BAM! Your comment on breast cancer survivors and the subsequent endocrine therapy is stunning and exactly what I was presented with. I would not do it, not for an excised 6mm solid papillary carcinoma with clean margins, no family history of breast cancer and otherwise perfect blood work. The duration of the “cure” is worse than the dise…
BAM! Your comment on breast cancer survivors and the subsequent endocrine therapy is stunning and exactly what I was presented with. I would not do it, not for an excised 6mm solid papillary carcinoma with clean margins, no family history of breast cancer and otherwise perfect blood work. The duration of the “cure” is worse than the disease. Now, if you could point me to other interventions you speak of, you have my attention. Thank you!!!
Good for you for advocating for yourself in a climate of suffocating, patronizing pink-washed bullshit.
It's enraging, right? My rant . . . so, if you're facing menopause or post-menopausal, you're already facing challenging bodily changes. The Guardian et al supposedly now care about menopause, probably because middle-aged cross-dressing men want more ways to perform womanhood on social media. And yes, the NHS is giving women approved time off or something & it's gotten more attention in the US. But, if the Pharma health"care" state wants you to take a drug that amplifies those very same symptoms--hot flashes, weight gain, mood swings, fatigue, painful osteoarthritis & permanent joint damage, loss in bone density-- suddenly your symptoms are minimal and can be managed with meditation and CBT. Just shut up already.
And women are far more likely than men to be dx w/ debilitating autoimmune and/or connective tissue disorders (invisible, no less), including symptoms like systemic fatigue, post-exertional malaise, postural intolerance, a range of pain, among others. Not saying men don't face other challenges, and some--like chronic pain from injuries in military service--are shamefully undertreated too, but we're much more likely to have lots of invisible, maddening, ebb-&-flow, unpredictable, debilitating symptoms that we struggle to hide and/or have validated. Endocrine therapy pours gasoline on the fire. AI's have been demonstrated under the microscope to damage/alter connective tissue around joints--but even w/ MRI, microscopic, and genetic analysis validating the "reality" of the pain women experience, we still just have an anticipatory bias, right?
THEN, we're facing a eugenicist-level Pain Undertreatment Crisis due to the opioid hysteria, which among other moral crimes imposes an undue burden on any patient facing the possibility of more pain and/or fatigue to "prove" that their condition warrants treatment (which worked for decades and is cheap)--and that patient must get on a waiting list to then go to face to face expensive meetings with pain "specialists" who seem to really specialize in emotionally abusing their patients by treating them like drug-seekers or mentally ill.
Beyond this, the side effects caused by endocrine therapy preclude or mitigate some of the most highly recommended "lifestyle" choices that consistently correlate w/ risk reduction. 1) If you're really depressed you get more socially isolated--a known risk factor for not just cancer but heart issues, etc. 2) If you gain weight because endocrine therapy seems to double the caloric intake of the same food you ate before, you're increasing your metabolic risk for overall poor health and worse, generating _more_ estrogen by increasing your fat stores. 3) The ongoing untreated pain--and fatigue-- make exercise very difficult, though that appears to be the #1 recommendation by everybody for a range of reasons. 4) It also makes it hard to keep any job, if you have one, which affects income, material security, social networks, and ultimately the quality of your living conditions, healthcare, food, etc. 5) If you've got kids to look after, you're really screwed--you're guilted for being a bad Mom (of course, that's as common as breathing) for not doing everything you can for prevention, but then you're such a depressed, exhausted, debilitated hot mess that your parenting is bound to be affected. And 6) The combined effect of these side effects--of sacrificing 5? years of your life--it keeps increasing-- to prevent a recurrence that would then require more of the same--is to generate chronic emotional stress that contributes to the well-known inflammatory states that favor cancer recurrence or new primaries in other systems.
Oh yeah--cataracts, endometrial cancer, osteoporosis leading to breaks & falls, liver damage, cardiovascular risks once estrogen is sucked out of your body, skin firmness & moisture--those are more side effects that those pesky, non-compliant, placebo-effect-gullible, mentally ill female patients insist on balancing against the risk of recurrence or metastasis.
As for me and options---I've read a lot of peer-reviewed pubs & watched conf talks on Youtube about what's being called the metabolic (as opposed to genetic) paradigm for understanding cancer. Go to Youtube and watch Thomas Seyfried, Jason Fung, Gary Noakes, and plenty of others lay out the role of high carb/low fat diets in unprecedented rates of heart disease & cancer. The hx of the Food Pyramid is probably tumorigenic on its own, given the stress it induces once you understand how the results were suppressed for two generations. I'll never look at a cereal aisle the same way again. Or fruit juice.
