The Seventh Woman Foundation invites you to share in the knowledge of hormone balance and its potential gifts to prevent breast cancer in our mothers, our sisters, and ourselves.

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Breast Cancer Screening with Thermography

From Mercola.com:
"Breast Thermography Health Assessment Imaging benefits are proven effective for women of all ages and for all breast densities. It is particularly helpful for women with dense breasts, as they are at a higher risk of developing cancer, and have an increased risk of both false positives and false negatives due to the limitations mammograms have in imaging dense breast tissue." more

Just What's Inside Those Breasts?

From the NPR interview: "When writer Florence Williams was nursing her second child, she read a research study about toxins found in human breast milk. She decided to test her own breast milk and shipped a sample to a lab in Germany.

"What came back surprised her." more

Do Some Breast Cancers Go Away on Their Own?

See how research on 600,000 Swedish women show that 35% of invasive breast cancer will go away if left alone. How might this change the way breast cancer is treated?

Breast Cancer Risk & Hormone Therapy

“Experts” who are saying that synthetic progestins in HRT increase breast cancer risk are right, but we’ve known that since 2002. Unfortunately, these same “experts” are now claiming an association of natural progesterone with breast cancer by default. They espouse that there is no clinical evidence to show natural progesterone is any safer than synthetic progestins. This is an incorrect assumption and they have not done their homework. Natural progesterone has a much safer profile than all forms of synthetic progestins, not only for the breasts, but for nearly all tissues of the body, including the reproductive tissues, the cardiovascular system, and the brain. There is a plethora of published literature on this subject proving that progesterone users had a lower risk. (Note: Here is a study on our Research and Resources page: Effects of progestogens on the postmenopausal breast.)

So why is the news media confusing synthetic progestins with natural progesterone? The truth is that it’s all about money, power, and who controls it. Nothing new. We all know that Big Pharma has a strangle hold on funding for universities, who gets grants, what gets published, whose opinions get press, the success of women’s health organizations and journals they represent, and how much money our federal agencies will make in the drug approval process. Don’t expect the news media to spend much time really looking at the truth about natural progesterone. They too are under Big Pharma’s umbrella.

Thank goodness women’s intuition senses right from wrong. They, not Big Pharma, will ultimately decide what hormone therapy products are best for them.

David Zava, PhD
Founder of ZRT Laboratory
More from David Zava about HRT

Hormone Balance and Breast Cancer Prevention

At The Seventh Woman Foundation, we believe the cure for breast cancer is prevention. Our goal is to help women reduce breast cancer risk through lifestyle, natural hormone balance and bioidentical hormone treatments. Hormone health experts believe this active awareness can ultimately reduce breast cancer diagnosis, breast cancer treatment and breast cancer recurrence.

We hope to empower women to change the dialogue:

The Seventh Woman Foundation's aim is to raise awareness about the role of hormone imbalance in breast cancer risk and the huge potential of natural hormone balance to reduce breast cancer risk and prevent breast disease. Shifting levels of estrogen, progesterone, DHEA, testosterone, cortisol (stress hormones) and other hormones change a woman’s hormone balance throughout her life, most notably during perimenopause and menopause. This is the time for women to take action and partner with a bioidentical-friendly health care provider who routinely uses saliva hormone testing to detect and correct hidden hormone imbalances for menopause symptom relief and to reduce breast cancer risks.

Becoming Our Sisters' Keepers

At Seventh Woman Foundation we envision a future where each of us can be our sister’s keeper helping our mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends learn how to practice breast cancer prevention and make the necessary changes to restore natural hormone balance and breast cancer-free lives. 

Watch this short video on hormone balance to begin realizing your opportunities for breast cancer prevention:

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Educational Philosophy

Because research results are primarily published in medical journals written by and for medical industry professionals, most women know very little about bodily health, much less the role hormones play in maintaining it. Information that is complex and difficult to decipher makes it doubly difficult for the average woman to understand, much less picture in her mind, how hormones work in the body. Seventh Woman intends to help women make that visual connection through our working philosophy that a picture is worth a thousand words. Our abiding aim is to simplify subjects into words and images that women who are not doctors can easily visualize and therefore truly understand.

Prevention Mantra

Seventh Woman supports the research and growing consensus that breast cancer and related diseases in women may be preventable by detecting and correcting hormone imbalances in the body.

It is surprising how little mainstream medicine knows about hormonal health. It’s even more surprising that the research that has been done on women’s hormonal issues has yielded so much misinformation and so little progress towards improved mortality and quality of life. It seems the best women can hope for is early detection but what about prevention? Since the Women’s Health Initiative found greater risks than benefits among users of HRT, women find themselves out in the cold when it comes to a standard of care and evidence-based treatments we can depend on. As Seventh Woman continues to seek answers, we are finding them in the changing dialogue of bioidentical hormones vs. HRT, hormone balance vs. replacement and individualized prevention vs. treatment. The Seventh Woman Foundation is partnering with others to help shift the current illness model to a wellness model that prioritizes prevention over treatment, with emphasis upon natural approaches to hormone restoration and rebalancing.

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