time and welcome back to the fall season of healthy inspirations i'm your host wendy smith i'm really excited to showcase some new and amazing guests on the upcoming episodes we're going to feature everything from nutrition to exercise to self improvement and no topic is ever off limits and as always the goal of the show is to encourage and inspire you to take charge of your life and your health now since october is officially breast cancer awareness month i wanted to showcase some various forms of early detection today we have a special guest from health and hansen thermography in bethel park her name is bethany mary and she is going to tell us about the benefits of thermography so welcome both me thank you for having me yeah thanks for being on the show so tell me a little bit i know i've had a chance actually to come to your by two names digital infrared thermal imaging which slow but more technical and then thermography but essentially what it is a diagnostic tool to look for how your body is functioning so unlike other diagnostic tools to look for the anatomy we're looking for the physiology in the body so what is your body saying steer own he temperature ok so is it invasive or not invasive there's no radiation there's no contact with the body so say instead of the machine shooting something  you all you're doing is shooting something at it it's your own body temperature and that way we're able to see the physiology and house functioning so it goes up body temperature so try to explain a little bit about how that works so what what can you tell from different body temperature will the body should be truly symmetrical so from left to right if you're having some type of i typically dysfunction then generally it's going to show in one area of the body as opposed to the other so if you're looking for any type of issue we're looking for asymmetrical patterns and that's them by your own he body temperature so in short we're looking for cells changes in vascular changes and those are all shown through thermal t temperatures so when your own body is images the technology we're looking to see is one area cooler as one area hotter which can indicate the andes that there may be some type of dysfunction in that area ok so on the screen and i know because i've had this done if there's any red the right that's how it shone if there's any red that means that there's more heat yet centrally so the hottest temperatures white and then red and then you get your cooler temperatures which are usually the blues and black so anything that has an infection inflammation even all the way up to a cancer cell or something that has strong abnormality to it that's going to show up at a higher temperature point average body temperatures roughly ninety eight point six so when your cells are abnormal or being attacked by something that's malignant then it processes them to be a little bit higher in temperature and then things that are color usually vascular disorders neurological disorders and those are shown by color temperature points through the technology so you can have both and i don't know that yet i just thought it was the higher he know it can be for either oh look at a lot of things so how did you get into this of all things you know to be a super passionate about their modesty and to want to do this as your full time you're a business owner so this is what you do yeah you know i ended into it i'd always wanted to own my own business and do something with the medical aspects and i grew up in england for a part of my life and then traveled there a lot of europe and other countries and i saw this or modify it was much more prevalent in those countries and so i knew a little bit about what it was and when i was deciding to open my own business i looked into some are graffiti in pennsylvania more specifically pittsburgh and there was pretty much nothing out there so i knew there's a need in the community and i decided to jump head first and purchase the technology that myself and two other employees got trained as technicians and we've been the south poles now for so over a year well most of them yes it's so it's so cool to see just what kind of led you you know even just to the path of of this technology so tell me about do you know approximately one this became relevant in the united states because i do know a lot of european countries have these tools and have been using them for years we're kind of a little way on the bandwagon over a little later in the same room but around the eighty's so early eighty's think it's one thousand nine hundred two when it was f d a approved as an adjunct to mammography and so it is used as a toll for earlier detection of multiple disease and dysfunction but as show something maybe off or wrong in someone's body it's generally five to ten years especially on the breast health side of things and because we're looking for how the body functioning in physiology aspects we can see subtle changes cells so generally it takes about four billion cells to form a piece eyes that and mammogram or other diagnostic tools are able to see we're able to see just under three hundred cells about two hundred fifty six when there's an abnormality pattern so between the formation of two hundred fifty six cells and just over four billion that's roughly a five to ten in your earlier diagnosis or at least the prompter to help with the diagnosis that's crazy  so what does that mean i mean honestly for you know just talking about breast cancer and cancer in general i mean i lost my dad last year too he had cancer his bile duct and then his spread to his liver and eventually his whole body and that's actually what prompted me to be really interested in this because i'm young you know i'm healthy i eat healthy i exercise do all the right things but i wanted to be able to protect myself and to see that early prevention and that's why i sought you guys out because i figured because you can do it at a younger age correct maybe talk a little bit about that yet for any area of the body  it can be men women and children so you can be as young as three years old and come in for a scan but as far as a breast health which will focus on usually it's recommended twenty three and above and that's when your breast tissue is usually most dense which makes it difficult for mammography to pick up on and again with ultrasound but also you're leaving that void between twenty three and forty years old before you're eligible for any other type of diagnostic tool so it is a great test or imaging toll for men women and children with that i have avoided aren't able to go get the standardized diagnostic you have because you can't get your first mammogram till forty in some instances it depends where you are where you go but sometimes it can be fifty and they are trying to push it up so what insists is especially with women developing breast disease much younger higher rates that much younger ages it's important that there's other tools out there that are preventative so do you see a lot of young yeah we see a lot of moms dragging their but it's definitely getting the word out there a lot more younger people are coming in especially if they have a family history so although this is six of developing breast disease are at that much higher if you do have a family