IN THIS ISSUE: You’re just 24 hours away from discovering-and reducing-your breast cancer risk; Men: Detect and reduce your prostate cancer risk with these simple tests; Buyer beware: Are you really getting all the Echinacea protection you’re paying for?; Some sources still don’t get it-protein isn’t the enemy; Strontium for osteoporosis: No bones about it;   Read On

IN THIS ISSUE: Beyond hot flashes: How the right forms of estrogen may help fight cancer, MS and more; The amazing medical privacy disappearing act: now appearing in neighborhoods everywhere; The first step in heart disease prevention: Check your testosterone levels; SARS: Breathe easy with these five herbal solutions; Increasing dosage—the safe way; A bladder infection remedy so safe even a baby can use it; Low stomach acid and food allergies: The new “which came first” argument  Read On

Over the last three years, you’ve probably read a lot (especially from me) about “good” and “bad” estrogen. The first time you see these references it can be somewhat confusing: How can estrogen be good and bad? Isn’t it just one substance?

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Older men get enlarged prostate glands (BPH); younger men don’t. Older men get prostate cancer; younger men don’t. Yet younger men have the highest testosterone levels. So why do the conventional medical community, patent medicine companies, and government “authorities” continue to warn us of the hazards of testosterone?
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Last month, I talked about breast cancer prevention and how Brassica vegetables can help. But Brassicas’ benefits aren’t limited to women or breast cancer. Research also shows dramatic prostate health benefits. In one study, men who ate as few as three servings of Brassica vegetables a week experienced a 41 percent reduction in prostate cancer risk. Brassica vegetables include broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, and many more (for a full list, please see the Dec. 2002 issue of Nutrition &Healing).

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It’s no wonder that breast cancer is the biggest fear of so many women. All you hear about these days are the dismal odds: Currently, one in eight women-that’s 17 million-is expected to be diagnosed with the disease. And the treatment options are nothing short of barbaric: surgery that leaves you disfigured, radiation that leaves you swollen and tender, and chemotherapy that leaves you weak, bald, and nauseous.

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IN THIS ISSUE: Breast cancer prevention straight from the grocery store: Stop the most feared disease among women from happening to you; Are those “nutritional supplement” drinks all they’re cracked up to be?; Help your body achieve a healing miracle with five simple herbs; A breakthrough clot-buster: Sometimes even the alternatives have alternatives; Is botox to blame for nerve damage?  Read On

Q: I am a subscriber to your news-letter, but don’t recall reading your opinion on HGH shots. Now there’s talk of supposed high releasers, which claim to release your own growth hormones, which would be even better in my opinion.

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One day in July, the phones at Tahoma Clinic suddenly started ringing off the hook. The callers were almost all women wanting answers about the risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). At first, I wasn’t sure where all the concern was coming from, since I usually don’t get that many calls on the same topic in a whole month, let alone in one afternoon. But then I saw the front page of the newspaper: HRT had made national headlines. Directors of a national study known as the Women’s Health Initiative abruptly stopped their research and instructed the women to discontinue taking HRT, because it increases the risks of breast cancer, blood clots, stroke, and heart attack.

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I know the above headline sounds like a chapter out of a John Grisham novel-or a trailer for some Hollywood blockbuster. But it isn’t. It’s the crux of the latest scandal brought to us by the big patent medicine companies. And it may already have passed through a town near you.

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Q: In your March 2001 issue, you make inflammatory and erroneous statements on the lack of safety of dental amalgam.

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Rickets, caused by an extreme vitamin D deficiency, is a disease that results in mild to severe degrees of stunted, misshapen bones. By the middle of the 20th century, rickets had been nearly eliminated in urban areas of the “developed” world when researchers realized that the disease could be entirely prevented by supplementing with a few hundred international units (IUs) of vitamin D each day. And, since “authorities” issued dire warnings about vitamin D toxicity and overdose, the recommended daily upper intake level has remained at 2,000 IUs, ever since. However, recent research shows that vitamin D is safe to take at much higher levels and that the benefits of vitamin D go well beyond the prevention of rickets.

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While constipation isn’t a popular topic of conversation, it is, nevertheless, an important subject that could mean a world of difference to your overall health. The concept of bowel endotoxemia has been around for a long time (though, again, most people don’t want to discuss it). This theory states, quite logically, that waste products aren’t good for human cells, and that it’s best that our bodies literally get rid of them every day, rather than retaining them internally and giving more time for absorption back into the body. Once reabsorbed into the bloodstream, bowel toxins can be distributed anywhere, including the breasts, where they can cause “atypical” and “precancerous” changes.

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Heartburn, indigestion, dyspepsia, and “acid indigestion” are extremely common afflictions. Thanks mostly to diet and lifestyle factors, and sometimes because of genetics, pregnancy, anatomy, or simple aging, it seems like sooner or later, almost everybody gets an upset stomach in one form or another.

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In medicine, 30-year-long studies, especially “prospective” studies, are relatively rare. Prospective studies are “planned-ahead” studies, which offer no way of knowing the outcome in advance. So when such a study is reported, practitioners generally pay more attention than usual.

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Every three to four years, fanatical “quack busters” delight in sending off hair specimens to various laboratories, noting that the results vary from lab to lab, and then proceeding to lambaste all non-patent-medicine-oriented healthcare with charges of quackery, fraud, and negligence. (It’s just as bad as the one prominent American political party, that regularly charges the other major American political party with intentionally poisoning the food, air, and water, while they also starve small children and senior citizens.) Meanwhile, just like the politicians, the “quack busters” do nothing at all to publicize any similar shortcomings on their own side.

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In November, I covered the increasing evidence that horse estrogen doesn’t appear to prevent heart disease in women. I also explained why our current clues still point to the likelihood that only human estrogen can prevent human heart disease. While “conventional” and “natural” medical practitioners still generally agree that estrogen prevents bone loss and osteoporosis, evidence appears to be growing that the major utility of replacement estrogen (human, of course) is to maintain brain function.

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Cancer treatment continues to be one of the most disappointing areas of modern medicine. While breakthroughs have been made in the treatment of a very few cancers, most advanced cancers still have a poor prognosis. Because of this, we can conclude that the most effective “treatment” for cancers presently available is prevention.

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IN THIS ISSUE:Tackling three top killer cancers: breast, prostate, and colon; Why Echinacea-and other herbals-“don’t work!”; Natural estrogen replacement can help the MIND as well as the body; Zinc lozenges for colds, again; Get your juices flowing-your digestive juices, that is…; Join the MSA crusade  Read On

IN THIS ISSUE: Lower your blood pressure-naturally; Don’t forget the licorice!; Testosterone and estrogen may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease; Women who eat right live longer; ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND VIOLENCE, AGAIN  Read On

In a presentation termed “a breakthrough” and “stunning” by some of the 250 physician-attendees, Maria Bell, M.D., described the reversal and apparent cure of a significant proportion of the most common type of cervical cancer with a natural substance found in Brassica vegetables: cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and bok choy. Dr. Bell, a women’s cancer specialist at the Sioux Valley Hospital and University of South Dakota Medical Center, made her presentation to the semiannual meeting of the American College for Advancement in Medicine in Dallas on Friday May 5. This was previously presented to the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists at a meeting in San Francisco in 1999. (The work by Dr. Bell and associates will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Gynecologic Oncology.)

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IN THIS ISSUE: Preventing and curing cancer of the cervix; Alzheimer’s disease: a common and fatal dementia; If you value your prostate, don’t drink cow’s milk; Are ear infections genetic?  Read On