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Painterly-
I have been on RX compounded vaginal estriol cream 2x/week and it really helps.
Beth
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Althea: Mine was more up and down before the pregnenolone, so I am just checking it out to see if it balances me out some. And yes, you are correct about adrenal fatigue.
RachelKa: I would do a search putting in her symptoms on the www.drlam.com website and see if anything comes up. He seems to have a wealth of information on there and he is all about natural approaches. I think it's hormonal, too.
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Hoping some of you can give me feedback. I have been having run-to-the bathroom diahrrea every morning for about 2 weeks. Initially I thought it was a virus, but I feel fine otherwise and now it continues. I am sensing it is from one of my supplements. Most of them I have taken for a while so I am ruling them out. The newest additions are iodine (Iodoral 50mg and Cofactor) and Melatonin (1 mg at night). I googled Melatonin and it does seem to cause diahrrea in some people. I hope I don't have to eliminate it as it has helped tremendously with sleep. I'm wondering if there is one that is coated to help with gastric issues? Anyone have any thoughts?
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DesignerMom ~ How come you went back to your incognito avatar? I'm afraid I don't have much to say about your problem (are you overdoing vitamin C or magnesium by any chance?) I have not heard of Iodoral causing problems, but I do know that hyperthyroidism can cause diarrhea, so maybe... But please be sure to stay hydrated as best you can!!
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Suzanne- Thanks for the feedback. Maybe I will stop everything for a week and then introduce them back one by one to see if I can pin down the culprit.
About going back to my ruby slipper persona. Someone started a thread reminding us that this is a public forum. It seems when you google our avatar names, all our posts, including photo, come up on google. I like sharing candidly with all of you, just seems a bit invasive if people know my face who are not BCO members.
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DesignerMom-
Not sure. I had that happen to me when I was a RAw foodist and it was back when there was that big spinach contamination issue a few years back. There was also speculation that it had something to do with a colonoscopy I had a few weeks prior. Have you had one recently??
It could be detox symptoms from Iodine - are you doing the complete protocol including lots of the unrefined sea salt?? If you haven't tried the salt-loading - you might give it a try and that would give you some input to see if it is a detox issue. The salt load is in addition to the normal 1/2 t of salt a day. You take 1/2 to 1t of the unrefined sea salt in water and drink - wait until copius urination or if it doesn't happen in 45 minutes - repeat until that happens.
Someone already mentioned VitC and Magnesium - some forms are hard on the digestive system. Not sure why that would suddenly change if you had been on them for a long while.
My other suggestion would be to call LIfe Extension Foundation and ask for a consult with one of their naturopathic oncologists. It's free if you are a member. OR - If you have access to a local compound pharmacist - many of them are wonderful in doing consults with your supplements and might spot something.
Not a bad idea to stop them and re-introduce - I doubt you are absorbing much of the nutrients in your current state.
Good Luck!!
Beth
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Done with exchange and now greedily gonna gobble my supplements! I missed them these past couple of weeks leading up to surgery but did not want to take any chances on excessive bleeding.
I have a question please....what do any of you that had ER+/PR+ take if anything, for vaginal dryness that will not shoot up the estrogen levels? I have some cream from a couple of years ago when I was too scared to take HRT ( THANK YOU GOD IN RETROSPECT) and doc offered it as help for dryness...it is estrace-.1 mg estradiol in a cream...nervous to use it as I am scared it will flow into my body....as transdermal is an extremely effective manner of getting medicines in our systems...
Any input would be appreciated...am not interested in the KY route at this time...not sure why-just not something I like because I am an oddball:)
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Thanks Althea and Health4513 for your response about estriol cream.
AnnetteK, From what I understand estriol is the good estrogen while estradiol is not.( We were discussing vaginal dryness and estriol cream a few posts back).
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AnnetteK,
Oh, and I forgot to mention, E3 is a suppository which is inserted into the vagina while the cream can be used topically.
So I am using both.
