Preventive Medicine Doctor in Roswell, GA

One woman in eight in the United States will develop breast cancer during her lifetime. At Natural Medical Solutions we work on strengthening the body, using a range of therapies to support the immune system. The other half of it is rarely discussed, because breast cancer takes an enormous mental and emotional toll alongside the physical one.

Warning Signs of Breast Cancer

Many breast cancer symptoms are not noticeable without professional screening. Some can be caught early simply by paying attention to your own breast health. When you check, look for the following warning signs:

Supportive Care During Breast Cancer Treatment

Some people going through breast cancer treatment want support alongside their oncology care. That is what Dr. Gail Ravello offers: supportive care built around nutrition, sleep, stress and the toll treatment takes, planned around the oncology treatment already underway and coordinated with that team. It is not cancer treatment, and it is not a reason to delay or decline any part of your oncology plan. Anything taken by mouth is reviewed with your oncology team first, because some supplements and herbs interfere with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone-blocking drugs. Call us at (770) 674-6311 to talk it through.

Working the late shift has been linked to poor health for a long time. Recent studies suggest those hours may also raise the risk of cancer.

Researchers found that people working prolonged late-night rotations were almost twenty percent more likely to develop cancer than women working ordinary daytime hours.

Looking at specific cancers, they found that women working long hours into the night carried a higher risk of skin cancer, breast cancer and lung cancer.

Co-author Xuelei Ma, Ph.D., of the West China Medical Center at Sichuan University in China, and colleagues published their findings in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention .

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), roughly 15 million people in the United States work outside normal hours, late shifts included.

Earlier research has shown that irregular late shift work badly disrupts our biological rhythm. That is the internal clock governing the body's processes across a 24-hour cycle, and it takes its cues mainly from light and dark, which is to say from day and night.

Late-night shift work has been linked to a long list of health problems, obesity, heart disease and several types of cancer among them.

This study set out to understand more about the connection between long-term night shift work and cancer risk.

Overall cancer risk rose by around 19 percent.

The finding came from a meta-analysis of 61 studies, covering a total of 3,909,152 subjects and more than 114,000 cancer cases. Participants came from countries across Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.

The team used that data to assess how long-term night shift work related to the risk of developing a range of different cancers.

In a separate analysis, the researchers looked at whether long-term night shift work was linked to the risk of six specific cancer types.

To keep your immune system steady through the year, the basics matter most: a balanced way of eating, enough rest and some handle on your stress.

Aim for five to seven servings of vegetables and fruit a day, which is where the immune-supporting vitamins, minerals and antioxidants come from.

Good hygiene and regular hand-washing cut down how far germs travel. Wash fruit and vegetables before you eat or cook with them, and keep glasses, forks, spoons and other utensils properly clean so germs have less chance to spread.

Find ways to handle stress that actually work for you, whether that is meditation, listening to music or writing. Exercise is one of the more reliable ones, and it may lower your risk of several chronic diseases that would otherwise weaken your immune system further.

Too little sleep feeds a whole range of health problems, a weakened immune system among them. Adults are advised to get seven to nine hours a night. Children need eight to 14 hours, depending on their age.

Natural Medical Solutions Wellness Center

Natural Medical Solutions is an integrative medical center that draws on the best of alternative and holistic natural medicine to help you live well. Every system in your body, immune system included, works better when the lifestyle underneath it is sound. Dr. Gail Ravello works with each client to build changes to diet and nutrition that they can actually keep, because those are what produce lasting health. Give us a call at (770) 674-6311 to book an appointment.

Colon cleansing, also known as colonic hydrotherapy , flushes the colon with warm fluid to clear waste. The practice goes back a very long way, and it rests on the idea that digestive waste left sitting in the body can become toxic.

A trained hydro colon therapist carries out the cleanse while you lie on a table. Around 60 liters of fluid passes through a tube into the rectum, waste leaves through a separate tube, and the cycle repeats through the session.

Benefits of Colonic Hydrotherapy

A colon cleanse brings several benefits. These are some of the ones that help the body as a whole:

Treatment

At Natural Medical Solutions Wellness Center we work from an integrative holistic philosophy, which means supporting the person as a “whole.” Each client is unique with individual needs. Dr. Ravello puts particular weight on gut health, and uses colonic hydrotherapy as one step in bringing the body back into “true balance.” Give us a call at (770) 674-6311 to schedule an appointment.

We now offer Corrective Massage Therapy at Natural Medical Solutions Wellness Center. It is the first massager that scans the length of your spine and then delivers a fully customized massage, loosening tight muscles, easing joint inflammation and improving both circulation and energy. The unit combines rollers with infrared warmth. The rollers are made from jade, which stimulates circulation naturally, while the infrared warms the body and opens the blood vessels.

Benefits of Corrective Massage Therapy

Corrective Massage Therapy is a comfort and relaxation therapy. Like any massage, it does not diagnose, treat or cure any condition. What people come to it for:

Tell us beforehand if you are pregnant, have a blood clot or a clotting disorder, uncontrolled high blood pressure, a fever, an active skin infection, or recent surgery. Some of those mean we adapt the session. Some mean we leave it for another day.

• Muscle tension and tightness through the back, neck and shoulders
• Everyday aches and stiffness, including the stiffness that comes with arthritis
• Stress, and a nervous system that will not settle
• Trouble winding down at the end of the day
• Circulation and the loose, warm feeling afterwards
• Comfort alongside care for fibromyalgia and other chronic pain

We run the full range of functional medicine lab tests : Cholesterol, Diabetes, Food Allergy, Environmental Chemical Testing, Parasite Testing, Adrenal, Neurotransmitter, Vitamin Deficiency, Heavy Metals, Gluten Intolerance, Candida, Male/Female Hormonal Imbalance, Advance Lipid, Thyroid Testing, Wilson Protocol, Lyme Disease, Lupus Testing, Cardiovascular and Digestive. Samples are taken by blood, urine, saliva or stool depending on the panel.

Call us on (770) 674-6311 to schedule an appointment. We would be glad to hear from you.