Dr. D's Tips For Your Health

 WOMEN'S HEALTH

1.  Ovaries are Crucial for Health & Longevity

2.   Breast Cancer Warning - part 1

3.   Breast Cancer Warning - part 2

4.  Women's Health - everybody should read this

5.   What Motivates People to Take Care of their Health?

 

Ovaries are Crucial for Health & Longevity

I subscribe to National Geographic. This is from Premium Content for subscribers. Connie Chang reported, in addition to their reproductive function, ovaries are endocrine organs, producing chemicals that communicate with almost every tissue in the body including brain, muscles, skin. Healthy ovaries send signals to distant organs to help them function. For example, estrogen can affect DNA to switch some genes on and others off. In the cardiovascular system, estrogen helps widen blood vessels and helps keep their lining smooth and slippery, thus lowering blood pressure and preventing clots from forming. In the brain, it's neuroprotective. In the musculoskeletal system it helps build and repair muscles and maintains bone. Loss of estrogen puts women at increased risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, osteoporosis. Women who go through menopause later in life compared to their peers tend to live longer and healthier. “The fate of ovaries is more complex and their impact on well-being more nuanced than ever imagined.” Even after menopause ovaries are doing something. Menopausal women who get their ovaries surgically removed “are at greater risk of coronary disease and death compared to peers with their ovaries intact.”

For Harvard Medical School, Harvard Health Publishing, Maureen Salamon, Executive Editor, Harvard Women's Health Watch, reported, “Women who have both ovaries removed before menopause face far higher odds of several chronic health conditions decades later, according to a study published online Sept. 12, 2023 by [medical journal] Menopause.” The study involved 274 women (average age 67) whose ovaries were removed before menopause for a noncancerous condition. An average of 22 years after surgery, the women underwent comprehensive physical exams. Compared to women of the same age who still had their ovaries, women who were under age 46 when their ovaries were removed were 64% more likely to have arthritis, twice as likely to have obstructive sleep apnea, and nearly three times as likely to have had a bone fracture. They performed worse on a 6-minute walk test. Women who had their ovaries removed between ages 46 to 49 also had higher odds of arthritis and sleep apnea than same-age women who didn't have the surgery.

Breast Cancer Warning - part 1

This is an MRI of Margot Shaw's breast cancer, She said, “My tumor is the size of my cell phone. It is 11 cm. 4 inches. Exactly where I used to tuck it in my bra. This is too obvious. There's no history of breast cancer in my family. There just is no other explanation.” She said her oncologist “absolutely agrees.”

Courtney Kelley said she got breast cancer where she carried her phone in her bra. She said the radiation oncologist said, “we do know how dangerous these devices are, there's just a concerted effort to keep that from the public.”

This is the link to her video (0:51): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4veG7CoPm6o

Dr. John G. West was co-founder and (retired) director of surgery at Breastlink in Orange County in California. He has over 40 years of experience, performed over 20,000 breast surgeries. He authored three books and 20 peer-reviewed articles. He was co-founder of the breast cancer detection outreach Be Aware Foundation. He was named a “Best Doctor in America” and recognized as one of the “Best Doctors in Orange County.”

This is from one of his published research:

“Breast cancer occurring in women under the age of 40 is uncommon in the absence of family history or genetic predisposition, and prompts the exploration of other possible exposures or environmental risks. We report a case series of four young women---ages from 21 to 39---with multifocal invasive breast cancer that raises the concern of a possible association with non-ionizing radiation of electromagnetic field [EMF] exposures from cellular phones.

All patients regularly carried their smartphones directly against their breasts in their brassieres for up to 10 hours a day, for several years, and developed tumors in areas of their breast immediately underlying the phones. All patients had no family history of breast cancer, tested negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2, and had no other known breast cancer risks. Their breast imaging is reviewed, showing clustering of multiple tumor foci in the breast directly under the area of phone contact. Pathology of all four cases shows striking similarity; all tumors are hormone-positive, low-intermediate grade, having an extensive intraductal component, and all tumors have near identical morphology. These cases raise awareness to the lack of safety data of prolonged direct contact with cellular phones.”

We are being told a cellphone in your bra will not cause breast cancer; that there is no conclusive evidence of cellphones causing cancer. The narrative is controlled by the powerful multi-trillion-dollars Wi-Fi and cellphone industry.

These scientists contradict what we are being told. (click image to enlarge)

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Breast Cancer Warning – part 2

This is a mammogram of a 21-year-old female who presented with left spontaneous bloody nipple discharge. She had been keeping her cellphone in her bra on the left side for several hours a day. Her mammogram shows extensive pleomorphic calcifications and densities from the retroareolar region to the chest spanning a length of 12 cm. An MRI showed extensive abnormalities corresponding to changes seen on her mammogram. She was treated with mastectomy and pathology revealed extensive ductal carcinoma situ (DCIS) with multifocal microinvasion. Ductal carcinoma in situ is a very early form of breast cancer.

Dr. Devra Davis founded and was the first president of the Environmental Health Trust, a scientific nonprofit organization that publishes research and educates policymakers and the public on environmental health hazards. She was founding director of the Center for Environmental Oncology and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and founding director of the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the US National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. Her many other positions, achievements, and publications are too numerous to list here.

