Dr McDougall's Surprising Facts About Estrogen, Diets, and Cancer Screenings!

Are you aware of the hidden dangers of estrogen and the power of vegetarian diets? Discover groundbreaking insights in this exclusive episode of McDougall's Medicine with Dr. John and Mary McDougall. Dive into the latest research on estrogen's link to hormone-dependent cancers and how vegetarian diets can significantly reduce COVID-19 risks and severity.
In this enlightening session, Dr. McDougall sheds light on the estrogen load in women, particularly its impact on breast and uterine cancer. Learn about the dietary choices that can naturally lower estrogen levels and the surprising truths about milk's estrogen content.
But that's not all - we also delve into the critical role of diet in combating COVID-19. Uncover how vegetarian diets not only decrease the risk of contracting the virus but also lessen its severity, especially in the elderly.
Plus, get expert insights on medical screenings. Are they truly beneficial, or just a way to turn healthy individuals into patients? Dr. McDougall challenges common beliefs and presents thought-provoking evidence on the effectiveness of these tests.
00:00 - Introduction
01:38 - Estrogen and Hormone-Dependent Cancers
04:40 - Diet and COVID-19: The Vegetarian Advantage
06:52 - Screening Programmes: Helpful or Harmful?
08:29 - Mammograms: Do They Prolong Life?
12:26 - The Cochrane Collaboration Research
16:01 - History & Growth of Cancer Cells
18:44 - The Truth About Cancer Screening!!
22:46 - When Should You Get Cancer Screening Done?
32:31 - Constipation: Causes and Remedies
41:33 - Foods to Avoid in Nerve Damage
43:42 - Excess Skin After Weight Loss: What to Do?
50:17 - Healthy Dry Cereals: Making the Right Choices
52:05 - Dairy and Health: A Critical Look
58:19 - Closing Thoughts and Next Steps
*The Latest News*
References Sunday January 21, 2024
Testosterone and fractures in men:
Snyder PJ, Bauer DC, Ellenberg SS, Cauley JA, Buhr KA, Bhasin S, Miller MG, Khan NS, Li X, Nissen SE. Testosterone Treatment and Fractures in Men with Hypogonadism. N Engl J Med. 2024 Jan 18;390(3):203-211.
Vaginal Estrogen Therapy and Breast Cancer:
McVicker L, Labeit AM, Coupland CAC, Hicks B, Hughes C, McMenamin Ú, McIntosh SA, Murchie P, Cardwell CR. Vaginal Estrogen Therapy Use and Survival in Females With Breast Cancer. JAMA Oncol. 2024 Jan 1;10(1):103-108.
Covid-19 illness severity in vegetarians:
Hou YC, Su WL, Chao YC. COVID-19 Illness Severity in the Elderly in Relation to Vegetarian and Non-vegetarian Diets: A Single-Center Experience. Front Nutr. 2022 Apr 29;9:837458.
Lifetime Gain with Cancer Screening:
Bretthauer M, Wieszczy P, Løberg M, Kaminski MF, Werner TF, Helsingen LM, Mori Y, Holme Ø, Adami HO, Kalager M. Estimated Lifetime Gained With Cancer Screening Tests: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials. JAMA Intern Med. 2023 Nov 1;183(11):1196-1203.
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[@debbied.9763]

I am 67 years old and I have never had a mammogram or a colonoscopy. I had a few pap tests as a young lady and then I stopped those as well. And I am healthier than most people my age. I have all of my parts. I eat the McDougall diet.

[@RJT11]

👏👏👏

[@beepbeepnj2658]

How does that diet compare to the Dr. Leila Denmark diet?

[@debbied.9763]

@@beepbeepnj2658 , I don't know that diet ?

[@beepbeepnj2658]

@@debbied.9763 That's because Dr. Denmark was not a loud mouthed, attention getting, money hungry type person. If someone could not afford the 8 dollar fee for an appointment she would not charge. But she gave good health advice for 250,000 people for 73 years but had to retire at age 103 because her eyesight was not as good as it used to be otherwise she still had perfect health to work full time.