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I use an estring- my onc does not feel estriol cream is safe btw, but as with everything, there's a lot of disagreement out there. The estring is bad estrogen, but doesn't spread systemically because of the slow and very minor release. There haven't been any big studies but I feel happy with the study we did on me- we checked my levels (estradiol + 2/16 ratios) with and without the estring, (a bunch of times) and they were ok. And just regular lube.
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designermom: If you are taking Iodoral, you have to build up to 50 mg. There was no way I could do that from the start! Not sure if that is what has caused your reaction, but you might dial it back and start slow and gradually build up over time.
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Jessamine,
My gyn. is of the same opinion as your onc. that there is so little absorbed to be of any danger.
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hlth4513 and MBJ- Thank you for you feedback. I am not doing the whole iodine protocol. I asked Dr. Flechas if I should and he said it was not necessary, only to take the Cofactor with Iodoral. Maybe it is the dosage of Iodoral? He actually wanted me on 100mg. a day and I halved that. Perhaps I need to go lower yet. I'm going off everything for a few days and will re-introduce slowly. I'll keep you posted.
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Thanks MBJ for DrLam on estorgen balancing to deal with migraines and neck and back tension.A PA at her GP's office gave her a drug today for migraine, don't know what it's called but supposedly has few if any side effects. I've been feeding her info on natural remedies and will send her to Dr. Lam.
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I was spittin nails earlier today. There are just SOOOOOOO many things about my mom's doctor and the way his office operates that I doubt anyone here would even be able to wade through my list of complaints if I wrote them all! It turns out she was scheduled for an annual exam today -- and no one communicated this until yesterday when they called with their "reminder". She's already scheduled for an 'office visit' next week on the 24th and they refused to be flexible in rescheduling. My mom has been this bozo's patient for 30 f-----g YEARS and they won't reschedule a f------g appointment that we weren't even told about. This is one of those doctors that has you come in for a 1:30 appt, you sit around for HOURS, while being assured the 'doctor will be right in'. My mom didn't get out of there til nearly 5:00.
The purpose of today's visit was her 'comprehensive' annual exam. The content of this exam leaves me too exacerbated to even cuss! The list of questions was nearly identical to her 'office followup' visits. He didn't even order any labs. Her temperature, bp, pulse and weight were measured, and they did an EKG. Good grief, I could have read the instructions to the EKG machine and run that test myself in shorter time than what they took. And you want to know what pisses me off even more than this kind of treatment???? The fact that my MOM puts UP with it! aye karumba m#$%$*& f&%^$% a*I^%$%
Ok I feel better now. Love having this place to vent.
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Here's a cheer for having a place to vent! (giving athena an extra cookie:)
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Designermom: I didn't realize you weren't doing the whole iodine protocol. I agree, you need to do the whole program and work up to 100 mg. Starting out at 50 would put me over the edge.
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I just discovered this week that I have two "pest" plants growing over my back and front doorsteps that may be cancer fighters. I knew the front plant was an aloe, but not aloe vera. It seems likely that it's aloe arborescens, which I just discovered is reputed to act on cancer. Some claim it cures cancer but I have yet to research that claim to see how likely that is. I've used it many times on minor burns. It cools the burn, taking the sting completely away for hours till the next leaf is applied. Aloe Vera and Aloe Arborescens are the only two aloes used for medicinal purposes.
http://www.aloearborescens.org/
The other plant is a small spindly weed, Euphorbia Peplus or Petty Spurge, that I discovered last week and am using it to get rid of small pre-cancers (actinic kertosis) of the skin. It can also be used on other non-melanoma skin cancers. I've been pulling this weed up for more than 20 years from the eastern side of the house and chopping down the aloe every few years oblivious to their cancer fighting abilities. Woo hoo, this has boosted my belief that if I ever get any cancer again, the cure could be right on my door step... literally.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2011/01January/Pages/common-garden-weed-may-fight-skin-cancer.aspx
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Hi Anetek,
REPLENS is a great vaginal moisturiser you can use 2x per week. It is not hormonal, and moisturises this very important organ that we should all be using hopefully!!
