Cancer experts have been warning the public for years about the dangers and ineffectiveness of mammograms. Still the medical community continues to tell trusting women that they need them to prevent breast cancer.... Prevent? Conventional medicine’s idea of prevention is actually just early detection. What they don’t tell unsuspecting women is that with each mammogram that a pre-menopausal woman has, she actually increases her risk for breast cancer. According to cancer researcher Dr. Samuel Epstein, M.D., the pre-menopausal breast is much more sensitive to radiation than the post-menopausal breast. One mammogram has 1,000 times the radiation of one chest x-ray. If you’ve had a mammogram already, you know how painful it can be when they compress the breast very tightly. Some women describe it as having their breast put in a vise. Anyone who thinks logically will say, “If there was a small breast cancer lump, why would they handle the breast in that way?” With each compression, you risk the rupture of small blood vessels around the cancerous area. This in turn can lead to the spread from primary-location to secondary-location cancer, which is often deadly. And who is to say that the cumulative effect of multiple mammograms won’t actually cause the cancer it is trying to detect? After all, radiation does cause cancer. Breast Thermography on the other hand, does not pose a health risk. Thermography utilizes infrared imaging and can accurately detect a pre-cancerous state 10 years before a tumor is found with more conventional methods.
If this is the case, then why don’t doctors tell women about the risks of mammography and the safer, more effective thermography? Why are they recommending that the age be lowered for women to have mammograms? There are millions of reasons why, and all of them have dead Presidents on them. Yes, mammography is a huge cash cow for the medical community. The answer to breast cancer is prevention. There are numerous steps a woman can take to avoid hearing her doctor give them that dreadful diagnosis. Your doctor isn’t going to tell you this. Why? Because the average medical doctor has not been trained in prevention. Medical schools teach treatment, not prevention. There is a driving force behind this.... money. It’s more profitable to treat a disease than it is to prevent it in the first place. Pharmaceutical companies are some of the biggest contributors to medical schools. They contribute money, medical equipment, computers, etc. In exchange, these schools teach their medical students how to treat with prescription drugs and surgery. Not one medical school in the United States has a required course in nutrition....Not one!
Did you know the average life span of a M.D. is only 58 years? Is this someone you want to take health and longevity advice from? Your general practitioner treats symptoms, while in alternative health we address the underlying cause. I believe that with proper nutrition and supplements, more than half of your visits to the doctor’s office could be avoided. Before I get off the subject at hand, let me show you just a few steps you can take now to combat breast cancer:
STOP USING ANTIPERSPIRANT: The active ingredient in all antiperspirants is aluminum. Aluminum works by clogging the sweat glands. But by doing so, you also trap in toxins that normally get released in the underarm area. These toxins can build up in the lymph nodes and are a suspected link to breast cancer. Biopsies on breast cancer lumps have shown high traces of aluminum present. These lumps are not found toward a woman’s cleavage; they are most often found toward the underarms. Antiperspirants also contain talc. There have been numerous studies linking talc to ovarian cancer. Talc is very similar in it’s structure to asbestos, it can also be contaminated with asbestos. I recommend using a deodorant without antiperspirant in it, but before you go purchasing any deodorant, read the ingredients. Make sure it doesn’t contain Propylene Glycol. This is a toxic chemical used to make brake fluid and industrial antifreeze. You don’t want this on your skin. The MSDS (material safety data sheet) that is furnished with this chemical clearly states: AVOID SKIN CONTACT. It also says that it has been shown in lab studies to cause kidney damage and liver abnormalities. Even the so-called “natural” brands use propylene glycol. Ask Tom’s Of Maine why their “natural” deodorant contains a toxic chemical as its main ingredient? Ingredients are listed in order of concentration. Tom’s has propylene glycol on the top of their ingredients list. Read your labels and buyer beware.
DRY CLEANERS: The chemicals in dry cleaning are not suspected, but proven to cause cancer. These chemicals (PERC) are being put right against your skin. Most people keep the plastic wrap on their clothes for days and weeks until they are ready to wear them. This ensures that the chemicals will be just as potent as the day you pick them up. At the very least you should take the plastic off and let your clothes air out for a day or so before wearing. Avoid dry cleaning as much as possible if you want to reduce your risk of cancer.
NATURAL PROGESTERONE CREAM: It’s no secret that birth control pills increase a woman’s risk for cancer. Too much estrogen in the breast tissue is enemy #1. That is one reason why I’m not a big fan of dairy products. Most dairy products have traces of growth hormones and or sex hormones since cows have been implanted with these hormones, which allows them to produce more milk. Dairy products can also be laced with pesticide residues and antibiotics. On the other hand, natural progesterone has been shown to prevent the proliferation of breast cancer cells. Your doctor has probably never suggested natural progesterone because there is no prescription they can write for it. The drug companies make a synthetic version called progestins, but don’t be fooled, these are NOT the same as natural progesterone and have been noted to cause cancer, heart disease and birth defects. Where as natural progesterone is heart protective and helps prevent cancer. Progesterone is the major hormone in a woman’s body and the synthetic progestins do not have the same molecular structure. Natural progesterone cream has the exact same molecule as the progesterone produced by women’s ovaries. Normally, progesterone cream should be applied to an area where the skin is thin to get into the blood stream and not just store itself in fatty tissue. But many healthcare practitioners recommend applying natural progesterone directly to the breasts as well, alternating each day from left to right breast. The cream should be used for 21 days, stop for 7 days during your cycle, then repeat. This is to mimic what your body does naturally. As women reach their early- to mid-thirties, their progesterone levels start to decline because their ovaries are running out of follicles that produce progesterone. Natural progesterone cream has no side effects, just benefits, which include: preventing and reversing osteoporosis, reduction or elimination of PMS symptoms, eases menopause/hot flashes, regulates menstruation, stops migraine headaches, restores libido, reduction of cysts, fibroids, endometriosis and some infertility problems. This hormone gets it’s name from one of it’s actions, it promotes gestation, Pro-gest-erone. Some women have miscarriages because of low progesterone levels, especially in the first trimester. One last word on progesterone, doctors are puzzled as to the cause of postpartum depression. Why do some women suffer from this condition after giving birth? If you think about it logically it's clear. A woman normally produces 15mg. of progesterone from her ovaries and adrenal glands on a daily basis, yet the pregnant woman's placenta produces 300mg. of progesterone each day through out her pregnancy. Remember that progesterone is the feel good hormone and some women seem to glow through their pregnancy from this elevated hormone level. Taking that into consideration, once the placenta stops producing such high quantities of the hormone the body goes back to 15mg. or even less. This sudden and drastic change could indeed be one cause of postpartum depression.
If you are concerned about breast cancer or cancer in general, you need to be informed and take action. I hope this information is helpful. For more information about preventing cancer or how to find a safe deodorant and natural progesterone cream, see the products below and click on the links as well.
www.preventcancer.com/press/releases/feb6_2002.htm (Mammography Study)
www.breastthermography.com (Safe, Effective Breast Cancer Detection)
www.johnleemd.com ( Progesterone & HRT )
