Who needs breasts anyway?
It’s the latest in scare tactics and moneymaking antics by mainstream medicine – and it gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.
To avoid getting breast cancer, some women are opting to do away with their breasts altogether. After all, if something’s not there, it can’t become cancerous, right?
Wrong. Dead wrong.
Ask any woman who has had this type of prophylactic surgery – only to develop breast cancer later on in some of the remaining breast tissue. A preventive mastectomy is a great idea if you’re a fan of false hope and years of psychological damage.
What’s next? Removing a lung? Reinstating the lobotomy? Cutting out the prostate? (Oh, wait, that will never happen – they’re making too much money on the PSA blood test.)
The idea of a woman removing her breasts just in case is ludicrous – especially when young women in their 20s and 30s are often the ones going under the knife.
Thanks to newfangled DNA testing, women can find out if they have a higher risk of developing breast cancer by determining if they have a mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene. Women who have the altered form of this gene are 3 to 7 times more likely to develop breast or ovarian cancer than a woman who does not have this genetic mutation.
But once they find out, then what? A positive test result doesn’t mean that you will get cancer. A negative test result doesn’t guarantee that you won’t get cancer. What I can guarantee it will do is keep you on edge, scared to death that you’ll wake up one morning with a disease that could kill you.
Doctors can’t come to a consensus about the best course of action, either. But you can be sure none of their suggestions are beneficial. Some say to get more frequent screenings. Of course, the irony is that by getting mammograms so frequently, these women – who already have an increased risk of developing breast cancer – are only further putting themselves in harm’s way.
Others prescribe chemoprevention. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s just what it sounds like. And it’s just as harmful to put these drugs in your body when you don’t have cancer as it is when you do.
The best thing you can do to prevent breast cancer – whether you have a defective BRCA1 gene or not – is to pay attention to what you put in your body. Completely cut out sugar from your diet: Cancer feeds on sugar. In fact, just cut out processed food altogether. We also know that cancer cannot survive in an oxygen-rich environment. Dr. Otto Warburg received the Nobel Prize for discovering that fact in 1931 – though for some reason, no mainstream cancer treatments exploit this scientifically proven weakness in cancer’s defenses.
The full importance of oxygen to your body is too intricate to get into here. But since it’s on my mind, I’ll plan on writing an article for the December issue of The Douglass Report. I’ll tell you all about why having adequate oxygen in your blood will keep you looking and feeling younger – and, more importantly, how to make sure you’re getting all of the oxygen you need.
For now, I’ll just say that not getting enough oxygen has been tied to fatigue, depression, dizziness, muscle aches and pains, and much, much more. It would be great if solving the problem was as easy as, well, breathing more. And whereas that can be helpful, it won’t ultimately make the difference between life and death.