EVERYONE: Does anyone know anything about CHELATION? What should the intravenous solution have in it? I heard it should have EDTA, but what else is important?
xox
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Sheila, How cool that you discovered that! Literally on your doorstep, too. I'd keep those handy.
Althea, totally agree about the vent, and the ludicrousness of the doctor's visit. What a waste of time. Have another cookie! On me.
Annettek, I have to agree on the supplements. I feel like they are my lifeline. I rely on them heavily. Especially magnesium. I notice the effects if I miss just one dose. I start getting worked up very easily, and stressed out!! I love the calm and peaceful feeling magnesium gives me. Glad you can take your supplements again!!
So, I am off to the zoo today with kiddos. Going to enjoy some of this beautiful sunshine and weather, and the time with my kids. Losing your job has its perks!!
Have a great day, ladies!
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Sheila, isnt it amazing how mother nature has provided us with the power to heal! The problem is that drug companies know this, and will try to replicate these plant chemistries and then sell it. Cancer may not always be curable, but it surely can be managed for many many years with nutrition. Food is the best medicine.
As for supplements, I hope you are all following your supplements with blood tests to see if you they are actually absorbing. I wasted two years taking less than quality stuff. There is so much junk and hype out there. There is a well known doctor online who touts his krill oil. I know someone who had it analyzed and it had vegetable oil added! Some of these online people do not test their stuff. They are just out to make a buck. I have never had such great results as I have seen with Usana. After two years of seeing poor test results, my numbers are all up. You can go to healthcheckusa.com to order your own bloodwork. And remember, if you take too much, it will not hurt you but you will just expel the excess. I think of all the money I threw away because I was taking so many pills in high quantity. I now take a lot less, and I feel better.
Althea-I think our parents generation is lost. They have been so programmed to believe that their doctors are gods that they will not listen. One of my dearest relatives was just dx'd. You would think I would be an inspiration for her. She helped my through my ordeal, and she can see how I am thriving now, but she still is following doctors orders only. She would not even hear my warning about taking all the lymph nodes, and they did! How barbaric. She is overweight and will end up with lympedema. Her doctors have told her she is going to get agressive chemo and rads. This is one of those oncs who does chemo in his office. Lots more profit that way. My aunt is in such poor health, I know these treatments will kill her. Of course, I have not said any of this to her. She is an emotional wreck, but I am having a hard time keeping quiet. Fortunately my cousins are letting me feed them information and they are trying to intervene. But my aunt is not the type to pay any attention to her diet. She complains she cannot walk because it hurts. No one can get her to move! She thinks the doctors will preform miracles. I do not understand how people cannot take at least some responsibility for their recovery. Doctors are not miracle workers.
Thats my rant!
Did anyone hear the Natural News podcast last night on breast cancer? It was all about Thermography and the interview was with a Canadian nurse. She mentioned that we need to address three main issues to prevent breast cancer- bowel function, cranial/dental (remove those root canals!), and detox heavy metals. She also mentioned that we need to go braless to keep the lymph moving and that underwire bras are especially dangerous because the wires act like little antennae for EMF's. And finally, she quoted some doctor who said that if you do EVERYTHING right as far as nutrition and supplements, exercise, etc, you are still at risk if you do not address stress. Nothing is more toxic than stress.That is why there is a high rate of bc in those of us who have tried to be supermoms. We forget to take care of ourselves. I can totally admit to that.
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DesignerMom-
After fine-tuning my use of Iodoral for over three years and after reading the IOdine Yahoo group posts for over two years - I highly advise taking the entire Iodoral protocol once you decide to start back on yoru supplement. I resisted for a while because of the additional expense and the fact that I was already taking so many other supplements, but the more I read and learned from other experiences, the more I realized how critical each of the companion nutrients are to recovering my health and minimizing any detox issues.
A lot of the people with issues with Iodoral are because they are not taking the companion nutrients. I take 100mg of Iodoral a day and if I miss one day of the extra celtic sea salt, my face breaks out, because it can't handle the detoxing bromides.
