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To Avalon Essentials:

Is Bountiful Breast safe for use for people who have overactive thyroid also since has kelp in it and, if not have you considered making it without the kelp?

Thank you very much for your response.

Bountiful Breast contains a micro amount of kelp. You have to have some iodine in your body otherwise you can develop health problems. We do have a product that is free of kelp and has no pituitary, it is our first product. We found people were deficient in iodine and when we added iodine they got better results. There is a difference between hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s, so we can not answer your question without knowing what you are referring to exactly? We’ve seen the answer is on a case by case basis, based on someone’s blood, urine tests and medical history.
 
Iodine deficiency is now accepted as the most common cause of preventable brain damage in the world. The spectrum of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) includes mental retardation, hypothyroidism, goiter, breast cancer, and varying degrees of other growth and developmental abnormalities. WHO estimated that over 30% of the world’s population (2 billion people) has insufficient iodine intake as measured by urinary iodine excretion below 100 micrograms (mcg)/liter: urinary iodine is an indicator of iodine status. An estimated 31.5% of school-age children (6-12 years old) worldwide have insufficient iodine intake. Major international efforts have produced dramatic improvements in the correction of iodine deficiency in the 1990s, mainly through the use of iodized salt in iodine-deficient countries. Today, 70% of households in the world use iodized salt. For more information on the international effort to eradicate iodine deficiency, visit the Web sites of the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) or the WHO. Bromide has replaced iodine in our bread supplies and bromide is toxic like chlorine. Since iodine was removed and replaced with bromide, breast cancer rates have sky rocketed because bromide displaces iodine on the iodine receptors in the breasts and thyroid and other parts of the body. People also use fluoridated toothpaste and chlorinated water which all displace iodine because these are all in the halide family. The breasts and thyroid have the most need for iodine, it is no wonder we have a hypo thyroidism and breast cancer epidemic.
 
Our soils are iodine deficient now because of over farming to keep up with the worldwide demand for food. Many of our customers are actually using 12 mg and higher doses of additional iodine and we sell iodine tablets, along with giving up fluoridated toothpaste and using shower filters to remove chlorine. You can read more about iodine at http://www.optimox.com and http://www.drbrownstein.com
 
We do not know what type of hypothyroidism you have, but most of the US population is iodine deficient to some degree. There is a urine test to see if your iodine levels are too low. The jury is out on how much iodine someone with Hashimoto’s should get. Once you become iodine deficient your body has a hard time removing toxic heavy metals and Candida. Most people have heavy metal poisoning but this is another subject.

Question: Can I take herbal breast pills with Bountiful Breast? I am using a product that includes black cohosh and other phytoestrogens. Now I have found Bountiful Breast and want to know if I should use these herbals wills with Bountiful Breast or just throw them away?

Answer:

Most herbal breast pills can interfere with Bountiful Breast by blocking estrogen receptors. All phytoestrogens can interfere with Bountiful Breast Pills and most of the herbal pills are made by marketing companies, who make multiple herbal pills. Anyone can formulate an herbal breast pill, that does not mean it is made by someone with any knowledge of the pharmacology of these herbs or how they interact together. These types of herbal pills should only be taken under the advice of an herbalist with a degree or a Naturopathic doctor. All herbs have a pharmacological action and contraindications. These phytoestrogen herbs have traditionally been used by herbalists for menopausal women, not young women. It was the idea of marketers to repackage these herbs for breast enlargement

Here at Bountiful Breast we have had professional herbalists use our product for their own breast enlargement. Cecily Henderson in the testimonials and photo gallery sections of our website is an herbalist.

Black cohosh, has enjoyed a rapid rise in popular use for the amelioration or alleviation of menopausal symptoms. At the same time, the last decade has witnessed a significant expansion of research on the chemistry, pharmacology, and clinical efficacy and safety of this botanical species. As a consequence of the growing body of data on black cohosh, together with the appearance of reports implicating this botanical in cases of liver damage.

Because black cohosh has only recently been brought into cultivation, it is difficult to meet escalating world demand, and much of this botanical is still collected from the wild, where species identification depends on the skill, knowledge, experience, and honesty of the collector and where mistakes might be made. This situation might also tempt a less scrupulous supplier to substitute related but possibly ineffective and potentially harmful species for A racemosa.

The Medical Products Agency in Sweden has received a total of 7 adverse event reports involving hepatotoxicity associated with Remifemin and none for Klimadynon, the only approved black cohosh products in Sweden. A detailed review by a hepatologist found that 4 of the 7 cases were possible associations, but 3 of those were confounded by use of other drugs associated with adverse effects on the liver (eg, ketoprofen, levothyroxine (thyroid medicine), lamotrigine, tramadol, paracetamol). Other drugs and herbs taken in combination with black cohosh may also induce the same liver toxicity.

In the United Kingdom, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has received a total of 26 reports of liver problems. Cases range in severity from abnormal liver function to hepatitis; 1 patient required a liver transplant. As standard causality methods do not transpose well to spontaneous case reports, specific causality categories were not assigned. However, all cases have undergone detailed analysis and consideration by the United Kingdom’s expert advisory committees, which resulted in detailed warnings being added to both licensed and unlicensed products containing black cohosh. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency continues to monitor for cases of hepatotoxicity suspected to be associated with black cohosh.

The Office of Complementary Medicine, Therapeutic Goods Administration, in Australia reviewed 16 adverse event reports of hepatic injury with concomitant black cohosh received between 2002 and 2006. Although sufficient data were not available to draw conclusions about mechanism of liver toxicity, dose-response relationship, or linkage to a particular product, 3 of the cases were serious, all requiring liver transplants. One patient died. These latter cases prompted a mandate for the use of very strong, detailed warning labels on black cohosh products in Australia. By May 2007, the WHO-UMC had received 43 reports of 66 liver adverse events for black cohosh from 6 countries.

It appears that genetics, what strain of black cohosh, what other medications and herbs are mixed with the plant and what part of the plant are used all play a role in liver toxicity.

All women need to be concerned with the possibility of getting breast cancer. I think the best thing we can all do is work to prevent breast cancer by addressing the common known causes and working to mitigate them. The following suggestions are all the things I personally do to prevent breast cancer and stay healthy. It seems staying healthy is now a full time job, the more I learn the more I feel compelled to add to my regimen.

Known risk factors for breast cancer, including genetics, family history, and prolonged exposure to bad estrogen and xenoestrogens account for 30% of diagnosed breast cancer cases. The rest of the factors are environmental and lifestyle choices that we individually have the power to mitigate and change.

If you can reduce the negative effects of chronic stress, inflammation, heavy metals, pesticides, halides, “bad estrogen” etc. and optimize your immune function you can in minimize your chances of developing cancer.

My personal list of action items are:

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