Ever since I began to study natural health I have been interested in understanding the mechanisms of cancer, because to date it has apparently defied understanding by the conventional medical field.

We all know that cancer can be a devastating disease and that it is rampant in our North American population. From time to time, politicians and medical authorities declare a “war on cancer.” Multi-millions of dollars are raised from the public for cancer research. However, cancer in its various forms is still on the increase. What’s wrong with this picture?

When you search the literature on cancer, there are many ways to view its treatment. The question for me is – do they address the cause? If we are only eliminating a symptom, such as a tumor, what is to stop the cancer from returning? We must get to the ‘cause’.

My first understandings regarding how the body should be able to resist, and possibly overcome, cancer centered around the 1931 Nobel Prize-winning work of Dr. Otto Warburg. He received the prize for his discovery that the prime cause of cancer is impaired cell respiration which results in lack of oxygen in the cells. He further stated that cancer cannot survive in the presence of adequate oxygen. In a 1966 lecture he gave in Landau Germany, Dr. Warburg stated:

"In every case, during the cancer development, the oxygen respiration always falls, fermentation appears, and the highly differentiated cells are transformed into fermenting anaerobes, which have lost all their body functions and retain only the now useless property of growth and replication. Thus, when respiration disappears, life does not disappear, but the meaning of life disappears, and what remains are growing machines that destroy the body in which they grow."

As it happens, cellular oxygen is directly related to the degree of acidity in the cell. Near a neutral cell pH, oxygen levels are highest and there is normal cell respiration. However, when cellular pH becomes strongly acidic, the body must revert to its back-up cellular energy-generating mechanism of fermentation, which produces significantly diminished amounts of oxygen.

There are many possible reasons for why certain body cells become acidic and thereby set the stage for chronic disease to develop. I will not address these here but refer readers to my book Conscious Health for an in-depth understanding of how to help body chemistry remain in a healthy, near-neutral pH range, and avoid over-acidity. What I am presenting in this writing, as I have inConscious Health, is to give readers another avenue to explore should they be searching for cancer solution alternatives, or in addition to surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation.

About three years ago I had a shocking wake-up call to seek further understanding.  Two friends had been battling stage 4 cancers. After their cancers had become evident they both worked at alkalizing their bodies in attempts to maximize cellular oxygen levels. However, when both of them eventually died, this sent me into further search for understanding the possible reasons why. Through this search for more answers I came upon the works of Drs. Beard, Revici, and Kelley. These gentlemen not only sought to understand the cause of cancers, but had many successes treating cancer patients as well. Dr. Nicholas Gonzales continues working with cancer patients along these lines of reasoning today.

In 1902 in Scotland, Dr. John Beard discovered that cancer cells behave exactly like trophoblastic cells of a newly-developing fetus until the pancreas is formed and begins to produce pancreatic enzymes. At this point the rapid growth and cell dividing stops and normal growth takes place. He used pancreatic enzymes with his patients to halt the rapid growth of cancer cells.

Another very important property of cancer cells is that they form a thick fibrin (protein) coating to help protect themselves from the body’s immune system. This, I believe, is the reason why only alkalizing the body was not effective for my two friends who died. It appears that the cancer cells in their bodies were able to resist the exterior alkaline influence due to their fibrin coverings. Consequently, pH remained low and fermentation continued in their cancer cells, producing only low levels of oxygen.

Dr. Emanuel Revici also discovered that normal urine pH fluctuates each day on both sides of 6.2. In cancer patients he noted that urine pH remains stuck on extremes either side of 6.2, and that this is directly related to cancer pain. He formulated and used certain preparations of minerals and lipids to treat an either overly-acid or overly-alkaline condition to return the urine pH to a normal fluctuation.

Selenium is evidently one element that, if able to enter cells, will raise pH and increase cellular oxygen levels to the point where the cancer dies. But the trick is to get it into the cancer cells.

As I understand it, these doctors worked with their patients to break down the fibrin coatings of cancer cells and introduce certain minerals and oils to normalize cellular chemistry.

Noting the above information, I think I now have some understanding as to why my two friends died even though their immune systems appeared to be working normally. Cancer cells in their bodies, protected by fibrin coatings, remained beyond access of their immune systems and nutritional corrective measures, and continued to multiply unabated.

An avenue which readers might wish to pursue further is the writing and experience of Kelley Eidem, which is available on the Internet. Kelley wrote a book about the work of Dr. Revici entitled, The Doctor Who Cures Cancer. When, at a later date he found that he had developed cancer himself, Kelley used understanding he had gained from Dr. Revici’s research and experience. However, he took a different approach to breaking down the fibrin layer and introducing cancer-killing food sources. His recommendations, which reportedly are meeting with success in a relatively short period of time, include: habanero peppers or fresh ginger, garlic, and emulsified cod liver oil or primrose oil, depending on the cancer circumstances.

All said and done, there is no simple prescription to beating cancer and staying well afterwards. InConscious Health I attempt to summarize some important insights into cancer and its possible treatment. However, the best approach is prevention in the first place, and that means learning how to work with your body to supply the nutrients it needs to build health, retain a strong immune system, and detoxify on a regular basis to minimize the toxic load your body must cope with. Also, don’t forget to address possible emotional blockages to healing energies in your body. The main reason I wrote Conscious Health is to show people how they can take responsibility for their own health by gaining a clear understanding of how the body operates and having a health plan to follow. 

Conscious Health is a natural health library in one book!