Hope you are feeling better these days!
Beth
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vivre, so sorry to hear about your aunt. I agree our parents' generation is lost when it comes to our health care system. Sheila's observation about plants in her literal front yard is a perfect metaphor for the kind of system we have. All these people looking through microscopes. I truly believe in my heart the answer is in plain sight, staring us in the face until someone has the right timing and charisma to speak the truth and be accepted.
Here's a podcast link to an interview with david wolfe regarding what we can do to combat the effects of radiation exposure. Nearly all the things mentioned are items I have in my house already.
http://www.thebestdayever.com/news/podcast/podcast-63-dave-wolfe-on-radiation-protection/
Oh, and back to Sheila's comments about pesky plants, anyone try nettles? It's been over a year now since I became a fan of Susun Weed. She's a master herbalist and I've been drinking 3 infusions that she recommends for almost a year now. Stinging nettles is jam packed full of nutrients and even has protein too. Oatstraw is another one. I've discovered that only the greentop (as opposed to the goldtop that comes later in the season) will kick me into gear. I absolutely tank without my oatstraw. Great for energy. Red clover flowers is the third one. That one is more expensive, so I drink it once a week. The rest of the week I'll drink 3 days each of nettles and oatstraw. I make the infusion in a mason jar with a metal lid . I fill the bottom quarter of the jar with herb and then fill the jar to the top with water. I put on the lid and spin the bottle a couple of times to give the water and herb a good swirl. I do this at night and drink the brew the next day. I add a bit of stevia to sweeten and some filtered water to dilute to my taste preference. I know for a fact the oatstraw kicked my fatigue to the curb. I buy it by the pound and I've been through about 5 pounds in the last year. Two were goldtop, the other greentop. I perk up with the green and the fatigue returns without it.
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Cancers are Very Dependent on Iron
Iron is needed for DNA replication in rapidly dividing cells.3
A recent report from the Department of Biomolecular Sciences in Urbino Italy, found that fluid taken from the nipple of cancer patients contained significantly higher levels of aluminum than did nipple fluid taken from women without breast cancer-approximately twice as much aluminum.4
A number of studies have found that extracting nipple fluid by a breast pump (in both premenopausal and postmenopausal women) is a simple way to study the microenvironment of the ductal tissue, the site of development of most breast cancers.5
Examining this ductal fluid is an excellent way to measure such things as iron levels, ferritin (an iron-binding protein), CRP (a measure of breast inflammation) and aluminum.
The researchers also found that women with breast cancer had much higher levels of ferritin, an iron transport protein, in their breast fluid, which was 5X higher in women with breast cancer.6
This observation has been confirmed in other studies.
In previous studies researchers found that one's intake of iron did not necessarily correlate with risk of breast cancer, but rather the release of iron from its protective proteins, such as ferritin and transferrin was critical.7
This distinction is very important and explains why some studies found no link between iron intake in the diet and breast cancer incidence.8
Free Iron Can Be Very Dangerous
Over 90% of iron absorbed from your diet is normally bound to these protective proteins. Recent studies have shown that some things we do can cause too much of the iron to be released into surrounding tissues, and if this iron exists as free iron, it can trigger intense inflammation, free radical generation and lipid peroxidation.
Bound iron is relatively harmless.
So, what can cause these protective proteins to release their iron?
One factor is an excessive alcohol intake. Studies by Lee et al have shown that women who drink greater than 20 grams of alcohol a day significantly increase the free iron in their breast tissue and have a higher incidence of invasive breast cancer-the most deadly form.9
It has also been shown that excessive estrogen can displace iron from its protective proteins, thus increasing free iron levels and associated breast cancer risk. 10 This helps explain the link between high estrogen levels and breast cancer.
Of more importance than the total intake of iron is where the iron ends up that is absorbed from your food.
As stated, most of it is bound to protective proteins, such as transferrin in the blood and ferritin within cells. If you have a lot of extra space within these proteins for binding iron, then a high dietary iron intake would be less harmful.