[@j-n-y]

what was her diet? @@beepbeepnj2658

[@courag1]

My mother and sister both had breast cancer. Both died horrific deaths. I have been a McDougaller 10 years, so I am 80 lbs. lighter, exercise daily, eat a diet which does not promote cancer. I have to say that I think as with my sister’s cancer, that squishing her breast tumors, ruptured these tumors which then, through her blood stream, highly metastasized, to her bone, lungs, brain and then into cancers of these organs & body parts, …. They removed her pelvis. How do you even have. BM ? She was in HORRIFIC PAIN!!! Diet is powerful. My sister never had children, I gave birth to 3 sons. I also nursed them 2.3/4years. NO BREAST CANCER for me. But I’ve been cancer-free and that my last mammogram, tore the tissues under my left arm, I have refused mammography since then. Wow, did Kaiser harass me, I told them after the damage the Mammogram caused me, that I would have Ultra Sound … and Kaiser approved one. They were also willing to amputate my 2 healthy breasts!!!! I refused. Ultra Sound is routinely ordered to confirm what is a cancer in the breast, already found with mammography. In the meanwhile, if there is a tumor, crush it and then the cancer cells can migrate, as with my sister’s cancer, ALL OVER HER BODY! She never changed her diet. Ruth Heidrich’s long survival is very inspiring! And knowing her good results, has helped me remain cancer-free. My mother died 3 years after her cancer detection. Did her slow growing cancer change her date of death? No! Her diet was the SAD diet, and I did not know then about WFPB, back then. Thank you Dr. McDougall, for all your great research and giving it to us. You have saved my health, and my husband’s health, remarkably!

[@sl4983]

Did your mother do chemo etc?

[@deva190]

I'm almost crying reading about your sister.

[@rollin19]

Yeah it happens alot,my aunt,a good hearted,beautiful,loving mother or 2 kids,an Italian,a great cook,just a good person to many,died from breast cancer when I was just a teenager. We walk passed people everyday and people barely talk but we never know what's going on in their lives,or if they are sick, We should do our best to plant the seeds,let them know the truth,so we can help them. Just sharing a little knowledge goes a long way

[@courag1]

@@sl4983 They had her on Tamoxifen as that is testosterone to suppress her estrogen. Her breast cancer grew in a Petri dish in the presence of estrogen. They did not do radiation, as she was also having kidney shutdown. After her surgery about 2 years, her former hip replacement failed, and stopping her estrogen meant no calcium was going into her bones. What they did say when her cancer was originally discovered, that it was a slow growing cancer. She also was diabetic and on blood pressure meds as well as statins. And this made her not sharp enough to ask “if the cancer is slow growing, how long can I live if we leave it alone?” I as not always with her in her doctor’s appointments. She was 74 when she had her mastectomy, and 76 when she died but it was from her shattered femur, the surgery to fix it - her diabetes meant that her bladder infections via her blood infected her surgery incision and she died in a coma. Her kidneys were also failing as they were monitoring her blood nitrogen as she was spilling protein into the urine. I am 70 now, I was 39 when she died. I became a vegan in my early 60s.

[@courag1]

