[Skybird]

Then you already have an established health condition, and then I indeed do not object to any further diagnosis tools, because I am not qualified to do so.

I was referring to the fact that we have a big industry now that lives of telling people to endlessly run from this to that screening for early recognition of mostly cancers. May it be skin cancer, may it be female breast cancer, may it be male prostate cancer, may it be colon cancer. And for all these screening methods in the past years first a few then a growing number of doctors have raised doubts on their usefulness, and also pointing out that we have more and more an over-treating in the meaning of that patients are made mad and afraid while in fact their "cancer" indeed often may never have caused problems, while the tretamenet of a "diagbosed" probklem also often causes harms and sideffects that are kept under the carpet usually.


A few month ago I heard a lecture by a German expert who has written a whole book about this, and he said that he by now in principle advises people NOT to do screenings, because too many people get overtreated, suffer from side-effects, the total number of patient benefitting is too marginal compared to the damage done from overtreatment, sideffects from treatments can even weigh heavier than the "benefit" of the treatment itself, and he concluded that the only screening that he could somewhat recommend were that for colon cancer - not because it is especially helpful or statistically relevant, but because here the chance to suffer from damages in the treatment of polypes - snipping them off during the screening - is relatively low.

Believe me, he had some stunning numbers and statistics that really make you raise the eyebrows about what the screening inbustry tells us all the time. Its business. BIG business. Like everything in "health" politics these days. Its not about health. Its about money.

I tried to find it again, but could not find it, it was a 30 minute monologue during a moderated stage forum. When he was done, the others did not know what to say anymore. I did not know him, so I even do not remember the name anymore. Too bad.

Doctors advice men to test PSA frequently, even if they have no symptoms and no health complaints. But doing so even without a cause is indeed increasingly criticised, and it is the reason why in Germany health insurrances do not regularly pay for it if there is no initial suspicion justifying to do it, AFAIK. PSA values alone can be misleading.


You already have a confirmed health problem, you say, that is something different then, and on that I cannot comment.


I would advice to check out the benefit of iodine, however. In societies where they eat plenty of iodine food and at least still have plenty of non-Western diet, breast and prostate cancer are practically unknown. Asian regions on my mind, namely Japan. I have red that prostate enlargements have even been shown to dissappear again when going into iodine supplementation. However, iodine is a bit complex a topic, as I often have said. Never take it without taking selenium as well, its like Vitamine D plus K2 plus Magnesium, it should always go hand in hand. Iodine and Selenium belong together when supplementing. Else there is a real chance to cause damage by an autoimmune reaction, leading to thyroidites ("Hashimoto"). And even if it would end in that - you still would need iodine like you still need oxygene when suffering from pneumonia. I know that some doctors think of prostate problems as a symptom for iodine deficiency .