 | University of Arizona Cancer Center member Dr. Mark Pagel will receive a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effectiveness of personalized baking soda therapy to treat breast cancer. In other words, clinical trials on the use of oral sodium bicarbonate for breast cancer treatments are about to start![1] |
Obviously there are people in the know who have understood that sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), that same stuff that can save a person’s life in the emergency room in a heartbeat, is a primary cancer treatment option of the safest and most effective kind.
Of course I feel vindicated for everything I wrote in Sodium Bicarbonate – Rich Man’s Poor Man’s Cancer Treatment, which still stands as the only full medical review on the subject of using simple baking soda in the practice of medicine. When taken orally with water, especially water with high magnesium content, and when used transdermally in medicinal baths, sodium bicarbonate becomes a first-line medicinal for the treatment of cancer, kidney disease, diabetes, influenza and even the common cold. And importantly, it is also a powerful buffer against radiation exposure, so everyone should be up to speed on its use. Everybody’s physiology is under heavy nuclear attack from strong radioactive winds that are circling the northern hemisphere.
Actually it is no surprise that a University of Arizona researcher received this grant because there has been cancer research going on for years there. Dr. Robert J. Gillies and his colleagues have already demonstrated that pre-treatment of mice with sodium bicarbonate results in the alkalinization of the area around tumors. The same researchers reported that bicarbonate increases tumor pH and also inhibits spontaneous metastases in mice with breast cancer.[2] It also reduces the rate of lymph node involvement.
I recently published about fungal infections, and breast cancer has been found to be associated with increased frequency of mold-fermented cheese consumption.[3] Fungi produce toxic metabolites called mycotoxins[4] that can cause cancer. Aflatoxin is a mycotoxin with carcinogenic potency that is found in inferior peanut butter and other nut and dairy products. Researchers in 1993 examined human breast cancer tissue and found significant carcinogenic aflatoxin within the cancer tissue implicating aflatoxin and thus fungus as a cause of breast cancer.[5]
The pH level of our internal fluids affects every cell in our body.
Chronic over-acidity corrodes body tissue, and if left unchecked
will interrupt all cellular activities and functions. In other words,
over-acidity interferes with life itself. It is at the root of cancer.
Sodium bicarbonate medical treatments are the time honored method to
“speed up” the return of the body’s bicarbonate levels to normal.
Sodium bicarbonate happens to be one of our most useful medicines as it
treats the basic acid-alkaline axis of human physiology.Chronic over-acidity corrodes body tissue, and if left unchecked
will interrupt all cellular activities and functions. In other words,
over-acidity interferes with life itself. It is at the root of cancer.
The pH of our tissues and body fluids is crucial and central because it affects and mirrors the state of our health or our inner cleanliness. The closer the pH is to 7.35-7.45, the higher our level of health and wellbeing. Staying within this range dramatically increases our ability to resist acute illnesses like colds and flues as well as the onset of cancer and other diseases. Keeping our pH within a healthy range also involves necessary lifestyle and dietary changes that will protect us over the long term while the use of sodium bicarbonate gives us a jump-start toward increased alkalinity.
The pH scale is like a thermometer showing increases and decreases in the acid and alkaline content of fluids. Deviations above or below a 7.35-7.45 pH range in the tightly controlled blood can signal potentially serious and dangerous symptoms or states of disease. When the body can no longer effectively neutralize and eliminate the acids, it relocates them within the body’s extra-cellular fluids and connective tissue cells directly compromising cellular integrity. Conversely when the body becomes too alkaline from too much bicarbonate in the blood, metabolic alkalosis occurs, which can lead to severe consequences if not corrected quickly.[6]
Jon Barron presents a way of looking at pH that opens up one of the major benefits of alkaline water:
Hydrogen ions tie up oxygen. That means that
the more acid a liquid is, the less available the oxygen in it. Every
cell in our body requires oxygen for life and to maintain optimum
health. Combine that with what we know about hydrogen ions and we see
that the more acid the blood (the lower its pH), the less oxygen is
available for use by the cells. Without going into a discussion of the
chemistry involved, just understand that it’s the same mechanism
involved when acid rain “kills” a lake. The fish literally suffocate to
death because the acid in the lake “binds up” all of the available
oxygen. It’s not that the oxygen has gone anywhere; it’s just no longer
available. Conversely, if you raise the pH of the lake (make it more
alkaline), oxygen is now available and the lake comes back to life.
Incidentally, it’s worth noting that cancer is related to an acid
environment (lack of oxygen)—the higher the pH (the more oxygen present
in the cells of the body), the harder it is for cancer to thrive.
Understanding this is important for two
reasons: (1) it reveals one of the primary benefits of alkaline
water—more “available” oxygen in the system and (2) it explains why
alkaline water helps fight cancer.
The ocean, the mother of all life, has an average pH of about 8.1.
The ideal pH for blood sits at about 7.4, slightly alkaline—not acidic.
Jon Barron
Barron concludes:The ideal pH for blood sits at about 7.4, slightly alkaline—not acidic.
Jon Barron
If you’re eating well and living cleanly,
then yes, you want to drink water with a naturally occurring pH only
slightly above neutral. However, if you are eating the typical Western
diet, high in meat, grains, sodas, and sugars that acidify the body,
then you have a different problem. Your pH balance is now so far out of
normal that you must go beyond normal in the other direction to
counter it. My recommendation for daily drinking water pH is about
7.5-8—depending on how acid forming your diet is. Long-term consumption
of higher pH water should be reserved for special circumstances. The
most famous mountain waters in the world, waters renowned for their
healing properties, are highly alkaline. I’m referring to the waters
coming down from the Himalayas, and specifically to the waters of the
Hunza Valley, which have a pH that runs between 9 and 11.
One does not have to be a doctor to practice pH medicine.
Every practitioner of the healing arts and every mother and father
needs to understand how to use sodium bicarbonate. Bicarbonate
deficiency is a real problem that deepens with age so it really does
pay to understand and appreciate what baking soda is all about.
[1] Baking Soda Might Have Potential Against Cancer: http://digitaljournal.com/article/323645
[3]
One sample study is by Le, et al. (1986), in a French case-control
study of 1,010 breast cancer cases and 1,950 controls with nonmalignant
diseases, found that breast cancer was found to be associated with
increased frequency of mold fermented cheese consumption.
[4]
Going, et al. (1990) found that weddellite (calcium oxalate) crystals
are present in calcifications found in the breast tissue of patients
with breast cancer. Calcium oxalate crystals are formed when calcium
binds with oxalic acid. Oxalic acid is a mycotoxin that can be produced
by a number of different fungal species. Some fungi produce such large
amounts of oxalic acid that they are used for commercial production of
chemicals. Aspergillus niger fungal infection in human lungs produces
large amounts of oxalic acid.
[5]
Researchers examined human DNA from a variety of tissues and organs to
identify and quantify aflatoxin DNA-adducts. Such adducts are
considered to be proof of the mycotoxin’s presence in a particular
tissue.Their finding? “Tumor tissues had higher aflatoxin-adduct levels
than did normal tissue from the same individual.”
[6] http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001183.htmSource: http://blog.imva.info/medicine/baking-soda-cancer-laugh
