The first is Zapped, Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn’t Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution, by Ann Louise Gittleman. I think that is the easiest read and the least threatening.

The second is entitled Disconnect, The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family, by Devra Davis. This is the more scientifically written and investigated report of the dangers by a more credentialed author, but it might just scare you into the New Year.

Wireless companies are now offering advice on safety as well. Now that covering up the research has become impossible, they’re soft pedaling the danger. At least that’s a start.

Early detection is not prevention, although it is represented as such in this article. Early detection has resulted in women treated for breast cancer living longer after treatment, which is good, but they still tend to die after seven or eight years with an exacerbation of the breast cancer, and unfortunately, or by design, after five years they are listed statistically as a cure… so there’s truth to the old adage, figures lie and liars figure, and the National Cancer Institute is the liar that’s doing the figuring.

The article talked about reducing risk with supplements of Vitamin D and flaxseed oil, exercise and an intelligent diet. That was a good start, brief but good nevertheless. However, it also advocated Tamoxifen and Raloxifene as preventatives in spite of all the horrible side effects of those drugs. It did not, however, discuss iodine/iodide supplements and the connection between iodine intake and the extremely low amount of breast cancer found in Japanese women, which happens to be directly related to their iodine intake. I will discuss this iodine/iodide connection and the flaxseed oil (omega 6, omega 3 balance) connection in a following paragraph, but first a word about Vitamin D.

It was mentioned that promising research is being done on Vitamin D, but it didn’t mention that a great deal of research has already been done. For example, in a paper analyzing combined data from several studies that covered colon, ovary and breast cancer, the authors determined that a 30% reduction of breast cancer could be achieved if one sustained blood levels of greater than or equal too 42 ng/ml, and they projected that a 50% reduction could occur by lifelong maintenance of serum levels of 52 ng/ml or greater. Now there’s a terrific goal for a prevention minded woman, especially one with elevated risk. Combine that with other suggestions in this newsletter and you no longer have a goal, you have a program. That is what prevention should be all about.

Please consider that nothing that medicine offers short of preventive mastectomy can offer these kinds of numbers. I guess we should ask why that wasn’t mentioned in the newspaper, but then the answer is pretty obvious. Because Vitamin D levels decline with aging, increased levels of supplemental Vitamin D may be necessary to reach the necessary 52 ng/ml serum goal. Usually 2000 iu of Vitamin D will produce the desired serum levels, but the elderly, obese, homebound and those with dark skin may need higher dosages. Other studies have found that Vitamin D is especially important in pubescent girls, and that an adequate level of Vitamin D during puberty significantly reduces breast cancer risk in womanhood.

Given this important information, it would seem prudent to rethink our present dermatological position that paints the sun, our primary source of Vitamin D, as such a bad guy. I have written other newsletters on that subject, so I will not belabor this article with repetition. However, I must say that my position that the sunscreen manufacturers have knowingly misinformed the public on the dangers of sunshine and are continuing to do so in the name of profit becomes more obvious with each new year of published Vitamin D research.

Iodine/iodide is cheap and non patentable so you won’t hear much about it from present day assembly line medicine whose patient education information is determined by the pharmaceutical industry. Iodine/iodide reduces fibroids and the research suggests that it reduces cancer risk for breast, uterus, ovary and prostate by occupying estrogen receptor sites, the same sites targeted by drugs like Tamoxifen. Oh, and I might add, without the side effects. Iodine stimulates the metabolism of estrogens that are carcinogenic into Estriol, the anti-cancer estrogen, adding extra protection for those at risk. Iodine can also be applied directly to the breasts (avoid the sensitive areolas) to reduce fibro-cystic breast disease. The iodine used for that is tincture of iodine, usually less than $5.00 a bottle, and it can’t be patented so assembly line medicine has little knowledge of it. Interestingly enough, it has also been reported that women who take thyroid medication, without a supplemental iodine/iodide supplement have twice the risk of cancer as those women who take both thyroid and iodine together.

It discussed other drugs that blocked “estrogens,” but never discussed balancing estrogens (there’s more than one), or the use of Estriol (the anticancer estrogen) to balance the pro cancer estrogen factions. Alternative/complimentary medical doctors who deal in bio-identical hormone therapy have been trying to get the assembly line doctors to pay attention to this for years, so far to no avail. I frequently refer patients to doctors who prefer this more natural approach, especially since when natural, bio-identical hormones are given in balance there appears to be virtually no cancer risk. If you have been determined to be a high risk for any of these estrogen sensitive cancers, the smart decision would be to find an M.D. who is experienced in balancing natural (bio-identical) hormones and have the Lab done to determine the ratio of Estriol to the other estrogens. Once that is determined, natural hormone replacement can be done to create a balance that reduces that risk. If you need the name of an M.D. who specializes in natural hormone balancing/replacement, call the office at 913-432-4477, and Chris, my office manage, will help you with the name of one north and one south of the river.

