A great article here on how you can actually be brave enough to give up TV. I have.
I actually stopped watching TV well before my early July breast cancer diagnosis and I don't miss it. There are times when in social gatherings people say "Hey did you see that commercial on.. ?" or they discuss a new TV series of which I know nothing. But guess what.. there are lots of other interesting things to talk about than "what's on TV"
In fact a good 98% of my life is commercial free. The only time I see advertising is the few banner ads on web sites (I use Firefox and block pop-ups and many banner ads), or in a magazine or billboard. I have not heard a SINGLE political ad for the upcoming election which makes my heart sing! I have Sirius Satellite Radio for my music and mostly listen to the "Spa" channel which is continuous New Age relaxing music and wonderfully peaceful background music.
If I want to buy something, I seek it in Google or Froogle and I research it on the Internet. I don't need advertisers to SUGGEST a product I might need. I can come up with those ideas all by myself and then I evaluate the choices. This is the way it should be. We are simply BOMBARDED with buy this buy that junk in our world and it should be considered a form of pollution.. Mind pollution...
Furthermore, most of the advertising suggests you aren't good enough the way you are unless you buy their product. They constantly promote perfect people with perfect teeth, perfect hair, perfect skin.. you can have this too if only you buy our product. Bullshit. You want to have a perfect body, stop filling it with chemicals and processed food and start eating what we were intended to eat, which is fresh, natural, live foods.. and you don't find them in a can.
I walk my dogs in the early evening darkness and see almost every household with a TV glowing in the living room... rarely do I walk by a house where people are home and the TV is not on. This is a fundamental problem in our society. TV teaches you to be apathetic, lazy and in need of external stimulation. And then there are the constant subliminal messages about how you should live your life.
Don't even get me started on the freaking DRUG ads that are promoted like some kind of personal care product that will make your life wonderful. The pharmaceutical companies are really just legitimate DRUG PUSHERS. They use the same tactics to get people hooked as the corner drug dealer but they have a whole lot more money and government permission to assault the public with their advertising.
Advertising by drug companies should never have been allowed. It cuts the Doctor out of the loop and basically makes him a highly paid pharmacist. Patients come in and ask for Drug X that they saw on TV. This is not the way it should be. It is ASS BACKWARDS. The Doctor needs to be the expert on the drug to prescribe. However, I think even with that system, our entire healthcare system approach is terribly flawed in that even Doctors believe there is drug to fix nearly every problem of the human race.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Juicing now a part of my diet
Last Friday I received my new masticating juicer, an Omega 8003. There are other recommended juicers out there which are similar. I happened to settle on this one and I really like how easy it is to clean and how quiet it is.. big pluses for using a juicer.
The deal with a masticating juicer vs one that whirs things to death is that it literally squeezes the juice out of things. A blender/food processor type of juicer leaves a lot of the juice in the pulp so you have to juice a lot more stuff to get the juice you should. The whirring of things also heats the enzymes just enough to damage them and the physical whirring also may damage the enzymes.
With a juicer, you can get the nutrients of a lot more vegetables and fruits than you would if you tried to eat them with the pulp. The pulp has value for fiber content, but by squeezing the nutrients out you can get a powerhouse glass of nutrients and enzymes that you can't buy at any store. The juicer allows me to increase the amount of raw foods I consume without feeling like a rabbit eating only salads - although I do try to eat a good sized salad every day.
The deal with a masticating juicer vs one that whirs things to death is that it literally squeezes the juice out of things. A blender/food processor type of juicer leaves a lot of the juice in the pulp so you have to juice a lot more stuff to get the juice you should. The whirring of things also heats the enzymes just enough to damage them and the physical whirring also may damage the enzymes.
With a juicer, you can get the nutrients of a lot more vegetables and fruits than you would if you tried to eat them with the pulp. The pulp has value for fiber content, but by squeezing the nutrients out you can get a powerhouse glass of nutrients and enzymes that you can't buy at any store. The juicer allows me to increase the amount of raw foods I consume without feeling like a rabbit eating only salads - although I do try to eat a good sized salad every day.
MRI results
MRI is done and I have reviewed the various slices. Nothing dramatic to report except to say it has not grown and it does appear that the edges are less "spiculated" in medical terminology. On further investigation to try to figure out exactly what less spiculation means, I discovered that MRI really might not be the ideal way for me to monitor this breast lump because even a benign lesion can take up contrast dye and appear malignant. I found a very detailed article on the value of MRI with breast lumps and it turns out that they are not quite as accurate as I originally thought. MRI has value but perhaps it will not give me the information I need to monitor this.
Here is a quote from a study that I found on Breast MRI accuracy:
Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast is known to reveal breast cancer with higher sensitivity than mammography alone. The specificity is, however, compromised by the observation that several benign masses take up contrast agent in addition to malignant lesions.
