Breast Cancer
Awareness vs. Prevention
October is breast cancer awareness month. I'm sure you've
heard that statement before. The car dealerships are showing support with pink
lights. The football players are wearing pink shoes. The cashiers are asking
for a small donation to be sent to charity. Pink everything is being sold. Does
bringing awareness to an issue help? It certainly does spread the word.
However, awareness is not the same as prevention.
Breast Cancer
Awareness
The tricky part about breast cancer is that 70 - 80% of
diagnoses are not genetic. If that doesn't catch you by surprise, read that
statement again. Those of us without the gene are nearly just as likely and
possibly, more likely to be at risk. Statistics tell us that 1 out of 3 women
will get cancer. What a sobering statistic.
Soft tissue cancers soared in the 1980's. Of all soft tissue
cancers (prostate, breast, lymphoma & melanoma of skin) none receives more
press than breast cancer. Even the research magazine Science, which is hardly
sensational, noted at that time that the "breast cancer statistics are
alarming." From 1978 to 1987 breast cancer diagnosis grew from 130,000 to
over 180,000 (an increase of 50,000 cases). I point this out because there was
nothing done except talk of early detection. Remember, just 30 years prior in
the 1950's, Polio was considered a major epidemic with only 33,000 total cases
per year!
Early detection certainly helps treatment and the death
rate, but it does not significantly affect the incidence rate.
Did you ever wonder where all the donated money for breast
cancer awareness goes to? If you thought a majority of it went to research,
you'd be mistaken. Since 2008, it seems the biggest named non-profits continue
to diminish how much is spent on breast cancer research, with an average range
being 15 - 25% of profit. More and more companies are taking money away from
research and instead spending it on education....and selling things that are
pink.
So what do we do?
If up to 80% of breast cancer is not genetic but rather
environmentally induced, then we need to look at our environment. Diet,
exercise and stress are BIG factors. How we view what we're putting into our
body can be just as important as what we put in.
As women, we hold a lot in. We need to start to rewrite that
story for ourself as the negative is not worth holding on to. Remember, the
mind doesn't know if it's happening in the present moment or if it happened in
the past. When we continue to replay a situation in our head, our body responds
as if it's happening at that moment (cortisol and adrenaline are released and
we automatically go into fight/flight). When you sense this happening, stop and
reset your thought pattern.
You hear this often and it is true, hormones play a major
role in our health. Some breast cancer is estrogen dominant. Thanks to cancer
research we can now test for such. Estrogen by itself doesn't cause cancer but
it can influence its growth. Estrogen is needed for cellular hydration,
signaling and of course, cell proliferation. Estrone (E1), Estradiol (E2) and
Estriol (E3) are all needed but in different quantities. E3 is known as the
"good" estrogen. Therefore, we want this number to be greater than E1
& E2 combined. For menopausal women, we want the progesterone/E2 ratio to
be between 200 & 500. The estrogen quotient: E3/(E1 + E2) should be greater
than 1. These numbers are important. It's one more way we can be proactive
about our health. If you don't know what these numbers are, ask your doctor.
It's a guide for our reproductive health, menopausal health and long-term brain
health. These numbers can be tested via blood or saliva. Here at the clinic we
do saliva testing and it's a very easy way to get a baseline.
In today's newsletter, I want to touch upon an environmental
factor not often connected to women's health and especially not breast cancer -
electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs). EMFs are emitted from any device with a
battery or plug. Your blender emits an EMF when turned on. Some EMFs are more
detrimental than others. Those connected with WIFI, cell phones, high tension
power lines, high powered walkie talkies, fit bits, and smart meters create
more cellular damage than blenders and hair dryers. Unlike some toxic exposure,
EMF exposure is accumulative. I bring such a silent environmental factor up
because I've seen if ravage my family.
Out of all of the patients and clients that come into the
clinic with cancer, breast cancer is by far the greatest one we come across.
We've seen lumps connected to radios being carried for one's job and electronic
key cards being clipped on to one's shirt. Every time you turn around you hear
of a newscaster having breast cancer. Is it any coincidence their mic packs are
clipped onto their bras? Maybe but it's certainly not something I'm willing to
risk after what I've seen.
We don't need to feel a difference being exposed to EMFs in
order for them to damage our DNA. This was brilliantly demonstrated by the
research Henry Lai was conducting on microwaves. The world is constantly changing around us.
Cell phones are here to stay. We need to become more resilient.
One way in which to do that is by having some sort of
protection on your device or within your vibrational field. Dr. Teff has spent
many years researching this topic and working closely with several companies
creating products to limit our cellular exposure and damage. Nature's
Frequencies, a frequency based research company out of Massachusetts, was able
to create tools that we can use to protect us in our daily routines. By putting
one of the cell phone stickers on your phone, they've found that the cell phone
radiation is less heating to the body and penetrates a shorter distance.
Remember, in kids, the cell phone radiation travels completely through their
brains, affecting all neurons. Neurosurgeon and researcher Dr. Leif Salford has
done quite a bit of research on the subject. He concluded that the weakest
exposure to wireless radiation had the greatest effect in causing the blood
brain barrier to leak. This is important as kid's brains aren't fully developed
until the age of 20.
As of December of last year, Kaiser Permanente concluded
that exposure to certain magnetic fields "at levels commonly found in
homes, offices and the urban environment" can triple the rate of
miscarriages.
As you can see, this topic doesn't just apply to breast
health. We can all benefit from EMF protection. However, some of us are more
greatly affected than others.
If you're interested, Nature's Frequencies has created
products that you can clip on your keychain, stick on your phone or plug into
your home outlet, making cellular protection a possibility.
My mom had breast cancer. The EMFs didn't cause the cancer
(that's a story for another day) but they certainly influenced the growth of
it. If there's something you can change today to balance your body and create
harmony within, do so! There's no reason to wait.
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