Overweight, of course, was a major focus because of the associated higher risk in obese women. No one, however, addressed the causes of obesity, and how the foods that cause the biggest problems with weight gain are also the foods that both prepare the path for cancer to begin with, and then feed the very cancer that they helped create. Of course the foods I’m referring to are processed, so the anti-cancer essential (essential means that without them we die) unsaturated fatty acids are made biologically unavailable by hydrogenation and other methods. A good example of a biologically unavailable fat is a trans fatty acid… and we all know how dangerous trans fats are. The second culprit, of course is sugar, which is what cancers eat. Any foods that quickly turn to sugar are food sources for cancer cells, and that includes fruit and grain.

This is probably the time to mention another terrific risk reducer, the vegetables that the first President Bush made famous, the Brassica family. Eating three meals a week with broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, bok choy, and other cruciferous vegetables helps keep the right balance between pro-cancer and anti-cancer hydroxyl estrogens. How about that for an honest and easy prevention strategy that the paper neglected to mention?

I think that it is important to point out at this time that industry hasn’t been deterred by the ban on trans fatty acids. A major article in the New England Journal, about twenty years ago pointed out the cancer and heart disease dangers of trans fatty acids, but in spite of thousands of deaths contributed to by these adulterated fats, it took until recently for government to start enforcing their elimination from processed foods. During that time, the processed food industry has had time to find other ways to inactivate healthy, essential fatty acids, and any inactivated fatty acid is as dangerous as a trans fatty acid. Once an essential fatty acid is chemically altered so that it will no longer attract oxygen, it is a dangerous rather than a friendly substance, and plays a major role in both cardio-vascular disease and cancer. PROCESSED FOOD IS KILLING US! Naturally, not a word about this was mentioned, and what could be easier than reducing our processed food intake. Now that’s a real preventive measure.

There was also reference to concentrated flaxseed oil and lignins, but no association to the essential omega-6 unsaturated fatty acids. The most important cancer research of the last fifty years, in my opinion, revolves around the importance and adulteration of these essential omega-6 oils. Everyone should Google, “Brian Peskin.” The man has done some brilliant work that will be largely ignored because he is not an M.D. He has taken the work of Otto Warburg, M.D., Ph. D. one step further and explained a major piece of the puzzle of WHY healthy cells become cancer cells, or specifically, why they switch from making their energy from oxygen to making it from sugar. Oh, and this information could easily save your life so don’t put off going to his website. Professor Peskin’s work is so sensational that he is presenting it to the Anti Aging Medical Society in Las Vegas this December. There will be over three thousand doctors present at that convention, so that’s a start.

Those doctors will learn that if we can alter the diet by going back to using unadulterated forms of the Omega-6 essential fatty acids, we can greatly reduce the risk of having our cells go from using oxygen to using sugar for energy. Professor Peskin’s website is very thorough regarding this issue, and it will not serve us here to repeat it. I should add that his work has helped answer some interesting questions about some old research that was done in Sweden.

Many years ago, researchers at the Karolinska Institute worked with women who were considered terminal with breast cancer. These women were all on various programs that utilized high levels of vitamin and mineral supplements in addition to a more organic diet. One group lived longer with fewer side effects from the cancer than would normally be expected, so their quality of remaining life was definitely improved. The second group was given additional Co-enzyme Q 10, in substantial amounts. A significant number of women from this group experienced remission. Co-enzyme Q 10 increases the oxygen uptake of our cells, which makes it so important after a heart muscle is damaged from a heart attack. The same ability to help the cancer patient can now be explained in the light of Peskin’s work. It’s apparently CO-enzyme Q 10′s ability to change cellular respiration from glycolysis (burning sugar) to Oxidative Phosphorylation (burning oxygen) that made the difference, or from keeping cells from switching from Oxidative Phosphorylation to Glycolysis in the first place.

Naturally, the genetic link to cancer was mentioned, but it was also qualified, because only 60% of these genetically susceptible women ever get breast cancer. There was a time when cancer was thought to be mostly caused by genetics, but those days are gone. Now we know better. The study of genes and their contribution to disease is now one more correctly called epigenetics, and the study of epigenetics tells us how our environment, both internal and external, speaks to our genes, turning them on and off. The big question, then, should be “what are the other 40% of women doing that’s different that reduces their risk by obviously turning their cancer genes off.”