This means that inside that mass could be millions of dead and dying cancer cells and necrotic tumor tissue but it would still appear the same on the MRI. Sigh. Because of this I won't be getting another MRI for at least 6 months since I don't expect the size to diminish in less time than that.
SO.. I have made an appointment finally for a breast thermography test at a local facility - and there weren't many places who have this test in my area suprisingly. Not sure if the test shows no heat pattern, what that might mean, but in any case I will get the test now and check back in a month or two and see if any changes.
Here are two sample images from my MRI today compared to my prior one in July at the same facility:
October 18, 2006
July 5, 2006
The dilemma is - now that I know I have this lump and I'm not going to remove it surgically, how do I monitor it and whether it has metastisized? I suppose I can use the AMAS blood test and perhaps find another cancer marker blood test to use as a monitor. But it seems that it will be difficult to prove that what I am doing is working until months go by and I haven't gotten sick or there isn't some downward spiral in my health. I'd love to find a more definite way to monitor this and a PEM scan is just too risky to do as often as I'd like with the radiation exposure.
Breast lumps are just not as simple as say.. cholesterol level. That is much easier to track. What I need to find is a test that measures the cancer marker for this tumor so I can say today it is a particular number and then see if next month it is less.
If I find an optimal way to monitor this lump, then it will have implications for all women even those without known breast lumps. So stay tuned...
Here is a link with some ideas for other tests I plan to try for monitoring things:
http://www.cancure.org/tests_to_detect_cancer.htm
Here is a quote from a study that I found on Breast MRI accuracy:
Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast is known to reveal breast cancer with higher sensitivity than mammography alone. The specificity is, however, compromised by the observation that several benign masses take up contrast agent in addition to malignant lesions.
This means that inside that mass could be millions of dead and dying cancer cells and necrotic tumor tissue but it would still appear the same on the MRI. Sigh. Because of this I won't be getting another MRI for at least 6 months since I don't expect the size to diminish in less time than that.
SO.. I have made an appointment finally for a breast thermography test at a local facility - and there weren't many places who have this test in my area suprisingly. Not sure if the test shows no heat pattern, what that might mean, but in any case I will get the test now and check back in a month or two and see if any changes.
Here are two sample images from my MRI today compared to my prior one in July at the same facility:
October 18, 2006
July 5, 2006
The dilemma is - now that I know I have this lump and I'm not going to remove it surgically, how do I monitor it and whether it has metastisized? I suppose I can use the AMAS blood test and perhaps find another cancer marker blood test to use as a monitor. But it seems that it will be difficult to prove that what I am doing is working until months go by and I haven't gotten sick or there isn't some downward spiral in my health. I'd love to find a more definite way to monitor this and a PEM scan is just too risky to do as often as I'd like with the radiation exposure.
Breast lumps are just not as simple as say.. cholesterol level. That is much easier to track. What I need to find is a test that measures the cancer marker for this tumor so I can say today it is a particular number and then see if next month it is less.
If I find an optimal way to monitor this lump, then it will have implications for all women even those without known breast lumps. So stay tuned...
Here is a link with some ideas for other tests I plan to try for monitoring things:
http://www.cancure.org/tests_to_detect_cancer.htm
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Vitamin D and Breast Cancer
Very exciting news on the important role of Vitamin D in preventing and stopping breast cancer in this article...
Excerpts:
NewsTarget) According to new research published in the Journal of Clinical Pathology, women with advanced-stage breast cancer have significantly lower levels of vitamin D in their bodies than women in the early stages of the disease.
"This report, while being an observational study, clearly shows that circulating vitamin D levels are lower in advanced breast cancer as compared to early breast cancer," said Dr. Carlo Palmieri of Imperial College London. "It lends support to the idea that vitamin D has a role in the progression of breast cancer.
Excerpts:
NewsTarget) According to new research published in the Journal of Clinical Pathology, women with advanced-stage breast cancer have significantly lower levels of vitamin D in their bodies than women in the early stages of the disease.
"This report, while being an observational study, clearly shows that circulating vitamin D levels are lower in advanced breast cancer as compared to early breast cancer," said Dr. Carlo Palmieri of Imperial College London. "It lends support to the idea that vitamin D has a role in the progression of breast cancer.
The Codex must be stopped
From this very good article:
The United Nations World Health Organization is attempting to make the Codex Alimentarious effective in every country. It has been initiated in both Germany and Australia, according to reports. This severely limits access to dietary supplements like vitamins and minerals. For example, if the Codex is fully activated, it will be necessary for us to obtain a physician’s prescription to purchase more than RDA amounts of vitamin C. Beyond the extra cost involved, this represents a serious health threat since this substance is an important liver metabolite.
