hours seems to work to increase insulin sensitivity and may help reset how insulin and fat play a role here and make it easier to tackle the weight issue. I'm sure that lockdown eating didn't help mine,