Proven Answers About The High Black Maternal Death Rate and Female Health
Years ago, I began to track the extraordinarily high Black maternal death rate in the United States. Beyond conventional thinking, it's mission-critical to add holism to the thinking required for answers and solutions that are not widely known. This edition of the newsletter is the first in a series addressing Black female holistic health. It also addresses a powerful solution - the highly-successful, highly-exclusive, international regenerative health program that I manage which has been available for decades.
Along with many Black women, tennis great Serena Williams as well as track and field great Allyson Felix experienced dangerous maternal health complications that could have cost them their lives.
In the case of Serena Williams, she had to convince a doubting doctor that she was experiencing a pulmonary embolism - a blood clot in the lungs. She actually told him what testing she needed and the solution for the problem. As it turned out, "Dr. Serena" was correct. Had she not insisted, she could have died. This health scare had a profound impact on her. She has since become an advocate for maternal health and raising awareness of the dangers of pulmonary embolism.
In the case of Allyson Felix, the most decorated United States track and field stars, she described what she characterized as a "very traumatic birth experience". She was thirty-two weeks pregnant and went to the hospital for a routine appointment. She was diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia which affects both mother and baby. It can cause serious complications such as stroke, seizure, or even death. It usually occurs after the 20th week of pregnancy, but can occur earlier. It is more common in first-time pregnancies and in women over the age of 35. She was terrified and had an emergency C-section. She was forced to deliver her daughter two months prematurely.
Allyson spent several weeks in the hospital as a result. Her daughter was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for a month. Finally, her family was able to come home. Since then, she has become a vocal advocate for maternal health including testifying in front of Congress, working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as well as the March of Dimes.
Serena and Allyson are fortunate. The Black maternal death rate in the United States has been a persistent health crisis for decades. A shocking amount of Black women in the U.S. have disproportionately died due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Black women in the United States are dying during pregnancy or within 42 days after giving birth at three to four times the rate of white women.
This disproportionality is a result of a wide range of factors including racism, implicit bias, inadequate access to healthcare and lack of holistic approaches to Black female health.
The CDC reported that the Black maternal death rate (MMR) in the United States is 37.1 deaths per 100,000 live births, while the rate for white women is 12.2 deaths per 100,000 live births. Among other ethnicities, the MMR is 8.8 for American Indian or Alaska Native women, 10.1 for Asian or Pacific Islander women, and 17.7 for Hispanic women. The MMR for Black women is significantly higher than the national average of 17.4 deaths per 100,000 live births.
The reasons for this disparity in MMR are complex and wide-ranging. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) notes that social determinants of health (SDH) are a major contributing factor to this discrepancy. SDH refer to the conditions in which individuals are born, grow, live, work, and age, and can include factors such as income, education, employment, housing, and access to healthcare.
Research has shown that Black women are more likely to experience poverty and less likely to have access to quality healthcare than white women. In addition to SDH, racism and implicit bias in healthcare have been identified as contributing to this disparity.
Black women are more likely to be misdiagnosed, have their pain undertreated, or be denied care due to implicit racial biases. Black women are also more likely to be subjected to medical procedures without their consent. Everything related to COVID-19 exacerbated this health crisis, making it even more difficult for Black women to access quality healthcare. For example, the closure of many hospitals and clinics led to a decrease in access to prenatal care, resulting in an increased risk of maternal mortality and morbidity. Another national emergency along these lines will probably continue negative outcomes for Black women.
Holism in terms of health can be defined as understanding literally everything that affects the body. The highest form of holism is scientific. In some cases, conventional methods cannot be used to validate advanced holistic science. As long as medical tests can corroborate outcomes to some extent and clients experience better health outcomes, we've achieved a paradigm shift with respect to health.
Questions to consider with respect to the most advanced scientific holism include: What is happening in a person's body and environment including at the subatomic level? What is the person exposing themselves to consciously or unconsciously? How can combinations of things that have not existed or are not widely known be used to improve health? Is conventional thinking and the established order compelling medically-proven, life-saving and transformative innovators to remain behind the scenes?
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A significant and overlooked factor is holistic approaches to health both for Black women and women in other demographics in the U.S. Before I began managing "The Program" that has saved and transformed lives for decades, I was very curious about fibroids in Black women. From an early age, I heard Black women around me discuss fibroid diagnoses. It seemed to be almost an exclusive Black women's conversation.
The disproportionality of fibroids in Black women versus other demographics is high. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Black women are three to five times more likely to develop fibroids than other women. Black women are also more likely to have larger and more numerous fibroids than women of other races. Additionally, Black women are more likely to experience more severe symptoms related to fibroids, including heavy menstrual bleeding, pelvic pain, and infertility.
In fact, the fibroids conversation between Black women around me was so prevalent that I asked a Black female alternative health practitioner about them. In her alternative health center, she showed me a book called Nutricide by Llaila Africa. I bought the book after she explained that fibroids in Black women in many cases were due to the exposure to various chemicals including those related to hair care and hair treatments.
She explained that chemical lye removers used when Black women would relax their hair by using lye was part of what caused the formation of fibroids. The bodies of Black women would trap chemicals in the form of fibroids in order to literally save their lives. If not, the release of those toxins would be deadly. Furthermore, the lye removers would form gray layers under their scalps.
The innovate practitioner whose regenerative program I manage has successfully fully-reversed fibroids diagnoses at an extremely high rate with medical proof. No invasive procedures including surgery were required. Only proprietary testing, available remotely, and addressing the body in a novel, subatomic manner was necessary. Fibroids is just one of many issues that are not addressed at scale with respect to Black women's health. The major clue is that "fibroids" is not what was addressed.
What else is not as easily understood at scale with respect to the Black maternal death rate? The practitioner of The Program informed me that there are many of issues that are not addressed holistically contributing to the Black maternal death rate.
The scientific and medically-proven answers found through this innovative regenerative program are not found elsewhere including in conventional thinking. The Program has an extremely high success rate, with medical proof, pertaining to Black maternal health and health overall. Furthermore, children born to women in The Program have experienced advanced development both mentally and physically.
The United States has a lot of work to be done and many lives to saved with respect to maternal mortality. The ACOG recommends a number of measures to reduce and eliminate disparities in Black maternal mortality, such as increasing access to healthcare, improving quality of care, and reducing implicit bias in healthcare.
It is also imperative that policy makers and healthcare providers recognize and address holistic thinking both personally as well as at the policy level. If not, the Black maternal death rate and other serious issues for Black women in the United States will continue to be disproportionately high. The Program's "textbook pregnancies" and positive health outcomes for mothers as well as children have been medically-proven. That includes a well-known Hollywood hairdresser who had her first child, at the age of 47, after decades of conventional fertility thinking.
The following are the top 10 reasons for which the regenerative program has answers to Black maternal health that are not available elsewhere:
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