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Here are more articles:
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/codex/Codex_Alarm_by_Hammell.html
http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/newsl/codex.html
http://www.healthsavers.info/CodexPage.htm
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/
One thing they can't take from us is getting our vitamins through foods by using a masticating juicer. If the Codex goes through and we are less and less able to get nutritional supplements, then this will be where we will need to turn for staying healthy. Hopefully it will not come to that. This Codex started out as a good idea - to improve the safety of food - but it has gone horribly off track in targeting nutritional supplements and limiting consumers to being able to buy supplements that are as potent as they need to be.
The United Nations World Health Organization is attempting to make the Codex Alimentarious effective in every country. It has been initiated in both Germany and Australia, according to reports. This severely limits access to dietary supplements like vitamins and minerals. For example, if the Codex is fully activated, it will be necessary for us to obtain a physician’s prescription to purchase more than RDA amounts of vitamin C. Beyond the extra cost involved, this represents a serious health threat since this substance is an important liver metabolite.
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Here are more articles:
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/codex/Codex_Alarm_by_Hammell.html
http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/newsl/codex.html
http://www.healthsavers.info/CodexPage.htm
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/
One thing they can't take from us is getting our vitamins through foods by using a masticating juicer. If the Codex goes through and we are less and less able to get nutritional supplements, then this will be where we will need to turn for staying healthy. Hopefully it will not come to that. This Codex started out as a good idea - to improve the safety of food - but it has gone horribly off track in targeting nutritional supplements and limiting consumers to being able to buy supplements that are as potent as they need to be.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Mammograms can cause cancer
I know I have posted on this before but I found a very good article just now on this topic that I want to include here again to continue to emphasize, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, something you won't be hearing from the media or your doctor and that is that mammograms in women under 35 can actually cause 75 cancers for every 15 breast cancers it identifies!
Read the full article here and become educated on the real facts that you won't hear from your doctor.
Excerpts from the article I'd like to highlight:
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Is mammography an effective tool for detecting tumors? Some critics say no. In a Swedish study of 60,000 women, 70 percent of the mammographically detected tumors weren't tumors at all. These "false positives" aren't just financial and emotional strains, they may also lead to many unnecessary and invasive biopsies. In fact, 70 to 80 percent of all positive mammograms do not, upon biopsy, show any presence of cancer.
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Since mammographic screening was introduced, the incidence of a form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has increased by 328 percent. Two hundred percent of this increase is allegedly due to mammography. In addition to harmful radiation, mammography may also help spread existing cancer cells due to the considerable pressure placed on the woman's breast during the procedure. According to some health practitioners, this compression could cause existing cancer cells to metastasize from the breast tissue.
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The majority of health experts agree that the risk of breast cancer for women under 35 is not high enough to warrant the risk of radiation exposure. Similarly, the risk of breast cancer to women over 55 justifies the risk of mammograms. The statistics about mammography and women between the ages of 40 and 55 are the most contentious. A 1992 Canadian National Breast Cancer Study showed that mammography had no positive effect on mortality for women between the ages of 40 and 50. In fact, the study seemed to suggest that women in that age group are more likely to die of breast cancer when screened regularly.
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While screening is an important step in fighting breast cancer, many researchers are looking for alternatives to mammography. Burton Goldberg totes the safety and accuracy of new thermography technologies. Able to detect cancers at a minute physical stage of development, thermography does not use x-rays, nor is there any compression of the breast. Also important, new thermography technologies do not lose effectiveness with dense breast tissue, decreasing the chances of false-negative results.
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What I find to be the most deplorable about all this is - that when I discovered my own lump, the first thing the doctor wanted to do was a mammogram and in fact, the breast compression was the WORST thing that could be done to a breast with a suspcious lump. The mammogram in the end showed nothing more than we already knew - that there was a mass in my breast - so the risk was not worth the result at all. Did anyone tell me that or explain the risks? No. That is what really pisses me off. Did anyone tell me that sticking a needle into my breast carried a risk of spreading the cancer if it were in fact cancer? No! This kind of attitude and lack of information between doctor and patient really erodes my trust in all doctors. Your best protection is to BE INFORMED and I hope this blog is helping you in that endeavor.
Read the full article here and become educated on the real facts that you won't hear from your doctor.
Excerpts from the article I'd like to highlight:
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Is mammography an effective tool for detecting tumors? Some critics say no. In a Swedish study of 60,000 women, 70 percent of the mammographically detected tumors weren't tumors at all. These "false positives" aren't just financial and emotional strains, they may also lead to many unnecessary and invasive biopsies. In fact, 70 to 80 percent of all positive mammograms do not, upon biopsy, show any presence of cancer.
