Why Mammograms Are NOT the Answer
For Breast Health

by Dr. Tom Bayne for www.PBHealthCenter.com

You’ve heard it again and again in the medical mainstream: an annual mammogram is your best bet for proactive breast health.

At PureBalance Natural Health Center, we disagree.

With studies showing mammograms are about as effective as a coin toss, what’s a woman to do? Find out what you can do to create long-term breast health, at any age...and new diagnostic tools that help take the mystery out of breast health.

Let’s take a look at the facts:

• No use to women under age 50 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) says mammograms are of no use to women under the age of 50 due to the dense nature of the tissue. In fact, they may even be harmful. ¹
  
  
• Clinical exams just as effective as mammograms - A Canadian study concluded that for breast cancer survival, a thorough physical breast exam by a physician was in itself just as effective as a mammogram plus clinical breast exam.²
  
  
• Mammograms miss up to 50% of early breast cancers - Particularly in women with dense breast tissue and women who’ve had a follow up mammography for lumps considered “probably benign.”^3,4 Still, typical mammograms can find a “false negative” 20% of the time.
  
  
• Mammograms don’t save lives - This is the conclusion of two Danish researchers in 2001, after finding that the original studies showing mammograms reduce mortality from breast cancer were flawed.³
  
  
• Mammograms expose breast tissue to radiation - A National Academy of Sciences study found that even low doses of radiation over a lifetime increase risk of cancer.⁴ Adverse health effects result from even common x-rays and mammograms expose your breasts to more radiation than a chest x-ray.
  Are mammograms as effective as a coin toss? Are they even safe?
  
  The latest studies have set off a huge controversy in modern medicine, leaving scientist, doctors and women to wonder if mammograms are a painful waste of money.⁵
  
  So what’s a woman who cares about her breast health to do?
  
  
  

Proactive Breast Health Solutions

At PureBalance Natural Health Center, Dr. Ingrid Maes and I are committed to natural solutions for your breast health AND your overall health.

Topping the list of prevention tips for your overall health AND your best proactive plan for your breast health is to reduce your exposure to toxins. Exposure to toxins is one of the primary risk factors for breast cancer and reduced immunity.⁶

Compounds in air pollution, pesticides, cleaning products, beauty products, and plastics are estrogen-like and exposure to estrogen increases a woman’s breast cancer risk.

Some examples of these compounds are:

• Phthalates and Bisphenol A (BPA) - In the past 15 years we have learned that the daily exposure to phthalates and Bisphenol A in plastics from drinking bottles, children’s toys, baby bottles and food storage bags and containers builds up in the fat tissue of our bodies. As of late, we've seen Canada restrict the use of BPA. ⁷
  
  
• Pesticides and herbacides from your lawn, heavy metals from air and water pollution, and countless other toxic compounds that we still don’t know anything about.

Although you often hear that compounds like BPA, phthalates and pesticides are considered non-toxic at low levels, the accumulation over time is one of the environmental triggers to degenerative disease.

Because the breasts are essentially all fatty tissue AND they are very sensitive to estrogen, these compounds flock to the breast tissue and build up over the years and trigger the degenerative process.

Breast cancer is a horrible disease, but taking a “one-cause one-cure” approach to breast cancer is NOT working.

Breast disease is a multifaceted disease that has to do with poor detoxification in the liver, hormone imbalance, immune system dysfunction and toxin accumulation.

And lets be honest and practical for one moment: If men had to have a delicate part of their anatomy squeezed between two cold metal plates and shot up with radiation annually, do any of us really believe that the male dominant medical system would not have found an alternative to the procedure by now?

At PureBalance Natural Health, instead of breast cancer, we chose to focus on breast health.

Based on our cumulative years of research and expertise, Dr. Ingrid Maes and I look for signs that precede the actual formation of a tumor, so we can take a proactive approach to your breast health.

Our breast health protocol includes an evaluation of your total health picture, including:

1. Comprehensive Breast Health Assessment – Our Comprehensive Breast Health Assessment is ideal for women of all ages who want to take a proactive approach to long-term breast health.
   
   At PureBalance, we use breast thermography. Detection of breast disease is not a perfect science, and while no technology is 100% accurate, breast thermography is an effective, non-invasive diagnostic technology that can detect breast abnormalities up to 10 years prior to diagnosable degenerative changes.
   
