Category: Health Tips

I received this email about a topic that is of great importance to any woman who has taken a hormonal birth control pill.

I just didn’t know this affected so many women. Or that so many of the women I love might be at risk.

In a recent conversation with my friend Dr. Jolene Brighten, I learned that every woman who has used hormonal birth control is at risk for Post-Birth Control Syndrome.

PBCS is defined by Dr. Brighten as ”the collection of disruptive symptoms women face once they’ve concluded the use of hormonal birth control.”

Women may struggle with any of the following since starting or getting off birth control:

Headaches
Hair loss
Libido loss
Mood swings
Insomnia
Depression
Anxiety
Chronic yeast infections
Chronic UTIs
Cystic acne, outbreaks, and rashes
Irregular or nonexistent periods
Painful or heavy periods

And the most heartbreaking part? PBCS can make it impossible to have children on your own once you’ve stopped birth control. Know anyone struggling to conceive? This could be why.

To help women everywhere, Dr. Brighten is hosting Post-Birth Control Syndrome Awareness Week November 5-11, 2018.

During this special week, you can take online classes (without paying anything) to learn more about PBCS, how to heal it and how to avoid it.

Because this is so critically important and because over 90% of women will take birth control at some point in their life, I’m going to ask you to do something I rarely do: share this.

Together we can put an end to the silent suffering women face and we can let women everywhere know that it’s not “all in her head.”

Learn more and sign up for Post-Birth Control Syndrome Awareness Week here

https://drbrighten.com/pbcsawareness/

October is national Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the U.S. National Mammography Day is October 19. Vitamin D optimization could potentially eliminate a vast majority of breast cancers, yet this key information is completely ignored by conventional breast cancer awareness campaigns

Most cancers occur in people with a vitamin D blood level between 10 and 40 ng/mL, and the optimal level for cancer protection has been identified as being between 60 and 80 ng/mL

Research shows having a vitamin D blood level above 60 ng/mL lowers your risk of breast cancer by more than 80 percent, compared to having a level below 20 ng/mL

Recent research shows postmenopausal women who receive a diagnosis of breast cancer are more likely to have low vitamin D and be overweight than women who receive a negative diagnosis

This year, do your breast health a real favor and get your vitamin D level checked. One of the easiest and most cost-effective ways of doing this is to enroll in the D*Action Breast Cancer Prevention project, which now includes both vitamin D and omega-3 testing

https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/health-healing/why-a-vitamin-d-test-is-more-important-than-a-mammogram/

Eating your main meal at 2 p.m., and skipping an evening meal altogether and fasting until the next morning, combats weight gain by reducing hunger, increasing fat burning and improving metabolic flexibility to burn both fat and carbs

People who eat dinner (evening meal) at least two hours before bedtime have a 20 percent reduction in cancer risk for breast and prostate cancer combined

Men and women who eat dinner two or more hours before bedtime have a 26 percent and 16 percent lower risk of prostate and breast cancer respectively than those who eat dinner closer to bedtime

“Morning people” who have a natural affinity for getting up early in the morning are at particularly high risk for cancer when eating dinner too close to bedtime, compared to “night owls”

Avoiding food at least two or three hours before bedtime will help you optimize your mitochondrial function, which is key for optimal health and chronic disease prevention

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/09/03/eating-early-dinner-or-skipping-supper.aspx

The Ex-Director of J.R. Simplot and team leader at Monsanto, Caius Rommens, has revealed the hidden dangers of the GMO potatoes he created, in a wide ranging interview for Sustainable Pulse, on the same day that his book ‘Pandora’s Potatoes: The Worst GMOs’ was released on Amazon.

https://sustainablepulse.com/2018/10/09/the-creator-of-gmo-potatoes-reveals-the-dangerous-truth-exclusive-interview/

Harvard Medical School team leads pioneering gut-brain research

(This article further highlights the fact that your diet has a direct and measurable impact on the functioning of your brain. You, the being, receive thoughts, impressions, impulses, emotions and efforts from a variety of sources. Other people, the environment, electromagnetic frequencies, your body, all input stimulii you perceive. The better your diet, your environment and the people with whom you communicate, the more pro-survival the stimulii. – Tom)

You are not alone — literally. And in a way, you are also not entirely 100 percent human — from a cellular perspective. According to the National Human Genome Research Institute, the human body is host to approximately 10 times as many non-human microbial cells to human cells. There are 10-100 trillion microbiota (microbes) that live inside and outside the human body. The human microbiota includes fungi, protozoa, bacteriophage, yeasts, single-cell eukaryotes, viruses, and bacteria. The genes of the human microbiota make up the human microbiome. What influence, if any, does the microbiome have on the brain and behavior?

In a landmark 2018 study published in Molecular Psychiatry, a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the University of Toyama, found that “changes in gut microbiota can control brain insulin signaling and metabolite levels,” which in turn impacts neurobehaviors.

In the research study, the scientists discovered that mice fed a diet high in fat expressed increased depression, anxiety, and obsessive-type behaviors, compared to those on a standard diet. The mice with diet-induced obesity exhibited insulin resistance in the brain. The researchers attributed the increased behaviors that reflect anxiety and depression to “decreased insulin signaling and increased inflammation in the nucleus accumbens (a region in the forebrain) and amygdala (a section of the brain that is responsible for detecting fear and preparing for emergency events).”

The scientists then altered the microbiome of the obese mice with antibiotic treatment. The results were improved insulin sensitivity (both peripheral and central), and the reversing of the behavioral and mood disorders.

The researchers then transferred the microbiota from the obese mice that received antibiotics and those that did not, to germ-free mice that lack a natural microbiome. Only the germ-free mice that received the microbiota from the obese mice that did not receive antibiotics started to exhibit signs of increased anxiety and obsessive behaviors — leading the research team to conclude that the gut microbiome was a contributing factor. The scientists believe that unlocking the gut-brain relationship “may open novel approaches to treatment of mood and behavioral disorders” in the future.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-future-brain/201810/breakthrough-microbiome-study-links-gut-neurobehaviors

For those concerned with the harmful effects of EMF (Electromagnetic Frequencies) here are a couple of links to videos that provide data on reducing the harm they cause. This link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJwK_npUpbk is regarding use of cell phones and what you can do there and the next takes you to a video showing how to make a cell phone “Tower Buster”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drqwWoLbVo8