Re: Negative aspects of breast screening
Originally Posted by
orangutan
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.I have to say that I am flabbergasted that someone has the audacity to post very selective "evidence" as proven fact on here.
I stand by the evidence I've provided.
If you can show I'm wrong then please do so.
It takes little time to find information on the internet re the lack of evidence confirming the benefits suggested and indeed there is significant evidence of harm from Vitamin D toxicity.
With the internet it is possible to find a great deal of information that is out of date or totally ridiculous.
I am only suggesting that the Vitamin D levels that work best to resolve inflammation are likely to be those that will best help prevent Breast Cancer or Breast cancer recurrence.
Now we know Vitamin D is most effective as an anti inflammatory agent at 125nmol/l and that is the level humans naturally attain and maintain living as hunter gatherer's it's simply common sense to apply that knowledge.
Treatment or prevention of any condition should be holistic and suggesting Vitamin D for everything without knowing details of a person's state of health, lifestyle, medication, diet etc is potentially dangerous.
Rant over.
If you want to get optimum performance from your car you start by making sure it's set according to the makers original specifications. If none of the settings are anything like those for which the vehicle was designed to function optimally then you will always get sub-optimal performance.
The same with your body except we didn't come with an owner's manual. But we can, using our common sense, surmise that one of the reasons people with paler skins survived better away from the Equator was that living naked with paler skins creates 6 times more vitamin D than people with dark skins. Pale skinned HUNTER GATHERER humans therefore stored vitamin D during the summer for use in winter. We don't live outdoor naked lives so if we want to benefit from the evolutionary advantage pale skins provide we have to substitute EFFECTIVE amount of Vitamin D.
Perhaps you can explain the science showing how it could be that using a lower or equal amount of vitamin D3, biologically identical to the form and amount naturally made in human skin, could be harmful?
Is your skin trying to kill you when you lay naked in the midday sun and it creates 10,000iu of cholecalciferol?
Do we all die when we sunbathe?
No sane person rings up their doctor to ask permission to sunbathe when it's warm and sunny so why should anyone consult their doctor before using an equivalent amount of sunshine.
If we are going to reduce the incidence and mortality from Breast Cancer we need to understand the role of
Chronic Inflammation in Breast Cancer
You then need to try to understand
Vitamin D mechanisms in Inflammation
When you've done that you should be better able to appreciate why I am so confident that we can and should work harder to prevent Breast cancer incidence and why continuing with a failed strategy such as the current screening program serves only the best interests of the drug companies and does nothing to reduce the number of people with Breast Cancer.