Breast Cancer: The Path of Wellness and Healing

I am delighted to announce that I will be on a panel of premiere medical and wellness experts as well as celebrity breast cancer survivors in celebration of a DVD about breast cancer called Breast Cancer:Tthe Path of Wellness and Healing. At this event there will be a private screening of the highlights of the DVD in Beverly Hills on May 6, 2010.

I look forward to being on this panel and bringing in integrative medicine perspective to this great conversation about curing breast cancer.

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Male Hormone Levels Linked to Vitamin D

Research testosteron sex male ” border=”2″ height=”66″ hspace=”5″ src=”https://www.drsoram.com/wp-content/uploads/man beach.jpg” vspace=”5″ width=”100″ />ers at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, have found a link between testosterone levels and Vitamin D levels.  The higher the Vitamin D, the higher the testosterone levels recorded.

It was also revealed that both fluctuate seasonally: in the winter months when sunlight is weaker and less Vitamin D is produced, less testosterone is present as well.

“Men who ensure their body is at least sufficiently supplied with Vitamin D are doing good for their testosterone level and their libido among other things,” said a Ad Brand, a spokesperson for the Sunlight Research Forum in the Netherlands in response to the study.

This is very interesting information and should be useful to primary care doctors and urologists. When a man's testosterone is found to be low, his vitamin D level should be checked. If the D level is low, the first line of treatment should be to normalize his D level and repeat the testosterone. This may make it so older men ( including all the baby-boomers) who would have needed testosterone will not need it as soon or at all.

The authors recommend that a prospective trial be run to evaluate the benefit that vitamin D replacement will have on testosterone levels.

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Even Low-Level Lead Exposure is Harmful for Kidneys in Adolescents

It is well established that chronic, high-level lead exposure is a significant risk factor for kidney disease.  A new study conducted at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research in Baltimore examined a less well understood problem, the effect of low-level lead exposure such as that found in everyday environments, especially as it may effect younger people.

769 adolescents aged 12 to 20 years were examined in the Third National Health and Nutrition survey (NHANES III) conducted from 1988-1994.  Their blood lead levels were measured, as well as their level of kidney function.

The conclusion was that higher blood lead levels, even those in a range below the current CDC designated level of concern (10 microg/dL) were associated with adverse effects on kidney function. In fact the higher the adolescents's lead level the more kidney function was affected.

This study further confirms what Environmental Doctors have been concerned about for a long time on the role that the environment plays on our children's health. 

We live in a highly polluted environment, particularly if we live in big cities.  Although laws have been made to protect us from acute lead poisoning, studies like this one show that toxins such as lead, even at so-called “safe” levels of exposure, may be keeping our bodies from functioning at at their best.  I carefully  evaluate heavy metals in the blood or all my patients especially new patients.

I have 60 year old woman in my practice right now with impaired kidney function. Her urologist is not sure why her kidney function is down. With a challenged urine test I found her lead level to be about 30 times normal ! So I have to wonder based on this new information if the lead might be the main cause of her kidney function impairment? 

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My Interview March 30 at 9am PDT on Lifetsyle Talk Radio

I am very happy to announce that I will be interviewed on the nationally syndicated talk radio show, Lifestyle Talk Radio Network.

I will be interviewed by host Frankie Boyer, and my interview will be on the subject "Does The Government Get It About Vitamin D?"
Please join me for this interview which is broadcast live on the Internet at 9 AM Pacific Time this Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at their Website

 

I will be on CRFA Radio in Ottawa Sunday Night at 10PM EDT

I will be on CRFA radio in Ottawa Canada this Sunday night March 28, 2010. The local Eastern time will be at 10 PM.

I am on that very well loved talk show with host Rabbi R. Bulka. It is said on their site that Rabbi Bulka helps Ottawa "tuck itself in" every Sunday night.
The show will be simulcast on their website so my many readers may listen to it live on their website.

The website is www.CRFA.com.
I look forward to seeing you there.

 

The Vitamin D Forum is UP!

I apologize to all my readers with questions that there was no way to REGISTER on my forum.

That is now FIXED and I love your questions. So let me know !

We have a vitamin D Section and another Section with questions about  Integrative Medicine.

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The Forum is up!

I apologize to all my readers with questions that there was no way to REGISTER on my forum.

That is now FIXED and I love your questions. So let me know !

We have a vitamin D Section and another Section with questions about  Integrative Medicine.

Sign up and log in!

Dr Soram

Study Finds Benefits of Soy for Breast Cancer Patients

While soy is widely known to be a positive dietary alternative to animal protein, reports in the news  media have led many of my patients to fear that  "plant estrogens", such as those found in soy foods, will cause breast cancer, or can be harmful to breast cancer patients.

 

However, what is not widely known by the public is that the type of phytoestrogen that  soy is  rich in is called isoflavones,which actually may help protect against breast cancer.

 

New evidence from a December 2009 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the most widely-circulated medical journal in the world, supports the idea that soy is beneficial to women concerned about breast cancer.

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Very New, As-Yet-Untested, but Intriguing Theory on a Connection between Autism and Vitamin D Deficiency

Five Harvard researchers recently published a theory in the journal Medical Hypotheses, which has not yet been tested but may be of interest to many patients worried about the controversial autism “epidemic.”

No one knows for sure what causes autism or what accounts for its increase in recent years, but here’s a brief rundown of these researchers’ thoughts:

Autism is associated with “de novo” mutations in the child’s genes. “De novo” means these mutations are not inherited from the parents’ original genetic codes, but occurred in their reproductive cells during the parents’ lifetime.

It is thought that environmental toxins such as mercury, cadmium, nickel, trichloroethylene and vinyl chloride may trigger these mutations.  This is supported by the fact that children from areas with high concentrations of these toxins have higher rates of autism.

The Vitamin D connection is that Vitamin D plays a key role in repairing and protecting DNA from mutation, caused by these environmental toxins.

Support for this connection was found in a population of Somali immigrants who experienced a high rate of autism in children born to parents who had moved to northern latitude cities in Minnesota and Sweden.  Autism had been unheard of in these families when they still lived in Africa.

In other words, if you are planning to have a baby at any point in the future, whether you are a man or a woman—you may be able to begin protecting it from autism now by ensuring that you have adequate Vitamin D levels.

Also, this is the reason that I measure heavy metal levels in my patients before they get pregnant. I then help the woman detoxify the metals before she conceives.

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