Dr. Mark and Dr. Chip's Healthy Blogs

  Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation -      I hope that you all had a great Mother's Day weekend and were able to enjoy being outside on Saturday. Sunday was a little tough with the rain and wind and cold but don't worry, it will change to Heat & Dry eventually. I really find it interesting that a couple weeks ago when it was really warm, the trees budded out and looked like they were going to have all their leaves on quickly. The cooler weather, almost colder, has slowed the trees down a lot but they're finally getting more leaves and the grass is growing quite well. We're actually having a spring this year.      May for us is women's health month so during the health shop this week, we're talking about pregnancy and fertility. Fertility has become quite an issue for young couples and both sexes have issues to work out. Between the environmental chemicals and the lack of good nutritional support and understanding over the ...

  STORY AT-A-GLANCE The documentary “Boobs: The War on Women’s Breasts” explores how mammography is causing more harm than good for many women One of the harms of using mammography as a screening tool is that it can often lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment, including false-positive tests and unnecessary biopsies Due to the introduction of mammography, breast cancer was overdiagnosed — meaning that tumors were detected that would never lead to clinical symptoms — in 1.3 million women over a 30-year period Mammograms and their resulting biopsies may increase the spread of cancer, and up to 1 in 4 breast tissue biopsies may be incorrectly diagnosed by pathologists, with unnecessary mastectomies being performed as a result There’s also the issue that mammograms use ionizing radiation at a relatively high dose, which in and of itself can contribute to the development of breast cancer Other potentially safer options to mammography such as thermography and ultrasound are not widely a...