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Originally Posted by Matt51
Family Circle Magazine (October 1, 2009 issue, it is online) has a story on pages 97-98. The mother, a very good friend of ours, just died of breast cancer after a 20 year struggle. She had a gene mutation BRCA which greatly increases the chances of getting breast cancer. Her three daughters all have the same gene. So the two oldest girls had their breasts removed preemptively, and also had their ovaries and uterus removed to reduce estrogen production.
http://www.familycircle-digital.com...1/?pg=100#pg100
One conclusion reached is that usually older women get breast cancer, and altered genes are a strong possibility for a younger women to get the disease.
The other conclusion, if your doctor recommends surgery to reduce estrogen production, it might be a good idea.
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There's another side to the BRCA gene story. And it has to do with vitamin D.
Recent research has proven that vitamin D controls the functions of many genes...can turn genes on and off. This was not discovered until about 3-5 years ago and is what opened new avenues of vitamin D research.
The research trial, or one of them, that started this new line of research was a vitamin D study with women with the BRCA gene. They wanted to find out if there was a link of vitamin D deficiency in these women and, if so, would bringing these women to vitamin D sufficiency have a protective effect to prevent breast cancer.
They took their vitamin D levels...they all had low levels.
They supplemented D3 to bring their levels to 60-70 ng/ml.
Once their vitamin D levels rose to those levels, the BRCA gene turned off. They were shocked.
Vitamin D sufficiency turned the BRCA gene OFF.
The conclusion they reached was that, thus, the BRCA gene was not genetic but a function of vitamin D deficiency...deficient mothers having vitamin D deficient daughters and then those vitamin D deficient daughters continuing to birth vitamin D deficient daughters.
In other words, the BRCA gene was not genetic but due to environmental, generational vitamin D deficiency.
So, anyone who has cancer, has a family history of cancer, or a "genetic" marker for cancer should definitely have a 25[OH]D test done and supplement to reach and maintain optimum vitamin D levels.
It may save your life.