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  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 2,701
    edited August 2010

    Hi, girls ~ This article has absolutely nothing to do with bc.  However, it has everything to do with the danger of pharmaceuticals, and when you think about the number of meds bc patients are both RXd (in some cases for PTSD) and then mix with OTC, well, I thought it was food for thought and worth passing along...

    http://www.pharmpro.com/News/FeedsAP/2010/08/questions-loom-over-drug-given-to-sleepless-vets/

  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 2,701
    edited August 2010

    Hi, girls ~ This article has absolutely nothing to do with bc.  However, it has everything to do with the danger of pharmaceuticals, and when you think about the number of meds bc patients are RXd (in some cases for depression and PTSD) and then mix with OTC, well, I thought it was food for thought and worth passing along...

    http://www.pharmpro.com/News/FeedsAP/2010/08/questions-loom-over-drug-given-to-sleepless-vets/

  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 2,701
    edited August 2010

    sorry...  still having problems with my computer stalling & multiple posts

  • SuperMom101
    SuperMom101 Member Posts: 65
    edited September 2010

    Not sure how many of you are familiar with Breast Cancer Action...interesting group. (They are the "think before you pink" organization.)  Although I try to focus on the positive in life...thought the following email might be of interest to some of us"natural girls."

    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

    Sometimes something is so outrageous that no matter how seemingly impossible the struggle - you have to work for it anyway.

    Last year, Breast Cancer Action challenged the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. Yes, they're about a thousand times our size. Yes, they have maybe a billion more dollars than we do. But what they're doing is so sickening that we had no choice. You may have heard about it: Eli Lilly is the sole worldwide manufacturer and distributor of rBGH (also known as rBST), an artificial growth hormone given to dairy cows. Drinking milk from these cows elevates levels of IGF-1 in humans, which may increase the risk of breast cancer. Eli Lilly also manufactures Evista, a drug claimed to "prevent" breast cancer. Completing the perfect breast cancer profit cycle, Eli Lilly also makes drugs like Gemzar that treat breast cancer. 

    That's right - Eli Lilly gets us coming and going. They are "Milking Cancer" and it's the worst example of corporate greed we've ever seen. It must stop. Breast Cancer Action doesn't care how big they are or how deep their pockets go, we - you and I - must stop them. Sign our petition to Eli Lilly.

    We started our campaign last year, and we think we've got years to go. But if you know anything about Breast Cancer Action, you know that we will not back down. This year, we're looking for 6,220 outraged and bold people - that's one person for every day that rBGH has been on the market - to stand up to Eli Lilly with us. We're hoping you're one of them. It only takes a minute.

    rBGH is bad for human and animal health, but good for Eli Lilly's earnings. We're sick of corporations like Eli Lilly profiting from cancer. Add your name to our petition right now, while you're thinking about it, and help us reach our goal.

    All the best,

    Kimberly Irish, J.D.
    Program Manager

    http://www.bcaction.org/

  • vivre
    vivre Member Posts: 881
    edited September 2010

    I have been a fan of bcaction from the first moment I was advised to check it out from someone here, when I was wrestling with my whole "intuition vs. what my doctors were telling me" struggle. It was there that I found the the truth about pinkwashing. I am writing a couple of blogs this month on " walking for the cure" where I will be encouraging others to give to orgs that this. I am hoping to eventually link my "think beyond the pink" movement with their "think before you pink". I hope a lot of the natural girls will join in.

    As for the antiestrogen diet-like everything else, there are a lot of opinions. I do not think we can take anything as gospel. We should just try to learn as much as we can and then follow our instincts. Only we know what is best for our own bodies.

  • makingway
    makingway Member Posts: 465
    edited September 2010
    SuperMom-Thanks for sharing the post. I posted a link to this org. under fundraising. I hope everyone will read about it and share with others.
  • Medigal
    Medigal Member Posts: 183
    edited September 2010

    Grannydukes:  I AM HERE!  You said to meet you now what do I do? I already signed the Petition but I don't know much about what is going on here.

