Melatonin is a wondrous thing

Friday, September 17, 2010

Melatonin is a wondrous thing

I finally got a shrink appointment for next Tuesday and I took the advice of friends and started taking 2MG melatonin before bed since Tuesday. Believe it or not, I actually slept 6-8 hours each night!! The nice thing is, it is natural and even can kill cancer (although the therapeutic dose is 30MG...I would be a zombie with that much in me). Fingers crossed.

Another interesting thing. I stopped eating peanut butter as peanuts are estrogenic. But Wednesday, I ate two slices of toast with crunchy peanut butter and noticed my stools were less watery. ??? Did the same yesterday and actually went 24 hours with no bowel movements! Not since March has that happened. So peanut butter is on the menu for a while.

My cousins Cindy and Mike are coming today from Texas. My mom's 80th birthday is tomorrow and I am taking her (and everyone) to the Rays game. It is a concert series night so after the game is Adam Lambert. Should be fun. She doesn't know my cousins are coming so that should be a great surprise for her. AND Marty 's band is not playing until Sunday afternoon at the St Pete Pier so he can come. Sunday will be fun, too.

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A Post from Dr Vincent Tuoey - The Cleveland Clinic

I am proposing a national initiative to develop a vaccine program that protects us against adult diseases like breast, prostate, ovarian, and colon cancer in the same way we were protected as children against polio and measles. We have a giant and obvious hole in our health care by facing adult life with no protection against these hideous, and in my opinion, totally preventable diseases through prophylactic vaccination.

I am trying to make people aware of this enormous deficiency in our health care and have recently published results from my lab program showing feasibility in mice for developing a safe and effective prophylactic breast cancer vaccine. This study simply represents a first step and is clearly prototypic and embryonic. However, I think it is feasible to develop such a vaccine for women. If we can do it in mice why can't we do it in women?

The single best way (and maybe the only way) to reduce healthcare costs long-term is to dramatically reduce the incidence o f these diseases. The childhood vaccination program provides the instruction manual on how to get rid of diseases, and we simply must apply the same principles to continue vaccination against adult diseases. It is necessary that we do this as a society, that we take the next big step and continue moving forward until we have vaccines that prevent these horrific illnesses. First, we have to believe it is possible then we need the will, determination, commitment, and resources.

Breast cancer is a true and real terrorist amongst us that takes our mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, and friends. It is time for us as a people to prevent this disease because prevention is the cure. Thanks to this discussion group for contacting me. I wish you all good health and much hope.

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