We have known about the role of estrogen in breast cancer going back to the 1800s, when in some cases, surgical removal of the ovaries seemed to help. Ovaries were said to send out mysterious influences to the rest of the body, which, in 1923, was identified as estrogen. The medical profession jumped on this …Read More
58,000 Americans are diagnosed with kidney cancer every year, and 13,000 die. Up here in the Great White North, 6’200 Canadians are diagnosed with kidney cancer each year and 1’800 will die from it. And the numbers are rising. Approximately 4% of cases are hereditary, but what about the other 96%? Historically, the only accepted …Read More
Acne is an epidemic skin disease of industrialized countries, reaching prevalence rates of over 85 percent of teenagers. In nearly half of American men and women, acne even continues after adolescence and into the third decade of life. Acne is considered a disease of Western civilization, as in places like Okinawa, Japan, acne is rare or even …Read More