VallejoSheltie
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Ann, so glad you found this potentially helpful.
Aside from the Taurine, you should definately ask your Drs about NAC, N-Acetyl-Cystine for its x-ray/radiation protection that been studied for years.
This is not an official study but a report on a study reported at RSNA 2021 (radiolocigcal society N. America).
In addition there are many other benefits for NAC: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/nac-benefits#TOC_TITLE_HDR_4
I started taking this before, during and after scheduled x-rays, and now its part of my daily supplements.
Just a few years ago I broke down and started checking Reddit as so many search results would come up with similar/same questions being asked. Honestly, I was surprised at some of the seriously top-flight Phd level discussion and point/counter-point conversations that go on in many of their supplement, nootropic, health sections. Unlike facebook, twitter or instagram social media that is always suspect, most of the good discussion/Q&A's on these Reddit sections mostly seem to be accurate when I do searches on official gov. research from NIH, etc.
However everything, even things like Taurine, L-Theanine, NAC, etc, there are going to be certain situations and conditions that are going to contraindicate their use. And a lot of times the old 'more must be better' mentality can worsen Y that one might not notice as they're only focused on X.
BTW, Google is great, however going to its Advanced Search can weed out a lot of junk or old science.
A lot of people don't seem to know how to do this, so a quick tutorial:
Go to Google.com
Type in - breast cancer supplements
When the page refreshes, hit the Tools icons below the search box, off to the right.
Some boxes below that will appear, and you want to hit the one labeled "Any time"
From there you can select how far back you want Google to start searching from, Hour, Day, Week, Year, or Custom specific date range.
When I find a cite from 1995 or like that sounds promising but really iffy, I can quickly re-do the search for the past year to see if its been proved out, or search the past 3/4/5 years to see if its still being researched or a study will pop up sometime showing that while promising it ended up being a dead-end.
There is also an Advanced tab where you can refine your search more.
As great as the WWW is and has been for expanding access to information, the past 5-6 years have seen its democratization of knowledge expand by a real order of magnitude.
Boot has a local Oncologist appt for June and a backup at Cornell in July because they said they sometimes will bump someone of if its more critical or unique.
While I suspect Cornell would have the superior expertise since there is probably a cadre of old, young, and geniuses amongst them overall, its possible my local Oncologist is a brilliant Dr. who is still keeping up with cutting edge R&D and is their equal or better still.
My point though is that a lot of these experts are getting their round-up of information from quarterly journals, and that can be month/s after they actually completed a study thats available electronically and not yet finished going through the review, acceptance and publishing process.
Its entirely possible I go in to whomever Boots can see first with studies published a week or month ago that the lone Dr, or even most of a team of specialists are just not aware of yet.
I think you and most anyone else can do this without needing to become an oncologist or geneticists, within reason of course. It just takes effort and mental elbow grease.
Learn what you can, because you are your best advocate and there is so much information from different specialties that can impact other specialties its quite possible for you to come across something that can have just that little bit more positive effect.
Sorry for going long, I sometimes feel like I'm one of those militant vegetarians you end up stuck with at a function.
Aside from the Taurine, you should definately ask your Drs about NAC, N-Acetyl-Cystine for its x-ray/radiation protection that been studied for years.
This is not an official study but a report on a study reported at RSNA 2021 (radiolocigcal society N. America).
In addition there are many other benefits for NAC: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/nac-benefits#TOC_TITLE_HDR_4
I started taking this before, during and after scheduled x-rays, and now its part of my daily supplements.
Just a few years ago I broke down and started checking Reddit as so many search results would come up with similar/same questions being asked. Honestly, I was surprised at some of the seriously top-flight Phd level discussion and point/counter-point conversations that go on in many of their supplement, nootropic, health sections. Unlike facebook, twitter or instagram social media that is always suspect, most of the good discussion/Q&A's on these Reddit sections mostly seem to be accurate when I do searches on official gov. research from NIH, etc.
However everything, even things like Taurine, L-Theanine, NAC, etc, there are going to be certain situations and conditions that are going to contraindicate their use. And a lot of times the old 'more must be better' mentality can worsen Y that one might not notice as they're only focused on X.
BTW, Google is great, however going to its Advanced Search can weed out a lot of junk or old science.
A lot of people don't seem to know how to do this, so a quick tutorial:
Go to Google.com
Type in - breast cancer supplements
When the page refreshes, hit the Tools icons below the search box, off to the right.
Some boxes below that will appear, and you want to hit the one labeled "Any time"
From there you can select how far back you want Google to start searching from, Hour, Day, Week, Year, or Custom specific date range.
When I find a cite from 1995 or like that sounds promising but really iffy, I can quickly re-do the search for the past year to see if its been proved out, or search the past 3/4/5 years to see if its still being researched or a study will pop up sometime showing that while promising it ended up being a dead-end.
There is also an Advanced tab where you can refine your search more.
As great as the WWW is and has been for expanding access to information, the past 5-6 years have seen its democratization of knowledge expand by a real order of magnitude.
Boot has a local Oncologist appt for June and a backup at Cornell in July because they said they sometimes will bump someone of if its more critical or unique.
While I suspect Cornell would have the superior expertise since there is probably a cadre of old, young, and geniuses amongst them overall, its possible my local Oncologist is a brilliant Dr. who is still keeping up with cutting edge R&D and is their equal or better still.
My point though is that a lot of these experts are getting their round-up of information from quarterly journals, and that can be month/s after they actually completed a study thats available electronically and not yet finished going through the review, acceptance and publishing process.
Its entirely possible I go in to whomever Boots can see first with studies published a week or month ago that the lone Dr, or even most of a team of specialists are just not aware of yet.
I think you and most anyone else can do this without needing to become an oncologist or geneticists, within reason of course. It just takes effort and mental elbow grease.
Learn what you can, because you are your best advocate and there is so much information from different specialties that can impact other specialties its quite possible for you to come across something that can have just that little bit more positive effect.
Sorry for going long, I sometimes feel like I'm one of those militant vegetarians you end up stuck with at a function.
ratio of 1.2 to 1.4:1" also 
