by Tony Isaacs
(The Best Years in Life) The web and various books and product advertisements continue to be awash in disinformation about what Nobel Laureate Dr. Otto Warburg found about cancer and oxygen. Lack of oxygen is NOT the prime cause of cancer and that is not what Warburg found. Neither did he find that increasing oxygen was a cure for cancer, though at one time he postulated that it might be.
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Cancer cells are low in oxygen primarily because they have changed from taking in and utilizing oxygen for respiration to taking in and utilizing sugar for respiration. It is the cancer process itself which causes most of the lack of oxygen, not the lack of oxygen which causes the cancer process.
Warburg made some great discoveries about the mechanisms of cancer, especially as regards respiration and mitochondrial malfunction. Instead of the widely spread disinformation that Warburg discovered that lack of oxygen was the prime cause of cancer and that he discovered that oxygen was a cure for cancer, what Warburg actually discovered was that cancer cells were low in oxygen due to a change in cellular respiration from using oxygen to using fermentation of sugar. In his own words:
“Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.”*
—Otto H. Warburg
Regardless of what Warburg postulated and wrote earlier, in his later years he became convinced that illness resulted from pollution. In that, he came much closer to the true primary cause of cancer and other illness as had been postulated half a century earlier by the late great French scientist Antoine Bechamp: a combination of toxins and unhealthy cellular terrain.
Prolonged exposure to toxins, especially in combination with cells which have not been properly nourished, oxygenated, hydrated and cleansed is THE primary cause of cancer, especially so if one views radiation as a toxin. Over time the stress and inflammation that result from toxins leads to a dysfunction in the cellular mitochondria which leads to a cellular defense mechanism in which cells revert to a more primitive form of respiration (sugar fermentation), refuse to die, multiply and form a protective barrier.
Notably, though there have been many “prime causes” of cancer put forward, such as funguses, bacteria, viruses, parasites, stress, low pH and on and on – virtually every one of those has been around for thousands and thousands of years. What has not been around and what tracks exactly with the increased incidence of cancer is toxins.
Since the beginning of the industrial age, man has created over 100,000 unnatural chemical compounds which we have spewed or spilled into the air we breath, the soil our plants are grown in, and the water we drink. Add to that 1) the increased radiation from all the nuclear bombs (and more recently nuclear plant disasters such as Chernobyl and Fukushima) 2) microwave radiation, 3) the vaccines and other medications which the body recognizes as toxins, 4) all the pesticides, insectisides, cosmetic products and a world of household chemicals, and 5) the processed foods where harmful additive are processed in and nutrition is processed out. It all adds up to increased cancer.
*NobelPrize.org, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931 – Otto Warburg – Biography
See also:
A Critical Look at 3 Popular Alternative Cancer Cures: Oxygen, High pH and Baking Soda/Molasses
About the author
Tony Isaacs is a natural health advocate and researcher and the author of books and articles about natural health including Cancer’s Natural Enemy. Mr. Isaacs articles are featured at Natural News, the Health Science Institute’s Healthiertalk website, CureZone, the Crusador online, AlignLife, the Cancer Tutor, the American Chronicle and several other venues. Mr. Isaacs also has The Best Years in Life website for baby boomers and others wishing to avoid prescription drugs and mainstream managed illness and live longer, healthier and happier lives naturally. In addition, he hosts the Yahoo Oleandersoup Health group of over 2800 members and the CureZone Ask Tony Isaacs – Featuring Luella May forum. Mr. Isaacs and his partner Luella May host The Best Years in Life Radio Show every Wednesday evening on The Wolf Spirit Radio Network.