Thomas Seyfried (at Yale, not Boston College) and his research group have demonstrated shrinking glioblastomas to the size of a pea w/ this diet & what they call their press/pulse therapy, which entails intermittent fasting, oxygen therapy, sauna. Basically, they follow a modified Warburg principle of how cancer cells "feed"--because they're unicellular organisms (similar to the first half of all life on this planet), cancer cells "ferment" and need glucose or glutamine to grow. (Obviously, eliminating alcohol remains a great recommendation, or at least limiting it to a few glasses of wine a month). Healthy cells can live on ketones and can survive eating daily during an 8 hour window or a 3-14 day fast, conditions that demonstrably kill cancers. Probably not entirely. Seyfried et al, importantly, never say they "cure" anything--but they treat it like a chronic inflammatory disease, and manage it through these much healthier ways.
There are more studies demonstrating benefit of these interventions when used as adjunct to "standard of care," because of course the Industry has to make money. But chemo doses can be drastically lowered and still have same effectiveness when combined w/ fasting & other elements from the metabolic approach.
There was actually a 2016? study on intermittent fasting and breast cancer demonstrating some recurrence prevention, at a dose-dependent rate (ie, 12 hrs fasting, 13 hrs daily fasting, that kind of thing). I recall it having some study challenges, like all self-report diet ones do, but at least it was going in the right direction.
Some other supplements w/ research studies to back them in shrinking/preventing breast cancer mets might be potential options? Breastcancer.org has some interesting discussions on these in their alternative therapy group. It's the only place I can find, anywhere, where women remotely challenge the Breast Cancer Industry and "standard of care." There are some physicians who sell products & push a particular approach that you can find online. I'm not able to give an opinion on any of them per se. But here are some supplements to investigate: iIM (which lower estrogen), Melatonin (very important), Turkey Tail & other mushrooms that support immunity, Quercetin/Bromelain & any other supplement that reduces inflammation, amygdalin (yes, "laetrile,"--watch the documentary on Youtube unless it's been removed in the past week on the story of how that work was suppressed in the 1970s)--I'm looking at a bag of bitter apricot kernels that reminds me Amarillo, and no doubt others. Oh, and osteoarthritic symptoms can be affected by the microbiome--look up research studies from 2017 to present identifying the pro- and pre-biotics that can help.
I'm not advising anyone of anything but hoping I can point you/them to work that's given me confidence to decline radiation & hormone therapy--or at least "postpone" it. I'm struggling w/ comorbidities, and endocrine therapy would sink me.
Thanks for asking--sorry for the essay but I started typing & couldn't stop. :-) Drop me a PM if you want. Good luck!
BAM! Your comment on breast cancer survivors and the subsequent endocrine therapy is stunning and exactly what I was presented with. I would not do it, not for an excised 6mm solid papillary carcinoma with clean margins, no family history of breast cancer and otherwise perfect blood work. The duration of the “cure” is worse than the disease. Now, if you could point me to other interventions you speak of, you have my attention. Thank you!!!
Good for you for advocating for yourself in a climate of suffocating, patronizing pink-washed bullshit.
It's enraging, right? My rant . . . so, if you're facing menopause or post-menopausal, you're already facing challenging bodily changes. The Guardian et al supposedly now care about menopause, probably because middle-aged cross-dressing men want more ways to perform womanhood on social media. And yes, the NHS is giving women approved time off or something & it's gotten more attention in the US. But, if the Pharma health"care" state wants you to take a drug that amplifies those very same symptoms--hot flashes, weight gain, mood swings, fatigue, painful osteoarthritis & permanent joint damage, loss in bone density-- suddenly your symptoms are minimal and can be managed with meditation and CBT. Just shut up already.
And women are far more likely than men to be dx w/ debilitating autoimmune and/or connective tissue disorders (invisible, no less), including symptoms like systemic fatigue, post-exertional malaise, postural intolerance, a range of pain, among others. Not saying men don't face other challenges, and some--like chronic pain from injuries in military service--are shamefully undertreated too, but we're much more likely to have lots of invisible, maddening, ebb-&-flow, unpredictable, debilitating symptoms that we struggle to hide and/or have validated. Endocrine therapy pours gasoline on the fire. AI's have been demonstrated under the microscope to damage/alter connective tissue around joints--but even w/ MRI, microscopic, and genetic analysis validating the "reality" of the pain women experience, we still just have an anticipatory bias, right?
THEN, we're facing a eugenicist-level Pain Undertreatment Crisis due to the opioid hysteria, which among other moral crimes imposes an undue burden on any patient facing the possibility of more pain and/or fatigue to "prove" that their condition warrants treatment (which worked for decades and is cheap)--and that patient must get on a waiting list to then go to face to face expensive meetings with pain "specialists" who seem to really specialize in emotionally abusing their patients by treating them like drug-seekers or mentally ill.
