In
1932, Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his
discovery that cancer was anaerobic: cancer occurs in the
absence of free oxygen. As innocuous as this discovery
might seem, it is actually a startling and significant
finding worthy of a Nobel Prize. What it basically means
is that cancer is caused by a lack of free oxygen in the
body and therefore, whatever causes this to occur is the
cause of all cancers.
In chemistry, alkali solutions (pH over
7.0) tend to absorb oxygen, while acids (pH under 7.0)
tend to expel oxygen. For example, a mild alkali
can absorb over 100 times as much oxygen as a mild
acid. Therefore, when the body becomes acidic by
dropping below pH 7.0 (note: all body fluids, except for
stomach and urine, are supposed to be mildly alkaline at
pH 7.4), oxygen is driven out of the body thereby,
according to Nobel Prize winner Otto Warburg, inducing
cancer. Stomach fluids must remain acidic to digest food
and urine must remain acidic to remove wastes from the
body. Blood is the exception. Blood must
always remain at an alkaline pH 7.4 so that it can retain
its oxygen. When adequate mineral consumption is in
the diet, the blood is supplied the crucial minerals
required to maintain an alkaline pH of 7.4. However
when insufficient mineral consumption is in the diet, the
body is forced to rob Peter (other body fluids) to pay
Paul (the blood). In doing so, it removes crucial
minerals, such as calcium, from the saliva, spinal
fluids, kidneys, liver, etc., in order to maintain the
blood at pH 7.4. This causes the de-mineralized
fluids and organs to become acidic and therefore
anaerobic, thus inducing not only cancer, but a host of
other degenerative diseases, such as heart disease,
diabetes, arthritis, lupus, etc..
Everyone
knows that the human body is made up of 78% water by
weight, and that water is hydrogen and oxygen gases. When
nitrogen gas and carbon in the form of carbon dioxide and
methane gases are added, the total gas in the body by
weight becomes over 95%. Almost half of the remaining 5%
that makes up the human body and controls all biological
functions is the mineral calcium.
No
other mineral is capable of performing as many biological
functions as is calcium. Calcium is involved in
almost every biological function. This amazing mineral
provides the electrical energy for the heart to beat and
for all muscle movement. It is the calcium ion that
is responsible for feeding every cell. It does this
by latching on to seven nutrient molecules and one water
molecule and pulls them through the nutrient channel.
It then detaches its load and returns to repeat the
process. Another important biological job for calcium is
DNA replication, which is crucial for maintaining youth
and a healthy body. DNA replication is the basis
for all body repair and can only occur on a substrate of
calcium. Thus, low calcium means low body repair
and premature aging. As important as all these and
hundreds of other biological functions of calcium are to
human health, none is more important than the job of pH
control. Calcium to acid, is like water to a
fire. Calcium quickly destroys oxygen robbing acid
in the body fluids. Thus, the more calcium, the
more oxygen, and therefore, the less cancer and other
degenerative disease.
This information then begs the
question, "How much calcium is
necessary?" The answer can readily be
determined by examining the diet of millions of people
around the world who consume over 100 times our
Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) and who suffer the side
effects of living 40 years longer than we do, of aging at
half the rate that we do, and of being devoid of cancer,
heart disease, mental disorders, diabetes, arthritis and
all other degenerative diseases. Almost all of these
people, the Armenians, Azerbaijans and Georgians in
Russian, the Tibetans, the Hunzas of Northern Pakistan,
the Vilcabamba Indians in Ecuador, the Bamas in China and
the Titicacas in Peru live at high altitudes above 8000
feet. Their only source of water is melting
glaciers, and the glacial water is so turbid and white
with ground up rock that all of these cultures call the
water "milk of the mountains". Each quart
of this water contains over 17,000 milligrams of calcium
along with other minerals and 60 trace metals.
These cultures drink several quarts each day and the
water fertilized crops are also loaded with calcium and
other nutrients. The only long living and disease
free culture that does not live above an altitude of 8000
feet, is the Okinawans.
Millions
of Okinawans live in the southern coral islands of Japan
with the average life expectancy of 105 years, while
mainland Japan is just 77 years. The Okinawans live
on islands made of coral reefs which are mainly calcium.
The Okinawans discovered over 500 years ago that
feeding coral sand that is produced from the weathering
of the reefs to the chickens and cows results in twice as
many eggs and twice as much milk. They also found
that when the coral sand is used as a fertilizer, crops
increase by as much as three fold. When they
finally, 500 years ago, began to consume the coral sand
themselves, all of the under utilized doctors were forced
to leave the islands. This was known in Japanese
history as the Japanese Exodus.