history usually prompt people to be a little bit more concerned so especially was the same a margraf e they usually suggest you come in ten years prior to your closest family members earliest diagnosis so a lot of times that can leave you in your early twenty's and early thirty's because we're radiation free this is a great option to come in and get pre screened so tell me about that radiation free so absolutely no hurry nothing hard to believe is just normal temperature so we're using the temperature technology that we have there's no compression there's no squishing nothing touches you and again there's absolutely no adverse effect so if you want to come in and do the preliminary prescreening there's no radiation it's going to be attached to your tissue and there's no adverse effects at all that's awesome i'm the person that are graphy as we know it is in small doses but the longer timeframe that you're exposed to radiation obviously that builds up in again with mammography looking for an anatomical structure it's often difficult if you have dense  tissue or fiber cystic younger women always have denser breast tissue so if they go in for a mammogram it can be difficult for them to be picked up on so they're going repeat repeat mammograms which is building up  sense so what if say someone has on one end of the spectrum they have the higher heat or the lower he what's the next step for you like for that patient that's just dependent on them where see a lot of women that have abnormal results but then they make lifestyle changes diet exercise cut out smoking drinking and they come back in three to six months and they see significant change in a lot of times that are abnormal results then turn normal and then there are other women obviously that maybe it is developing and there is an issue there so our doctors will recommend the mammogram a biopsy or an ultrasound so the next that's because again this is just the earlier stage of going for the next diagnostic test well that's great i think doing nutrition coaching that the other end of a part of it is you can actually see what your body has been doing or not doing or you know building up over time as we choose junk food to eat or smoke or drink and all of those things and how that really does affect our body i think a lot of us and i know i had this mindset growing up just because of my family and my dad was a smoker a drinker you know loved mcdonald's and eating really unhealthy food and you know what we saw unfortunately we saw the consequences with him and you know it's it's unfortunate that you know we kind of live in this mentality that oh you know i'm going to die someday so i might as well just write go all go all out but it's amazing how you're even seeing these changes after just a few months of getting getting on the healthy bandwagon this is the sense in a lot of things these correlate you know we take a full medical history and then we submit the images ok so a lot of times these people have you know they do have an unhealthy lifestyle nine times out of ten they come know it just shows it probably is amazing for you to see the results because i know people come in you know maybe every what three months they had a base or with the breast imaging we recommend three months in the reason for that is cells generally double every ninety days ok so that's the three month timeframe so for the medical doctors to get a better idea of whether or not your patterns are stable your back to their patterns yourself changes you come in once let's say today and then again in three months time everything stable you come back in yulee ok but we do see people especially with chiropractic sports injuries those women who are making lifestyle changes with breast images it is really fascinating it feels very rewarding when you come in and see people make positive changes or you do help someone create something that maybe they wouldn't have otherwise that's amazing so well we're going to take actually a quick break right now and then when we come back we're going to hear more from bethany and all about their but i have to be responsible because my first coach told me you can do this because my teacher helped me see the choices because mike has treated me like everybody else because my boss showed me how to do a good job because a mentor believed in my potential is why i am where i am today i'm sitting faster than i ever dreamed i  as an artist i led my high school team to two championships i am a valuable employee i have a career that i am passionate about what can you do what can you do like all young 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goes through during this process and you know i can speak volumes because i did it and so at first i was nervous i'm not going to load my fish what am i getting myself into and i didn't know if it was going to be painful or painless or what was going to happen but for me it was a very easy process you have very nice staff everything's very clean which is always good when you go into a medical facility and you feel clean but tell just from your from your standpoint tell me a little bit about what if i'm someone that's just new to this whole thing what would happen will you're going to receive an e mail first this that helps us some patient preparations just general things not to elevate your body temperature the day of the scan so we recommend you don't have chiropractic adjustment p c drink a ton of coffee then you come into the clinic you out your paperwork like you would any of their doctor's office all your paperwork your personal health history and then you meet with the technician so as you know she may feel really comfortable to show you the equipment and then you'll go over a little bit more about your health background any concerns that you have and then you just disrobe to the area of the body they're getting image so with the breast imaging you obviously would be disrobed at the top the can leave your pants on and then you take all of the images usually only takes about ten to fifteen minutes for the images themselves but nothing touches you the technician doesn't touch you there's no compression and there's no radiation then you get your eyes the technician leigh's she comes back and shows you your images and then we send them out to our medical doctors to get a report back within seventy two hours it was very very fast yes which was cool so i got a full and then you get a full report correct you get these copies one for you and then one for your physician see to take it to  a you know only get the report but you also get the images that we were taking as well i was getting real nervous so when i had mine i was like oh my goodness you know what's going to come back what's going to show up and i didn't see any red or things you know if things were looking good so i was i was pleased with that  so tell me a little bit about the different types of cancers this kim essentially detect right it's known for early detection of any kind of precursor for stays in the milk so again there is no structure so with something that's looking for how the body's functioning it's a great tool for those two specific types of cancer and then again anyone who has had a msec to me who doesn't want skin surface temperature so it's not obscuring the results