The Facts on Breast Cancer: Mammograms, Estrogen, and Prevention with Dr. Aminah Keats

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, Medicine, 810564, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Root Cause Medicine Podcast is created by Rupa Health, the best way to order, track & get results from 30+ lab companies in one place. In today’s episode, Dr. Carrie Jones is joined by Dr. Aminah Keats, a Naturopathic Physician at Capital Integrative Health. They discuss all about breast cancer. Key Takeaways: 1. Breast Cancer Facts Conventional patients have become more proactive in combating the possibility of having cancer. But when it comes to statistics, one in eight women suffers from breast cancer. However, the mortality rate has declined. 2. Following the Guidelines. For high-risk patients, screening should begin before the age of forty. High-risk patients are women with a strong family or personal history of breast cancer, as they may have inherited genes that increase the risk of breast cancer. For the moderate risk category, they should start getting mammograms between the ages of forty and forty-four. Beyond that point, patients should get mammograms every year. 3. Breast Cancer Treatments. When it comes to conventional care, it depends on the stage of breast cancer. If it's an early stage, a patient may be advised to get a lumpectomy or a mastectomy. Other options include radiation, chemotherapy drugs, or hormonal treatments. Dr. Aminah Keats is a licensed and board-certified Naturopathic Physician specializing in integrative oncology. She has worked at Cancer Treatment Centers of America and later directed a naturopathic oncology department. Dr. Keats currently works at Capital Integrative Health. She is a Fellow of the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology (FABNO) and a member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, Society of Integrative Oncology, and Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, and welcome to the Root Cause Medicine podcast.
0:03.8	I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.
0:06.2	Today, I am talking with Dr. Amina Keats all about breast cancer.
0:10.7	I love talking with her because she has both that conventional and functional or
0:16.1	integrative experience for her patients.
0:18.5	Dr. Keats is board certified in naturopathic oncology and has
0:22.9	specialized in integrative oncology for close to 15 years. She's worked at Cancer Treatment
0:28.4	Centers of America and later directed a naturopathic oncology department. She currently works a private
0:34.0	practice at Capital Integrative Health in Bethesda, Maryland. It was an absolute
0:38.8	pleasure talking with her today as breast cancer can be a huge, scary topic for a lot of us,
0:44.4	and Dr. Keats broke down the basics. Here's a clip from today's conversation. Whenever there's an ER
0:49.6	positive kind of breast cancer diagnosis, of course, you're going to be thinking about things
0:55.0	that help to reduce kind of exogenous estrogen intake, supporting estrogen kind of metabolism,
1:02.0	detoxification. So of course, you got that category, but then what if you get the last back?
1:07.3	And suppose there's increased levels of something like I mentioned IGF1, which we're supposed
1:13.3	to have normal levels in our circulation, but when they're elevated, it can actually act as a
1:17.6	growth factor potentially just like insulin, like I mentioned. So definitely want to kind of
1:21.3	regulate those things that are abnormal, looking at things like kidney function, liver function,
1:26.3	and the metabolic panel of looking at things again like vitamin D.
1:29.6	So really taking all these things into account and creating a comprehensive treatment plan that just doesn't impact estrogen kind of pathway, but other kinds of categories as well.
1:39.5	Thyroid health is important too, right?
1:41.7	So low levels of thyroid or hypo thyroidism can certainly increase
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