Dr. Davis warns people not carry their cellphones on their body; particularly young women should not carry their cellphones in their bra. She said cellphones come with specific warnings from manufacturers not to do so, but most consumers are completely unaware of the existence of those warnings. Working with Dr. John West at Breast Care in Southern California and Dr. Lisa Bailey, one of the nation's top breast surgeons who was also a former President of the American Cancer Society California, they accumulated nearly 40 cases of young women with very unusual breast cancers, all of whom have no family history and no genetic risk factors for the disease. These cases have multiple tumors under where these women kept their cellphones in their bra.

This was their first case report from when they started in 2009. Now they have nearly 40. This is a mammogram of a young woman who kept her cellphone is her bra 4 hours a day for 10 years while driving.

When you drive from one cell tower to another, the phone goes to maximum power each time it comes to a tower to connect to the tower. The cell tower connects to the cellphone through the antenna of the phone. Tumors that developed, developed under the antenna of the phone.

This is an MRI of a 21-year-old woman who developed metastatic breast cancer. MRI shows multiple tumors in her breast. Most breast cancer occurs in women over 50 and in the upper outer quadrant. The tumors in the breast of this woman occurred under where the antenna of the phone had been.

Dr. Davis said there hasn't been serious research on the relationship between cellphones and breast cancer in the US but published research by scientists in Turkey report breast cancer cell growth quadrupled when exposed to cellphone radiation.

Women's Health - everybody should read this

The US is the best in the world in medical science and in developing cutting-edge technology in the field of medicine. The US spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, MUCH more. The health of Americans is not the best in the world. The US ranks approximately #37 in health compared to the health of people in other countries.

The Lown Institute is a nonpartisan think tank, in Massachusetts, advocating bold ideas for a just and caring system for health. It says, “In a health system that works, patients receive all the care they need and none that they do not . . . But the industrialization of health care has disrupted the healing relationship between clinicians and patients. Profits have been prioritized over healing. Too often, our system not only fails to heal, but creates new suffering.”

Some of the issues they address are over treatment; patient harm from unnecessary care; the epidemic of medication overload among older Americans. They present the annual Shkreli Awards, a top-ten list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in health care. They have been mentioned in Boston Globe, Guardian, Kaiser Health News, and other publications. They have been on NBC, NPR, etc.

Every year, approx. 500,000 women in the US get hysterectomies. Most have the procedure for benign conditions such as fibroids or endometriosis. Over the years I heard from and read about women complaining or upset that when they had their hysterectomy the surgeon also removed their healthy ovaries. Or their doctor urged them to get their ovaries removed because they “no longer need them” after having produced children. An article in the Boston Globe, “1 in 3 doctors still needlessly removing ovaries,” is from a decade ago: A Baystate Medical Center study found “one-third of gynecologists continue to recommend removal of healthy ovaries from women undergoing hysterectomies who haven't yet entered menopause.” American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists advises against ovary removal in pre-menopausal women undergoing hysterectomies who are not at increased risk of ovarian cancer, because heart and bone protective benefits of functioning ovaries through menopause outweigh smaller risks of ovarian cancer.

A more recent article posted (2019) by the Lown Institute shows it's still happening. The article is science-based and fact-based and contains some eye-opening information. Here is some of it. A woman had a “fairly large ovarian mass.” Her gynecologist expressed concern about malignancy and rushed her to surgery. Cyst and ovary were sent to pathology during surgery while operating room staff waited for results which came back benign. After being told it was benign, her doctor removed uterus, fallopian tubes, and the other ovary when “all that needed to be removed was the mass/complex cyst.” Why do that when there was no medical reason? Is getting paid more for removing more organs a reason? According to Medicare, for a total hysterectomy, in which the surgeon removes uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes, the total cost is $10,030 in a hospital outpatient surgery. Medicare covers $8,287; patient pays $1,742.

She said, “The effects were immediate and severe,” She was hit by the full force of menopause. When women go through natural menopause they have ovaries which continue to have some beneficial function that may gradually taper. When ovaries are surgically removed, menopause is immediate. She said, “I could barely function despite using estrogen.” She said, “I have connected with hundreds of women over the last 13 years with similar experiences. Unfortunately, the unnecessary removal of female organs is alarmingly common as are the many adverse effects.” To read the full article, which you may find eye-opening, if not shocking, use the link below.

https://lowninstitute.org/guest-post-the-madness-of-unnecessary-hysterectomy-has-to-stop/

What Motivates People to Take Care of Their Health?

What motivates people to take care of their health? It seems it's the desire to look and feel more attractive. Lionel Shriver, writing for the Washington Post, reported, “for most of us, 'health' is abstract – until it isn't. Only once an unpleasant ailment materializes in the here and now does it generate any serious motivational power. In other words, health warnings . . . really work only when they're too late.” Shriver said, the threat of vague “health” consequences, which may or may not manifest themselves in a future that is also abstract, is a poor motivator of behavior. 

Why do most people, average people, work out? Really? To look good. To feel good, sure, but also to feel good because they look good.

To burn calories so they look good. To have firm muscles so they look good. Somewhere in the mix is a hazy concern for one's health, but face it, people want to look good. If that's what it takes to motivate people to take care of their health, that may be good.