Native Medicine Doctor with Tens of Thousands of Followers on InstaPuke Making Unproven Claims About What He's Calling Thermography That is Actually Thermometry!
☝️MISLEADING CLAIMS insinuating he can accurately screen with his tool - clever wording but highly unethical given limitations👇
“Thermography is a powerful adjunctive diagnostic tool that can see abnormalities 5-7 years in ADVANCE of other testing. It even does this for the Heart, the Prostate, the Brain, your Teeth and your Gums.”
TOTAL BS!
Someone needs to ask Mr. Sage for the clinical trials showing efficacy of his claims. Are they claiming clinical trials that are of thermography yet using a wand or touch device? There are no clinical trials for touch devices that we know of so if they produce clinical trials for thermography which uses cameras, beware. Thermometry is a wand or tool that touches the body at different points - there is no “graph” or picture produced as in thermography. One such device can be seen at www.alfathermo.com
A search turns up the doctor’s Facebook page with video of a woman describing her “whole body thermography” (actually whole body THERMOMETRY is what she received) experience as a test of 160 points on her body.
Real whole body thermography measures the temperature in each pixel of the image down to 1/100 of a degree, registering many thousands of computer analyzed temperatures in a single image.
Please see Page 6, paragraph 3.3 of IACT Standards and Guidelines here to learn about the limitations of Dr. Sage’s device compared to a thermography camera system like we use.
If you read the entire document, you will learn that quality medical infrared THERMOGRAPHY is a fabulous way to screen for only one kind of cancer: it excels at detecting early signs of breast abnormality because breasts hang outside the body and are naturally cooler making extra heat very obvious. Not so for brain, heart or prostate as this so called doctor claims - nor is his thermometry device! And it certainly cannot produce comprehensive information about breast health measuring only a few points on them! Touching the skin with this instrument or any touching of the skin at all affects temperatures and is inherently not as accurate as measuring temps with an infrared camera. This is an extremely cruel, misleading dangerous post, especially for those living with cancer who may have limited time or money or both when facing a rapidly growing tumor and are in need of accurate, timely information.
REGULATION THERMOMETRY has its place but there are no clinical trials that we can find showing that is useful for screening which is what is being suggested when the claim is seeing 5-7 years in advance! Let’s see the evidence.
There is a thermography trial that got such significant results for ability to predict that it will never be repeated because it would be unethical to not make efforts to intervene knowing what we know from the trial which is that with abnormal breast scores in which no disease is detectable by other imaging at the outset will develop pathology within five years if no intervention to reverse the risk is made.
THERMOGRAPHY, if high quality, can detect heat consistent with growing breast tumors and estrogen dominance, a heat pattern which often precedes breast cancer, and it is a great tool for visualizing unresolved pain in 99% of cases. But perhaps it’s greatest use of all is for cancer patients who need to monitor treatment for efficacy, in other words to know if treatment is working which will be obvious as the extra heat dissipates from the tumor site.