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Since mammographic screening was introduced, the incidence of a form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has increased by 328 percent. Two hundred percent of this increase is allegedly due to mammography. In addition to harmful radiation, mammography may also help spread existing cancer cells due to the considerable pressure placed on the woman's breast during the procedure. According to some health practitioners, this compression could cause existing cancer cells to metastasize from the breast tissue.
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The majority of health experts agree that the risk of breast cancer for women under 35 is not high enough to warrant the risk of radiation exposure. Similarly, the risk of breast cancer to women over 55 justifies the risk of mammograms. The statistics about mammography and women between the ages of 40 and 55 are the most contentious. A 1992 Canadian National Breast Cancer Study showed that mammography had no positive effect on mortality for women between the ages of 40 and 50. In fact, the study seemed to suggest that women in that age group are more likely to die of breast cancer when screened regularly.
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While screening is an important step in fighting breast cancer, many researchers are looking for alternatives to mammography. Burton Goldberg totes the safety and accuracy of new thermography technologies. Able to detect cancers at a minute physical stage of development, thermography does not use x-rays, nor is there any compression of the breast. Also important, new thermography technologies do not lose effectiveness with dense breast tissue, decreasing the chances of false-negative results.
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What I find to be the most deplorable about all this is - that when I discovered my own lump, the first thing the doctor wanted to do was a mammogram and in fact, the breast compression was the WORST thing that could be done to a breast with a suspcious lump. The mammogram in the end showed nothing more than we already knew - that there was a mass in my breast - so the risk was not worth the result at all. Did anyone tell me that or explain the risks? No. That is what really pisses me off. Did anyone tell me that sticking a needle into my breast carried a risk of spreading the cancer if it were in fact cancer? No! This kind of attitude and lack of information between doctor and patient really erodes my trust in all doctors. Your best protection is to BE INFORMED and I hope this blog is helping you in that endeavor.
Friday, October 13, 2006
MRI scheduled for next week
I have another MRI scheduled for October 18th, just over 90 days after the first MRI on July 5th. This MRI will be at the same facility as the July 5th MRI so I should be able to compare the two better than could be done with the MRI from a different facility, which resulted in an alarming report that characterized the lump as having almost doubled in size. In reality, the scale was just different and the interpreting doctor did not bother to look at the prior MRI pictures or he would have seen that it did not change at all in size in the 5 weeks since the first MRI.
What I have learned from all of this, more than ever, is that you really have to be in charge of your own health and treatment and ask lots of questions about test results. Don't take them at face value. You are just another number to most doctors and diagnostic facilities and they really don't have the time to truly evaluate your situation. They make a lot of decisions based on a small sample of tests and they assume that all test reports are correct, when that is not necessarily the case. Question everything.
What I have learned from all of this, more than ever, is that you really have to be in charge of your own health and treatment and ask lots of questions about test results. Don't take them at face value. You are just another number to most doctors and diagnostic facilities and they really don't have the time to truly evaluate your situation. They make a lot of decisions based on a small sample of tests and they assume that all test reports are correct, when that is not necessarily the case. Question everything.
New and deadly intestinal bug comes from overuse of antibiotics
OK now we are starting to see even more results of the uncontrolled use of antibiotics in our population. This year doctors and hospitals are seeing a new very infectious intestinal bug appearing in the community and everyone should be very concerned about this.
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ATLANTA, GA, United States (UPI) -- A mutant strain of diarrhea is pushing the condition`s ongoing epidemic, the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said.
Severe Clostridium difficile diarrheal disease is caused by a bug carried unknowingly by about 3 percent of the U.S. population, WebMD.com said Friday. Most antibiotics that kill normal bacteria don`t affect C. diff, which is attacked by normal bacteria found in the body.
Once confined to elderly, hospitalized patients, the new strain is infecting young, non-hospitalized people, WebMD.com said.
Symptoms range from mild diarrhea to life-threatening colon infection, WebMD.com said. The new strain can produce up to 20 times more of the toxins that normal C. diff produces, the medical Web site said.
Scientists said several factors may have caused the bug to mutate, WebMD.com said. These include the bug`s becoming resistant to commonly used antibiotics and certain heartburn drugs being linked to C. diff infections. Or, possibly, a new bug is moving across the globe.
Scientists at the University of Illinois have studied the antibiotic vancomycin`s effect on the new C. diff strain, WebMD.com said. So far, the mutant strain hasn`t shown resistance to the antibiotic.
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
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'Superbug' patient dies
By Barbara Jordan
AN elderly patient has died after contracting a super bug in Warrington Hospital - weeks before all medical emergencies are transferred from Halton.
