Women's Health Question: Yeast, Urinary Infections & Cancer

Here is a health question we recently received from one of our viewers:
Which is the best to take for female urinary, or cleansing, or to prevent yeast or cervical or some cancers? Which whole food supplement is the best for female health from head to toe in general? Besides regularly eating green vegetable fruits, etc. Easier to take a supplement?

OUR ANSWER:
This is an excellent question, because it gives us an opportunity to repeat a message we’ve espoused for many years. In a nutshell, no supplement can ward off cancer. From all of our research, the cancer issue is a complex one. However, there are some basic things we know that benefit the body and reduce the risk of cancer:

1. Detoxifying the body is helpful. One of the main causes of cancer is from carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals) that are found everywhere, including but not limited to: household products, building materials, bug sprays, chemicals and pesticides on foods, hormone residues in foods, automobile and vehicle pollution, poisonous fumes (paints, varnishes, nail polish, etc), and heavy metals (dioxine, chlorine, mercury, etc)
2. Eating a clean diet is helpful. Too many people eat nonfoods, junk foods and poisoned foods. Keep artificial chemicals out of your diet. Further, especially for women, non-organic dairy, meat and poultry foods contain elevated levels of hormones and pesticides. These are known to interrupt normal hormonal balances and affect the overall health, immune system and function of hormonal systems.
3. Exercise increases blood flow, elimination of waste products from the body through the skin and strengthens immune system responses.
4. Supplementation. Note that this is not the main thrust of this section, but merely an important piece of the pie. Certain supplements support the body and feed it what it needs. There are a variety of foods and herbs that strengthen the body and build the immune system and help eliminate toxins.
5. Certain foods help eliminate poisons and toxins that may cause cancer. These foods include cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels’ sprouts, cabbage, radishes, etc. These sulfur-containing vegetables change the molecular nature of fat soluble poisons to water soluble poisons so they can be eliminated from the body.
6. Feed the liver with foods that promote its health, because the liver is the processing unit for bodily wastes and poisons. A healthy liver is vital to overall health.

The other part of the question above has to do with female health issues such as urinary infections and yeast infections. To avoid these, there has to be a combination of dietary factors and hygiene factors in the right balance.

YEAST INFECTIONS
Yeast infections are most often caused by sugar in the diet, alcohol, drugs (birth control pills and antibiotics, etc.) and unhealthy foods that you eat. No supplement can take the place of addressing these factors. But, a healthy complement would be to go to the healthfood store and buy a good “probiotic” acidophilus supplement to restore normal bacteria in your body and displace the yeast.

URINARY INFECTIONS
Regarding urinary tract (bladder infections) infections, a very good supplement is InflaPlex, yet women should take this along with precautions that have to do with better hygiene: washing thoroughly after sex, keeping the entire uro-genital area clean (especially after going to the bathroom), and avoiding allowing chemicals to come into contact with the vagina (perfumes, sprays, foreign substances, etc.)

Helpful supplements:
SuperGreens PhytoFood
DetoxFormula
ImmuneSupport
FlavoC
VitaLiv
FemPlex
InflaPlex