ESTROGEN DRIVEN CATAMENIAL PNEUMOTHORAX
Endometriosis is estrogen driven like prostate and breast cancer. Although there is no cure, we can block some of the destruction it causes with diet and lifestyle changes!
After a hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of both ovaries) six years ago, my estrogen levels remain in the high range. *Remember, the endometrial cells can make there own estrogen using a special conversion with enzymes already in the body. (Aromatase Conversion using the adrenal gland). THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO CURE FOR THIS DISEASE. The good news is during this six-year period, I have not had any fluid on my lung, no catamenial
pneumothoracies (lung collapses) and for the first time in 17 years I have a linear scar at the base of my lung viewed on my 
. Best of all, I have NO PAIN, can walk 5 miles and the only medication I am taking is to treat my blood pressure which is currently within normal limits since I have lost 12 lbs and continuing to loose more. How is this possible? I am not completely sure...
Several of you have written me that your lung is continuing to collapse after surgery to include: VATS Pleurodesis (mechanical and chemical), even with mesh over the diaphragm or fenestrations repaired on the diaphragm. And we all know my lung collapsed several times after my first surgery leading to two more major surgeries and seven chest tubes. But six years after life style changes, my health is outstanding. I EAT ESTROGEN INHIBITING FOODS, AVOIDING ESTROGEN CONTAINING, AND NEVER HEAT ANY FOODS IN PLASTIC CONTAINERS. 
I use my secrete weapon the incentive spirometer 
twice a week to prevent atelectasis (incomplete expansion of the lung).
Hippocrates proclaimed: Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food! 
For pain and inflammation, I eat GINGER. 
The only drug I had taken before switching to a holistic lifestyle was used to treat prostate cancer, Lupron Depot. A new article offers a great explanation about the prostate estrogen connection titled:
Estrogen Helps Drive Distinct, Aggressive Form Of Prostate Cancer 
Estrogen Inhibiting Foods
(I eat 1-2 daily)
Berries
Broccoli
Cabbage
Citrus Foods
Corn
Figs
Fruits (except apples, cherries, dates, pomegranates) 
Grapes
Green beans
Melons
Thank you Holistic Website. For a complete list: 
Onions 
Pears
Pineapples
Squashes
Tapioca
Foods Containing Natural Estrogens
Alfalfa
Animal flesh
Anise seed
Apples
Baker's yeast
Barley
Beets
Carrots
Cherries
Chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
Clover
Cowpeas (black- eyed peas)
Cucumbers
Dairy Foods
Dates
Eggs
Eggplant
Fennel
Flaxseeds
Garlic
Hops
Licorice
Oats
Olive oil
Olives
Papaya
Parsley
Peas
Peppers
Plums
Pomegranates
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Red beans
Soybeans
Tomatoes
Wheat
Yams
Ectopic Endometriosis
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