#primary prevention

Breast cancer screening is essential, simple, and life-saving. Talk about it, encourage your loved ones, book that appointment.

Doctor’s orders [x]

A few additional notes on breast cancer prevention/screening:

Mammography remains the gold standard for screening

age: 50–74 years old

frequency: biennial screening (annual screening for high-risk individual)

Important: Breast self-exams are not considered a formal screening method. Instead, they’re about becoming familiar with your own breasts so you can notice any unusual changes early.

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How to treat osteoporosis:

Calcium 1200 mg/day--from both diet and supplements, either calcium carbonate with meals (or calcium citrate if the patient is also on a PPI)

Vitamin D 800 mg/day--typically Vitamin D3 400-800mg daily

Exercise--at least 30 minutes per day, 3 days per week

Smoking cessation

In (women) with a bone mineral density T score of -2.5 or less (osteoporosis), a fragility fracture, or high-risk postmenopausal women with osteopenia (T score -1.0 to -2.5) and a 10-year fracture risk of at least 20% (using FRAX), consider pharmacological therapy with a bisphosphonate.

Manor Field Blog 12 – Aspirin Perhaps bark-chewing was a thing the ancients used to enjoy.

I had originally intended to write about dementia this morning although given I have had a specific request about aspirin and also that dementia is such a broad topic, I will start here.

Most people will know that aspirin is an ancient remedy. Way back when, our ancestors would chew willow-bark which contains a form of aspirin as they knew it eased pain.

As to how they knew this, I don’t know.…

The trouble with keeping people well.

We have a health and social care system that is built upon failure, or, at least, things going wrong.

Let me explain.

Imagine I invented a medicine that kept people well.

It is a pill you take, and it prevents disease.

Clearly, this is absurd, as there is no such thing as disease, only diseases (like when we think of a cure for cancer or dementia – these are multitudes of different conditions,…