Although John Lomas, 83, died of septicaemia, a urinary tract infection and a heart complication on September 2, the doctor who certified his death said the super bug was a contributory factor.
Five days after his admission, his family was told he had a gut infection - when he had in fact contracted clostridium difficile, a super bug.
"Older people are very susceptible to this," said his son, John. "But we weren't told it was infectious and my 81-year-old mother was visiting him.Despite an admission by North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust that whenever possible patients with clostridium difficile are nursed in a side room with infection control precautions', Mr Lomas was a patient in an open ward.
Hospital bosses have promised a full investigation.
A hospital spokesman, said: "The trust should like to reassure all patients and visitors to Warrington Hospital that it does take clostridium difficile very seriously."
The closure of five medical and surgical wards at Halton Hospital started on Sunday as emergency medical care is being transferred to Warrington.
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Bacterial disease turning up in pregnant women
TORONTO (Oct 13, 2006)
Cases of C. difficile-associated disease, once found almost exclusively in elderly hospitalized people, seem to be cropping up increasingly in groups not thought to be at high risk.
The latest? Pregnant women.
Research presented at a major infectious disease conference yesterday suggests a possible rise in Clostridium difficile cases in healthy pregnant women or women who have recently given birth -- a finding that is baffling both to doctors who treated the women and experts studying the disease.
"I don't want to raise an alarm about this because it's still obviously relatively uncommon," lead author Dr. Judith O'Donnell said in an interview.
She was at a loss to explain why pregnancy might put women at higher risk of developing C. difficile.
C. difficile is a bacterium which can grow out of control in the gut if the normal bacterial balance is thrown off by use of antibiotics or some other factor.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The breast cancer scam machine
And now we have this article exposing yet again the huge corporate profits that are to be made off the backs of breast cancer survivors and how the hype does not really benefit finding a cure for breast cancer. There are people out there basically preying on breast cancer survivors as a group and stuffing lots of money into their own pockets under the guise of collecting money to fund breast cancer research. I wonder if they can sleep at night.
More on the down sides of conventional treatments
This story further illustrates how barbaric and wrong using chemotherapy and radiation as a "treatment" for cancer is.
You need RealMedia player (free) to listen to this NPR story:
Childhood Cancer Survivors Suffer in Adulthood
The story talks about childhood cancer survivors who are dealing with multiple health problems resulting FROM THE TREATMENTS they received. They are getting second and third cancers FROM THE TREATMENTS. AND even more shocking is that these patients were not told about their higher risk of subsequent health problems and they were not tracked or advised to monitor their health more closely. This is total medical MIA. So many are getting breast cancer years later and other cancers and because they were not told of their higher risk, they did not get the kind of screening they should have to monitor their health. They were just released from the system - see ya.. good luck..
What I don't hear in this story is that if everyone could JUST understand that the underlying cause of cancer is poor health and nutrition from the low quality of food we are eating combined with the toxic assault from our environment. Instead the medical profession uses MORE toxins and damaging things to "treat" cancer and they CONTINUE to be clueless about how to truly heal chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes.
Please see this article as well on how they continue to use cause and effect only looking at SYMPTOMS as they relate to each other without looking at the UNDERLYING chronic cause.
You need RealMedia player (free) to listen to this NPR story:
Childhood Cancer Survivors Suffer in Adulthood
The story talks about childhood cancer survivors who are dealing with multiple health problems resulting FROM THE TREATMENTS they received. They are getting second and third cancers FROM THE TREATMENTS. AND even more shocking is that these patients were not told about their higher risk of subsequent health problems and they were not tracked or advised to monitor their health more closely. This is total medical MIA. So many are getting breast cancer years later and other cancers and because they were not told of their higher risk, they did not get the kind of screening they should have to monitor their health. They were just released from the system - see ya.. good luck..
What I don't hear in this story is that if everyone could JUST understand that the underlying cause of cancer is poor health and nutrition from the low quality of food we are eating combined with the toxic assault from our environment. Instead the medical profession uses MORE toxins and damaging things to "treat" cancer and they CONTINUE to be clueless about how to truly heal chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes.
Please see this article as well on how they continue to use cause and effect only looking at SYMPTOMS as they relate to each other without looking at the UNDERLYING chronic cause.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Abraham Cherrix update
I'm happy to report that Abraham Cherrix, the teen who fought for the right to be able to use alternative therapy for his cancer, and the right to refuse toxic chemotherapy, is improving and has a good chance of beating this cancer without the conventional toxic treatments. When will mainstream medicine, the American Cancer Society and others like them, wake up to the fact that cancer CAN be cured through boosting immune health and not by destroying it!
