by Marnie | Nov 16, 2012 | Breast Cancer and Chemotherapy, Fasting |
How To Fast For Chemotherapy Effectiveness Following yesterday’s article on the study that is currently underway investigating the benefits of fasting combined with chemotherapy, I thought it a good idea to share with you the best, safest way to fast should you...
by Marnie | Nov 15, 2012 | Breast Cancer and Chemotherapy, Fasting |
Fasting is no new notion to mankind. Many religions promote fasting as a way of purifying the body and mind. What we are now learning, however, is that fasting could help to combat cancer and boost the effectiveness of cancer treatments. Research on animals...
by Marnie | Nov 12, 2012 | Breast Cancer and Nutrition, Breast Cancer and Obesity |
Image source: freedigitalphotos.net / Master Isolated Images Fat Cells Make Estrogen (And What You Can Do About That) Why are we continually being told in order to cut our breast cancer risk, we need to lose weight? Because fat cells make estrogen and that can...
by Marnie | Nov 8, 2012 | Medicinal Mushrooms |
Continuing my series on medicinal mushrooms, today I’d like to introduce you to the Reishi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum). It’s quite an amazing looking mushroom. For thousands of years, mushrooms have been used in Japan and China for their medicinal...
by Marnie | Nov 2, 2012 | Favorite Inspirational Quotes, The Power of Prayer |
The Power of Prayer When You Have Cancer I’ve never particularly religious person, but I have always believed in prayer. As a small child, I used to pray that I wouldn’t have bad dreams, because they scared me. As I’ve grown older, I’ve...
by Marnie | Nov 1, 2012 | Breast Cancer Surgery, Breast Forms |
In the time I have been a breast cancer blogger and coach, I have met many wonderful women who did not want reconstruction surgery. For them, it just didn’t make sense. I celebrate their right to choose. We don’t HAVE to have breasts! If we have lost...
by Marnie | Oct 31, 2012 | Breast Cancer Surgery, Expander Implants |
Following on my series of articles about the different types of reconstruction surgery, today I’m discussing expander implants after mastectomy. What Is Tissue Expansion? A tissue expander is used widely in breast reconstruction when there is not enough skin to...
by Marnie | Oct 27, 2012 | GAP, IGAP, SGAP Flap |
When I first decided to write about all the different types of reconstruction surgery, I had no idea how many types there were! Even in the eight years since I had breast cancer, this type of surgery has come a long way and I certainly did not have as many options...
by Marnie | Oct 26, 2012 | Breast Cancer Surgery, SIEA flap |
Deciding upon which type of reconstruction surgery to have after losing part of your breast, or all of it, or both of them, to breast cancer is often very difficult, so I decided to devote all of my blog posts this week to a discussion of the various types of...
by Marnie | Oct 25, 2012 | Breast Cancer Surgery, TUG Flap |
Deciding upon which type of reconstruction surgery to have after losing part of your breast, or all of it, or both of them, to breast cancer is often very difficult, so I decided to devote all of my blog posts this week to a discussion of the various types of...
