Dr. Mercola Urges Increases in Vitamin D3 Levels
The Truth About Breast Cancer is ecstatic to learn that a leading holistic MD, Dr. Joseph Mercola, has now joined KnowBreastCancer in urging all women to increase their Vitamin D3 levels ASAP!
Dr. Mercola, with the most popular natural health website on the internet, www.mercola.com, agrees with Dr. Cedric Garland’s DINOMIT Theory of cancer as the fastest way we can turn breast cancer into a rare disease.
If women can get their Vitamin D3 blood levels up to a level of 60-80 ng/ml, mastectomies and reconstruction surgeries may soon become history!
Currently, the American Cancer Society, the Institute of Medicine, and national pink ribbon groups don’t talk to women about this inexpensive and effective option as a way to stop breast cancer before it can start. Unfortunately, their focus is usually limited to finding a cure; with much of these non-profits’ budgets supplied by big pharma and radiology companies that give millions of dollars in donations each year to these for- the- cure groups.
Another helpful site that encourages women to use enough vitamin D3 supplements every day to reach 60 ng/ml – 80-ng/ml, to help stop breast cancer before it can start is Grassroots Health, a national public health organization www.grassrootshealth.net.
Coming up next time on The Truth About Breast Cancer: The relationship between inflammation and breast cancer.
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American Cancer Society Report is Misleading; younger women getting more triple negative, estrogen positive & HER2+ breast cancers
Women of childbearing age, in many states around the U.S. today, face historically high invasive breast cancer levels. The American Cancer Society’s (ACS’) recent study, published Feb 22, in the American Association for Cancer Research, is incorrect when it says breast cancer rates are not changing for younger women.
In Massachusetts, younger women (under 50), saw a 45% increase in invasive breast cancer between 1995-2007; younger women in Colorado saw a 27% increase between 1990-2008, and younger women in Florida saw a 40% increase between 1984-2008.
The American Cancer Society’s February, 2011 report doesn’t count the actual number of women diagnosed in each state; instead, it uses an estimate, based on a formula, based on 9% of the U.S. population.
To know the real story, we need to count every woman who is affected, and we need to have those numbers published for all of us to see and understand.
Contact you state cancer board and ask them how many younger women developed invasive breast cancers last year, compared to the past five or ten years. Also ask them, how many of these younger women were diagnosed with triple negative, HER2+ and estrogen receptor positive breast cancers.
We need this specific information, not estimates. Keeping women in the dark when it comes to these critical numbers, makes it impossible to measure any positive changes, as women try easy and healthy ways to stop breast cancer before it starts.
U. S. Breast Cancer Epidemic Hitting Young Moms and Other Women of Childbearing Age
In 2009, about 62,520 women of childbearing age in the United States were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. This is a whopping 41% increase from 2001, when approximately 44, 300 women of childbearing age were reportedly diagnosed with the disease, according to recent American Cancer Society statistics.
These younger American women are being hit with triple negative, HER2 positive and estrogen positive breast cancers; diseases that usually maim, sometimes kill and often bankrupt a woman’s current and future financial situation.
In recent years young media leaders and celebrities have shared their personal breast cancer diagnoses, including Fox News political reporter Jennifer Griffin (triple negative); ABC’s Good Morning America host, Robin Roberts (triple negative); National Public Radio’s Tavis Smiley Show Executive Producer, Sheryl Flowers, who died from triple negative breast cancer in 2009 at the age of 42, folksinger Melissa Ethridge (HER2 positive) and film star, Christina Applegate.
Why is this new epidemic happening to our younger women? How can younger women help stop breast cancer from happening to them ever… or never again?
For more information on why younger women in the U.S. are facing this current breast cancer epidemic, and for specific ways each woman can help lower her risk of developing breast cancer ever… or never again, sign on to The Truth About Breast Cancer blog www.thetruthaboutbreastcancer.com
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Disagreeing with Teresa Heinz Kerry over mammograms for all
Dec 23, 2009
The number of women in the United States newly diagnosed with invasive breast cancer is rising by 1% each year. It is with sadness therefore, that I learned today that Teresa Heinz Kerry is now a part of that statistic.
Mrs. Heinz has been a long-standing advocate for research that better understands environmental and lifestyle causes of breast cancer. Teresa Heinz, as an action-oriented philanthropist and policy maker, is clearly a dear friend to all breast cancer prevention proponents.
But mammograms do not prevent breast cancer; so I reluctantly must disagree with Mrs. Heinz when she limits her remarks to say that all women, no matter what their risk levels, should have an annual mammogram at age 40 and older.
This one and only one- size- fits- all recommendation seems inappropriate, given recent research and experience on how high vitamin D levels can stop breast cancer from happening, as well as other known breast cancer risk factors, not to mention the well documented limits and sometimes dangers of annual screening mammograms.
To truly protect ourselves from developing breast cancer, all women, young and old, need to follow a real prevention lifestyle.. not just go running to get a mammogram!
For example:
- If you are past 40 have you found alternatives to contraceptive drugs or hormone replacement drugs ?
- Have you had a vitamin D3 blood test yet? Are you taking enough vitamin D3 supplements every day to keep your blood serum levels at 60 ng/ml?
- Are you filtering the water that you drink and shower with every day?
- Are you able to limit your alcohol intake to three glasses of wine or beer a week?
Research shows that no one habit or drug is going to cause breast cancer; instead breast cancer seems to happen when a mixture of such individualized risk factors comes together into a personalized toxic cocktail.
Each of us needs to understand this range of factors as we work to keep our own breast cancer risk level low.
Focusing only on getting an annual mammogram, instead of also encouraging women to seriously follow a real prevention lifestyle, will never lower the number of women who develop breast cancer.
To understand how you can put together your own real prevention lifestyle, see Know Breast Cancer’s 7 Easy Ways at www.knowbreastcancer.net
Wishing you peace and good health in your home, your community and across our world this holiday season,
Susan
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