What people don't understand about the sun

What people don't understand about the sun

A hat, sunglasses, long sleeves, full screen for excess skin, stay in the shade, and even indoors from noon to 4 p.m.

This is how we think we protect ourselves from SKIN CANCER.

But this program will not only spoil the fun of summer and vacation. It is also bad for health.

You should know the following.

Know the real risk of dying from skin cancer

There is a lot of talk about skin cancer because its frequency has doubled every 10 years since 1945.

It sounds huge, but, at the same time:

• out of 60 million French people, 1,672 people died in 2012 from skin cancer.

That is 1,612 people too many. But that's compared to the 150,000 who die from other types of cancer; and also the 130,000 who die from heart disease.

Why is it important to make a comparison?

One does not prevent the other you say. But, precisely, if: because going out into the fresh air and sunbathing is an essential means of reducing your heart risk and preventing other types of cancer.

I will tell you more about it later, but here is a quick example. We know that stress, physical inactivity, overweight, alcohol, and tobacco are major causes of heart disease and cancer. So :

• if you are stressed due to skin cancer;
• if you give up outdoor activity to avoid it, or,
• even worse, if you stay at home and it makes you want to eat junk food to pass the time, have a drink or smoke a cigarette while waiting for the time arrives when you can again go out in the sun in complete security…

You are making a VERY VERY BAD CHOICE !!!!

It is much more important for you to REDUCE YOUR CARDIAC RISK and your cancer risk FOR ALL CATEGORIES than to focus on preventing skin cancer.

Most skin "cancers" are not dangerous

Skin cancer, like all cancers, must be taken very seriously. This means that it is important to consult a doctor when you observe a strange spot or lump on your skin and in particular a non-healing wound, a persistent or changing appearance of a pimple or crust.

However, out of the 80,000 to 90,000 new cases of skin cancer diagnosed each year in France, 85% concern carcinomas, not melanomas.

This distinction is crucial. Because carcinomas ARE CURE. Most are not even dangerous at all. They are called "basal cell carcinomas".

Basal cell carcinomas

80% of carcinomas, called basal cell carcinomas, cannot kill.

This type of carcinoma usually develops on a surface of the skin exposed to the sun such as the wings of the nose, the eyelids, or the neck, generally in the elderly (over 75 years).

The first sign is often a small red, pink or pearly, dome-shaped dot that appears on previously normal skin. It evolves very slowly and NEVER produces metastases. It doesn't kill, it's that simple. On the other hand, if left untreated, it will continue to develop locally and can cause damage to neighboring structures. For example, basal cell carcinoma on the face can erode and damage the nose or ear.

Any suspicious skin lesion or lump must, therefore, be SEEN BY A PHYSICIAN.

But you can read in full on the website of the National Cancer Institute (INCa), about basal cell carcinomas, so the vast majority of skin cancers, that it:

"Just remove them surgically to ensure healing" because "they evolve slowly and do not cause distant lesions (metastases).”

This statement is exaggerated, and perhaps even intended to please cosmetic surgeons. Because of the cancer is misplaced, the surgeon may leave an ugly scar. According to a cancer specialist whom I questioned especially on this question, “the ideal to cure is contact radiotherapy, with one to three sessions of electrotherapy; healing is obtained without a scar. "

Surgical treatment can almost always be performed in an outpatient setting in the doctor's office or in a clinic. Local anesthesia will be used for most procedures. The pain and discomfort are usually minimal and the patient rarely suffers afterward.

I told you that these carcinomas represent 80% of the cases. The remaining 20% ​​are more aggressive, and called “squamous cell carcinomas”:

Squamous cell carcinomas (or squamous cell carcinomas)

20% of carcinomas are squamous cell carcinomas (also called squamous cell carcinomas): this type of carcinoma usually develops on the face - most often on or around the ears or lips. However, any area of ​​the skin can be affected.

It usually starts out as a small crust or scaly area with a red or pink base. It can develop into a tumor that can look like a wart. Squamous cell carcinoma can form a suppurative sore (ulcer) or bleed periodically. It must then be treated, otherwise it can spread to the underlying tissues and disfigure the patient.

But don't panic. Also according to the National Cancer Institute:

“Squamous cell carcinomas are rarer and can metastasize. They are however easily curable in most cases thanks to early detection allowing surgical treatment.”

But then again, according to a famous oncologist, "non-aggressive, well-targeted radiotherapy can heal without leaving a scar, no more than a slightly depigmented area of ​​skin. "

That's why it's worth going to the doctor if you see something weird on your skin.

