Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
That is a really good question and it is something I have thought for years. People vastly underestimate the value of magnesium as a mineral. The focus over the years has been on calcium, but that is an error in my view when you look at the sheer number of processes in the body that …
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Nice tip from Dr Glenville for you today: Cancer And The Mediterranean Diet It is Breast Cancer Awareness Month so over the next few days I want to look at the ways that diet and lifestyle can impact on this disease. Sadly this disease affects so many with over 500,000 women being diagnosed with …
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Interesting story in The Telegraph today (seel below) about how scientists think telomeres shorten on DNA strands years before cancer shows itself, so that may be a good predictor of future cancerous problems. The idea of telomere shortening has been around for quite a few years now. I distinctly remember learning about it when we …
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Good news, here. Let's hope the NHS funds this test sooner rather than later... Mail on Sunday 26.4.15 “CELL CHECK SPARES WOMEN CHEMO FOR BREAST CANCER” Breast cancer patients may be spared chemotherapy thanks to new tests that pinpoint genetic markers in the tumour which determine its aggressiveness. After surgery, the cancer cells are sent …
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It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October so I have kept my eye out for useful, practical info that might help specifically with prevention. Here is a link to a useful overview of some of the research behind high levels of specific antioxidants and anti-inflammatories from food and supplements shown to have real promise in …
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Not according to a recent study: More women having double mastectomy—but it’s not saving lives Many more women are choosing to have a double mastectomy after a breast cancer diagnosis—but the radical procedure isn’t saving any lives. The greatest increase is in women under the age of 40, which has seen a 17.6 per cent …
The beginning of the end for unreliable mammograms? Maybe. I saw this report in WDDTY the other day. Just look at what the board of one company who were considering using it says..: The Swiss could be the first to drop it after independent research revealed that the risks outweighed any benefits—and that earlier research, …
Fish oil supplementation and prostate cancer recurrence Previously, a 2011 study reported that men with prostate cancer who ate a low-fat diet and took fish oil supplements for four to six weeks prior to prostate removal slowed the growth of cancer cells in human prostate cancer tissue compared to a traditional, high-fat Western diet. The …
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Fascinating report suggesting that low grade prostate cancer tends not to progress over time according to researchers in the US. Looking at cancer tissues taken from more than 1,200 prostate cancer patients between 1982 and 2004, the researchers found - surprisingly, they said - that the low-grade cancers invariably remained as such. They found a …
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You have probably seen the headlines screaming recently about high levels of omega 3 oils causing a correspondingly high risk of prostate cancer. I was quite shocked since it seems to fly in the face of the thousands of studies showing omega 3 oil benefits. But, I don't believe everything I see in the media …
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