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 5,858
    edited September 2010

    hey medigal..im here.reading all the posts.it is taking me a while to figure this out..i know no dairy for sure..im looking for infor on all this stuff.its mind blowing..where to start?i just sent out a email to all my friends.im hoping the sistas will walk us through

  • Medigal
    Medigal Member Posts: 183
    edited September 2010
    Granny:  SuperMom has a link to a page which gives a lot of info and has a petition to sign.  I already signed it. Now can i go watch tv.  Hubby says he gives me until 9PM EST for whatever is going on here and then I have to sign off.  So eat your dark chocolate fast and tell me if there is anything else you want me to do.  BTW,  I don't do all the natural good food stuff.  I am Italian and my body is used to anything I can find frozen!Wink   In my next life, maybe I will learn to eat healthier but for what's left of this one, I eat whatever is available.  I don't approve of my food choices but we do what we have to do to survive!  However, I won't give up my dairy.  I need my calcium since I take Arimidex.  So lots of cheese,skim milk, etc. etc.
  • Luna5
    Luna5 Member Posts: 532
    edited September 2010

    Cinnamon ???  Anyone know of a good source of  organic Sri Lanka ceylon cinnamon sticks ???

    I have found sources on google that I'm not sure I can trust. 

    I need to lower my blood pressure and have found warnings against the common cinnamon because it "comes from the Cassia plant and contains Coumarin, which is toxic in large doses. When supplementing with this kind of cinnamon, you may place yourself at a higher risk of kidney or liver damage. To avoid this, buy the stick form of cinnamon, which usually comes from the Ceylon plant." 
    livestrong.com/article/27611-cinnamon-reduce-blood-pressure/

    I guess in general it would be good to know how to choose a good source for me to buy organics.  I read several notes online of people who got "taken" by unscrupulous sellers with no return policies.  I don't want to have to return cinnamon and I also don't want to think I'm buying the right thing only to be ruining my kidneys or liver with the wrong kind.

    Who should I trust?

  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 2,701
    edited September 2010

    Interesting post, Luna, especially since I just bought my DH a cinnamon supplement for modulating blood sugar levels.  I'll suggest the sticks next time, especially since I have a wonderful store where I buy bulk spices.  They have several locations (I shop the one in Temecula, CA) and are also on-line.  Their spices & teas are the freshest, most fragrant I've ever found:  

    https://secure.spicemerchants.biz/sm/ 

    PS ~ Just went to their website and noticed they're on Facebook, too, with more info'.     

        

  • makingway
    makingway Member Posts: 465
    edited September 2010

    Luna- I love this place http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/bulkherb/c.html

    They have everything you could possibly want! There are different sources for the cinnamon. Click on the 'learn more' link and there's a wealth of information. That's how I learned about how great hemp oil is. It's nutritional value is amazing compared to other oils. It even has a high iodine content.

  • Luna5
    Luna5 Member Posts: 532
    edited September 2010

    Thanks makingway...will check it out tomorrow...going to bed now...1 AM here.

  • althea
    althea Member Posts: 506
    edited September 2010

    luna, I have my eye on cinnamon from costa rica, available through renegadehealth.com. 

    costa rica cinnamon

    I did a quick search to find a link to the video about the cinnamon.  This young couple went to costa rica earlier this year and they just rave about this cinnamon.  It's mentioned in many videos, so I wasn't able to find the specific one I had in mind, but it might help you learn more about cinnamon so you can make an informed choice.  

    In fact, they had a recipe for a coffee-like drink made from 'chag-o-charge' (a mushroom concentrate from chaga mushrooms), tulsi, and cinnamon.  The mushroom powder is really spendy though.  :(  

    Has anyone tried chag-o-charge?  

  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 2,701
    edited September 2010

    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/200042.php

    "Genetically modified (engineered) salmon is an Atlantic salmon. It has been  modified by adding a growth hormone regulating gene from another fish - the Pacific Chinook salmon - as well as an on-switch gene from an Ocean Pout (Zoarces americanus, an eel-type fish.) 

  • mandy1313
    mandy1313 Member Posts: 978
    edited September 2010

    Yikes Deanna!

    You might be able to avoid this pretend salmon in a fish market, but you'd never be able to know if the Atlantic Salmon in a restaurant was this new garbage. Why is the food industry so greedy that they spend millions and millions to develop artificial products such as this. If they just stuck to the original, they'd be fine.  Anyway, I just eat "wild" salmon myself but that can be hard to find and I am starting to be a genuine skeptic about food sources. 

  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 1,418
    edited September 2010

    The food industry is making fake sea food because we have completely over fished our oceans.  At the time of the American Revolution, people could catch cod in wicker baskets in Cape Cod.  Now cod is on the threatened species list.  The same thing is happening to all of the large food fish of the earth's oceans.  What is left to catch is contaminated by mercury and pcb's.  I don't eat fish any longer.