The treatment, as for basal cell carcinoma, will be done with simple local anesthesia, without long-term pain.

So if you exercise a little caution and common sense, you won't die from carcinoma.

The third category of skin cancer is the rarest, and it is it that is formidable: it is melanoma.

Melanoma

The most feared skin cancer is melanoma. He's the real dirty kid in the skin cancer family.

Melanomas are cancers of the cells that make the pigments that make people tan and are called "melanocytes". Melanocyte means "cell producing black". (from "means", black, and "cyte", cell in Greek).

It generally appears on a perfectly healthy skin surface and develops gradually in the form of a small pigmented spot, around 15 to 20% of cases from a simple mole.

There are 11,000 cases of melanoma in France each year. Most, detected early, heal thanks to a surgical operation that allows the lesion to be removed under anesthesia.

However, a minority of melanomas (around 15%) are detected too late, when they have already metastasized that even chemotherapy can no longer treat. The consequence is then the death of the patient.

The real role of the sun in melanoma

As with all serious illnesses, there are multiple factors that interact to disturb the immune system and cause cancer: diet, toxins, stress, poor sleep, etc.

There are also environmental factors and, among these, there is no doubt that sunburn is a recognized cause of melanoma, especially in children who are repeatedly exposed and have no skin had time to prepare.

However, the medical journal The Lancet also published vital information in 2004 but was never taken up in the mainstream media or by the health authorities, perhaps for fear of blurring the message for the public, which is still considered a bit simplistic.

And this crucial information is that melanoma, unlike carcinomas, is RARE in people regularly exposed to the sun!

Let me repeat this because it is very important and it should be clear: yes, the sun causes melanoma when you take too much at once and you are not used to it. However, regular exposure to the sun, without excess, REDUCES THE RISK OF MELANOMA.

People who work in offices have more melanomas than people who work outside.

It should also be noted that melanoma does not necessarily appear on the areas of the skin exposed to the sun.

The British Medical Journal confirmed this information, explaining that the sun factor, indisputable for carcinomas, HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A MAJOR CAUSE OF MELANOMA.

Sun can cut your risk of dying in half

More than 200 epidemiological studies have confirmed the link between the lack of vitamin D and the risk of cancer.

According to a study by international vitamin D expert Dr. William Grant, 30% of cancer deaths could be prevented by better vitamin D intakes, which would represent 2 million lives saved each year worldwide.

According to Dr. Cédric Garland, of the School of Medicine at the University of California in San Diego (United States), a specialist in vitamin D that he has studied for 30 years, 600,000 cases of breast cancer and cancer colorectal could be avoided worldwide each year by better vitamin D intakes

Optimizing your vitamin D level could help prevent 16 types of cancer, the most dangerous of which, pancreatic cancer and lung cancer.

A large randomized, placebo-controlled study has found that vitamin D, combined with calcium, can decrease the overall risk of cancer by up to 60% in women after menopause.

Women with fair skin who get a lot of sun over the long term have less risk of developing invasive breast cancer, which extends beyond the breast, according to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

As you know, the sun is your best source of vitamin D. You can safely manufacture 20,000 IU of vitamin D per day, by exposing yourself widely (two-thirds of the surface of your skin), for example, 3 sessions 20 minutes.

20,000 IU is huge. This is a hundred times more than the 200 IU set as the daily dose recommended by the authorities in Europe. And in no case do you risk overdosing because your body naturally regulates your production of vitamin D under the effect of the sun so that it never reaches a dangerous level.

But the good news about the sun does not stop there.

Researchers recently discovered another benefit of the sun: when you are in the sun, your blood nitric oxide levels go up. This results in a decrease in your blood pressure.

According to Richard Weller, a dermatology researcher who has studied the health effects of the sun, the sun could, therefore, be an effective way to fight hypertension.

Of course, all these beneficial effects of the sun will not take place if you spread your sunscreen.

What you need is to expose yourself for up to 20 minutes when the sun is high in the sky.

To prepare your skin, you can take a dietary supplement of astaxanthin, a protective red antioxidant, algae extract.

In case of sunburn, apply an aloe vera cream on your skin.

Above all, take advantage of the warm weather to fill up on vitamin D and nitric oxide. Note that, without anyone really knowing why, the sun has a pain-relieving effect and greatly improves morale.

So rejoice when the sun is shining and a big blue sky stretches over your head. If you see a sore or progressively sore or lump on your skin, of course, go to the doctor. But above all, no paranoia: by taking advantage of the sunny weather, you will reduce your risk of all diseases combined (especially cancer and heart disease, but also osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, and depression), much more than you will increase your risk of dying from skin cancer.

