#308 | Mammogram Myths: Safer Ways to Screen for Breast Cancer with Dr. Jenn Simmons

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Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

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4.8 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In today's episode, Dr. Jenn Simmons shares her powerful journey from a leading breast cancer surgeon to an advocate for functional medicine and holistic health. Drawing from her personal experience with illness and healing, Dr. Simmons discusses the dangers and limitations of traditional breast cancer screening with mammography and offers insight into safer, more effective alternatives like QT imaging, the ARIA test, and the importance of self-breast exams. This conversation is especially r...

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0:00.0	we absolutely positively need to worry about mammograms i am in no way saying that one mammogram is
0:08.0	going to cause breast cancer but who gets one mammogram what we're what we're talking about is a
0:13.7	screening paradigm that we're recommending to women and starting at 40 and screening through till
0:19.4	they're 70 or 80 that that's not one mammogram. And it is
0:24.1	undeniable that we are causing some of these breast cancers without question by screening
0:31.1	with mammogram. We are using a test that causes cancer to screen for cancer. And in every other arena, if you ask,
0:40.9	does radiation cause cancer, the answer is an undeniable yes,
0:46.5	no matter who you ask.
0:48.1	And then you ask that same physician,
0:50.7	that same provider, if mammograms cause cancer, and there's a resounding no.
0:59.3	I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypniburthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum
1:04.6	support specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.
1:12.4	And this is the down-to-birth podcast.
1:17.0	Childbirth is something we're made to do.
1:19.4	But how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?
1:24.1	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:34.8	Yeah. culture. Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. Hi, I'm Jen Simmons. I'm the founder of perfection imaging. I started off my career as a breast
1:41.9	cancer surgeon, and people ask me all the time how did how did you find
1:48.0	breast cancer how did you how did you become this and i didn't find breast cancer at all
1:54.0	breast cancer definitely found me breast cancer was really part of the fabric the thread of my
2:00.1	family and there really was not a time in my
2:05.2	life where I didn't know about it. When I was growing up, I had a first cousin. Her name was
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