@@sl4983 My mother died faster after her breast cancer as they gave her tamoxifen which is male sex hormone to block her estrogen. Women need estrogen to pull calcium into our bones. She also continued eating meat, and her kidneys were failing, she began spilling protein into her urine. The excess nitrogen they explained, with the meds she was on, would mean she behaved as though she’d been drinking.. My mother had been an alcoholic. She was having liver failure also. It was a decline one thing after another, then broke her leg due to the brittle bone in a leg with h had hag a total hip 10 years earlier. Her cancer acted and its treatment, like Jenna, you pull enough out of the wooden tower, it all comes crashing down. When they first discovered her breast cancer, they did say it was very slow growing. It is likely why they did not give her chemo. She was obese and was beginning to need the hip replaced. The tamoxifen accelerated the brittle bone which snowballed downhill from there. In retrospect, whether she would have lived one day longer without the mastectomy or not, is debatable. She fell as her bone shattered from walking on it. This is what directly led to her death. The leg could not heal because of her diabetes and she would get bladder infections being catheterization. The surgery had healed over, then leg became infected from the infection in her blood from the bladder infection, to drain the infection, the opened up the whole surgery, a deep cut of 12” long die to the femur in depth. They had her in a whirlpool bath to clean the infection, she lost so much blood, her brain lost so much oxygen, she lost her ability to talk. She went into a coma. Her death was horrific. She never returned to consciousness in the hospice skilled nursing center she was in. When all this started, she weighed 245 lbs. She was my height. When she died, she was 120.. My sister’s cancer was far more vicious, and she had every cancer treatment they could throw at her. When her cancer was discovered, it had already metastasized to the brain, lung, bones. She was in horrific pain. She never had children, did not choose too. I had 3 children, nursed them almost 3 years. Breastfeeding appears to lower the risk of developing breast cancer. Both of their cancers were after menopause. My sister would not see me, she was too sick to be allowed anyone in to see her. This is why I decided to go vegan, it alkalizes the body, cancer needs an acidic environment to grow. To digest meat, the stomach must churn out mor acid. To buffer then the acid, the body pulls calcium from the bones. Even so, the body remains acidic. It is thought that lifestyle is more responsible for women getting breast cancer post menopause. Both my mother and sister were also obese, had type II diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol. They were not good candidates to recover with all of this wrong. I went from 200 lbs. in my early 60s to weighing 120 most days at age 70. It varies a bit a slow weight loss, the walking took my weight off to goal. I do not have to take drugs of any kind, I exercise most days 1 hour. I also do not have brittle bone as when the weather permits, I walk over 5 miles a day. There is no meat so delicious to go back for me to being in a wheelchair, then I was also pre-diabetic with high cholesterol. I avoided heart and kidney disease. Our bodies can heal if we catch it before we get cancer. My gym considers my fitness level at 90%. I am highly motivated to not let these things happen to me. My father died of Alzheimer’s. Disease. He had signs of dementia at age 60. I do not have AD either. Losing weight, exercising got my chance of any lifestyle disease, as much lower. The greatest thing we can do for cancer of any part of us is to eat a Whole Foods plant-based diet. Seeing what I did with my family, I am sure I did the right thing. My husband and I can help with our grandkids, instead, I had to take care of them, I did not want to place such a burden on the shoulders of our son and his wife, who have 3 year old twin boys, and one of them has autism. The only thing we can do, is when we see what went wrong, is to do all we can to do better ourselves.

[@nelsonv741]

Definitely some great content in this video! I have followed you AND your advice for 12 years and far far better off for it!

[@tinalaplaca6638]

I hear you loud and clear Dr. M. Keep preaching....your truth never changes. Keep repeating. The starch solution is the only way of a good quality lifestyle. Folks need to get onboard. I believe

[@carlawright9874]

Truth doctor Truth

[@tweetylov25]

We must change are diets to save ourselves for the rest of our lives to live long. 👍❤️😊❤️

[@kevinwilson3337]

Is green banana / green plantains allowed on the starch solution ???

[@fruityfitnatic7238]

@@kevinwilson3337Yes of course, but it also depends how you prepare them. No oil ever should be used.

[@paulastamper6225]

Thank you

[@Diverse_Interests]

Thank you for emphasizing science and the importance of checking source materials. By giving such clear information and supplying all the research papers you not only empower people, you also take away so many fears that people have because of misinformation. Thank you so much for the work that you do.

[@Diverse_Interests]

“Moderation kills” that’s great information. I know people who want to be healthier but only in moderation when it comes to giving up , meat, high fat and dairy for starch, fruits and vegetables. These people have no progress in getting well even though they disease. It’s so important to understand you need to be all in.