Previously it was thought that a spillover of free iron occurred only when the protective proteins (tranferrin and ferritin) were fully saturated, as we see with the condition hemochromatosis.
How Aluminum and Alcohol Worsen Iron Toxicity
We now know that both aluminum and alcohol can displace the iron from its protective proteins, raising the level of harmful free iron, even when these protective proteins are not fully saturated with iron.9If this occurs within the breast, as this study demonstrates, free iron levels in the breast ductal tissue can become dangerously high and over time induce malignant tumor formation.
The question to be asked is--where did the aluminum come from?
The authors of the paper suggested underarm antiperspirants as a possibility. But, there is another source that is becoming increasingly a problem and that is from vaccine adjuvants.
Vaccines are a Major Source of Aluminum for Many
Many inactivated vaccines contain aluminum salts to boost the immune reaction. Studies have shown that this aluminum is slowly dispersed all over the body and may be concentrated in breast ducts.11
The amount of aluminum in vaccines is tremendous, especially in such vaccines as the anthrax vaccine, hepatitis vaccine and tetanus vaccine.
Since many American children are being exposed to multiple doses of aluminum containing vaccines by the time they are 6 years old, one would expect very high exposures to injected aluminum.
A recent study by Lucija Tomljenovik and Chris Shaw found that a newborn receives a dose of aluminum that exceeds FDA safety limits (5mg/kg/day) for injected aluminum by 20-fold, and at 6 months of age a dose that was 50-fold higher than FDA safety limits.12
Aluminum at this young age will accumulate in various tissues and with new vaccine recommendations, children and young adults may be exposed to many more aluminum containing vaccines every year throughout life.
With the ability of aluminum to displace iron from its protective proteins, we may not only see a dramatic increase in breast cancer, but also other iron-related diseases, such as liver degeneration, neurodegenerative disease, diabetes, heart failure and atherosclerosis.13 No one is addressing this very real danger.
References· 1 Wu T et al. Serum iron, copper and zinc concentrations and the risk of cancer mortality in US adults. Ann Epidemiol 2004; 14: 195-201.
· 2 Cade J et al. Case-control study of breast cancer in southeast England: Nutritional factors. Epidemiol Community Health 1998; 52: 105-110.
· 3 Kalinowski DS, Richardson DR. The evolution of iron chelators for the treatment of iron overload disease and cancer. Pharmacol Rev 2005; 57: 547-583.
· 4 Mannello F, et al. Analysis of aluminum content and iron homeostasis in nipple aspirate fluids from healthy women and breast cancer-affected patients. J Appl Toxicol 2011; Feb 21,(ahead of print)
· 5 Mannello F et al. Iron-binding proteins and C-reactive protein in nipple aspirate fluids: role of iron-0driven inflammation in breast microenvironment. Am J Transl Res 2011;3: 100-113.
· 6 Mannello et al and Shpyleva SI et al. Role of ferritin alterations in human breast cancer cells. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2011; 126: 63-71.
· 7 Lithgow D et al. C-reactive protein in nipple aspirate fluid: relation to women's health factors. Nurs Res 2006; 65: 418-425.
· 8 Kabat GC et al. Dietary iron and heme iron intake and risk of breast cancer: a prospective cohort study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2007; 16:1306-1308.
· 9 Lee DH et al. Dietary iron intake and breast cancer: The Iowa Women's Health Study. Proc Am Assoc Cancer Res 2004; 45: A2319.
· 10 Wyllie S, Liehr JG. Release of iron from ferritin storage by redox cycling of stilbene and steroid estrogen metabolites: a mechanism of induction of free radical damage by estrogen. Arch Biochem Biophys 1997; 346: 180-186.
· 11 Flarend et al. In vivo absorption of aluminum-containing vaccine adjuvants using Al-26. Vaccine 1997 15, 1314-1318.
· 12 Tomljenovic L and Shaw C. 2011 in press.
