Brandi Funk
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Shop
  • Newsletter
  • Contact

Brandi's Blog

Breast Cancer Risk & Processed Meats

5/28/2021

 
There is a link between processed meat and breast cancer. Eating bacon, sausage, ham, deli meats, and hot dogs puts you at increased risk. If you've had or have breast cancer, cutting out or cutting down on eating these high fat, processed meats and eat more fruits and vegetables can reduce your risk of breast cancer recurrence. To optimize your diet, I highly recommend adopting a whole food, plant based-diet. If you're not sure where to start, check out the 21 Day Vegan Jumpstart at https://kickstart.pcrm.org/en. It's free and will give you everything you need to start a plant-based diet. ​
Picture

BPA, Plastic and Estrogen

8/20/2020

 
BPA is a chemical that acts like estrogen in the body. Estrogens have been linked to the increased risk of developing breast cancer.  BPA is found in many plastic products, food and formula can linings, dental sealants, and on the shiny side of paper cashier receipts (to stabilize the ink).  Recently, researchers at Duke University Hospital were among the first to discover that BPA helps the survival of inflammatory breast cancer cells. http://ow.ly/k1j150B48sg.  France has banned BPA in food packaging and California lists BPA as being toxic to the female reproductive tract.
Changing to BPA free plastic may not be better. BPA free chemicals BPF, BPS, bisphenol F, bisphenol AP, bisphenol AF, bisphenol Z, bisphenol B are not safe alternatives to BPA.  Learn how to Limit your exposure to BPA at http://static.ewg.org/pdf/ewg_bpa_guide.pdf.
Picture

Avoid Alcohol In Breast Cancer Remission

8/6/2020

 
Drinking alcohol in any form raises breast cancer risk.  This may be a hard pill to swallow but I have to give it to you straight when it comes to staying in breast cancer remission.  Alcohol is a recognized carcinogen. It can cause cellular damage that can trigger cancer development.  Alcohol influences blood levels of estrogen and other hormones in ways that may make cancer more likely. Higher intake of alcohol increases circulating estrogen levels. The overall estimated association is an approximate 30-50% increase in breast cancer risk from 15-30 grams/day of alcohol consumption (about 1-2 drinks/day) and and by 46% for ≥45 g/day of alcohol use (approximately more than 4 drinks per day).  Even in women who drink ≤12.5 g/day (≤1 drink/day) there is a 5% increase in risk of breast cancer compared to non-drinkers.  Yes, research shows that drinking alcohol can be beneficial for your heart but if you eat a whole food, plant based diet free of animal foods you will reap the cardiovascular benefits from that.  Bottom line - alcohol is toxic!  Learn more about the research at -http://ow.ly/mXGZ50ARWxE.
Picture

Environmental Toxins & Breast Cancer

8/1/2020

 
There are many chemicals in your environment that can influence your risk of getting breast cancer. Some of these cause cancer by damaging your DNA – these are known as carcinogens. Others affect your hormone system and are known as Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs). These can be found in everyday products such as cosmetics, face cream, shampoo & hair products, cleaning sprays and even furniture. Learn more how to reduce your exposure at https://bit.ly/2XeS1Uc..
Picture

    Categories

    All
    3-n-butylphthalide
    Alcohol
    Aromatase
    Asparagine
    Breast Cancer Prevention
    Breast Cancer Recurrence
    Breast Cancer Remission
    Breast Cancer Research
    Breast Cancer Risk Factors
    Calcium-d-glucarate
    Cancer Fighting Foods
    Carcinogens
    Celery
    Cholesterol
    Curcumin
    Diabetes
    Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
    Environmental Toxins
    Estrogen Metabolism
    Exercise
    Fasting
    Fiber
    Flavonoids
    Green Tea
    Gut Health
    Health Optimization
    Healthy Relationships
    Hormones
    IGF-1
    Immune Health
    Indole-3-carbinol
    Inflammation
    Insulin
    Lignans
    Microbiome
    Motivation
    Mushrooms
    Plant Based Diet
    Pomegranates
    Probiotics
    Processed Foods
    Recipes
    Resilience
    Seaweed
    Sleep
    Soybean
    Spices
    Stem Cells
    Stress
    Sulforaphane Glucosinolate
    Superfoods
    Support
    Triple Negative Breast Cancer
    Vitamin C
    Weight And Obesity

    Archives

    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020

    RSS Feed

Brandi Funk | Survive and Thrive after breast cancer
About Brandi
Shop
Sign Up for Emails
Privacy Policy

Contact

brandi@brandifunk.com

Content Copyright 2022
All Rights Reserved
Website design by MTC Web
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Shop
  • Newsletter
  • Contact