at all so the the breasts ok so explain a little bit now how the transit here explain how the all right so we have breast cancer right now and that's that's what i did i got prescreen for the are there any other types of cancer in the body i know words this is breast cancer right but that that can also play a role and yeah we're mainly we're not looking for cancer per se we're looking for a precursor of dysfunction that can lead to something that's cancerous or maybe an early indication that you do have cancer but any area of the body so we do full body scans half body scans a lot of women especially do the upper body which is abdominal breast and thyroid that's usually very closely related so we're able to see sports injuries how is it a sprain strain how is that progressing chiropractic issue gastrointestinal issues and type of dysfunction you can think of in the body we're able to  just like with other tools and tell me about some of your partners you kind of you've been saying chiropractic and i know that you have some chiropractic facilities that are partners with you tell me a little bit about some of the partners and yeah you do there and we travel throughout the pittsburgh area so  as you know the quitman is very portable so we're able to bring our technicians and equipment weather was so we go anywhere from washington to shady side and then our clinics in basle park that we partner with different n d s chiropractors and natural path where we can bring our services to their patients so it's almost a one stop shop where they don't have to seek out our clinic in the various people throughout this pittsburgh area and since you are one of the only if not only in the south hills of the ma graffiti in the south hills which is right which is great so let's i want to take a look just at the start of this camera here so this is this is it and this is what people yeah ok so help us sometimes people want this big machine but it's not it's really small again it's really and noninvasive so this is the camera when you're getting your images taken in hooked up to our laptop and equipment so the technician is able to focus in on an area of concern or just a preventative area take all the images they load into all of our software and then we're able to electronically submit them to the doctors but this is how simple it is so nothing touching you at  all and now that those a full body scan to yes this is the full body scan also a lot of times we'll take a large area of the full body and then we'll focus in specifically on each area breaking it down so that the doctors can be more a really impactful you know for getting a skin while we have had there's a lot of people that come in and they see success with that but one woman that comes in the mind she has a strong history of breast cancer in her family so she also does margraf e but she came in for the alternative approach with her mom griffey and her initial stand was not very good it was seeing some issues in asymmetrical patterns and she came in for her baseline her three month scan in a had progress gotten worse so the suggestions on their side was to or the doctor said i was to go and get another mammogram and things like that so she decided to make lifestyle changes and she wanted to wait three more months and get another scan so she made lifestyle changes if she met with a natural pack that doctor and they said small turnout of medicine work and she came back in six months and they were not only better than her three month scan but they were completely normal while so she was obviously she only happy and comes back and we have all types of things one man who came in he was having shortness of breath we were able to detect that there was abnormality in his chest cavity it was showing up as blue and so the doctors recommended he went to further diagnosis he went to the hospital and he actually had a huge goyer that was blocking his chest cavity and he went to surgery so it's just certain you know those are just two example on a weekly basis we see something really positive well and it's just changing people's lives right i mean and the thing that i love about it and i'm partial just because of you know nutrition is my my thing and you know is is the early detection of how important that is and i really love that you're reaching a younger audience too because i think it is important to know that the choices that we make now can affect us in the future and so making healthier choices now will help us so that we don't go through those things exactly and being able to see a baseline even of you know hey this is when i first started and this is the skin now and then now it's ten times better and i made the simple changes along the way if we can help one person that's what we want to do so even if it just helps one person per year for ten years that's fine it's just getting the word out there that there is an alternative or there is an additional toll and then along with that it's a precursor for your health so you're able to catch something a little bit earlier and make simple changes it can make the world of difference five ten years down the road where it might be more significant and i love that and that's why i love you and your you so much and your in your business and everything that you're doing for the community it's  it's really great do you have anything going on with breast cancer awareness month right now your facilities yeah at our facility we have a promotion it's a referral program so we do if you're for a client see now and the end of october breast cancer awareness month then you receive a fifty dollars discount off your three month baseline which is the incentive to come back for the baseline and then we're doing all types of presentations and things throughout the pittsburgh area and you can find that our web site and you do speaking about it as well yes correct so any cancer organizations and things like that but actually now the i mean this is we're just networking on set here but i'd love to have you come speak  to one of i just started a fund and author of my dad and it'll be launching in a couple months would be great to have you and i would love to share that information with people because i think it's so important for early detection and especially no radiation  the younger the better i think because as soon as you can get in and do this and really our people to live healthy lives so that these unfortunate things don't happen so i think that's great where can people find you online and i know you're then our website heat dash images dot com and you can find all your information there and they can find out any of your partner clinics something clarets that's all through the website quote well thank you so much for being on the show i'm excited everyone check heat dash images correct correct dot com for any information and thank you again for tuning in i'm excited to be back in full swing for the fall season it's been a great summer but i'm ready to get back to work so we have some really great gues lined up in the next couple months and if you know of anyone that is a local inspiration i would like to share their story on the show please feel free to email me at info at food mood girl dot com thanks again 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