Last, but not least, is the use of a key natural hormone, DHEA, that regulates an important enzyme involved in the pathway that feeds energy to cancers. By keeping DHEA at the right level we can make the potential cancer energy pathway less active, thereby reducing risk. Your family doctor can order the necessary testing.

The emphasis of this major newspaper article was on preventive drugs, with all their horrible side effects, preventive mastectomy, and early detection which simply leads to early treatment. Unfortunately, virtually everything mentioned was designed to keep the money in the medical industrial pharmaceutical cancer monopoly.

Preventics carries a superior Iodine/iodide product, Vitamin D, and an organic Omega 6, Omega 3 balanced essential unsaturated fatty acid product called Parent Essential Fatty Acids. I’m available for questions on Tues., Wed., and Thurs. between 10 and 12 at 816-753-4866 or 800-888-4688.

Germany, Switzerland, Israel, the U.K., France, and Finland are all recommending limited exposure, especially for children. The data that’s ringing the alarm is of increased cancer of the brain, head, and neck of frequent cell phone users. Naturally, the data is inconsistent. The studies by the cell phone industry suggest they are safe; however, the independent studies show “substantial increased risks.” How often have we seen that? The agencies that assign risk and are mandated to protect the public, that’s you and I, are often influenced to the point of control by the very mega-companies that they are supposed to be regulating. That’s why it takes decades for most citizens to learn of the dangers that surround us masquerading as safe.

Because a child’s nervous system is still developing, it is reasonable that they would be more vulnerable to the potential damages now being associated with these devices. Should you stop using your cell phone? I don’t think so. Should we use them prudently and make sure our children aren’t “living on their phones,” I think so. I am continually amazed by the number of people who are unable to operate a motor vehicle unless they have a cell phone to their ear. I’ll bet you’ve noticed that too. So cell phones can lead to your death in many ways.

The Omega 3s

These products are the stars of the media circus around the essential fatty acids (EFAs). It seems like everyone is selling a superior fish oil these days. Although these EFAs are especially important in growing children for healthy brain development through the formative years, they are much less important in the adult. If we keep in mind that the brain is 60% fat by weight, having adequate EFAs for brain development is obvious. In infants and children, the brain is in a state of rapid growth and development, whereas in adults, the need for these Omega 3 EFAs decreases enormously. Although all our organs and tissues need the Omega 3 EFAs, compared to the requirements for brain healing and development, the need is small.

The Omega 6s

These EFAs are the real unheralded heros, but they are in such abundance in the diet that they get short shrift in the literature. Unfortunately for us, our FDA has allowed food manufacturers to process these Omega 6 EFAs to eliminate spoilage and increase shelf life. Many manufactured foods that contain processed EFAs can sit on a shelf for years without spoiling: the Twinky is a good example. The Omega 6 family of EFAs are the most abundant in our diet, and now we know that they are also the most important. It’s the adulteration/processing of these Omega 6 EFAs that plays such a huge role in cancer.

The Ratios Tell The Story

What really matters is the ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3, not only in the brain and nervous system, but in all of the body organs and tissues. In the brain and nervous system, the ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3 EFAs is one to one. In every other organ and tissue, the Omega 6′s are much more important. In muscle, which makes up about half of our adult solid weight, the necessary healthy ratio is between seven and eight to one, Omega 6 to Omega 3. In lining tissue, that would be skin, sinuses, lungs, stomach, small & large intestines, urogenital system, joints and the lining of the blood vessels, etc., the ratio is one thousand to one, Omega 6 to Omega 3. That’s correct, one thousand to one, Omega 6 to Omega 3.

Where’s The Fat?

Of course we know that fat can be found in adipose tissue, but that’s storage fat, and when was the last time you heard of a cancer in adipose tissue? Exactly! So where are the rest of these EFAs found, and what’s their job?

The cell membrane surrounds the cell and then convolutes about throughout the cell contributing to its shape and size. This cell membrane structure is made up of an outer coating of protein, a middle layer of EFAs, and an inner layer of protein. That’s kind of like a sandwich with fat in the middle and protein on the outside. Fat also plays many other important roles, but for this discussion, the EFAs that make up the middle layer of the cell wall structure are the ones of interest.

