Are Our Kids the Sickest Generation?
More kids than ever before are diagnosed with bipolar, ADHD, allergies, and asthma. Why, and what does it mean for your child?
By Jean Weiss for MSN Health & Fitness
Did you leave out the peanut butter sandwich when you packed school lunches today? Most everyone knows at least one family that has a child with a serious food allergy. Yet a generation ago, we’d scarcely heard about the problem. The same can be said for several conditions now on the rise in children. More kids are getting diagnosed with bipolar, ADHD, allergies, and asthma in this decade than in previous decades. Some attribute this increase to improved diagnosing, others to over-diagnosing. Still others view the sick-kid trend as the proverbial canary in the coalmine: More children are getting sick because they are fragile and affected by an increasingly industrialized world.
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by Virginia Hopkins on 18/11/09 at 4:19 pm
Let’s have some straight talk and commonsense around the mammography controversy that has erupted this week. Thebottom line is, this controversy has nothing to do with concern over women’s health, and everything to do with money and politics.
 
On Monday (Nov 16), the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (PSTF), part of the government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, released a report that recommends against routine mammography screenings for women ages 40 to 49. They recommend that women ages 50 to 74 have a mammogram every two years.
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Progesterone's role in the body is closely linked to that of estrogen, in that in many ways it opposes the action of estrogen. In fact, many receptors in the body can be occupied by either hormone. When progesterone is occupying an estrogen receptor, the action that estrogen would cause if it were there instead can be blocked. For every receptor that is occupied by progesterone, a molecule of estrogen is thus freed up to do its work elsewhere. In other words, putting progesterone into the system effectively raises the amount of estrogen available to do estrogen-only tasks. This is why there is often a noted increase in Oestreogen Dominance when first starting Progesterone Therapy.
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HORMONE HERESY 10/06/2010
 
An Excerpt from Oestrogen’s Deadly Truth, Part 1 By Sherrill Sellman

Women are misinformed about their hormones, to the detriment of their health, while drug companies reap huge profits at their expense.
 
………………..Enter Natural Progesterone
 
For the past 15 years, Dr Lee has conducted independent research into a natural, plant derived form of progesterone. His nonpharmaceutically-funded research presents a much broader understanding of a woman’s hormonal options and offers a totally safe, effective alternative that is free of all side effects. He has found that this natural hormone – used in conjunction with a good diet and lifestyle changes – is capable of eliminating much of the suffering associated both with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and menopause.
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Dr. JOHN LEE
Medical Letter
Insights, Opinions, News and Reviews from John Lee and Friends
February 2002

Dear Reader,

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre released study results in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (July 2001) showing that women taking tamoxifen for treatment of first breast cancer are more likely to develop oestrogen receptornegative tumours in the other breast. These tumours are particularly aggressive and difficult to treat with conventional medicine.

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"My mother is 76 years old and was taking Fosamax and Boniva for over 8 years. She too fractured her femur just walking down 2 steps it happened out of nowhere. She had a rod put in because the fracture never healed itself and the Dr. warned her it could break at any moment as well as the other side. She suffered a lot of pain and was in the hospital for 1 week, rehab nursing care for 3 weeks, at home rehab for 2 months now and still walking with a walker in fear of falling at any moment if the other side fractures. She has pain every day and the Dr. told her it was all from the two drugs she was taking. Its a damn shame what this drug has done to my mom it has destroyed her life. She will never be the same active woman she once was."
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A nightmare of pain and disability for a healthy young woman.

This letter, originally published in the John R. Lee, M.D. Medical Letter, is from an articulate young woman we'll call Julie B. whose life fell apart after she received a series of Depo-Provera shots for birth control. Until she went to an astute chiropractor, she had no idea that the Depo-Provera was causing her symptoms, and neither did the many doctors she went to, in spite of the fact that backache and skin rash are known side effects. The supposed ease and convenience of this drug as a means of birth control seems to be particularly appealing to young women who want quick, easy solutions. They assume it is safe because their doctors will prescribe it. We suspect that many thousands of young women are suffering this way, and hope that Julie’s letter will be a wake-up call to both young women and their parents, to stay far away from this terrible drug.
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Women kick the PremPro habit and live to tell the tale.
 
In November 2006, research was released by cancer centers around the U.S. showing that breast cancer rates have dropped dramatically since 2002. Most doctors and researchers agree that the drop was created when millions of women suddenly stopped using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study group announced, in the summer of 2002, that HRT users had an increased risk of breast cancer, stroke and heart disease. Estimates are that as many as 50 percent of women using HRT stopped taking it within six months after the WHI results came out.
How large was the drop in breast cancer? It depends on who's reporting the statistics and how they're interpreting the numbers. Most of the data came from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) cancer registry.
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It's pretty hard to get goose bumps reading a scientific review article, but as I was reading "Pregnancy, progesterone and progestins in relation to breast cancer risk," by a group of Italians led by Carlo Campagnoli, my hair stood on end. Here, in one eloquently worded, organized and argued paper was the same basic argument that Dr. Lee, Dr. Zava and myself made our 2002 book, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Breast Cancer about why progesterone is protective against breast cancer and progestins cause it. However, since the article was written four years after our book, it cited even more good research to prove the point.
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Although male breast cancer only accounts for less than one percent of all breast cancer, the fact that it increased in the U.S. by 26 percent between 1973 and 1998 is cause for concern. Breast cancer tumors in men tend to be detected later in life and at a later and more aggressive stage. The research, done at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, will be published in the July 1 issue of the journal Cancer. Men are also more likely to have estrogen receptor positive tumours.
 
Although it’s difficult to do good research on male breast cancer with such a small number of cases, there’s every indication that excess estrogen is the primary culprit in men’s breast cancer, as it is in women’s breast cancer. Past studies have shown that men with gynecomastia, an enlargement of the male breast, have a higher than normal oestrogen to androgen ratio, and others have hinted at an association between gynecomastia and breast cancer. The strongest risk factors for breast cancer in men are obesity and lack of exercise, which makes sense since fat cells in both men and women produce estrogen, and the more fat you have, the more estrogen you’ll make.
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