Walnuts for Breast Cancer Prevention

by Marnie | Dec 12, 2019 | Breast Cancer and Nutrition | 9 comments

Walnuts for Breast Cancer Prevention Walnuts (Juglans regia, Juglans nigra, Juglans cinerea) are an extraordinary source of breast-cancer beating phytochemicals (natural plant chemicals). Walnuts are filled with antioxidants and contain more melatonin and alpha...

Guest Post – Caitlin Wells, on Thermography

by Marnie | Nov 8, 2019 | Breast Cancer Screening, Thermography | 2 comments

I’m very pleased to introduce Caitlin Wells, Certified Medical Thermography Technician, to my thrivers. Caitlin is going to share some information about thermography – thermal imaging – and how it can be beneficial for determining breast health. ...

Stress and Breast Cancer Stem Cells

by Marnie | Jul 24, 2019 | Breast Cancer Stem Cells, Stress | 5 comments

Cancer stem cells Last night I was flipping through an older book on cancer that I’d sent to my mother in 1997 when she’d been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer – it had spread to her bones and I was combing all the book shops (no Internet then!) to find...

Protecting Bones From Breast Cancer Metastasis

by Marnie | May 28, 2019 | Bone Protective Nutrients, Breast Cancer Metastasis, phytochemicals that protect bones | 13 comments

Yesterday I posted on my Facebook business page (Marnie Clark, Breast Health Coach) a very interesting article about a study that had researchers investigating how it is possible that breast cancer cells from a primary tumor migrate to the bones. Researchers were...

The Merits, or Otherwise, of Ten Years of Aromatase Inhibitors

by Marnie | May 23, 2019 | Aromatase Inhibitors, Tamoxifen | 4 comments

  If you have been diagnosed with hormone receptor positive breast cancer, meaning that the cancer cells were shown to be fueled by estrogen, and sometimes progesterone, no doubt as part of your post-surgery treatment plan, your doctor recommended that you take...