This remains true as long as you avoid sunburn and burns.

Cheers!

Coronavirus: Do the Chinese Remember Chinese Medicine?

Coronavirus: Do the Chinese Remember Chinese Medicine?

Thoughts on the coronavirus, which you will not read anywhere else

On Tuesday, February 11, the number of new cases of coronavirus infection fell for the second consecutive time. 

This is the lowest number of new infections in the past two weeks.

According to information from the Chinese National Health Commission, there were 2015 new infections, against 3900 per day last week.

This is a decrease of almost 50% in the number of daily injections.

The World Health Organization estimates that it is far too early to deduce that the peak of the epidemic has been crossed.

This morning, Thursday, February 13, we are told that the number of dead and those affected have “jumped”! Over 14,000 patients! But it is actually because the calculation system has changed! One counts from now on as patients of the coronavirus all the people who present symptoms of infection during an X-ray of the lungs, without even the virus being detected !!

We no longer know who to believe.

However, I still think that the fear of a coronavirus-related apocalypse was not justified. For the record, this virus has killed 1,200 in a month and a half, knowing that there are 3,000 deaths every day in China due to respiratory infections (caused by other viruses and by intense air pollution ).

Brutal police repression

Namely, moreover, that a large part of these new infections with coronavirus does not occur because of the epidemic itself, but because of the aberrant measures taken by the Authorities to confine thousands of people in hospitals built-in emergency - and praised in the Western press as the very example of the “Chinese miracle”.

The Chinese police, in fact, look for people with symptoms of fever or respiratory infection, who very often have nothing to do with the coronavirus, and force them into these “wonderful hospitals” which would in fact be internment camps. 

This is how the virus spreads among many people who would have been spared if they had stayed at home.

The truth about the hospital built in ten days

"- Realize, my little lady! In China, they build a hospital with a thousand beds in ten days! Wherewith us, it would take 20 years! All the same, the dictatorship sometimes has good! ”’

Newspapers around the world tout the performance. A "Chinese miracle," they exclaim.

In reality, these hospitals may well be a disaster, helping to spread the disease.

According to a study that has just appeared in JAMA, one of the high-level reference medical journals: 

"From an epidemiological point of view, it seems that the disease is of nosocomial origin for 41% of patients ..."

"Nosocomial origin" is an opaque expression to say that 41% of new cases catch the disease in hospitals which are real breeding grounds.

According to a commentary on this study published in the International Journal of Medicine on February 11, 2020:

“This importance of nosocomial infections could also reflect the specificities of the Chinese health system, in this case, the almost systematic recourse to the hospital as soon as the slightest suspicion of infection (due to insufficient city medicine), hence a multiplication of nosocomial infections, even at the current stage of the epidemic. ” 

Treatment, or confinement?

One concern that we may have, in any case, is that these "hospitals" (because there is going to be a second one) are not so much intended to care for the sick as to lock them up.

The images published are not necessarily reassuring for the people who will be interned in these rooms:

Because the Chinese authorities rarely back down from physical violence.

Journalist Fang Bing has disappeared, arrested by the police, after having disseminated frightful images of panic prevailing in these hospitals presented as “models” by the Chinese regime and the Western media. Another journalist, Chen Qiushi, also disappeared after criticizing the measures taken by the Chinese authorities.

No technical prowess behind these “hospitals” built in a hurry

For non-connoisseurs (like me), building such a hospital in a few days is nevertheless a feat.

However, information is taken from an expert, the architect Juan Herreros, from the Polytechnic School of Madrid, a specialist in these prefabricated constructions:

"There is no technical feat."

“They are prefabricated nested one inside the other. The armies of many countries have had these resources since the end of the Second World War ”. 

These are military infrastructures, used in conflict zones for "various" uses.

Come back, Lao-Tzu, they have gone crazy !!

Still, if the battle against the coronavirus is not over yet, it will have had the merit of revealing that the sound principles of Chinese medicine are as trampled on as human rights in China.

“Fainted, traditional Chinese medicine and its millennial wisdom. Evacuated, the ancient Taoist philosopher and his extraordinary methods of global health ”, choked my colleague Yves Rasir in his last letter on this subject, which I recommend you read. 

Clearly, Chinese leaders no longer believe in needles, energies, Yin and Yang, medicinal herbs.

However, their alignment with the vision (and interests) of the large pharmaceutical industry is now perfect.

This will undoubtedly be a great lesson that can be drawn from this sad event.

Cheers!