[@tracysmith245]

thank you

[@workhardplayharderx2]

Thank you AGAIN Dr.M

[@tweetylov25]

Thank you for your words of wisdom I agree truth is truth

[@doctork1708]

Facts are facts, however opinions are NOT facts.

[@susieg1]

Thank you ! I appreciate your researched videos so much! You are amazing!

[@extropiantranshuman]

Puffed grain cereal with orange juice is nice with cinnamon. The issue with shredded wheat is that it can come in flavors - like frosted. The shredded wheat where I live has added sugar - some have potentially non-vegan fortifiers. Even the original has BHT! Puffed grains - 1 ingredient and you can buy in bulk for cheap. I like adding in raisins. Dr. McDougall is right - juice tastes way better than milk - and they both have sugar. The color's nicer too!

[@nyxs60]

What is BHT? Just curious! :)

[@extropiantranshuman]

butylated hydroxytoluene - it's a preservative. A lipophilic organic compound derived from a phenol. Phenols are nice, but lipophilic ones tend not to be. That's why they talk about heart-healthy polyphenols.@@nyxs60

[@kardste8114]

Thanks Dr. McDougall- In today’s world the Hospital Networks send texts to their female patients to remind them to get their mammogram. I feel this is a misuse of their power over patients and electronic records.

[@sl4983]

Yes that sounds iffy. Maybe request to opt out, possibly file with HIPPA online

[@BarbinAZ]

I keep failing over and over to stop the food poisoning. I struggle with depression and fall back to emotional comfort foods. Today I made a vegan version that turned out a perfect copy of my grandma's poached meatball recipe. I used Bultler Soy Curls as the vegan base instead of mix of ground beef and pork. My question is are you familiar with this product? The ingredients are whole soybean only. It is not an isolate. How often could I eat this without overdoing soy?

[@karenstanton5405]

doctors push screenings so much . people around me say you need to do these screenings. men are the same they are pressured to get psa test. it's so hard to be different and not do it.

[@JohnDoe-xk1dv]

Too true. You have to show the evidence base, as Dr M has highlighted here. And for the very persistent, threaten politely legal action if they misrepresent that evidence base. That will stop most of them in their tracks, if they persist without the evidence base backing them up.

[@sl4983]

​@@JohnDoe-xk1dvWell she doesn't HAVE TO prove anything, just simply say no thank you.

[@JohnDoe-xk1dv]

@@sl4983 indeed - but unfortunately some clinicians ain't always respect democracy :s

[@brianharris4275]

Faucism has destroyed faith in medical system.

[@brianharris4275]

Doctors said they were just following orders.?????

[@rollin19]

People who suffer from NPD,they can never do the diet,they just are so ego tripped and delusional,they watch someone eat the food right of front of them for years and they would just find any reason to eat more of the same food that they have been eating for years. Personality disorders can not be treated,they are no joke,yet people just laugh it off like it's no big deal,if the people are not willing to let go of their ego and just surrender to the fact,to admit that their diet is not the best for their health. Doc we get better and then we have to watch our friends and family go deeper down the hole. Why arent people getting it Doc,when it's right in their face?!!

[@annelewis7435]

If I want to not have constipation unless I drink my morning decaf coffee and I use magnesium before bed does that mean I have to avoid the healthy cereals they talked about ? I’m not over weight at all - I have a bowl of rice cereal at night and love it -but one question about constipation he said No processed food -does Dr Mcdougall consider the approved cereals as healthy -I use watered down almond milk Thanks!

[@nadinemandolini1058]

Not a doctor… but what do you eat throughout the day? Are you whole food plant based? Do you meet the minimum daily requirements for fiber intake? All of these factors would presumably affect how many bowel movements you have a day.

[@Amanda_downunder]

also look at @Sweet Fruitness - she is high carb, fruit, juices, and cooked starches.

