How to Treat Breast Cancer with Vitamins

With breast cancer at epidemic levels, every avenue must be exhausted when trying to keep a breast cancer patient healthy. Every woman's life is worth a fighting chance and some vitamins may help her in that fight.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Vitamin C
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin E

1. Make Vitamin C a part of your daily diet if you come from a family with a history of breast cancer. Vitamin C is an antioxidant that helps destroy free radicals.Try Vitamin C in crystalline form.

2. Vitamin D may help inhibit cancer cell growth. Take no more than 600IU each day, since Vitamin D is stored in the body.

3. Reduce the risk of developing lumps in the breast with Vitamin E. 100IU are recommended for two weeks and then, if you have no rise in blood pressure, increase the dosage to 200IU.

4. Add Selenium to your diet. Another antioxidant, selenium works best when taken with Vitamin E.

5. Keep essential fats in your diet when you're at risk for breast cancer. While saturated fats might harm the body, essential fats (the good fats) are necessary for maintaining healthy breasts. Make sure you don't eat extra sugars, though.

6. Eat your fish or at least take a fish oil supplement (EPA). You may also take evening primrose oil. Skip eating oils by frying foods in them. Bake or broil your meats.

7. Remember to add lots of fiber to your diet. Fiber is connected to the binding ability of estrogen and may decrease the risk of breast cancer.

Tips & Warnings

• Eat lots of fresh organic fruits and vegetables.
• Stop drinking alcohol, it increases the risk of many cancers.
• Cut sugars and saturated fats from your diet.
• See your doctor at the fist sign of any abnormality in your breast.