What Otto Warburg Actually Discovered About Cancer
Seldom does a week go
by without articles, internet posts, and advertisements which maintain that
Nobel Laureate Otto Warburg discovered that cancer was caused by low oxygen and
acidic pH. Though often misreported, Dr. Otto Warburg did not win the Nobel Prize for finding that cancer cannot live
in an oxygen rich or alkaline environment.
What Warburg discovered
and what he was awarded a Nobel Prize for was for simply making the discovery
that low oxygen was characteristic of cancer cells.
Otto Warburg made
some groundbreaking 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, the
truth may surprise you…
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.”
The widespread
misrepresentation of Warburg’s discovery is most often used to support the sale
of products, books, or treatments which center around beating cancer with
oxygen and alkalizing. At one time, Warburg did hypothesize that oxygen might
be used to cure cancer. However, when he tested his hypothesis and tried to
cure cancer with oxygen, he failed.
It is easy to see why
Warburg’s efforts to cure cancer with added oxygen failed. This is because lack of oxygen is
not the prime cause of cancer − toxins are the prime cause of cancer. Cancer cells are low in oxygen
primarily because they have changed from taking in and utilizing oxygen for
respiration to a more primitive form of respiration which utilizes sugar
instead of oxygen. It is the cancer process itself which
causes most of the lack of oxygen, not the lack of oxygen which causes the
cancer process.
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. This is something that had been
postulated half a century earlier by the late great French scientist Antoine
Bechamp. Bechamp believed that illness is the result of a combination of
toxins and an 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.
This is 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.
This 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.
Simply stated, cancer
cells have low oxygen because they quit taking in oxygen for respiration as
part of the cancer process itself. Similarly, it is the cancer process itself
which causes the body to become increasingly acidic. The body labors mightily
to maintain blood pH within a narrow range (7.35 – 7.45) and most people first
get cancer when their pH is at or close to the normal range. As
the cancer progresses, the body becomes increasingly acidic.
There have been many
“prime causes” of cancer put forward, such as fungus, bacteria, viruses,
parasites, stress, low pH, and on and on. But notably, 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. These have been spewed or spilled into the air we breathe, the soil
our plants are grown in, and the water we drink. Adding to that are the
following:
1.
The
increased radiation from all the nuclear bombs (and more recently nuclear plant
disasters such as Chernobyl and Fukushima)
3.
The
vaccines and other medications which the body recognizes as toxins
4.
All
the pesticides, insecticides, cosmetic products, and a world of household
chemicals
5.
The
processed foods where harmful additives are processed in and nutrition is
processed out. It all adds up to increased cancer.
This article does not
mean to imply that providing the body with extra healthy oxygen, especially at
the cellular level, cannot help beat cancer or is not healthy. Normally, oxygen
does play an important role in normal programmed cell death. That is due to the
oxidative damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS).
ROS are chemically
reactive molecules containing oxygen. Examples include oxygen ions and
peroxides. ROS are formed as a natural byproduct of the normal metabolism of
oxygen.
The trick with trying
to beat cancer with oxygen is getting the oxygen inside the cells. It is not enough to
simply provide an oxygen rich environment around the cancer cells or in the bloodstream.
This is because, as pointed out earlier, cancer cells stop taking in oxygen −
and that is true no matter how much oxygen may be available.
Extra oxygen as well
as a healthy alkaline diet are both very healthy things to do, but it is the
author’s strong belief that relying solely on either oxygen or increased pH to
beat cancer is not advisable.
Article Summary:
· It is
frequently misreported that Dr. Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize
for finding that cancer cannot live in an oxygen rich or alkaline environment.
· What Warburg
discovered and what he was awarded a Nobel Prize for was for simply making the
discovery that low oxygen was characteristic of cancer cells.
· Lack of oxygen is not
the prime cause of cancer − toxins are the prime cause of cancer. It is the
cancer process itself which causes most of the lack of oxygen, not the lack of
oxygen which causes the cancer process.
· In his later years
Otto Warburg became convinced that illness resulted from
pollution. This is in line with the findings of the late great French
scientist Antoine Bechamp who believed that illness is the result of a
combination of toxins and an unhealthy cellular terrain.
· Since the beginning
of the industrial age, man has created over 100,000 unnatural chemical
compounds. These are now in the air we breathe, the soil our plants are
grown in, and the water we drink.
· Providing the body
with extra healthy oxygen is still highly beneficial. The trick with
trying to beat cancer with oxygen is getting the oxygen inside the cells.
· Extra oxygen as well
as a healthy alkaline diet are both very healthy things to do, but it is the
author’s strong belief that relying solely on either oxygen or increased pH to
beat cancer is not advisable.
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