A few weeks ago, I sat down with author and host of the A Quest for Well-Being podcast, Valeria T. Koopman, to talk about what you can do to ensure you have healthy breasts.
We had an amazing conversation, which covered many aspects of breast health, including:
Your relationship with your breasts
The benefits of breast thermography
The harmful effects of environmental estrogens
How your oral health can affect your breast health
Nutrition and supplementation for healthy breasts
So, if you’re looking to learn more about what you can do to have healthy breasts, including how radiation-free thermography can help you detect potential breast health issues as early as possible, then this is a video you cannot afford to miss.
Back in November of 2021, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Health and Vitality Coach and host of Own Your Wellness, Julie Ann Meyer, to talk about breast health.
We had quite an interesting conversation, covering several topics related to breast health, such as:
Breast cancer
Dense breasts
Lymphatic drainage
Breast thermography
Environmental estrogens
So, if you want to learn more about breast health, including why thermography offers the earliest detection of breast health-related issues, factors that are linked to breast health problems, and how to maintain the health of your breasts, then you’ve got to watch this video.
Interested in learning more about breast health and thermography, including the healthcare decisions you can make to improve your chances of keeping your breasts healthy? You should read my book, Thermography and the Fibrocystic and Dense Breast.
Back in June, I was delighted to have the opportunity to be interviewed on The Root of Our Health podcast, hosted by Elizabeth DiCristofano, a functional medicine health coach who focuses on empowering women over 40 to get to the root cause of their health issues.
We had an amazing chat, and we went over several topics, including:
Preventative measures to thwart breast cancer
Why mammogram radiation should be avoided
Thermography: What it is and how it can benefit breast health
How breast cancer is linked to hypothyroidism and oral hygiene
Why thermography is increasingly being used to detect breast cancer
If you want to know more about techniques you can use to prevent breast cancer, factors linked to breast cancer, and how thermography can be used for better prevention of breast-related health issues, you’ve got to check out this podcast!
Interested in learning more about breast health and thermography, including the healthcare decisions you can make to improve your chances of keeping your breasts healthy? You should read my new book, Thermography and the Fibrocystic and Dense Breast.
During my many years as a thermographer, I’ve learned that a great majority of women who seek out thermography have dense breasts. Many have had years of mammograms and/or biopsies with benign results, and all of them want to avoid radiation and compression.
In fact, more than 40% of women have dense breast tissue. If a woman relies on anatomical screenings of mammography and ultrasound, her chances of getting breast cancer are around 70%. For women with dense breasts and/or breast implants this has always been a problem, but this is still the standard of screening.
The Disadvantages of Mammography for Dense Breast Tissue
A mammogram uses radiation and finds a tumor after it has been in state of angioneogenesis, or producing heat as cells are replicating. So, mammograms find tumors after they have become large enough to be seen on anatomical studies (mammogram, ultrasound or MRI).
This means that by the time a mammogram finds breast cancer, it has been in the stages of “cells on fire” for anywhere from 7 to 10 years. This is NOT prevention!
Mammography is also a highly ineffective examination for women with dense breasts, with a sensitivity between 28% and 50%.
Tumors are even harder to detect, because both a tumor and the connective tissue of dense breasts appear white on a mammogram. To find a tumor on a mammogram with dense breast tissue is like looking for a snowball in a snowstorm!
Thermography is beneficial because it picks up a tumor as heat. This gives you time to make lifestyle changes and explore early intervention—before a tumor is big enough to appear on an anatomical study.
In a 2008 study by The American Breast Surgeon Department of Surgery at the New York Presbyterian Hospital–Cornell, researchers concluded that thermography was highly beneficial for women with dense breast tissue.
So why don’t doctors give us the option of thermography? They still recommend mammograms, despite them being an ineffective screening method for dense breasts and delivering more cumulative and potentially cancer-causing radiation.
Adding the Power of AWBUS to Thermography
Women with dense breasts who screen with thermography are recommended to follow up with an ultrasound. Thermography is an adjunct to an anatomical screening. While the ultrasound is not that effective for dense breasts, a new anatomical technology is now available to improve the detection of cancer in women with dense breasts and implants.
AWBUS (Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound Screenings) is a supplementary ultrasound examination of both breasts that can find small cancers that mammography may miss. AWBUS can increase confidence in your diagnoses. When done in conjunction with a thermogram, it can find more cancers in women with dense breasts than by mammography or standard ultrasound alone.
Watch this TEDx Talk with Dr. Kelly who explains:
3D tomosynthesis is also recommended for women with a breast density grade of 2-3. 3D tomosynthesis improves the visualization of calcifications and small cancers that can be hidden by overlapping tissue. Yet it delivers 38% more ionizing radiation than a standard mammogram. Again, Ionizing radiation is the most dangerous radiation. Radiation is cumulative and can be a risk factor for creating cancer.
The combination of AWBUS and thermography are environmentally safe, radiation free and provide early detection. This makes it a game changer in breast screening technology. AWBUS is most advantageous for women with a breast density grade of 3-4.
Please share this information with your women friends!
Note: At this time, there is no guarantee that your insurance company will cover an Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound. I recommend you contact your insurance company to find out if you are covered under your specific program.
I was so thrilled to sit down with Alexis Brink of Jin Shin Institute to talk about one of my favorite topics: breast thermography.
If you haven’t heard of Jin Shin, it’s a Japanese healing art that uses hands to balance the energetic body, mind and spirit. Jin Shin Institute is in New York and offers events, education and healing sessions.
We started with a background on breast thermography, including the fact that it was actually covered by insurance until 1984 and recommended as an adjunct to breast cancer screening.
Breast thermography still is a common screening method in many countries, including Spain, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Canada and India.
While mammography is a word that’s far more well-known, it often leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. As a result, many women are getting biopsies who don’t need them—according to the NIH, 80% of biopsies are false positives, meaning they look like cancer but aren’t.
Watch this interview on breast thermography to learn more, including:
What thermography is and how it works.
Why and how mammography can lead to false positives.
Where the estrogens that create inflammation are coming from.
The role that inflammation plays in breast cancer detection.
Whether or not thermography can be used for the whole body.
What your bra might be doing to your body plus some options for big-breasted women!
How a broccoli seed with “innate wisdom” helped a client with vascular issues.
A warm thank you to Alexis for having me on the show!