[@christieanderson1330]

If I have uterine fibroids, should I get a hysterectomy?

[@lilacstella1]

Very intersecting, do you agree at all with Dr seyfried metabolic theory of cancer? Your diets probably have low Carb in common, but high fat and protein wildly differ, I am trying to change my diet for life after a breast cancer op to remove cancers, very intestine the doubling rate.... Thank you

[@kikiob3628]

So those ultrasound “screenings” that are supposed to catch breast cancer years before a mammogram actually beneficial? What about the thermo ones?

[@sl4983]

We've already been doing no mammograms or colonoscopy. Oh, and no more paps. By our own determination, hunch, and research.

[@kathyjager7722]

I have had a headache for 3 weeks it’s in the front of my head should I go for a cat scan

[@bonniespruin6369]

I had an ultrasound that showed abnormally thick endometrial lining and need to get a biopsy. It could possibly be endometrial cancer. Do you know of anyone dealing with this issue using the Starch Solution?

[@carlawright9874]

Doctor i can feel ur truth thank God for you

[@mabelh7305]

you have confirmed that vaginal estrodial cream is ok for women? Please confirm. Thank you!

[@extropiantranshuman]

Dr Greger talks about it in his how not to age presentation. All I remember is that there's better than that - kegel exercises for urinary incontinence. If I remember correctly.

[@sharonrosemarymcadam8253]

Always thought this to be the case. So only had a couple of mamograms. Im 67 .

[@Destinedmind]

Dr. McDougall is awesome. Cash is King. So true in the modern medical world.

[@sl4983]

What about weight training?

[@j-n-y]

it's very important. especially for middle aged and older people.

[@kikiob3628]

My Cuban husband who was born and raised on white rice is now decided to stop eating it because he heard somewhere that it causes inflammation and he feels that it’s contributing to his stomach issues. Thoughts?

[@ronniejohnson9294]

Yes, rice contributes to stomach cancer. Look at Japan statistics; they consume large amounts of rice and have high rates of stomach cancer.

[@DroppingBearVictim]

@@ronniejohnson9294I thought that was commonly believed to be due to their very high intakes of sodium?

[@Amanda_downunder]

also listen to @Peter Rogers MD - white rice is fine.

[@maureensengpiehl8302]

I had 6 precancerous large polyps during colonoscopy 8 yrs agape. I’ve gone back 2x last one clean 4 yrs ago. Am I high risk and need to go back every two yrs?

[@tracieupdike2214]

Outstanding presentation! As a family doctor it is so hard to convince people about screening tests. We have been indoctrinated to believe that they save lives!

[@workhardplayharderx2]

Regarding screening, I've had friends screened at stage zero or stage 1? Is that early and is that considered good?

[@sl4983]

He talks about that

[@user-xe9zc4ng8w]

37:30 A bowel movement should NOT be tubular? That doesn’t sound right, or agree with the Bristol stool chart

[@Aquapumpkin]

I have previously heard Dennis Burkitt say the same thing, that the bowel movement should be like that of a cow patty, I assume that is basically where Dr Mcdougall is basing his own recommendations on. I have to say that since I have drastically increased my plant food intake that my bowel movements lately have basically been as they are saying. However, I’m still unsure if this is actually a good thing or if it really should be more like smooth logs. All I can say is that I have been going to the toilet every single day for the last 2 or so months which never happened before, and considering that the whole process is pretty easy going (comes out fast, little cleaning up to do, I am in the toilet for only a couple minutes whereas before it could be upto 20mins of sitting for a while, then straining the movement out, then cleaning up). I am inclined to believe these 2 on what the real ideal human bowel movements should be.

[@mariedavison3707]

The death of Dexter King is so sad , and i believe preventable. Please do another video alerting everyone about the incorrect ways of being vegan . Thank you

[@deva190]

What more information about his diet do you have? I'm sincerely curious, not trying to be sarcastic. From what I read, both he and his mother were vegans and both had cancer.

