Sunday, October 21, 2012

A monkey wrench into your thinking

So do you remember when they said that nuns were more likely to have breast cancer because they didn't have children and didn't breast feed? So I believed that. In fact, when I got pregnant with son number three and nursed him till he was a year old, I figured I had some magic insurance against breast cancer. But alas that did not happen. I am now hearing of more and more young women in their 30's and early 40's getting cancer when they have had children and have breast fed or have newborns at the breast. I think it was not science but an assumption as to why this was happening and not really knowing the reason why nuns were getting breast cancer. I am friends with the sisters at the Abbey of St. Walburga. They wear the old time habits and are completely covered each and every day. I believe it has to do with sunshine and vitamin D. There is no way the sisters are getting sunshine except on their faces and likely only the ones that are outside in the garden or on the farm. Other orders do not wear the habits but all of them are covered up in some fashion. They do not sunbathe. So it has all been a lie I think or at least ignorance about really the cause. Of course am I doing the same thing making such an assumption. I would like to say this is my hypothesis. The other day I heard that drinking alcohol increases your breast cancer risk so many fold and then they added they do not know why but assume it is because alcohol increases estrogen. I can't for the life of me understand how alcohol increases estrogen and feel this is also likely a lie in a way. What I believe is that alcohol reduces the magnesium in your body especially alcoholic drinks like beer which increase urination and depletion of minerals in your body. A deficiency in magnesium causes the body not to absorb vitamin D which a deficiency in causes inflammation and potentially the root cause of cancer? It also causes a decrease in folic acid which is also related to an increase in breast cancer. They say this is science. Folic acid is needed to repair DNA and a screwed up DNA is part of the basis for cancer. I really don't call it that. It is insanity what is being put out there as gospel. I am amazed that it is all like flavor of the month. This year or month we doctors or researchers are saying this and then boon they change their mind and now say it is completely different all the while never apologizing to those who heeded your poor advice.