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=112337&ran=178147
Their scam has been discovered and people are not going to the slaughter like sheep as they used to. They are taking their own health care into their own hands because quite simply, our doctors can no longer be trusted to make decisions in our best interests regarding chronic diseases. The doctors have already failed most of us by allowing chronic diseases to progress instead of educating patients on how the diseases come about and how they can be stopped. Instead, they ply us with drugs to cover the symptoms in most cases or in the case of cancer, they burn it, cut it or poison it out. At what cost? Our lives...
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=112337&ran=178147
Their scam has been discovered and people are not going to the slaughter like sheep as they used to. They are taking their own health care into their own hands because quite simply, our doctors can no longer be trusted to make decisions in our best interests regarding chronic diseases. The doctors have already failed most of us by allowing chronic diseases to progress instead of educating patients on how the diseases come about and how they can be stopped. Instead, they ply us with drugs to cover the symptoms in most cases or in the case of cancer, they burn it, cut it or poison it out. At what cost? Our lives...
Saturday, October 07, 2006
My favorite sources of information
I wanted to list these separately so that anyone interested in true healing and detoxification can find the same unbiased sources of information that can be found, to help sort out all the misinformation.
Here are the sites I visit on a regular basis to stay current with news and information that is truly aimed at helping you and not exploiting the trust of people for their own gain:
Here are the sites I visit on a regular basis to stay current with news and information that is truly aimed at helping you and not exploiting the trust of people for their own gain:
Thursday, October 05, 2006
"Chemo-brain" is something you do not want!
Yet another reason to reject chemotherapy can be found in this article published today in Forbes Magazine. I really don't understand why the doctors and scientists are so surprised by chemotherapy causing reduced brain function. They are POISONING patients while trying to kill cancer cells. Hello? Are you really that dense that you don't understand that could have potential long term consequences?
Jury finds for plaintiff in Prempro trial
Philadelphia Jury Finds for Plaintiff in First Prempro Hormone Replacement Case in State Court
Wednesday October 4, 6:56 pm ET
Read the full article here.... and another one can be found here
What I find particularly repulsive is Wyeth's continued denial that they are causing cancer in people who are taking their drugs and this is just so typical of pharmaceutical companies. When will this country wake up and realize we have been sold down the river by our own doctors who are nothing more than front men and women for drug companies? Our doctors DON'T know enough about the drugs they prescribe and they are basically experimenting on us! They also don't "manage" patients and understand how drugs interact.
As a patient YOU have to be your own doctor and be informed. If you choose to rely only on your doctor today, you will suffer the health consequences of being so lazy.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
New test coming soon for breast cancer screening!
This is the kind of post I love to make the most.. because for a change it's good news. This article explains a new breath test for breast cancer that is being developed in Australia. It will augment existing screening tools but you still won't see me getting any more mammograms.. I will use Breast MRI, AMAS blood test and hopefully, soon, this breath test.
Monday, October 02, 2006
The Big Food Companies Don't Want You to Be Healthy
Apparently the US "food industry" is going to file a lawsuit against New York City for attempting to ban the use of hydrogenated fats in restaurants in the city.
I say Hooray for NYC!
This reminds me of the tobacco companies trying to keep cigarrettes in our mouths because they made bald faced LIES when they pointed to studies that proved they weren't harmful to human health. Same thing here except there are ALREADY studies that show hydrogenated (synthetically produced) fats are carcinogenic. We can choose to not have hydrogenated fats when we shop at the grocery store finally, but we can't make that choice in a restaurant.
You would THINK that with the overwhelming evidence against hydrogenated fats that the companies who make this junk would say - hey you know what - this stuff is bad for people - let's not continue to make it - just on their consciences alone. But money and greed drives these big food corporations and in the end, it will only come home to roost when it hits them in their BIG FAT POCKETS. We, as consumers, have to speak with our dollars and stop buying their CRAP.
Here is the NewsTarget article to read more
I say Hooray for NYC!
This reminds me of the tobacco companies trying to keep cigarrettes in our mouths because they made bald faced LIES when they pointed to studies that proved they weren't harmful to human health. Same thing here except there are ALREADY studies that show hydrogenated (synthetically produced) fats are carcinogenic. We can choose to not have hydrogenated fats when we shop at the grocery store finally, but we can't make that choice in a restaurant.
You would THINK that with the overwhelming evidence against hydrogenated fats that the companies who make this junk would say - hey you know what - this stuff is bad for people - let's not continue to make it - just on their consciences alone. But money and greed drives these big food corporations and in the end, it will only come home to roost when it hits them in their BIG FAT POCKETS. We, as consumers, have to speak with our dollars and stop buying their CRAP.
Here is the NewsTarget article to read more
We are NOT winning the War on Cancer
This article from the UK echoes what I have been reading in the alternative health books I have found.. and that sentiment is VASTLY different from what is peddled to us in mainstream media by the big Pharma and Medical PR companies in the United States.
