Icing on the cake

Finally finding that long-sought-after relief from hot flashes is enough reason for most women to keep taking black cohosh once they try it. So the breast cancer risk reduction it also apparently offers is just icing on the cake at this point -- albeit some very significant icing.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine examined records from nearly 2,500 women and found that those who reported using black cohosh had a 61 percent decreased risk of breast cancer.

That's a huge finding, particularly on the heels of the study I told you about last month that showed that the discontinuation of the patented HRT drugs Premarin and Prempro has caused a dramatic drop in breast cancer cases -- results which implicate these horse-urine and alien molecule substances as being a potential cause of breast and other hormone-related cancers.

Imagine the sort of protection you'd get from bypassing these drugs altogether and opting for black cohosh and bio-identical HRT from the start. (For more on the breast-cancer-preventive benefits of bio-identical HRT, refer back to the July 2003 issue of Nutrition & Healing. Subscribers can download it for free by visiting www.wrightnewsletter.com and logging on with the username and password listed on page 8 of your most recent issue.)

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