  • DesignerMom
    DesignerMom Member Posts: 730
    edited September 2010

    dlb823-Wow!  Frankenstein Salmon!  Will they never learn?  We live part of the year in British Columbia and this year the most bizaar thing has happened.  The fisheries Dept. has been keeping track of the Salmon run for decades.  This year, there are more Salmon running than ever before since they started counting.  They think perhaps double!   They have NO idea why. So there is a bumper crop of Wild Salmon.  Let's hope the price drops!

    On a different topic.  Yesterday they almost didn't give me chemo because my white count is low.  As she couldn't get me in next week (other than admitting me in-patient NOT!)  I went ahead with it.  She wants me on antibiotics next week as she is worried I might catch something as my white count lowers more.  Do any  of you natural girls have any ideas how to boost my white count naturally?  Of course I will avoid crowds etc...  

  • vivre
    vivre Member Posts: 881
    edited July 2012

    DesignerMom-It just seems crazy that they would put you on an antibiotic when you have no infections that they can pinpoint! Antibiotics create havoc with the digestive system, and chemo will just compound the problem. Why not try megadoses of high quality Vit D3, fish oil (mercury free!) and Vit C. That is what I did before and after my recent root canal extraction. When they took the tooth out, it was all rotted underneath, and yet I never got any infection. I had  very mild ear pain one day, upped my Vit D and C even more and the pain was gone! I have been reading several doctors recommend taking doses as high as 10,000 iu a day of D and 5000 mg of C and 3000 mg of omega 3 a day for those with active immune disorders, even though most doctors still insist you can overdo it. Read Dr. Strand's book, "What you Doctor doesn't know about nutrition". It was one of the first I read after my dx, and I do believe that following Dr. Strands advice is the reason I am thriving today, with no drugs. I just take iodine and my Usana supplements. Why not ask your doc to check your D and C levels to see where you are, and how much you need to improve them. You can read more about the wonders of Vit D at http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/

    On the cinnamon-I told my diabetic cousin to start using cinnamon. She did nothing else(she is still terribly overweight), and her numbers went down drastically. I cannot remember the exact numbers, but she said it was quite significant. Now if I could only convince her to start eating better!

    Deanna-thanks for the "fish tail". My holistic dentist keeps telling me I should never eat fish again because of the mercury exposure. But I love fish, so I do try to find some less toxic fish and indulge occasionally. I still have to get my metal amalgams out, and I am just working out a way to get it paid for. It will be so expensive because  I have quite a few, but now that I have than nasty root canal out, I can start on phase II. I do believe my toxic mouth was putting a constant strain on my immune system, which made my cancer possible. That is why I continue to take antioxidants in the meantime. It is so maddening that the dentists who put this crap in my mouth are not be required to take it out, for free!

  • DesignerMom
    DesignerMom Member Posts: 730
    edited September 2010

    vivre-  thanks for the tips.  I'll check out the books.  I actually did ask my Onc to check my D levels yesterday and they drew the blood.  She said she usually doesn't do it till after chemo, but said 80% of her patients were D deficient.  Wow!  Why wait?  I'm totally with you that I don't really want to take antibiotics for an infection that is not even there.  Of course they have scared me saying it could put me in the hospital if I catch something.  A few weeks ago I ended up with a small outbreak of shingles after chemo.  They wanted me on antivirals throughout chemo.  I filled the Rx, but didn't take them and have been fine.

  • makingway
    makingway Member Posts: 465
    edited September 2010
    Ok Ladies...I'm sharing this because you just never know, and also because most of you are open to give something new a shot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgMQOAWeVs0
  • Luna5
    Luna5 Member Posts: 532
    edited September 2010

    Thank you, Althea...will check out the cinnamon site.

  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 1,418
    edited September 2010

    makingway,

    Listening to that video could cause high frequency hearing loss.  My ears hurt after 1 minute.

  • Luna5
    Luna5 Member Posts: 532
    edited September 2010

    Vitamin C  vs  Ester-C...Questions for ya'll :)

    Which do I take? 