Breast cancer is increasing and now it is practically 1 in 3 women who will have a bout with breast cancer before the end of their lives. Is it screening that catches more breast cancer or is it the early screening catching more things that LOOK like breast cancer or is the screening itself causing the breast cancer? That is the question. I don't want to advocate avoidance of screening however the current screening methods IN THEMSELVES CAUSE CANCER as in RADIATION of the BREASTS. Am I making myself clear?
We MUST demand better screening for breast cancer and ALL cancer. Out with mammograms and biopsies and in with some new cutting edge technologies using blood tests, urine samples, Infrared and Thermography! We must start making some noise about this to rock the boat or we will continue on this downward spiral toward more and more cancer.
With that being said.. if you are concerned about cancer or breast cancer - am I going to get it or not.. I can tell you this - you are setting your body up for SOME kind of chronic illness if you keep eating the CRAP they sell us at Burger King and the grocery store and most restaurants. If you keep eating cheetos and pizza for your dinner, your health WILL decline. It's GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT just like computers...
Breast cancer is increasing and now it is practically 1 in 3 women who will have a bout with breast cancer before the end of their lives. Is it screening that catches more breast cancer or is it the early screening catching more things that LOOK like breast cancer or is the screening itself causing the breast cancer? That is the question. I don't want to advocate avoidance of screening however the current screening methods IN THEMSELVES CAUSE CANCER as in RADIATION of the BREASTS. Am I making myself clear?
We MUST demand better screening for breast cancer and ALL cancer. Out with mammograms and biopsies and in with some new cutting edge technologies using blood tests, urine samples, Infrared and Thermography! We must start making some noise about this to rock the boat or we will continue on this downward spiral toward more and more cancer.
With that being said.. if you are concerned about cancer or breast cancer - am I going to get it or not.. I can tell you this - you are setting your body up for SOME kind of chronic illness if you keep eating the CRAP they sell us at Burger King and the grocery store and most restaurants. If you keep eating cheetos and pizza for your dinner, your health WILL decline. It's GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT just like computers...
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Blood test profile since 2002
Here is a screen shot of my last three years of blood tests showing various levels. Some have improved, some need work yet. If you click on the image it will show in much more readable form. Bolded items are considered "elevated" by the labs.
Other regular parts of my regimen which are new
Under the guidance of my new family doctor, Dr. Andrew Lipton, I am getting PAPIMI treatments in his office. You can see information about PAPIMI in earlier posts. I am aiming to get a total of 12 treatments and after that is complete I will get a new MRI at the same facility as the first MRI in July so that I can compare directly to the July MRI.
Dr Lipton is an Osteopath and his office provides support to patient healing and education, as well as many alternative therapies such as Oxidation therapy, Chelation therapy and Vit C IV drips. I am happy to have a doctor helping me who is aware of holistic health.
My father is also becoming a patient to help solve his lower back pain, which has caused him to depend on a wheel chair recently. He is 84 and otherwise in excellent health for his age. I am trying to get both parents off prescription meds and they are both phasing them out (although my Mom did cold turkey stop of Zocor - not recommended). My Dad is getting Osteopathic manipulations with another doctor in this office with the Spencer Technique as well as treatments on the PAPIMI machine. He has had problems with this for two years, with it only worsening and he has used pain meds and epidurals in the past. I have been working on him to not continue covering up the symptoms but fix the problem and I think it is finally sinking in.
I will update on his progress as a side note in case anyone has this kind of problem and wonders if PAPIMI and the Osteopathic treatments can help. I am confident that they will.
Dr Lipton is an Osteopath and his office provides support to patient healing and education, as well as many alternative therapies such as Oxidation therapy, Chelation therapy and Vit C IV drips. I am happy to have a doctor helping me who is aware of holistic health.
My father is also becoming a patient to help solve his lower back pain, which has caused him to depend on a wheel chair recently. He is 84 and otherwise in excellent health for his age. I am trying to get both parents off prescription meds and they are both phasing them out (although my Mom did cold turkey stop of Zocor - not recommended). My Dad is getting Osteopathic manipulations with another doctor in this office with the Spencer Technique as well as treatments on the PAPIMI machine. He has had problems with this for two years, with it only worsening and he has used pain meds and epidurals in the past. I have been working on him to not continue covering up the symptoms but fix the problem and I think it is finally sinking in.
I will update on his progress as a side note in case anyone has this kind of problem and wonders if PAPIMI and the Osteopathic treatments can help. I am confident that they will.
