Barbarism: Doctors Now Encouraging Patients to Remove Body Parts to Prevent CancerAnthony Gucciardi In a recent CNN article entitled My preventive mastectomy: Staying alive for my kids, a mother removes both her breasts and ovaries despite not testing positive for cancer. Stating that she did so at the urging of her gynecologist, Allison Gilbert, surgically removed her ovaries in 2007 and her breasts earlier this year. Gilbert explains how she decided to remove her breasts and ovaries after her doctor highly recommended doing so despite the fact that nutrition and lifestyle actually can alter your gene expression dramatically: The decision to have surgery without having cancer wasnt easy, but it seemed logical to me. My mother, aunt and grandmother have all died from breast or ovarian cancer, and I tested positive for the breast cancer gene. Nutrition is Known to Dramatically Affect Gene Expression This new trend signifies a complete and utter failure to recognize legitimate science regarding the effective prevention of cancer through nutrition and lifestyle. In fact, research has repeatedly shown that what you eat directly affects your genes. As information from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology shows, nutrition can create or alleviate inflammation levels through altering gene expression. Inflammation, of course, has been linked to a long list of diseases including cancer. This affects not only the genes that cause inflammation in the body, which was what we originally wanted to study, but also genes associated with development of cardiovascular disease, some cancers, dementia, and type 2 diabetes all the major lifestyle-related diseases. Beyond this information, we know that countless natural substances are highly effective in the prevention of cancer across the board. Super nutrients like vitamin D, spices like ginger and turmeric, and antioxidant-rich superfoods have all been shown in peer-reviewed research to fight cancer at a genetic level. As researchers at Jeffersons Kimmel Cancer Center found, antioxidants help to both prevent and fight cancer: Now we have genetic proof that mitochondrial oxidative stress is important for driving tumor growth, said lead researcher Michael P. Lisanti, M.D., Ph.D. Apparently Gilberts gynecologist was completely unaware of this research, or perhaps the other several thousand pieces of information that exist on the subject. But sadly it is not just Gilberts doctor who is recommending patients chop off their breasts, ovaries, and other areas of the body that present a genetic risk of cancer. Sadly, this trend is not only far-reaching but being touted in the media through laughable sources like CNN as a heart warming and touching display of affection for friends and family. Current Health Paradigm Promotes Sickness, Surgery, and Death And even as patients like Gilbert experience the life-crushing results of listening to their ignorant and downright unqualified doctors who originally insisted they mutilate their bodies unnecessarily, they unfortunately continue to re-assure themselves that they made the right decision. Psychologically, it is similar to why many E-mail scams succeed in which fake princes and princesses ask for you to send them money overseas. Once you have sent a phony Prince John thousands of dollars overseas, you are almost forced to believe the lie. After all, if you accept it as a lie, then you have lost. It is much easier to believe that Prince John exists and is having trouble sending you the millions promised than to accept you have been scammed. Gilbert details the aftermath of her preventative surgery in which she removed her breasts and was thrown into menopause at age 37 with severe side effects, yet explains how she still believes that the surgery was the right decision: The most difficult part of the operation came in the months that followed: I was thrust into menopause at 37. Despite age-inappropriate night sweats and hot flashes, I was relieved to have the surgery What this practice is in reality, however, is the result of a horrendous medical system that has engulfed the United States. Costing over ten times the amount spent in 1980, United States healthcare costs currently near $2.6 trillion as of 2010 as disease rates continually climb and the life expectancy among the poor who eat processed foods are being reduced across the board. Its time to escape the old health paradigm of sickness, barbaric body part removal, and pharmaceutical medication. Explore More: Really hard choice! I dont even know what I would have chosen if I were in such situation. 