I wanted to post a couple things for you and haven't had the time to write it all down but wanted you to know they are coming. Here are some topics I am working on:
You are what you eat
-A listing of the foods and supplements I now take and my magnificent obsession with nutrition
Your B and Q's
-The connection between B vitamins and Coenzyme Q10 and cancer
Check out this maverick idea for cancer treatment from the University of Alberta:
http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=8153
I sent this article to Australia and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. The Ludwig Institute will play a big part of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre's clinical research programs. They were interested and I have been emailing them and they actually email me back. The National Institutes of Health here in the United States said, "Thanks and now we will create a new drug." Actually it was a form letter. No further communication. Can you say follow the money trail?
So here is a link to a youtube mini film called “Portrait of a Survivor”. It has been entered in a first-ever film festival devoted to raising awareness about breast cancer.The Breast Fest Film Festival will be in Toronto, Canada in November. And you can review the films on line then and vote for your favorite. Can you find me in the film? Hint, I have the biggest mouth and am pretty animated. I've never been exactly quiet. Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf23m77NQsA
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Your Stink'in Armpits
Oh where or where have I been? Summer. Kids. Playtime! So after a summer of an experiment regarding deodorant, I thought I pass along the less then stinky results.
So how did this all start? It actually started the fall before breast cancer, fall 2006, when I got this wild hair to forsake the antiperspirant and give deodorant a try. So I tried them all and my armpits were stinky. If allowed to sweat, they reaked. Then something changed where as the left armpit didn't smell and the right one did. For your information, breast cancer was on the right side. Fast forward and after the cancer diagnosis and onward ho to radiation, I really smelled. In fact, both sides smelled and I had to apply deodorant several times a day. I always apologized for the stench in radiation but then I figured these ladies are probably looking at parts of unmentionable body parts so what's a little odor? So I continued and sometime in the late fall, I no longer smelled. I figured it was because it was cold and I wasn't really sweating. So now the real test has come this summer. I admit that I have not even worn deodorant on some days and I'm sweating. No smell. So what does all this mean? There are the nay sayers who would swear on a bible that antiperspirant doesn't cause cancer and I would agree. That applying the aluminum chlorhydrate to your armpits to prevent sweating doesn't cause Alzheimer's or contaminates the lymph nodes. What I believe is that we need to sweat and that sweating allows toxins out of our bodies and that these toxins accumulating is something to seriously consider. I find it very interesting that my effected armpit smelled whereas the other armpit didn't after some time, that I really smelled with the radiation and now I do not. So, go throw away your antiperspirant and give the old deodorant a try. I use Tom's of Maine and Burt's Bee Spray. Both work very well if you haven't gotten beyond the stinky point. Aahh. Man I'm sweaty.
So how did this all start? It actually started the fall before breast cancer, fall 2006, when I got this wild hair to forsake the antiperspirant and give deodorant a try. So I tried them all and my armpits were stinky. If allowed to sweat, they reaked. Then something changed where as the left armpit didn't smell and the right one did. For your information, breast cancer was on the right side. Fast forward and after the cancer diagnosis and onward ho to radiation, I really smelled. In fact, both sides smelled and I had to apply deodorant several times a day. I always apologized for the stench in radiation but then I figured these ladies are probably looking at parts of unmentionable body parts so what's a little odor? So I continued and sometime in the late fall, I no longer smelled. I figured it was because it was cold and I wasn't really sweating. So now the real test has come this summer. I admit that I have not even worn deodorant on some days and I'm sweating. No smell. So what does all this mean? There are the nay sayers who would swear on a bible that antiperspirant doesn't cause cancer and I would agree. That applying the aluminum chlorhydrate to your armpits to prevent sweating doesn't cause Alzheimer's or contaminates the lymph nodes. What I believe is that we need to sweat and that sweating allows toxins out of our bodies and that these toxins accumulating is something to seriously consider. I find it very interesting that my effected armpit smelled whereas the other armpit didn't after some time, that I really smelled with the radiation and now I do not. So, go throw away your antiperspirant and give the old deodorant a try. I use Tom's of Maine and Burt's Bee Spray. Both work very well if you haven't gotten beyond the stinky point. Aahh. Man I'm sweaty.
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