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#369058 - 01/17/13 02:41 PM

watercress

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I noticed that pepermint oil is always combined with fennel in tummy tames, but fennel is full of estrogens and I don't know if it can be taken together with hormanal therapy treatments( like Aromasin) againt breast cancer recurrence. Is something known about this?

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Re: peppermint oil new

#369059 - 01/18/13 07:18 AM

Syl

Reged: 03/13/05
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Loc: SK, CANADA

Welcome to the board

According to NYU Langone Medical Center "At one time it was thought that fennel had estrogen-like effects, making it a phytoestrogen. However, subsequent research has tended to indicate that fennel does not have significant phytoestrogen activity."

The Complementary Medicine Database at Cox College say "Anyone with an estrogen-dependent cancer (e.g., some breast cancer patients) should avoid fennel in large quantities until the significance of its estrogen-like activity is clarified.

Each peppermint capsule contains only 20 mg of fennel oil. This very small amount of fennel oil is unlikely to have significant, if any, estrogens.

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