Early Stage Natural Girls!

Thanks for the help everyone. I'll look for a high quality version. 

I don't like this new format either.  I think a lot of us will decide it is time to move on...

I've read most of the posts on this thread, and plan to stop back more often. I've got surgery coming up on the 21st, right UMX without reconstruction, no rads and most likely no chemo. Hormone therapy still on the table.

I did find an integrative doctor on my health plan, and she will be my new PCP. I like her. I'm getting tested for thryroid and hormone levels, first off. I think she will help me with those, though I need to go to a gyno for the female issues. A big thank you to these boards, never would have known there were doctors like these.

And last week, I found a used Healthmate infrared sauna on Craigslist, and we got it set up over the weekend. Big, big splurge, but it was my birthday! Last night I used it for 20 minutes at 115 degrees and slept like a baby. And today my nagging Fibro type pains are much better. Reallly hope I can keep using it after surgery. I was seeing a homeopathic doctor about 10 years ago for chemical sensitivies and she kept urging me to get one. Didn't do it because of the expense, wish I had listened.

This new format is pretty different. Not getting used to it yet. 

Nice Diana!!! I look forward to reading more about the benefits of your new sauna.

Charlene

There are no more EMF's in a portable sauna than in a stand up model, plus they are a lot cheaper. I also decided against the wooded ones because of any offgassing from the woods they are made of. They all tout that they make the best, but I do not want to breath in that air. I like the fact that my head is out in the portable one, and I can breath fresh air the whole time. I sit in my RELAX sauna almost every night. It is one of the best investments I ever made.

As for the water, this is one thing I continue to research. If we use osmosis, we have to make sure we take supplemental minerals as those are removed. Also, some of them do not take out the fluoride, which is a terrible toxin. I have not been able to justify the ionic systems. They just do not seem credible. Everything that goes into our stomachs, enter an acidic environment. Stomach acids are what digests our food. In fact, people who have acid reflex, actually have low stomach acid. They are missing digestive enzymes. And some kinds of tumors grow better in alkali conditions, and some in acidic. Digestion is the key to our health.  I have been reading a lot about the distillation systems, and they seem to be practical. I am testing one this month. I am going to do a water analysis, then hook up the distiller and retest the water.  I will let you know what it says.

I think it is more important to get the toxins out of the water, than to worry about alkali/acidic. After all, people drank from rivers for centuries. They did not die from drinking water, unless it was tainted.

Is  destilled water acidic?

Thank you.

Strange that my breast lump i  discovered  after 3 months living in USA and using destilled water  daily.Then  there must be another reasone for my cancer...

Unbelievable coincidence. I've been thinking about the cluster of men with BC for a while as I'm writing a draft post about population studies and databases. I've been thinking about it ever since I heard about it more than 2 years ago. I just looked on the Clinical Trials and Research section of this forum and Deanna has posted a link about these men and the research implications.

How a Bunch of Scrappy Marines Could Help Vanquish Breast Cancer
Exposed to poisoned water at Camp Lejeune, these vets may hold the key to a scourge that kills some 40,000 American women-and a few hundred men-per year.

There are now 77 men identified with BC who lived on the Marine base during that period from the 50's to 70's.

Vivre, there were known carcinogens in the water.  Maybe they weren't known at first, but eventually it was known and not acted on.  Many different illnesses resulted but the Male BC stands out as it's rare.  They only found out by chance as they were scattered around.

Beginning in the 1950s, for more than three decades, the worst of Lejeune's contamination intermingled with its water supply. An estimated 750,000 people regularly drank the water, bathed and swam in it, and inhaled its vapors. At Hadnot Point, where the 2nd Maintenance Battalion fixed tanks, jeeps, and other fleet vehicles, storage tanks quietly leaked more than a million gallons of gasoline, forming an underground plume more than 100 feet deep in places, and nearly as big as the National Mall. Through it all pumped Well No. 602, which provided water to thousands of people on any given day. In late 1984, when the military started routinely testing Lejeune's wells, No. 602 clocked in with 76 times the federal limit for benzene, a carcinogenic gasoline additive. Heavy-duty chlorinated solvents also flowed freely at Hadnot Point, notably perchloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE)-a known human carcinogen that workers used to degrease machinery before dumping or burying the waste at a disposal site up the road.

The PCE came from a dry cleaning business and got into the wells.  The articles explain it but there's 3 pages to read.  19 of the 77 have succumbed.  I believe there are some men on BCO from this cluster.

I would rather be wondering if my cancer came from water than all of those cigarettes I smoked and drinks I enjoyed.  Not sure I will ever get over the guilt of this horribly self destructive behavior over more than 30 years that most likely caused my cancer.

Mallory

There are vegetarians who are avid exercisers that do yoga and try to eat 'clean'. They get BC too.  There isnt always a rhyme or reason to this. Some of it is really a crap shoot.

There are also ppl. that drink to oblivion, live on sugar and beef, are couch potatoes and live to be 85 , disease free.

 Go figure.