The most devastating loss of life from breast cancer occurs between the ages of 30 to 50. Fortunately, you have more options available to you today to help detect breast cancer than in the past decades.

Unfortunately, education and awareness of these options and their effectiveness in detecting breast cancer at different stages in life are woefully deficient.

Beyond Mammography

In the first part of the in-depth article linked below, Beyond Mammography, Dr. Len Saputo explores the latest findings on the effectiveness and shortcomings of various detection methods used by the mainstream medical community, including mammography, clinical breast exams, ultrasound, and to a lesser extent, magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs) and PET scans.

The second part goes beyond mammography, exploring a highly advanced but much maligned detection tool for breast cancer — breast thermography.

Breast thermography, which involves using a heat-sensing scanner to detect variations in the temperature of breast tissue, has been around since the 1960s. However, early infrared scanners were not very sensitive, and were insufficiently tested before being put into clinical practice, resulting in misdiagnosed cases.

Modern-day breast thermography boasts vastly improved technology and more extensive scientific clinical research.

In fact, the article references data from major peer review journals and research on more than 300,000 women who have been tested using the technology. Combined with the successes in detecting breast cancer with greater accuracy than other methods, the technology is slowly gaining ground among more progressive practitioners.

Okay Guys.  It’s an easy, cheap and pesticide-free way to grow a superfood.  Especially in the wintertime when veggies are expensive.

Ameriherb is the best place I know of to buy sprouts or herbs.  They have well priced and good quality food.

Here’s the recipe I use for sprouting:

1.)  Put 2 tbsp of seeds or 1/2 cup of legumes/grains in a sprouts jar with three times as much water as seeds.  Soak overnight.  For many small seeds, five hours of soaking is sufficient.

2.) Drain the water from jar.  Rinse seeds in fresh, lukewarm water and drain again.  For well drained seeds/sprouts, lay jar at an angle in a warm (70 degrees) dark place.

3.)  Rinse and drain seeds twice a day.  In hot and dry weather, you may need to rinse the seeds three times a day.  In very humid weather, the seeds should be kept in a dry place.  Turn jar over gently.  Overturning the jar rapidly will cause shifting in the sprouting seeds.  This can break the tender shoots and kill the sprout  This breakage causes the sprout to spoil. Sprouts should be ready to eat in 3-5 days, depending on the seed used.

You wake up in the middle of a night with a full bladder.  You stumble out of bed and sleepily fumble your way to the bathroom.  Then, as you’re on you way, WHAM, you bang your shin on a piece of furniture you forgot was there.  Ouch!  Not only does it hurt but you know the next morning you’ll have a large ugly bruise mark on your leg.  This actually happened to me last night.

But wait….there’s a way to avoid those bruise marks!  Immediately, rub some olive oil gently on the area.  It will greatly reduce the swelling and black and blue color.  I did this last night.  Today the bruise is hardly visible.