Unfortunately, we couldn't rehab everyone.
In this case, I visited a dying man 2x a day just to move his joints to keep him from getting stiff.
He knew he was dying and was okay with that.
We had many good talks. But the one that sticks out in my head, and won't leave, is the talk we had about his wife.
She died from breast cancer several years prior.
He urged me to stop using anti-perspirant.
His theory was that, because it stops you from sweating, all those toxins remain in that area. Thus increasing your chances of developing breast cancer.
Makes sense to me.
I think about it every time I apply it.
What do you think?Could a dying old man's advice help prevent breast cancer?
The anti-perspirant link has been debunked. First of all, your sweat glands aren't there for removing toxins from your body (that's the job of liver and kidneys), but for cooling your body. Sweat is mostly water and some electrolytes. And think about it, if toxins were a problem, then everyone's liver and kidneys would become cancerous, since they process toxins.
This all started from an email that circulated years ago. There's no truth to it.
If it makes you feel better, don't use antiperspirant. But your chances of getting breast cancer are still about 1 in 7 or 8.Could a dying old man's advice help prevent breast cancer?
Parabens in cosmetics are thought to cause cancer %26amp; parabens are in everything.
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Yes, there is something to that. Antiperspirants stop sweating with aluminum which can cause both cancer and Alzheimer's. We don't need to have aluminum in our bodies. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl…
P.S. It's just common sense that you don't put toxins in your body like aluminum, rather than waiting for them to be declared officially carcinogenic. You assume they're guilty until provin innocent.
There is no proof to that rumor. It has been around as long as I can remember, and I have been doing mammograms for 31 years.
Your patient was grasping at a reason for his wife's cancer, when she was just one of the 10% of the female population that will get breast cancer in her lifetime. That is what humans do...try to have a reason for everything, when there is no reason, sometimes.
Please don't continue to spread such rumors. It is hard enough dealing with the disease on a daily basis without having to quell fact from fantasy.
well thats one mans theory
i about think anti -perspirants would be used by the majoirty of the worlds population if they had anything to do with cancer
come on think about it he was a dying man greifin over his wife and thinking of any possible way to blame a something
garbage
Well to prevent the thumbs down, I could have said it nicer. However, it is still garbage. If the ONLY place you sweat is your pits, you should probably visit a dr.
NO, antiperspirants have nothing to do with breast cancer Sweating is a result of your body way of cooling you off. I just had a bi-lateral mastectomy Nov. 7. Breast cancer is hereditary. Every one has the gene for potential cancer of any kind it's just by rotten luck that some become more susceptible to getting cancer than others. My family has a long history of breast cancer. I had the gene test done for breast cancer and as I figured, my chances were great for cancer. I am really happy to have the mastectomies. I know that sounds strange, but if you knew our family history, you would understand. My Oncologist explained a lot to me about breast cancer and never once did he mention the use of deodorant as a cause. Sweating is not getting rid of toxins. It is fluid and like I said, it's the body's way of cooling you off because if those excess fluids remained in the body, it could cause problems. Check it out. Go on a web site. In fact, I will do it for you. Do you have a family history of breast cancer? I urge everyone to make sure you get mammograms. You are to young right now, and men too also get breast cancer. It's not as prevalent as in women, but it does happen. I also admire you for having conversation with the dying man. I know it's your job to move his joints, but do you have any idea how many people just go in a patient's room, do what they have to without much converstion and just leave? I have been a nurse for 30 years and I never walked in a patient's room without having a good talk. Not just about how they feel, real talk about a lot of things. You cetainly care about your patients, that's obvious so keep it up. We need more caring people like you and no, I'm not saying this to win best answer. I always told my nurses the importnace of converstion and not the robotics of going in a room, passing meds, taking vital signs and walking out. God bless you, you probably made a dying man very happy. But just know, that breast cancer is hereditary and the use of deoderant has nothing to do with the possiblity of getting the cancer. I just went in my medical book and looked it up so I'm going to give you a direct quote so will know for sure.';Perespiration-the excretion of fluids by sweat glands through pores in the skin. It consist of water, containing sodium choride,phosphate, urea, ammonia, and other waste products. It serves as a mechanism for regulating body temperature';, These other chemicals are found naturally in the body so I guess you could say, yes, they do get rid of toxins. Glad I looked it up, but it says nothing about causing cancer. So use your deoderant with ease. Sorry for the narrative. Be well, Be blesed
All synthetic pills made in labs are not recognized by the body. Everything from OTC drugs to prescription drugs ahve side affects. Your body doesn't want them. In fact most srugs don't work like they say and many people have pointed this out and they have received threats. Kevin Trudeau is one such person. The reason modern medcines don't work is they don't solve the problem. If someone has cancer in their body you solve nothing by removing the cancerous tumors. The tumor is your vody surrounding these cells. If you have a tumor the cells have probably invaded your whole body. So opening your body up just makes things worse. Sure some people have a tumors removed and live a long time. Some people take chemo and live long, but many more people would be saved if people used hemp oil, hydrogen peroxide, radio frequencies and pure oxygen. Some people can use certain things like sugar substitutes, but in America most people are sick by the time they are 60 and they live a miserable life on drugs to they're 80, but in Asian countries people don't get cancer. They work until they are a hundred. In America the government has it planned that you work till you are 66 and then die a miserable death 10 years later on drugs. If people would eat right and quit taking drugs they would live healthy till they were over a hundred. I mean some people live to be 115, but not many. Some people have lived to be over 150. The government doesn't want you getting social security for 50 years. It's very starnge that people in poor countries are better off than we are. The poor people from Russia's main problem is they have so much cancer, because the Jewish commies dumped nuclear waste in the rivers and it's in the ground water.
I think it really has more to do with your lifelong exposure to estrogen due to the menstrual cycle. Breast cancer was first described as the nuns disease because, as virgins, they never had a child so they lacked the ductal maturation you get with pregnancy and also they never had a holiday from menstrual cycles. Thus, having babies is protective for women. The other thing you can do is go on the pill as it mimics pregnancy essentially and lowers exposure toe estrogens. I wouldn't get too overweight as the breasts are a place you can accumulate fat and fat has a tendency to ';go off'; and produce free radicals in a process similar to the polymerisation of fats in paints (as paint dries)
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