· 13 Weinberg ED. Iron toxicity. Ox Med Cell Longevity 2009; 2: 107-109. Cancers are Very Dependent on Iron
Iron is needed for DNA replication in rapidly dividing cells.3
A recent report from the Department of Biomolecular Sciences in Urbino Italy, found that fluid taken from the nipple of cancer patients contained significantly higher levels of aluminum than did nipple fluid taken from women without breast cancer-approximately twice as much aluminum.4
A number of studies have found that extracting nipple fluid by a breast pump (in both premenopausal and postmenopausal women) is a simple way to study the microenvironment of the ductal tissue, the site of development of most breast cancers.5
Examining this ductal fluid is an excellent way to measure such things as iron levels, ferritin (an iron-binding protein), CRP (a measure of breast inflammation) and aluminum.
The researchers also found that women with breast cancer had much higher levels of ferritin, an iron transport protein, in their breast fluid, which was 5X higher in women with breast cancer.6
This observation has been confirmed in other studies.
In previous studies researchers found that one's intake of iron did not necessarily correlate with risk of breast cancer, but rather the release of iron from its protective proteins, such as ferritin and transferrin was critical.7
This distinction is very important and explains why some studies found no link between iron intake in the diet and breast cancer incidence.8
Free Iron Can Be Very Dangerous
Over 90% of iron absorbed from your diet is normally bound to these protective proteins. Recent studies have shown that some things we do can cause too much of the iron to be released into surrounding tissues, and if this iron exists as free iron, it can trigger intense inflammation, free radical generation and lipid peroxidation.
Bound iron is relatively harmless.
So, what can cause these protective proteins to release their iron?
One factor is an excessive alcohol intake. Studies by Lee et al have shown that women who drink greater than 20 grams of alcohol a day significantly increase the free iron in their breast tissue and have a higher incidence of invasive breast cancer-the most deadly form.9
It has also been shown that excessive estrogen can displace iron from its protective proteins, thus increasing free iron levels and associated breast cancer risk. 10 This helps explain the link between high estrogen levels and breast cancer.
Of more importance than the total intake of iron is where the iron ends up that is absorbed from your food.
As stated, most of it is bound to protective proteins, such as transferrin in the blood and ferritin within cells. If you have a lot of extra space within these proteins for binding iron, then a high dietary iron intake would be less harmful.
Previously it was thought that a spillover of free iron occurred only when the protective proteins (tranferrin and ferritin) were fully saturated, as we see with the condition hemochromatosis.
How Aluminum and Alcohol Worsen Iron Toxicity
We now know that both aluminum and alcohol can displace the iron from its protective proteins, raising the level of harmful free iron, even when these protective proteins are not fully saturated with iron.9If this occurs within the breast, as this study demonstrates, free iron levels in the breast ductal tissue can become dangerously high and over time induce malignant tumor formation.
The question to be asked is--where did the aluminum come from?
The authors of the paper suggested underarm antiperspirants as a possibility. But, there is another source that is becoming increasingly a problem and that is from vaccine adjuvants.
Vaccines are a Major Source of Aluminum for Many
Many inactivated vaccines contain aluminum salts to boost the immune reaction. Studies have shown that this aluminum is slowly dispersed all over the body and may be concentrated in breast ducts.11
The amount of aluminum in vaccines is tremendous, especially in such vaccines as the anthrax vaccine, hepatitis vaccine and tetanus vaccine.
Since many American children are being exposed to multiple doses of aluminum containing vaccines by the time they are 6 years old, one would expect very high exposures to injected aluminum.
A recent study by Lucija Tomljenovik and Chris Shaw found that a newborn receives a dose of aluminum that exceeds FDA safety limits (5mg/kg/day) for injected aluminum by 20-fold, and at 6 months of age a dose that was 50-fold higher than FDA safety limits.12
Aluminum at this young age will accumulate in various tissues and with new vaccine recommendations, children and young adults may be exposed to many more aluminum containing vaccines every year throughout life.
