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Minerals & Your Breasts: What Every Woman Should Know
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If you have breast pain, soreness, swelling, or other problems, a good mineral supplement may help.
Here’s how minerals help keep your breasts healthy—from puberty to nursing to menopause and beyond.
Minerals for Hormone Balance
From puberty onward, your hormones play a central role in breast health.
Breast tissue has a large number of estrogen and progesterone receptors. [ * ] They guide breast development during puberty and maintain breast health throughout your lifetime.
If your hormones are out of balance, symptoms often show up in your breasts first. Because breast tissue is so high in hormone receptors, it’s sensitive to fluctuations in your estrogen or progesterone levels. An imbalance in your ovarian hormones is a common cause of breast pain. [ * ]
Breast tissue is also sensitive to thyroid hormones. Hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and other thyroid imbalances can cause breast swelling and soreness, as well as more serious breast problems. [ * ]
That’s where minerals can help. You need close to a dozen different minerals to make both reproductive [*] and thyroid hormones. [*] Minerals are a fundamental part of hormone production, and deficiencies are often a hidden contributor to hormone imbalances.
If you’re dealing with breast pain or soreness, a mineral replenishment may help. It can support your natural hormone production, bringing your body back into balance.
Minerals for Healthy Breastfeeding
Minerals are also important for postpartum breast health, especially if you’re breastfeeding your baby.
During breastfeeding, you need almost twice the mineral intake of a normal adult. [ * ]
The reason is that breast milk contains every essential mineral, and you have to produce a lot of it. [ * ] Breast milk is the sole source of nutrition for your baby, so it must include everything a newborn needs to grow.
The good news is breastfeeding benefits both you and your baby. Children who breastfeed have stronger immune systems and lower risk of chronic diseases. They’re even less likely to be overweight. [ * ]
Breastfeeding is good for you, too. It lowers your lifetime risk of breast disease [ * ] and helps return your weight and blood pressure to normal postpartum. [ * ]
But when you’re breastfeeding, you have to make sure you’re getting extra minerals. If your mineral intake is low, your body pulls what it needs from elsewhere. You’ll lose minerals from your bones, thyroid, and even your brain. [ * ] More than half of women who breastfeed have low bone mineral density—the minerals in their bones have gone to their baby. [ * ]
In short, breastfeeding is great for both you and your child. Just make sure you’re taking a full-spectrum mineral replenishment throughout lactation.
Minerals, Menopause, and Breast Health
Menopause marks a major change in breast health. As we talked about above, breast tissue has a lot of estrogen receptors, and your breasts rely on estrogen to stay healthy. [ * ]
That’s fine during your reproductive years— but during menopause, estrogen falls by more than 90%. [ * ] A lot of women experience breast symptoms as a result, including:
Pain or soreness
Swelling
Changes in breast shape and size
- Lumps (usually harmless cysts, due to hormone changes)
Low estrogen also increases your risk of breast disease, particularly as you age and enter your postmenopausal years. [ * ]
Getting more minerals is a good way to support estrogen production and keep your breasts healthy during menopause.
A 2019 study found that taking iron and calcium lowered risk of breast problems in postmenopausal women. [ * ]
Another study found that a boron supplement increased estrogen levels in postmenopausal women, while decreasing symptoms of menopause. [ * ]
- In a 2014 study, iron and zinc encouraged progesterone production, which works alongside estrogen to promote hormone balance during menopause. [ * ]
If you have breast pain, soreness, or other issues during menopause, it may help to get more minerals. Minerals can also help with other menopause symptoms, including hot flashes [ * ] and mood swings. [ * ]
Support Your Breast Health with Minerals
A good mineral replenishment can keep your breasts feeling good, at any stage of life.
At BEAM Minerals, we make it easy to replenish your mineral stores. Our Women’s Complete Mineral Support Kit has everything you need to look and feel your best.
All you do is take a half-ounce shot from each of the big bottles, every morning. They taste like water and provide every essential mineral your body needs, in the right ratio, with fast absorption.
The Women’s Kit also includes two smaller bottles:
Happy-Lytes™ contains minerals infused with bergamot that helps boost mood, in a spray form that absorbs through your skin. If you need a pick-me-up during the day, a couple spritzes on your face will relax and uplift you.
- Insta-Lytes™ provide cramp relief in the form of fast-absorbing electrolytes. They’re great for period cramps—just spray them where it hurts for relief within minutes.
Minerals are great for you, whether you’re breastfeeding, going through menopause, or just want to give your breasts some extra care. Try our Women’s Kit today to experience the difference for yourself.
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FAQs
Can I take BEAM Minerals with my other supplements?
Yes, in fact, BEAM Minerals will enhance the bioavailability of all your other supplements.
What is the difference between Micro-BOOST™ and Electrolyze™?
Electrolyze™ is primarily composed of Fulvic Mineral Complexes . Fulvic complexes are small molecules that provide inter-cellular transport for nutritional elements into the cells and carry bio-waste out of the cells. Fulvic complexes are flavonoids , which provide many benefits in the body.
Micro-BOOST™ is primarily composed of the Humic Mineral Complexes . Humic complexes are large molecules that are extra-cellular, meaning they do not enter the cells but stay outside the cells. They are highly-charged molecules that attract, through their electrical charge, bio-waste, free radicals and heavy metals. They ultimately carry bio-waste out of the body. Thus, we call them “Nature’s Janitor”.
How many milligrams (mg) of an electrolyte (Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium, Calcium, etc.) is there in BEAM Minerals?
The quantities of each element in BEAM Minerals products are measured in “parts per million” (ppm), rather than the “milligrams” (mg). Here is the information which usually helps to understand the difference:
Milligrams (mg) vs parts per million (ppm)
In comparing our products to other supplements, people want to know how much of an electrolyte is in our products (like potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium). Usually they are looking for an amount in milligrams (mg).
We have a hard time answering that question, because the electrolytes (and other elements) in BEAM Minerals products are measured in parts per million (ppm). So how can consumers compare?
The answer is a little complex, but here’s the high points.
The electrolytes in BEAM Minerals products are provided in “trace” amounts that are completely dissolved and thus 100% bio-available, immediately introduced into your circulation when you consumed them and will produce and active effect.
When you take a 320mg pill of magnesium, your body is only able utilize about 12-20% of it as it takes some time because your body has to digest it first. Whatever is not dissolved gets processed out of your body.
When you take a capful of liquid Electrolyze™ and/or Micro-BOOST™, you receive approximately 5.22 ppm of magnesium in which 100% of the magnesium is immediately available to your body. In addition, an important to know is that the magnesium in BEAM Minerals products stay in your system much longer building up healthy levels as you continue to take it daily.