Beyond this, the side effects caused by endocrine therapy preclude or mitigate some of the most highly recommended "lifestyle" choices that consistently correlate w/ risk reduction. 1) If you're really depressed you get more socially isolated--a known risk factor for not just cancer but heart issues, etc. 2) If you gain weight because endocrine therapy seems to double the caloric intake of the same food you ate before, you're increasing your metabolic risk for overall poor health and worse, generating _more_ estrogen by increasing your fat stores. 3) The ongoing untreated pain--and fatigue-- make exercise very difficult, though that appears to be the #1 recommendation by everybody for a range of reasons. 4) It also makes it hard to keep any job, if you have one, which affects income, material security, social networks, and ultimately the quality of your living conditions, healthcare, food, etc. 5) If you've got kids to look after, you're really screwed--you're guilted for being a bad Mom (of course, that's as common as breathing) for not doing everything you can for prevention, but then you're such a depressed, exhausted, debilitated hot mess that your parenting is bound to be affected. And 6) The combined effect of these side effects--of sacrificing 5? years of your life--it keeps increasing-- to prevent a recurrence that would then require more of the same--is to generate chronic emotional stress that contributes to the well-known inflammatory states that favor cancer recurrence or new primaries in other systems.
Oh yeah--cataracts, endometrial cancer, osteoporosis leading to breaks & falls, liver damage, cardiovascular risks once estrogen is sucked out of your body, skin firmness & moisture--those are more side effects that those pesky, non-compliant, placebo-effect-gullible, mentally ill female patients insist on balancing against the risk of recurrence or metastasis.
As for me and options---I've read a lot of peer-reviewed pubs & watched conf talks on Youtube about what's being called the metabolic (as opposed to genetic) paradigm for understanding cancer. Go to Youtube and watch Thomas Seyfried, Jason Fung, Gary Noakes, and plenty of others lay out the role of high carb/low fat diets in unprecedented rates of heart disease & cancer. The hx of the Food Pyramid is probably tumorigenic on its own, given the stress it induces once you understand how the results were suppressed for two generations. I'll never look at a cereal aisle the same way again. Or fruit juice.
Thomas Seyfried (at Yale, not Boston College) and his research group have demonstrated shrinking glioblastomas to the size of a pea w/ this diet & what they call their press/pulse therapy, which entails intermittent fasting, oxygen therapy, sauna. Basically, they follow a modified Warburg principle of how cancer cells "feed"--because they're unicellular organisms (similar to the first half of all life on this planet), cancer cells "ferment" and need glucose or glutamine to grow. (Obviously, eliminating alcohol remains a great recommendation, or at least limiting it to a few glasses of wine a month). Healthy cells can live on ketones and can survive eating daily during an 8 hour window or a 3-14 day fast, conditions that demonstrably kill cancers. Probably not entirely. Seyfried et al, importantly, never say they "cure" anything--but they treat it like a chronic inflammatory disease, and manage it through these much healthier ways.
There are more studies demonstrating benefit of these interventions when used as adjunct to "standard of care," because of course the Industry has to make money. But chemo doses can be drastically lowered and still have same effectiveness when combined w/ fasting & other elements from the metabolic approach.
There was actually a 2016? study on intermittent fasting and breast cancer demonstrating some recurrence prevention, at a dose-dependent rate (ie, 12 hrs fasting, 13 hrs daily fasting, that kind of thing). I recall it having some study challenges, like all self-report diet ones do, but at least it was going in the right direction.
Some other supplements w/ research studies to back them in shrinking/preventing breast cancer mets might be potential options? Breastcancer.org has some interesting discussions on these in their alternative therapy group. It's the only place I can find, anywhere, where women remotely challenge the Breast Cancer Industry and "standard of care." There are some physicians who sell products & push a particular approach that you can find online. I'm not able to give an opinion on any of them per se. But here are some supplements to investigate: iIM (which lower estrogen), Melatonin (very important), Turkey Tail & other mushrooms that support immunity, Quercetin/Bromelain & any other supplement that reduces inflammation, amygdalin (yes, "laetrile,"--watch the documentary on Youtube unless it's been removed in the past week on the story of how that work was suppressed in the 1970s)--I'm looking at a bag of bitter apricot kernels that reminds me Amarillo, and no doubt others. Oh, and osteoarthritic symptoms can be affected by the microbiome--look up research studies from 2017 to present identifying the pro- and pre-biotics that can help.
I'm not advising anyone of anything but hoping I can point you/them to work that's given me confidence to decline radiation & hormone therapy--or at least "postpone" it. I'm struggling w/ comorbidities, and endocrine therapy would sink me.
Thanks for asking--sorry for the essay but I started typing & couldn't stop. :-) Drop me a PM if you want. Good luck!
I found this study (originally from Sweden) that can be helpful for women faced with the prospects of radiation therapy. It can predict its effectiveness. The study flat out states RT remains controversial. Thought you would be interested. I am taking the test. https://preludedx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/PREDICT-Registry-Publication_Ann-Surg-Oncol.pdf
I needed the essay. Never apologize. I am taking it all in. Thank you!