Doc Watson

A wise man once said, “Education, not Medication.” According to Mike Adams, a natural health author and technology pioneer with a passion for sharing empowering information to help improve personal and planetary health, stated in one of his articles this year that women need to be told the truth about how to prevent and even cure breast cancer, that this disease is 90 percent preventable, mostly using completely free therapies and that the breast cancer industry does not want women to be made aware of these free therapies because most of the better-known non-profits in the area of breast cancer are, themselves, dependant on revenues from the companies that profit from the disease.

That is a pretty strong statement! But, I happen to agree with him. Before I became interested in natural medicine I believed everything my doctors told me. If they said I needed an operation, I had it. If I needed to take a medication, I took it. If they thought I needed to have a diagnostic test that shot a radioactive isotope into my vein, I let them. I was “in the medical model”. I believed in medicine, “better living through chemistry” an old DuPont advertising slogan from 1935 to 1982 when they changed it to “The miracles of science”. I believed it all. In 1982 I still believed in doctors and medicine but was having doubts about what they were doing to me. By the time I was 44 years old I had had 6 breast biopsies, a hysterectomy, jaw surgery, a broken foot, a bout of pneumonia, and suffered from Fibrositis, a disease which was eventually named Fibromyalgia.

I became convinced that doctors were slowly poisoning me with the medications they were prescribing and unless I did something drastic I was not going to live to old age. From the time I was 35 I had been reading about natural remedies. Friends, who cared about me, encouraged me to change my diet, start eating organic, stop smoking, reduce my stress, detoxify, and exercise. You know how it is! I was doing just about everything wrong, or at least not healthy. One of the first things I looked into was mammography and decided it wasn’t doing me any good and probably a great deal of harm. Two of the last breast tumors I detected from self breast exams weren’t pickedup by mammography, only sonograms identified the mass in my breast. After the second time a mammogram didn’t pick up the tumor I decided no more mammograms for me. I know at the time it was going against “conventional medical wisdom” but now information has surfaced that ten times more women are harmed from mammograms than are helped.

A new study came to an alarming result. Researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Center in Denmark studied seven breast cancer screening programs on 500,000 women in United States, Canada, Scotland and Sweden to determine the results over a ten year period. They found that for every one woman helped by breast screening, ten were harmed through false diagnosis or unnecessary treatments that devastated their health.

It isn’t early detection as a prevention that we need but real honest “authentic” prevention. We know what causes cancer and what prevents it. So in the spirit of the New Year, let’s make this year the best year and help ourselves prevent an almost total preventable disease.

Things that cause cancer: (in no particular order)
1. Cosmetics and personal care products (see website, www.ewg.org)
2. Perfumes and fragrance products
3. Home cleaning products, these include laundry detergent, dryer sheets, etc
4. Smoking cigarettes
5. Dry cleaning chemicals
6. Hydrogenated oils and trans fatty acids
7. Plastic food containers – includes plastic lining inside food cans.
8. Sodium nitrite – found in most processed meats.
9. Acrylamides – formed during high-heat food processing such as frying.
10. Mammography radiation
11. Chemotherapy and radiation
12. Pesticides, PCBs, chlorine and other chemicals
13. Refined sugars/refined grains
14. Severe emotional distress or relationship stress
15. Drinking non-organic milk or eating non-organic dairy products
16. Nail polish remover
17. Hair color chemicals
18. Lack of exercise/couch potato


Things that Prevent Cancer:
1. Vitamin D and sunshine
2. Anti-cancer foods
3. Medicinal mushrooms, reishi, shiitake, agaricus blazei, etc
4. Green tea
5. Broccoli and cruciferous vegetables
6. Lycopene and tomatoes
7. Infra-red sauna and sweat lodges – sweating expels toxins
8. Chlorella
9. Pomegranate seeds
10. Omega-3 oils / chia seeds
11. Rainforest herbs, graviola and Cat’s Claw
12. Juice detoxification, Dr Gabriel Cousens
13. Acupuncture – helps move the blood and qi
14. Sprouts
15. Red clover
16. Deep breathing / oxygenation / stress reduction
17. Yoga, Tai Chi or Pilates – boost lymph circulation
18. Cacao (real chocolate)
19. Therapeutic massage
20. Mint
21. Apricot pits
22. Blackberries

Let’s make 2008 our banner year and do more things for ourselves that truly prevent cancer instead of waking up one day and learning we have it and now what! Start on a program today to achieve optimal health instead of chasing symptoms. This is a reminder to all of you to take the road less traveled, that can make all the difference. Take the healthier path and let the journey begin.

Deborah Doc Watson is an author, entrepreneur, and health talk radio show host with 20 years experience in the natural field. She can be heard weekdays from 9am to noon EST on www.healthytalkradio.com with America’s Wellness Doctor, Dr Julian Whitaker, MD and on Sundays from 4pm to 7pm EST. You can write to her at docwatson@docwatson.com.