Posts Tagged ‘radiation’

When it’s assessing health risk of medical radiation exposure, the trend is to underestimate the consequences of repeated exposure. We have more radiation producing technology, and a looming crisis from its use.

Unless you are Ann Coulter you are at risk. The consecutive years of all kinds of exposure are sure to add up. The culture has gotten off track and the diagnosis and treatments are factors in our radiation exposure. Today’s technology has new capabilities. However they carry too much risk and the powers that be are discharging that risk. This is a paradox of oncology while new ct scans are fueling a whole new generation of future patients.

There seems to be an unholy alliance between the pharmaceutical firms and the developing diagnosis tools. The issue is with conventional monitoring and implementation of testing.

There is data that suggest that CT scans deliver far more radiation than has been assumed. It now is thought that it may contribute to at least 30, 000 new cancers each year. This is from two studies that appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine.  One study was led by the National Cancer Institute’s Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, used existing exposure data to estimate the cancers that may be caused by CT scans.

 Another study in the journal suggests the problem may be worse. In that study, researchers found that people may be exposed to up to four times as much as estimated by earlier studies. While previous studies relied on dummies equipped with sensors, authors of the new paper studied 1,119 patients at four San Francisco-area hospitals, says author Rebecca-Smith Bindman of the University of California-San Francisco-area hospitals. Based on the higher measurements it is estimated that a patient could possibly get as much radiation from CT scan as 74 mammograms or 442 chest X-rays, she stated.

This is a bad fit in which half of oncology advisory services depend on radiation, for both diagnosis and treatment. This isn’t a proactive approach that the medical community makes it out to be. This isn’t prevention at its finest. What this type of mentality does is feed the drug companies.

These are the glory days of the partnerships and alliances of the American medical system. It is so disconnected from the real implementation and applications of life protecting policies. Expanding the scope of medical testing and treatment means trusting an industry based on its ability to mobilize its resources and research with an eye on extreme revenue growth. It will be a high price for the American public as the promise of medical science is realized in dollars and cents.

GSH supports health in many ways. Monitoring GSH levels in the cells is important to do before trouble comes calling in the form of illness. GSH is part cell guard dog and part cell mender. 

Glutathione and Radiation

Glutathione (GSH) is already in your body, but becomes depleted from physical stress, illness, aging, and the oxidative process. GSH is ammunition and top gun when it comes to anti-oxidative properties. Glutathione can trap a range of free radicals before they create havoc within the cells. It even offers protection against radiation. Inadequate intracellular GSH increases the risk of cancer from radiation.

A published report in the journal Radiology offer this: “radiation from a single whole-body scan is equal to 100 mammograms and is similar to the amount received by survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan who were about 1 mile from the explosions.” according to radiation biologist, David J. Brenner of Columbia University.

Breast-giving them a healthy boost means preserving them not changing them. Automatically most people assume that a boost in their appearance comes from either surgery, or some uplifting undergarment. Smarter is to try to keep them and not turn them over to special-interest groups, which see them as a cash cow. Most medical professionals can’t do squat about really making them healthy.

They can remove them, radiate, and chemo you, but that doesn’t give you breast health. They are part of a whole system, and depend on a healthy environment to keep them in shape. There are better ideas, and solutions that seem to elude the medical establishment.

Breast Health Initiatives

Breast health initiatives have to be more than a whirlwind of doctors, digital pictures, cat scans, and operations. We have to changeover from a rigged robotic assembly line approach to a more humane and productive way of handling breasts.

When one realizes the significant mismanagement of their care, we realize we are fitting a round object into a square cube. It doesn’t fit; it is trimming parts off of real people without examining the toll that takes. First choice is to leave the packaging as intact as possible.

How do you do that?  Yes, it is a tough choice for people not to run to what they see as a solid supplier of FDA accepted approaches. What the crucial question should be: is this all there is. The war on cancer has been going on for over 50 years. It looks more like a war on your breasts; in that case the real winner is the pharmaceutical companies.  The first response for most people is an emotional one and that gives you insufficient data.

Off with the breast should be out of an Alice in Wonderland story, not a real life drama. We are not saying this approach is beyond redemption. But, the speed it is done without understanding how seamlessly the breast is integrated with the rest of the body’s functions. Lymph glands are there for a reason. They are a reliable defense agent, which has a specific job. Remove them and you lose the controllers at the helm.

Breast Support

Breast support comes from nutrition, physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight, and an overall healthy lifestyle. The best boost for your breast is staying healthy. The real question is what you do when the cow left the barn. The human body can fight for you and win the battle. You have to take responsibility for the materials you supply it with. You got the power, but usually not the strategy.

It is time to embrace a new kind of thinking, and not let things go too fast. Whatever, you do you need to put nature to work; she is on your side. You need to know that every step of the way you are in charge. So even if you decide you want a medical solution, you better have an understanding of what suits your needs.

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