New products added to my health regimen
In additon to my earlier supplement protocol I have added B17 otherwise known as Laetrile, to my regimen. You can order it at ApricotPower.com I received 1 bottle of 500mg powder in capsules as well as a 2lb bag of Apricot Kernels. I ground the kernels in my coffee mill and store in a jar in my refrigerator. I take the kernel powder in my morning health shake. The apricot kernel meal is a little bitter so you really don't want to sprinkle it on your cereal.
The misinformation that is out there about Laetrile tries to scare people that it can be toxic and creates cyanide. However, for cancer patients, most of them receive 20 GRAMS or more of Laetrile via slow drip IV daily for around 20 days without any cyanide poisoning. The cyanide is created ONLY in the cancer cells and that is what kills the cancer cells. The Apricot Power site gives some recommendations about how much to take as well as this site - WorldWithoutCancer.org
On the WorldWithoutCancer.org site, you can find guidelines for taking it orally as a cancer patient. For the most serious cases, it is recommended to get the highest doses via IV and to do that, you have to go to Mexico or other countries that allow it's use. The U.S has banned dispensing it inside the US which is a total crime against the population of the United States. Their reason for banning it is BOGUS. Thank GOD you can buy it online but I don't know if that will always be the case since there is a HUGE movement to block it in the conventional medicine/pharma institutions in this country who don't wish to have a cancer cure that cannot be patented (aka natural).
Several of my recently purchased books discuss the Laetrile controversy and the science behind it and I list them in recent posts. The most notable is of course the book World Without Cancer by G Edward Griffin.
I am taking 1-2 tablets with each meal currently and about 2 TBSP of the ground powder with my morning shakes.
Unfortunately, since I am doing many things to fight this breast cancer lump, I will never know what was most effective. However, I believe all of the things I am doing will get rid of it.
Probably the most important change I have made involves avoidance of ingested artificial anything and change to total veg/fruit/whole grain diet. Very little animal protein or fats - probably about 5-10% of my daily intake at the most. No sugar except from fruit. No processed food of ANY kind and no ingredients in my food that are not ALL natural and that includes no hydrolyzed soy protein and yeast extracts - all hidden MSG products and found in MANY organic or supposedly healthy products.
I continue to lose about 1 pound a week with my diet changes. I would be happy to ultimately get back to upper 130's for normal weight and I fully expect to achieve that. I have been upper 150's for at least 15 years now and it has not been optimal for me. I believe that birth control pills taken in my 20's and early 30's contributed to abnormal weight gain as well as the use of diet products that actually PROMOTED weight gain. Yes! That is the sad irony. Artificial sweeteners actually make it HARDER to lose weight! What a SCAM!
The misinformation that is out there about Laetrile tries to scare people that it can be toxic and creates cyanide. However, for cancer patients, most of them receive 20 GRAMS or more of Laetrile via slow drip IV daily for around 20 days without any cyanide poisoning. The cyanide is created ONLY in the cancer cells and that is what kills the cancer cells. The Apricot Power site gives some recommendations about how much to take as well as this site - WorldWithoutCancer.org
On the WorldWithoutCancer.org site, you can find guidelines for taking it orally as a cancer patient. For the most serious cases, it is recommended to get the highest doses via IV and to do that, you have to go to Mexico or other countries that allow it's use. The U.S has banned dispensing it inside the US which is a total crime against the population of the United States. Their reason for banning it is BOGUS. Thank GOD you can buy it online but I don't know if that will always be the case since there is a HUGE movement to block it in the conventional medicine/pharma institutions in this country who don't wish to have a cancer cure that cannot be patented (aka natural).
Several of my recently purchased books discuss the Laetrile controversy and the science behind it and I list them in recent posts. The most notable is of course the book World Without Cancer by G Edward Griffin.
I am taking 1-2 tablets with each meal currently and about 2 TBSP of the ground powder with my morning shakes.
Unfortunately, since I am doing many things to fight this breast cancer lump, I will never know what was most effective. However, I believe all of the things I am doing will get rid of it.
Probably the most important change I have made involves avoidance of ingested artificial anything and change to total veg/fruit/whole grain diet. Very little animal protein or fats - probably about 5-10% of my daily intake at the most. No sugar except from fruit. No processed food of ANY kind and no ingredients in my food that are not ALL natural and that includes no hydrolyzed soy protein and yeast extracts - all hidden MSG products and found in MANY organic or supposedly healthy products.
I continue to lose about 1 pound a week with my diet changes. I would be happy to ultimately get back to upper 130's for normal weight and I fully expect to achieve that. I have been upper 150's for at least 15 years now and it has not been optimal for me. I believe that birth control pills taken in my 20's and early 30's contributed to abnormal weight gain as well as the use of diet products that actually PROMOTED weight gain. Yes! That is the sad irony. Artificial sweeteners actually make it HARDER to lose weight! What a SCAM!
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