These middle layer EFAs are the cells oxygen magnets. Otto Warburg, M.D., Ph.D., researched, discovered and published his findings regarding a major underlying cause of cancer as far back as the 1950s. This work is popular in Germany where he practiced and did his research, but is just coming to the attention of the establishment in this country. Warburg demonstrated unequivocally that lining tissue cells deprived of oxygen eventually begin to create their energy by combusting more sugar than oxygen, by the process of glycolysis. In time, this leads to a cancer cell. Although this sugar-cancer connection was established over half a century ago, most oncologists are still unaware of this research. Simply put, cancer lives on sugar.

Oxygen in the lungs is drawn through the lining of the lungs, the lining of the tiny capillaries in the lungs, and into the hemoglobin molecule within the red blood cell (RBC). It’s safe to say that this hemoglobin molecule has a very powerful attraction for oxygen. When that RBC reaches the lining tissue and again is squeezing through a narrow capillary, something must have a greater attraction for that oxygen molecule than hemoglobin to pull the oxygen from the RBC and into the lining tissue cell. The something that has this tremendous attraction for oxygen is fat. The EFAs that make up the middle layer of the cell wall structure are what pull the oxygen from the RBC, and in this case we’re talking about the Omega 6 EFAs, mostly the parent oil, Linoleic Acid.

The Crux Of The Problem

Once food is processed to keep its shelf life, the fat has been changed into a different form that no longer has an attraction for oxygen. One of the processes, and the most utilized until recently, was the hydrogenation of fat, converting healthy fat into trans fatty acids that have no oxygen attracting ability. Now that the consumer is becoming aware of the damage done by trans fatty acids causing cancer and heart disease, the big food processors have devised other means to preserve shelf life. Unfortunately, anything that interferes with the oxygen attracting ability of fat will be just as dangerous as trans fatty acids/hydrogenated fats.

How Big Is The Problem?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), eighty-five percent (85%) of the cancer found in the industrialized world is lining tissue cancer, or Adenocarcinoma. They make up the bulk of the breast, prostate, lung, sinus, mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and colon cancers, as well as most cancers of the urogenital system. Before World War II, when consumers ate mostly fresh foods and few processed foods, cancer was a much smaller problem. In fact, before the Second World War, relatively few people died of cancer. By 1971, the government declared a war on cancer, and now cancer has surpassed heart disease as the number one killer in the USA. Obviously, medical science isn’t winning this war, so if we want to protect our families, we will have to take action for ourselves.

What’s The Solution?

Well, there isn’t just one solution to reducing cancer risk, but a big contributor is reducing the processed fat we get in our diets. Given time and a good supplemental dosage of the parent essential oils the body will replace the damaged fat that has been incorporated into our lining tissue cell walls with healthy Omega 6 EFAs that have oxygen attracting capacity. This can take many months but is worth the effort. This is, very possibly, the biggest nutritional breakthrough since I started studying and practicing nutrition over forty years ago.

What’s The Test?

Obviously, we need a test to let us know we have accomplished our goal. Most medical tests are expensive, this one isn’t. Just pay attention to your poop. That’s right, if your stools float, it means a little bit of fat is getting through your gut and therefore not being absorbed. I usually suggest starting at four YES parent essential oil capsules a day for three months. If your stools haven’t begun to float, you increase the dosage to five capsules per day for another month. If they still don’t float you increase the dosage to six capsules per day for another month, etc. Once you get floating stools, you stay at that dosage for a month before cutting the dosage back by one capsule per day for a month. If after a month, your stools are still floating you cut back another capsule per day for another month. If your stools start sinking again, you simply add back one YES parent essential oil capsule until you once again have floaters. This way each person is adjusting his/her dosage to individual need.

Who’s Responsible?

Most of this work is the result of impeccable research by Professor Brian Peskin. Brian Peskin can be Googled. His books are the talk of the alternative/complimentary medical community and can be comprehended by most people with a solid high school education.

Availability

YES parent essential oils are available through Preventics and can be found on our price list, the order order blank and on the online order form – listed as Parent Essential Fatty Acids under Essential Oils & Fatty Acids. This product is still patent protected, so unfortunately Preventics is unable to have it made at a considerable discount. The YES parent essential oil supplement supplies 120 capsules (725 mg each), for $49.95. Hopefully, in time, our purchases will become large enough to get a significant discount from the manufacturer, which we will then be able to pass on to you.

The biggest push for soy consumption comes in regard to its reputed ability to protect against various cancers, breast cancer among them. However, there is no evidence that unfermented soy offers any protection whatsoever, and in fact, the facts point in just the opposite direction. Scientific studies very specifically show that unfermented soy increases cancer risk. In fact, unfermented soy is also linked to heart disease, reproductive disorders, digestive problems, malnutrition, thyroid dysfunction and cognitive decline. Soy is particularly damaging when used in infant formulas.