The enemies of natural health

The enemies of natural health

Why they want us so much

Our time is champion, as we know, in the fight against discrimination, hatred, and oppression.

But there is a category of people who can be caricatured, disparaged without any risk.

People who never benefit from the slightest movement of political or media solidarity.

These people are us, the proponents of natural health and alternative medicine.

Haro on the amber necklace

I am finishing an article from Figaro Santé on amber necklaces, an innocent tradition if any.

The journalist talks about it as if it were a scourge that could destroy the populations. Parents who put amber necklaces on their children are not only, she explains, stupid people, enemies of Science, religious, obscurantists. No, that is not enough: it must be suggested that they are also potential assassins.

Yes, murderers.

Under what pretext?

On the pretext that children risk dying of strangulation because of the necklaces.

It does not matter that the figure she quotes (30 deaths per year) does not specifically relate to amber necklaces worn for health reasons. This is the indicative number of deaths by all types of necklaces, including adults. It does not put forward any evidence that, for the past forty years, only one child has died from strangulation by an amber necklace. But that doesn’t prevent sarcasm, acrimony, contempt, in every way.

No more copper bracelets, buds, and homeopathy

And that is nothing compared to the articles that demolish people wearing copper bracelets, overwhelm those who treat themselves with stones or buds, and ridicule homeopathy.

As for the articles on vaccines, you know the music (military): we are no longer in journalism, but in vociferation, calls for imprisonment, persecution and, no doubt, soon to elimination (which has already started on the Internet and on social networks which obscure the articles to only reveal those which correspond to what the Authorities want).

In short, when it comes to natural health, the right to free expression, respect, the right to exist, the right to come and go freely as long as one does not harm others, does no longer exist. Human rights no longer apply. All this of course in the name of Good, Science, Technical Progress which, obviously, makes us so happy and so healthy.

Lots of scientific incompetence

Journalists who sign these articles are, with rare exceptions, neither scientists, doctors, nor experts in any way on the health topics they cover.

And that’s probably what explains their tone of certainty, their quickness to condemn. They don't know what they are talking about.

They have not spent their lives caring for people. They did not observe all of the bizarre healing phenomena that mark the lives of doctors.

They have blind faith in scientific studies because they have not read Professor Ioannidis' study which showed that the majority of research results published in scientific journals are biased. 

They have no idea of ​​the difficulties, the hacks, the complex problems faced by researchers, who constantly come up against the infinite diversity and instability of human beings, which makes clinical studies so difficult, and therefore the results still provisional.

Nothing to replace the treatments they forbid?

Nothing is easier and more exhilarating than passing all medical traditions to the purifying fire of Science.

- "No study for this treatment, this plant? - Hop, forbidden ”

It is their method to discredit many practices, such as osteopathy, lithotherapy, gemmotherapy; to ban professions like herbalists or homeopaths; to suppress nutritional supplements; to close laboratories, convict deviant doctors.

In good conscience, persuaded to act for Progress, they take away from the populations their necklaces, their bracelets, their granules, their creams, their ointments ...

They forbid them the remedies of their ancestors. They fight the vials of essential oils. Soon, they will ban acupuncture for the Chinese (lack of evidence!) And Ayurveda for the Indians.

And what do they replace them with?

By nothing.

“- Be satisfied with the drugs sold in pharmacies. If nothing works for you, never mind. You will be alone with your suffering. ”

Who is responsible for bringing hope to patients? To reassure them? To support them to get back on the road? Who is dedicated to trying an alternative therapeutic approach?

No one, or at least not them.

By force of sanctions and smear campaigns, we will soon no longer have any doctor brave enough or crazy enough to seek treatment outside the box, outside the protocols defined by the High Authority for Health.

And if none of these protocols work for you, that's not their problem.

They are fighting for science, you understand? Not for common people of blood and flesh who suffer from complicated diseases like Lyme, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, Alzheimer's, depression, prostate, digestive problems, insomnia, overweight, eczema, acne, tendonitis, cramps, circulatory problems, chronic fatigue, migraines, autism, hyperactivity and other health problems so poorly treated by scientific medicine.

- "Since we have no treatment for you, it is that nobody has treatment for you !! Do you hear ?! "

But what is behind this resentment, this sovereign contempt, this anger against the "naive" who are not convinced to go home and fold their arms?

What will for power? Domination? Why?

One of my doctor friends recently told me that he recommended spirulina to his patients. "Yes, Jean-Marc, I know, scientific studies are considered insufficient. But it works! What do you want me to do ?? "

Well, above all, do not change anything! Continue like this!

Cheers!