Lifespan | Plus Other Physical Health Problems

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Originally published: Apr. 5, 2024
Updated periodically



Mercola.com & LifeExtension.com are probably the top two resources for extending life (along with other medical complaints).

TheEpochTimes.com also does amazing work, HealthLine.com often has useful articles too.




Wearing a bra (especially if worn 24 hours) may increase breast cancer risk, and may decrease breast health, tight pants can also effect sperm quality (2.5x) in men. (Please read article):
(See drive other folder bra's)
Breast feeding reduces breast cancer risk
"In one analysis, women with vitamin D levels of 60 ng/mL or more had an 82% lower risk of developing breast cancer than women with low vitamin D levels (less than 20ng/mL)."
"High blood levels of vitamin D in breast cancer patients are associated with a 42% lower risk of mortality as compared to lower blood levels."

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Optimistic people live much longer (11 to 15% longer)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1900712116

Thermography is more accurate, and less dangerous (?), than a mammogram (detecting 90% of cancers vs. ~66% for a mammogram) (mammograms tend to over diagnose) (I thought I heard that breast compression during a mammogram was unhealthy)
"For women between the ages of 40 and 49 years undergoing annual screening mammography, CISNET modeling results estimate an number needed to screen (NNS) of 746 (39% of the number needed to invite (NNI) of 1904) to prevent one breast cancer death. The NNS based on CISNET results for women between 50 and 59 years is 351 (26% of the NNI of 1339), for women between 60 and 69 years is 233 (62% of the NNI of 377), and for women between 70 and 79 years is 377. Annual screening of women between 40 and 84 years yields an NNS of 84 (11.9 lives saved per 1,000 women screened)"
"For every 1,000 women who do not get mammograms, five will die from breast cancer. For every 1,000 women who do get regular mammograms, four will die."
Another study had a 38% reduction in mortality (unlike the 20% reduction above)
If a abnormality is detected a ultrasound can be ordered, or another mammogram in 6 months, or a needle biopsy.
https://breast-cancer.ca/mamrecalls/ (Accessed: Oct 23, 2024)
(need to lookup more studies)
(Colonoscopies also don't prevent much cancer)
"the risk of colorectal cancer at 10 years was 0.98% in the invited group (invited for single colonoscopy) and 1.20% in the usual-care group, a risk reduction of 18%. The risk of death from colorectal cancer was 0.28% in the invited group and 0.31% in the usual-care group (a absolute reduction of 0.03% or 1 in 3,333), a risk reduction of 10%. The number needed to invite to undergo screening to prevent one case of colorectal cancer was 455 persons. The risk of death from any cause was 11.03% in the invited group and 11.04% in the usual-care group." (men and women 55 to 64) (about 40% of the invited people chose to have a colonoscopy) (Colonoscopies can sometimes cause unwanted side effects and that this in combination with low numbers of lives saved make colonoscopies ill-advisable) 
(need to lookup more studies) 
(I lean towards not recommending colonoscopies, and perhaps not mammograms)

 

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