For many women, breast health includes concerns about breast lumps, breast pain, or nipple discharge. It’s also important to understand the common screening and diagnostic tests for breast health, such as clinical breast exams, mammograms, and breast ultrasounds. There are other things we should know about breast health that we don’t often hear about. Integrative and complementary health practices include other factors that affect breast health. Those factors include the environment we live in, our emotions, and our lifestyle. Kris Gonzalez LAc is a trailblazer in women’s health. Her online e-course is loaded with facts you probably didn’t know. Facts that will change the course of your health at any age.
ENVIRONMENT
Our world is becoming increasingly toxic. Take a quick look around the space you’re in. Think about the town/city that you live in. How’s the air quality? How many cars are in your neighborhood? Do you live near a freeway? What are you constantly exposed to 24/7? What products do you use everyday? How’s your water quality? Food quality? Remember how I said your breasts are like sponges? It’s the fat portion of our breasts that soaks up and holds on to toxins if your body is overloaded and not able to handle the toxic load.
EMOTIONS
We are dynamic beings. We are not only our physical selves. We also have mental, spiritual and emotional bodies. They are all connected. In Chinese Medicine, each organ has an associated emotion. Just like your organs, things need to move and circulate to maintain life. This is the same with our emotions. Having emotions is human. What’s important is how we move through them. Do you often bury, resist or hold onto any emotions? How do you help yourself metabolize them?
EXERCISE
Your breasts require connection. They require touch and palpation. They require lots of circulation due to their tissues. Lymph needs our participation in order to move. Fat likes to store and hold. And, mammary glands are there to fill up with abundance to nourish babies. Choose an exercise that you love and do a little bit everyday. My go-to is walking at least an hour per day. Remember to sync your exercise routine if you’re a menstruating person. Your needs for different types of exercise and intensities changes as your body cycles through your menstrual month.
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