#35 - Why I Stopped Taking Tamoxifen and Go all Natural | With Lauren Neuburger

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Why I Stopped Taking Tamoxifen and Go all Natural | With Lauren Neuburger by SurvivingBreastCancer.org

Summary: In this episode, Laura discusses how to take a holistic approach and go natural after cancer treatment with Lauren Neuburger. Neuburger explains how to balance your hormones naturally in order to treat some of the long term effects of breast cancer treatment. Some ways include drinking sage tea or going in for acupuncture treatments.

Topics:
2:44 Introduction
12:36 Transition to health and nutrition
24:49 Oncologists’ response to deciding not to take tamoxifen
27:06 Choice to not go in for mammograms
34:46 Being aggressive or not being aggressive during treatment
38:47 Being in harmony: sage tea and hot flashes
52:40 How food affects your cognitive ability

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Lauren’s Facebook page: nutritious delicious life

Quotes:
40:58 Lauren: “Your hormones aren't the enemy. They don't cause cancer, hormonal imbalances to the body is a beautiful self-healing resilient ecosystem. And when everything's fine, it's fine. The body has so many like, you know, backup systems like self-healing mechanisms, repair mechanisms, detoxification, like systems, you know, the body wants you to be healthy, happy, healthy, and thrive. The problem is that the way most of us have lived, and just make being exposed to things and also just our thoughts, our thoughts are really powerful, and they change the physiology of ourselves, you know, these, these, these detox pathways, these elimination pathways, like they just get, you know, blocked up and you know, imbalances occur.”

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