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Originally Posted by senior citizen
I believe it. I always liked Dr. Oz and enjoyed him when he was a frequent guest on Oprah. I'd have her on in the kitchen when I was preparing supper.
However, his new show, which we actually began watching during the month of November 2011 while in The Villages........has turned into a sales pitch for various supplements and health type remedies.
He's obviously earning profits from all these pitches.
Not all supplements are safe. Too much of any of this can be dangerous.
We have family members who carry along dozens of "baggies" of their daily supplements........truthfully, I could not swallow that volume of pills. Every new remedy that is mentioned , either on t.v. or in Prevention Magazine, etc. they run to the health food store to purchase.
Since so many of our foods (yes processed foods) are already supplemented, certain of these can be over dosing. Too much of a good thing?
My plain common sense tells me that our natural bodies are NOT made to handle all these chemicals.......whether in pills or chemo type treatments.*
*We've seen too many younger friends die of breast cancer lately where the treatment was worse than the cure.....all after having double mastectomies and breast restoration at top university hospitals like Dartmouth. It later spread to the rib cage and every other organ in the body. Early detection might be good for some, but harmful to many that we've known. I think most of these are caused by the birth control pills of the earlier decades. For the older women, it's the hormone replacement therapy.
Again, natural is the best way to go........re anything.
Not to be disrespectful of the vegans and vegetarians out there, but all of these "younger women in their 40's and 50's" followed that dietary plan. Obviously, it did not save their lives.
We also had a dear friend whose grandmother had the same lung condition she had. The grandmother lived to 95, dying of old age, while our friend, had invasive biopsies of her lung at another top medical center, was put on prednisone and another clinical trial drug (it wasn't cancer but a disease of the aveolar sacs in the lungs).....they punctured her ribs and lung and as she was recuperating had to be rushed back to our hospital where eventually she bled out and finally was put in a medical coma, as we stood by her bedside, family hoping for a heart lung transplant.........but it was too late. We feel had she not had the biopsy to begin with........the rest would not have happened. Her symptom was basically a chronic cough........she knew what she had and lived with it since a younger woman. Often, invasive testing does more harm than good.
I apologize for getting off the "supplements track".
So, even in doctoring...............less is more.............
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I agree with most of what you say in this post Senior, but on a couple points I do have to say a word or too.
Breast cancer in young women (under fifty) is usually a much more aggressive form and if it is the type fed by estrogen,(not all are) their bodies are still making a lot. In women over fifty, if cancer of the breast is discovered early, than more often it can be put in remission for a number of reasons. I am sure that many who are reading this are fighting breast cancer. Both our daughter Helene who had breast cancer when she was 29 and me, we survived. As did 13 family members. Only three had familial.They survived. Breast cancer is not one cancer either but a lot of different kinds and we need to go to a place that treats a lot and has the best treatment options.
Sometimes when we see two people who have lung cancer we think it is the same form, it often is not. Again we need to find the best place to treat any serious disease we have and with cancer, we can't eat to prevent it and we can't eat to make it go away and the same with supplements. They are not going to work with cancer. Until somethng better comes along, our best shot is what is prescribed for us which is often chemo and radiation, terrible poisons and killers. Cancer isn't a baby game and this is no time to try to duplicate the knowlege of people who treat it daily. Time is of the essence.
Money is being made by big pharma, by doctors everywhere, and certainly by the supplement industry. It does make us suspicious of all, or should. We need to make the choices that are best for us and not try something in desperation. But most doctors are trustworthy, you would be wise to go to an oncology group with ties to a respected teaching hospital if your diagnosis is cancer.
Invasive testing is sometimes needed. Unfortunatly, and we have to remember that too. Fear is an awful thing when it keeps us from the treatment we need.
Now we are off the track.