MAN FERTILITY was asking me the other day, "How come we know so many young people with thyroid cancer? How does one get thyroid cancer?"FertilityBitch said, "I dunno, I thought you had to live by Chernobyl or something."
Then, faster than a speeding bullet, comes the most excellent thyroid newletter from the thyroid goddess, Mary Shomon into my in-box:
Good Lord, I have never HEARD of this thyroid collar, no less been offered one! My dentist in NYC used to get a full set of Xrays every year...eeeeek! Add that to your yearly mammogram, and all I can say, is, You GLOW, girl! Read Mary's 9 other excellent tips and subscribe to her newsletter here.
Ask for a Thyroid Collar When X-Rayed
When you get dental x-rays, or x-rays of the head, neck, or collarbone area, does the x-ray technician use a lead collar on your thyroid?
Most likely, your answer is no.
And that means, your thyroid is being needlessly exposed to radiation.
2 comments:
I had thyroid cancer at the age of 25 and as a child i was never exrayed when i went to the dentist.?
There's lots of other things--do you live near a nuclear waste site? Food that is grown in suhc soil and shipped other places can have radiation, too :(
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