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Old 08-28-2015, 10:44 PM   #5
agness
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Re: "why did I get breast cancer" starting to be answered & it seems to be 80% bad lu

There are nutritional factors that increase one's risk, but they might be primitive of developing a malignancy and not the actual reason the "break" happened.

I did extended breastfeeding of two children and became very depleted. In a way I represent an extreme since I had a draw on my system for many years, in spite of a decent diet. I've been able to understand more of my risk factors if only to try to address lifestyle and metabolic factors that were working against me such as chronic dehydration and how it affected my electrolyte levels and adrenals. I think getting more blood labs done to check for common deficiencies makes sense though.

I've been amazed at how often, for many medical conditions, nutritional deficits are never mentioned at all. Eating a better diet isn't going to make a damn chink in a deep magnesium or zinc deficit and folks won't know to even address the deficiency of they don't know it is there.

So yeah, it's not your fault but then you might not be making things better with your diet and lifestyle choices.
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