With the ability of aluminum to displace iron from its protective proteins, we may not only see a dramatic increase in breast cancer, but also other iron-related diseases, such as liver degeneration, neurodegenerative disease, diabetes, heart failure and atherosclerosis.13 No one is addressing this very real danger.
References· 1 Wu T et al. Serum iron, copper and zinc concentrations and the risk of cancer mortality in US adults. Ann Epidemiol 2004; 14: 195-201.
· 2 Cade J et al. Case-control study of breast cancer in southeast England: Nutritional factors. Epidemiol Community Health 1998; 52: 105-110.
· 3 Kalinowski DS, Richardson DR. The evolution of iron chelators for the treatment of iron overload disease and cancer. Pharmacol Rev 2005; 57: 547-583.
· 4 Mannello F, et al. Analysis of aluminum content and iron homeostasis in nipple aspirate fluids from healthy women and breast cancer-affected patients. J Appl Toxicol 2011; Feb 21,(ahead of print)
· 5 Mannello F et al. Iron-binding proteins and C-reactive protein in nipple aspirate fluids: role of iron-0driven inflammation in breast microenvironment. Am J Transl Res 2011;3: 100-113.
· 6 Mannello et al and Shpyleva SI et al. Role of ferritin alterations in human breast cancer cells. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2011; 126: 63-71.
· 7 Lithgow D et al. C-reactive protein in nipple aspirate fluid: relation to women's health factors. Nurs Res 2006; 65: 418-425.
· 8 Kabat GC et al. Dietary iron and heme iron intake and risk of breast cancer: a prospective cohort study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2007; 16:1306-1308.
· 9 Lee DH et al. Dietary iron intake and breast cancer: The Iowa Women's Health Study. Proc Am Assoc Cancer Res 2004; 45: A2319.
· 10 Wyllie S, Liehr JG. Release of iron from ferritin storage by redox cycling of stilbene and steroid estrogen metabolites: a mechanism of induction of free radical damage by estrogen. Arch Biochem Biophys 1997; 346: 180-186.
· 11 Flarend et al. In vivo absorption of aluminum-containing vaccine adjuvants using Al-26. Vaccine 1997 15, 1314-1318.
· 12 Tomljenovic L and Shaw C. 2011 in press.
· 13 Weinberg ED. Iron toxicity. Ox Med Cell Longevity 2009; 2: 107-109.0 -
MBJ-
Thanks for this info on Iron. I need to re-read this info - but do you think it is possible that you could have low ferritin levels in blood tests, but high ferritin in breast fluid?
I have been in a quandry, because my ferritin levels are very low and I need higher levels in order for my thyroid to work properly - yet I know that iron is not good for cancer. MY docs don't even agree on this.
Althea-
I used to drink stinging nettle tea for my sinus issues. I have Susan Weed's book and somehow it got shoved to the side with all of my other books - thanks for the info, I need to re-visit these infusions. DO you have a special source for your herbs??
Beth
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MBJ- Very interesting, but what can be done to neutralize this?? I emailed it to my naturopath for input, will report back.
Althea- I drink nettles and oatstraw every day- viva la nettle! Miracle plant! I also take eleuthro (siberian ginseng), which is a miraculous herb in my mind.... so many benefits! It's helped my energy levels and sleep a lot.
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Ok, I was not aware that iron was not good for cancer. Gosh...what's next.
My iron levels were ok (I think sorta on the low side though) in Sept at DX but when re-tested in Dec cpl months after BMX my levels had dropped 2. Which she said was significant. So why?? I did change my diet, took red meat out but still?? Anyway, I was put on iron pills and at my last blood test a couple weeks ago I have come back up to where I was. But this all has me wondering...why did my levels drop....and is it good for me to be taking these pills??? All so confusing. ((0 -
oh, also wanted to say thank you to MBJ for posting this.
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BTW: For those of you interested, this is a great article on how/why sugar "feeds" cancer. I read it because I am now forbidden to have sugar which is my big weakness. I think it's a great and informative article http://www.drlam.com/articles/2001-No5-SugarandAging.asp?page=3
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