    Dr. Randolph's Esterified C has "Vitamin C (from calcium poly ascorbate 1,000 mg and Calcium (from calcium poly ascorbate 114 mg"

    Solgar Ester C Plus has "Vitamin C (as Ester-C calcium ascorbate 1,000 mg and Calcium (as Ester-C calciun ascorbate 125 mg and citrus Bioflavonoid Complex and rose hips and rutin and acerola"

    GNC Vitamin C has "Vitamin C (as ascorbic Acid 1000 mg and Citrus Bioflavanoids Complesx 25 mg"

    I'm very confused about all that calcium talk in the Ester-C and Esterified C which I've never even heard of.

    Need the advice from all you learned women!!!

    Thanks.

  • Luna5
    Luna5 Member Posts: 532
    edited September 2010

    Vivre...I need to go to your site....but wanted to post a public THANK YOU here on BC.org to you for educating me about rebounders.  I bought one and am very happy with it.  I haven't mastered it completely yet or watched the video and read all the info about all the excercises and ways to use ti...but I'm already enjoying it.

    I ended up getting one that folds up into a rolling carry on that will fit on most airplanes and definitely will be easy to wheel into hotels and such and even on camping trips.  I spent the extra $ because I may have to spend a few weeks with one of my daughters when she has her baby and wanted to be able to take it and store it in a small space.

    Thanks again for turning me on to it!:)  

    I just don't know what I would do without you and all the other wonderful, caring, helpful, generous women on this site!  THANK YOU to all of you!

  • Janeluvsdogs
    Janeluvsdogs Member Posts: 36
    edited September 2010

    Ditto what Luna said. Vivre is a treasure of great research and information.

    Luna, I'm in the market for a rebounder.  What brand rebounder did you get?

  • Luna5
    Luna5 Member Posts: 532
    edited September 2010

    I got the Cellerciser.  cellercise.com.  PRICEY! but I decided that if I'm only going to buy one...I went ahead and spent an extra $150 just for the extra fold from half to quarter so it fits into a rolling bag that will fit in some plane overheads but definitely easy to roll into hotels and the older I get the less I will want to be carrying it around on my shoulder.  If I never do take it anywhere...oh well...we've written a couple of donation checks lately and when we spend on vacations the money only lasts for a few days so I figured so what if I end up spending a couple hundred more than necessary to get the one that felt right to me......compared to what I spend on supplements in a year....this thing will certainly last longer and it's FUN!.

    Anyway....you probably already have....but if you haven't asked Vivre yet....I know she has a distributor who was at her health conference and she thought his would be cheaper than the one I decided on.  I don't remember the name of her's but she said she really likes it over the cheap one she began with.

  • Luna5
    Luna5 Member Posts: 532
    edited September 2010

    Oh and I got a 30 day money back guarantee if I didn't like it.  Talked to Jerry at cellercise.com.  There are lots of other sites that are not the "home" site that also sell it but I don't know if they offer the money back guarantee.  I have no connection other than I googled and decided on this one.  I researched several others that sounded great also...some with springs and some with bungees.  I finally had to just pick one and went with my gut.

    Janeluvsdogs asked me what brand which is the only reason I specified.  I'm not connected with this brand in any way and have only bought one and do not know anyone else who owns a rebounder except Vivre who has a different brand which she is very happy with.  There seems to be disagreement on google as to which brand is the best.  I even watched a video of testing of a bunch of them and the tester picked a cheapo as her favorite....  So, I really can't speak to what criteria everyone should use.

  • vivre
    vivre Member Posts: 881
    edited September 2010

    I decided to endorse the Needak. I know some the people who have the different brands use to work together, and had a falling out or something. But I chose the Needak because they were priced less and had the features I wanted. Plus, they sent me two models to test before I would endorse them on the website, which I thought was really great. I love my Needak! It just makes me happy to jump. There is also a fantastic video you can get with the needak called "The Immune System" by Needak founder Albert Carter. It does an wonderful job of explaining how the immune system works, the importance of moving lymph, and why rebounding is the best exercise you can do. I know I sound like a commercial. I am not selling them, but you will get a discount if you mention my website when you order. I am just endorsing them because they have been very supportive of what I am trying to do, spread the word that prevention is the cure.

    I believe if everyone rebounded, took iodine and other quality supplements, used food as medicine and detoxed in a Farinfared sauna, we would have very little disease. I know that doing these things has taken away ALL fear that I will have a recurrance.

  • Adey
    Adey Member Posts: 2,413
    edited September 2010

    What're the pros and cons of hard and soft bounce V?

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