[@rollin19]

That's the Vegan which means to eat no animals. Vegan doesnt mean you are automatically healthy. The diet Dr McDougall talks about is starch,with fruits and veggies,not oils,or high protein,or processed junk foods like potatoe chips.

[@karenchapman6126]

How do you fix PCOS in a 19 year old

[@extropiantranshuman]

with plants of course!!! Exercise too - all that fat storage is going to lead to high testosterone levels.

[@panes840]

But i thought cervical smear testing was very helpful and did catch early detection?! Some women have lived for years due to smear tests. I dont understand for that type of screening.

[@wandamckinney5883]

I had a mammogram and they found cancer it was early I had the lump removed before it was full blown breast cancer had I not had the mammogram I probably would’ve lost my breast or possibly died

[@sl4983]

I had a couple lumps 25 years ago. Was about to get a ultrasound with possible biopsy. Lost job/insurance, so didn't go. The lumps resolved themselves.

[@wandamckinney5883]

I’ve had several lumps that went away in my life but this one didn’t go away it was full blown cancer and it had not spread into my lymph node thank God I had the lump removed I am Strictly WfPB no salt no oil no sugar no dairy no meat

[@maryshank7825]

That doesn't mean lumps are not cancer ​@@sl4983

[@sl4983]

I love hot chocolates and nothing tastes like whole fat milk

[@rollin19]

What you are tasting in the chocolate,the milk has no flavor but it gives you a feeling,that's the estrogen running through your blood stream.

[@sl4983]

@@rollin19 Really?

[@rollin19]

Milk is not water,you can not hydrate from consuming.

[@panes840]

Maybe it doesn't taste as good as whole cow milk. So what! Not a good enough reason to carry on drinking it. Its been so long forcus now that we couldn't care for it. We have hot chocolate with plant milks now and if it doesn't bother us. ​@sl4983

[@theanissell1469]

I’ve been reading a lot about Barbara O’Neill. She has a lot of natural remedies but now they have banned her and take it away her license in Australia. I’m lucky that I saved a lot of her messages.

[@samsun01]

Dr Cartoonish Last Name, thanks but No Shit! But the sick masses do need someone gentle and lovable like you to educate them and so yes it's mostly common sense knowledge already to the modern health conscious but the masses needs someone like you to preaching to the lowest common denoninator.

[@sl4983]

What? 🤨

[@rollin19]

Well you think if people were getting the message,their would be millions of views,because they are not getting it,that's why people continue doing the same thing they been doing all along,and they are still sick.

[@angelataylor2049]

How can you help gastroparesis?

[@HranazaŽivot]

Dear doc, you realy look like you would do well with some nuts and seeds, maybe even flax seed OIL❤

[@Amanda_downunder]

@Peter Rogers MD is against high fat. Also, Jeff @Veg Source has videos on nuts, seeds.

[@HranazaŽivot]

@@Amanda_downunder someone having phd saying something does not make it true. I don't speak about tons of fat, just some flax seed, or flax oil. His body desperately needs it. It wuold benefit

[@Amanda_downunder]

ok 👌💟 but I don't think Dr McDougall will agree and we just can accept it. I don't do well with low fat, and it makes sense, as I'm a "vata" type in Ayurveda, we need more fat than other types ie pitta, kapha. I tried low fat and did not feel good and my eyes were v dry. @@HranazaŽivot

[@doctork1708]

Latest news…accordingly a study in 1822…

[@tracysmith245]

not surprised by this at all

[@Rosamarilynosa]

The article was from November 2023

[@Jeffs60]

In 1826 President John Adams was 90 and eating pretty good without any vitamins or supplements.

[@miekomasuoka]

My My 44444444444😂😂😂²

[@Meepmew1]

You did much harm to me with Your bull. Mary looks that she should be in the coroner's table

[@annah.881]

Thank you