This question comes up with pretty much every woman I talk to about hormone replacement therapy.

I am going to approach my answer from a few different angles.

I often say that there exists a continuum of doctors, where on one end of the spectrum we have conventional doctors, and on the other end is Suzanne Somers (and doctors who identify as “Anti-Aging” or Regenerative Medicine).

Vitamin D has strong powers against cancer, killing cancer cells in at least four different ways, all while not harming normal cells.

Multiple studies show that the longer a doctor is in practice, the further they fall behind the latest medical information and technology.

News flash! If you cross the street twice, it DOUBLES your risk of getting hit by a car!

Luckily for you, this means that in the U.S. (according to information from the Centers for Disease Control) your risk goes all the way up from 1 in 4,292, to 2 in 4,292.

Many of us already know that stressful thoughts can harm our bodies and our health.

What we haven’t fully wrapped our heads around yet is that the opposite is also true: as well as causing dis-ease, our thoughts can literally change the proteins made by our cells to fix problems in our bodies.

Breast cancer is one of our biggest fears at this time of life and with good reason. Even though over our lifetime, 87% of women will NOT get diagnosed with breast cancer, those who do get diagnosed want to catch it as early as possible when it is highly treatable. Mammograms do save lives, but when this benefit is optimized is controversial.

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men, after lung cancer; it is the 3rd highest cause of cancer deaths in men (after lung cancer and colon cancer).

My focus today is this NON-BIOIDENTICAL hormone, a synthetic imitation of one of the main female hormones, that has been repeatedly linked to an increased risk of breast cancer.

If you have “good genes”, then that means you have longevity and low rates of illness among your family members. If you have “bad genes” you might not be so lucky with your own health.

In the working world, men have an advantage – testosterone. Not only do most men have 10 to 20 times as much testosterone as most women, it isn’t made in their adrenal glands, so their adrenals don’t get as wiped out by the same amount of stress.

Heart disease kills more women than cancer, yet most women are more afraid of cancer than of heart disease. Why might this be?

One reason is what psychologists call the “availability heuristic.” (I had to look up “heuristic” – it’s a fancy word for “something that helps you learn.”)

Since January is Cervical Health Awareness Month, I’m going to write for the first time about a tough topic I’ve been discussing with women for over 30 years. The topic is the human papilloma virus, aka HPV.

In this blog, I will touch on the most recent recommendations for mammograms and the emergence of thermography.

The idea of any screening test is that it detects a disease before the onset of symptoms, and also that the benefit of the test outweighs any harm the test can cause.

Have you heard that the average woman’s risk of breast cancer is 1 in 8? This is the risk as understood by most doctors and that I have often quoted to others.

This year, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I want to go back to basics.

In any case, because you are here reading what I am writing, you are probably interested in learning about disease prevention. So this year for Breast Cancer Awareness month I want to review my most basic recommendations on how to prevent breast cancer or detect it very early.