Dear Stephen,
Thanks for a wonderful book and forum. I was diagnosed with early stage estrogen positive breast cancer and one of my doctors told me not to take the knotweed because: “As resveratrol exhibits estrogen-like properties and activates transcription by estrogen receptor and androgen receptor that leads to stimulation of cancer cell proliferation, patients with hormone-sensitive cancers should avoid resveratrol. ” However, my integrative lyme doctor said the effect was so minute that she finds it hard to believe that with all its positive effects that I was asked to discontinue taking knotweed. Please, what is your opinion on the above?


Stephen’s response:
The effect is minute but you can substitute stephania instead to make him/her happy. You should not be taking pure resveratrol in any event but knotweed standardized for resveratrol content; such a mix contains a lot of things besides resveratrol.
Stephen

This protocol was incredible. After only a few weeks most of my symptoms were gone. After six months all my symptoms were gone… it has given me my life back.

– Amazon review by Joseph

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Stephen Buhner is no longer living and this Q + A column on Planet Thrive is closed to new questions. It will be kept on our website so readers can access vital information in the archives, communicate with each other in the comments section, and find herbs, books + lyme adjuncts in our directory. If you want to read more of Stephen’s writings, please see his website at: stephenharrodbuhner.com.



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