The powerful companies behind soy have bought and paid for our congressmen with their lobbying dollars and have managed to get some of their employee’s promoted into top positions with the FDA. That is how they have managed to keep the research that is negative to soy from the public, which is exactly how they did it with Aspartame, the artificial sweetener that’s more dangerous than sugar.

In almost every case, fibrocystic disease is curable. Approximately 25 years ago I had the privilege of attending a lecture on a protocol developed by a Dr. John Myers. He had devised an approach for the successful treatment of fibrocystic disease. The first part of his protocol was a basic vitamin program similar to the Basic Self-Help Program that you find in my newsletters. To this you add extra vitamin E, so the dosage goes to 800 units a day (two of Preventics Vitamin E – E-Mixed Tocopherols). To that you must add 100mg of extra vitamin B₆ (two of Preventics Vitamin B6-50), and 400mg of extra Magnesium (one of Preventics Mag Chelate Plus). The final ingredient is iodine.

The best way to determine a deficiency of iodine is to get a bottle of tincture of iodine from the pharmacist and paint a square on your abdomen about the size of an audiocassette case. If you are deficient in iodine, you will absorb this through the skin in less than 8 hours. When you are no longer deficient your body will cease absorbing it and it will remain for 24 hours. Do not be surprised if the iodine patch is gone very quickly. There is a serious iodine deficiency all across our country, which is especially severe in the mid-west. Some people are allergic/sensitive to iodine and should see an NAET practitioner to clear the allergy (if my office in the Kansas City area is not convenient for you, go to the NAET.com website to locate a practitioner near you). About the only side effect from this approach is tender skin. In some individuals, the skin under the iodine application area will become tender or sensitive. If that happens, you simply move the patch to another area or discontinue the treatment for a few days.

When the fibrocystic disease is particularly bad, the application of iodine directly to the breast areas most affected improves results even more, although extra care must be taken not to stain white undergarments. With fibrocystic disease of the uterus and/or ovaries, it helps to paint the iodine patches on the skin directly over the organs. Almost without fail, by the time the iodine patch lasts 24 hours before fading, the fibrocystic disease is gone. Many women have reported back to me that their OB/GYN told them that their uterine and/or ovarian cysts that were bigger than an orange have disappeared.

Once the iodine patch refuses to disappear in the allotted 24 hour period, many of my patients prefer taking Preventics Kelp, because it eliminates the risk of staining clothes.

An additional benefit of this treatment is improved Thyroid function, the main topic of one of our newsletters. It was the increase in the number of calls from that newsletter that prompted this follow up.

The most common comments were those regarding increased energy. It is not unusual when doing the iodine patch test to see a considerable increase in energy because often the Thyroid is marginally under-functioning because of a lack of iodine, and in the presence of the deficient mineral the Thyroid again begins to function optimally.

Still another common comment had to do with weight loss, which takes place sluggishly if at all when the Thyroid is marginally under-functioning. With adequate iodine, and a Thyroid that is working the way it is supposed too, weight loss is much easier to achieve.

Have fun with this test. Check yourself 3 or 4 times a year to be sure your iodine levels are adequate for optimum Thyroid function, and enjoy better health. This is the kind of preventive medicine that keeps you out of the doctor’s office.

When you age, you generally decrease your physical activity and metabolism. Unless caloric intake is also decreased, the end result is obesity, which in itself increases the risk to cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes, etc. With reduced caloric intake, supplementation is vital in order for you to get adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals with the decreased amount of food. This becomes even more important when, according to the latest scientific literature, you can’t get the recommended daily amounts (RDAs) of many essential nutrients at normal caloric intake levels.

To address these problems, I have established a basic vitamin and mineral supplemental program that I feel offers optimal support for various age groups based on what is known about decreased metabolism and increased micro-nutrient needs. Some people with increased vitamin and mineral needs brought about by chronic illness require additional amounts of very specific nutrients added to this basic program. However, people of average health do very well on a good basic supplemental program, with emphasis on anti-oxidants (anti-aging vitamins) like Vitamin C and Vitamin E, such as that found in the Basic Self-Help Supplement Program chart.

The scientific literature is emphasizing that as we get older, we need continually increasing amounts of virtually all of the essential micronutrients. This area of research is now called anti-aging medicine. It is getting a lot of attention because so much can be done inexpensively to produce remarkable results, and you the public, are demanding it.

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