In the US, breast cancer rates are out of control. Presently, one in seven US women suffer from breast cancer. In 2019, an estimated 268,600 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Think about those numbers: One in seven and nearly 270,000 women diagnosed with invasive...
In medical school, I was taught that iodine deficiency was a thing of the past. It took me a short time into my holistic practice of medicine to realize that what I was taught about iodine was incorrect. In fact, I have been writing about iodine and its importance...
For many years, I have been counselling my patients not to use birth control pills as a form of contraception. My reasoning was that there were too many adverse effects with oral contraceptives and there were safe and effective alternatives that were not associated with serious adverse effects. In...
Mammography has been promoted as the best way to screen women for breast cancer. There is no question that mammography identifies breast cancer at an earlier stage when compared to older techniques like the breast exam. However, the key question to ask is, “Do women who undergo mammography have...
A recent study found higher levels of free T3 (a thyroid hormone) as well as thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies in patients with breast cancer when compared to healthy controls. (1) Nearly one in seven (14%) U.S. women have breast cancer. Thyroid disorders are the most common endocrine disorder present in...
Recently, I received this email question: “Dr. Brownstein stated something in his June, 2014 Natural Way To Health newsletter (http://brownsteinhealth.com/) that caused quite a stir. He said, “Studies have shown that women who take thyroid hormone for more than 15 years have a higher risk of breast cancer than...
We have been conditioned to believe that screening mammograms save lives. But do mammograms save lives? Does every woman need to have a yearly screening mammogram starting at age 40 or 50? These are tough questions with no crystal-clear answers. However, a recent study can shed some light on...
Glenda from California sent me the following email: I watched the show “Your Health” that Dr. David Brownstein was on about thyroid and iodine deficiency. He discussed the iodine product Iodoral {which is a tableted form of iodine}. It has helped me immensely. I had a lot of...
Why do one in seven women in the U.S. have breast cancer? Unfortunately, the Powers-That-Be are too busy prescribing chemotherapy, surgery and radiation instead of searching for the underlying reasons why so many U.S. women are suffering and dying with breast cancer. Unless we stop the flow of money...
Women have been conditioned to get yearly mammograms. They have been told by the Powers-That-Be that screening mammograms save lives. So, let me ask the question: Do women who get screening mammograms have a lowered breast cancer mortality rate when compared to women not screened? Canadian researchers attempted to...