   The comprehensive breast health assessment provides both the digital infrared thermography and the computer regulated thermography. This two part test identifies breast abnormalities, and underlying systemic imbalances associated with breast disease that can be seen years before the onset of disease. This allows us to tailor a customized breast health protocol for you.
   
   To learn more about breast thermography, check out these sites: www.eidam.com and www.meditherm.com.
   
   
   
2. Detoxification therapies – Detoxification Therapies are incredibly important for your long-term health. When it comes to breast health in particular, we highly recommend far-infrared sauna technology because it has been proven to be the best way to purge your fat tissues of accumulated toxins.
   
   Far-infrared saunas are superior to other sauna therapies in that the heat penetrates the surface of the skin by approximately 1.5 - 2 inches. The heat is felt internally instead of on the surface of the skin, like with other saunas. This stimulates the body’s cellular detoxification processes more effectively and at a lower temperature than traditional saunas.
   
   One of the best adjuncts to detoxification therapy is supplements that rid your body of toxins and boost your immunity. If you’re truly committed to total body detoxification, then Seigen Alpha EV is for you!
   
   Probiotics are all the rage for boosting immunity, but Seigen Alpha EV goes beyond probiotics. A biofermentic, Seigen Alpha EV prevents and neutralizes the production of toxins, provides advanced levels of protection, improves mental function, brightens your mood, and improves your quality of life.
   
   Full of B vitamins, amino acids and minerals, Seigen is tops for true detoxification. Use Seigen Alpha EV today and go to the next level of your health!
   
   
   
3. Lifestyle and products for your long-term health - At PureBalance, we believe in creating a lifestyle that promotes your best health. This includes foods that help you detox, your habits (like work, sleep, exercise and relaxation) and the products you use.
   
   We do extensive research on products for your home and life that are safe and toxin free. Some of the products we carry in our Apothecary are all natural alternatives for:
   
   
   • Weed killers and fertilizers for your yard.
     
     
   • Paraben free-skin care and beauty products.
     
     
   • Cleaning products – we also instruct you how to make your own cleaning products with essential oils and vinegar, which save you money, save your health and help the environment.
     
     
   • Food storage containers – we recommend you replace plastic with glass storage containers.
     
     
   • Water bottles – we recommend you drink out of glass or stainless steel containers.

Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, we encourage women everywhere to focus on Breast Health Awareness instead. With new, non-invasive breast technologies, detoxification therapy and lifestyle changes, you can create good health that lasts a lifetime!

Stay tuned for next month’s newsletter, where we share more ways to detoxify your life.

Share this article with every woman you know who is concerned about her health. Together we can save lives AND improve the quality of life.

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Sources

¹ Lee, Jae Hong, MD, MPH. Mammograms: Yes or No? The Government enters the debate. http://www.center4research.org/mam0302.html

² New Studies Fuel the Mammogram Debate. Hopkins Breast Cancer.
http://www.hopkinsbreastcenter.org/artemis/200011/feature2.html

³ Begg, Colin B., Ph.D. The Mammography Controversy. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/cgi/content/full/7/3/174

⁴ Panel Affirms Low Radiation a Cancer Risk. Associated Press. June 2005.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161038,00.html

⁵ http://www.center4research.org/mam0302.html

⁶ Bahamas Journal. http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=53&a=6400

⁷ http://www.chemicalsubstanceschimiques.gc.ca/challenge-defi/bisphenol-a_e.html

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/92/18/1490

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/10/01/mammograms-part-one.aspx

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/12/26/mammogram-part-two.aspx

When you come to PureBalance Health Center or shop our online store, you can trust that we have done the work for you in identifying the best products in natural health. Whether botanical medicines, personal care products, home cleaning products or lifestyle solutions, we bring you the best in pure health solutions.

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If you want to take a proactive approach to breast health AND your overall health, making some lifestyle changes and focusing on detoxification is your best bet. To truly detoxify your body, choose Seigen Alpha EV. Full of B vitamins, minerals and amino acids, this biofermentic goes beyond the benefits of probiotics. Make Seigen Alpha EV part of your commitment to your breast health!