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The point the OP was making was not that birth control causes cancer, but that the *way* we use birth control causes cancer. I've heard this from the docs who used to give me my Depo shots--it is better to use birth control varieties that result in fewer bleeding periods for two reasons. The first reason is that the "periods" we have on hormonal BC aren't *really* periods--they are symptoms of hormone withdrawal. The second reason is that reducing the number of bleeding episodes per year results in a condition more similar to women's historic condition (frequent pregnancy) than faked menstruation. Original BC pills did not have the week of sugar pills that is found in most current formulations. However, women got *nervous* about not having a period, and the week of hormone withdrawal was added to make things seem more normal, and to give an indicator of pregnancy/no pregnancy. It's unnecessary, and probably contributes to higher rates of uterine cancer than we'd have if we took formulations like Seasonale. At least that's what my docs always said.
the benefits of not having periods any longer (I take only the "active" pills, not the placebo weeks, so no more periods at all)
All studies supporting ANY DRUG for long term use is rubbish. All parameters in the study are cherry picked by the drug company.
EFT sounds like quackery and is undoubtedly the placebo effect. I can't see how it could do anything more.
Although reports of acupuncture have been recorded in the west since the 1800's, it wasn't until the 1970's that this method of therapy became well publicized. A reporter for the "New York Times" became ill with appendicitis while traveling in China and had an appendectomy without anesthesia, but with the use of acupuncture. This was widely reported in the western press. Doctors tried to explain the technique by saying it was the "placebo affect". This is the phenomenon in which 30% of people will be shown to be able to self heal in experiments when given a sugar pill instead of the "real medicine". However, this was shown to be a false belief because animals (who couldn't possibly respond to suggestion) also responded to the analgesic properties of acupuncture.In the 1960s, western scientists developed a special tissue-staining technique that allowed him to identify these meridians in rabbits. Western scientist ignored this research until the 1980s when two French researchers, Drs. Claude Darras and Pierre De Vernejoul repeated Dr. Hans experiment using radioactive tracers on human beings.They injected and then twirled radioactive technetium into the acupoints of patients and used nuclear scanning equipment to follow the flow of technetium. They also injected non-acupoints. At non-acupoints, the radioactive tracer diffused outward from the injection site into circular patterns. When the true acupoints were injected, the radioactive technetium followed the exact pathways as the acupuncture meridians in the ancient charts of the human body! They also found that when acupuncture needles were inserted into distant acupoints along the same tracer-labeled meridians and the twirled, a change was produced in the rate of flow of the technetium through the meridians. This research supported the ancient Chinese claim that the acupuncture needle stimulation affected the flow of ch'i through the body's meridians."A Study on the Migration of Radioactive Tracers after Injection at Acupoints", American Journal of Acupuncture, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1992 by Jean-Claude Darras, Pierre de Vernejoul, and Pierre Albarhde.