The
early European explorers discovered their secret and
hauled shiploads of the calcium rich coral sands back to
Europe. In Madrid, Spain, the historic monument of
the worlds first drugstore contains rows of shelves
labeled "coral calcium from Okinawa
Japan". Today millions of people all over the
world consume coral calcium, and as a result, there are
millions of medical testimonials.
The
phenomenon of preventing and reversing degenerative
disease through the consumption of large amounts of
mineral and vitamins did not go un-noticed by men of
medicine. Hundreds of years ago European doctors
were prescribing coral calcium and other nutrients to
their patients.
In
the 1950s, Dr. Carl Reich M.D. discovered that his
patients were able to cure themselves of almost all
degenerative diseases by consuming several times the RDA
of calcium, magnesium, vitamin-D and other nutrients. Dr.
Reich was the first North American doctor to prescribe
mega doses of minerals and vitamins to his patients and
is considered by many to be the father of preventive
medicine. By the 1980s Dr. Reich had cured
thousands, but lost his license for explaining that the
consumption of mineral nutrients, such as calcium, could
prevent cancer and a host of other diseases. This concept
was considered too simple to accept by the medical wisdom
of the day. However, by the late 1990s, other
medical men of wisdom were also discovering that calcium
supplements could indeed reverse cancer.
In
the October 13, 1998 issue of the New York Times wrote an
article appeared entitled "Calcium Takes Its
Place As a Superstar of Nutrients" in which it
reports that a study published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association reported that
"increasing calcium induced normal development of
the epithelia cells and might also prevent cancer in such
organs as the breast, prostate and pancreas."
It also reported that the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition published virtually no major organ system
escapes calciums influence and that a research team
from the University of Southern California found adding
calcium to the diet lowered the blood pressure in 110
black teenagers.
The
January 14, 1999 issue of the Phoenix Republic
wrote in an article entitled "Calcium Reduces
Tumors" that the New England Journal of
Medicine reported adding calcium to the diet can keep
you from getting tumors in your large intestine.
Then the February, 1999 issue of the Readers Digest
wrote in an article entitled "The
Superstar Nutrient" that the Journal
of the American Medical published "when the
participants consumption reached 1500 milligrams of
calcium a day, cell growth in the colon improved toward
normal (this means that the cancer was
reversed"). The Digest also reported that the
Metabolic Bone Center at St. Luke's Hospital believes that
"a chronic deficiency of calcium is largely
responsible for premenstrual syndrome (PMS)" and
that "a lot of women are avoiding the sun and their
vitamin-D levels may be very low". In the same
article, the Digest reported that "in 1997 the large
federally financed trial found that a diet containing
1200 milligrams of calcium significantly lowered blood
pressure in adults". Then the May 3, 1999
edition of US World News Report wrote in an
article entitled "Calciums Powerful
Mysterious Ways", that, "Researchers are
increasingly finding that the humble mineral calcium
plays a major role in warding off major illnesses from
high blood pressure to colon cancer" and that
"You name the disease, and calcium is beginning to
have a place there" (David McCarron, a nephrologist
at Oregon Health Sciences University).
Unfortunately, most doctors have not heard the news that
their own journals and major newspapers and magazines are
reporting that natural supplements, especially calcium,
can cure and prevent disease.
The
scientific evidence that calcium is the key to good and
long health is overwhelming. One does not have to
be a rocket scientist to read simple articles in
reputable newspapers, magazines and the doctors own
journals that are all saying that disease can be cured by
diet. Also one can simply look at the millions of
people around the world that never get sick and say,
"We also want to drink some milk of the
mountains". Unfortunately, all of the milk of
the mountains is consumed as fast as it is
produced. However, the Japanese could cure the
world with their "milk of the oceans" known as
coral calcium, the calcium factor of good health.
The
most frequent question asked the author (Robert Barefoot) is, "What
do you do?" The response always begins
with, "I have not taken a pill in over 30
years. Psychologically, taking pills is
synonymous with taking drugs. Also, many people
have difficulty swallowing pills. For most, many of
the pills remain intact as they pass through the
intestine undigested. The obvious solution is to do
what the author does. First, the author puts all of
the non-liquid nutrient pills and capsules into a blender
to make a pulverized blend. He then uses a flour sifter
to remove the broken up oversized capsule containers. The
author takes 24 pills and capsules each day, and he has
found that when pulverized, the blend fills a heaping
teaspoon. Thus the author pulverizes a three-month
portion and puts it into a large bottle labeled "Hunza
Powder" and then takes a heaping spoonful
each day. Secondly, the nutrient blend should be
taken at meal times, as for the elderly; this is the only
time that they have sufficient acid in their stomachs to
digest food. Thirdly, one glass of milk or one
glass of apple juice should be taken with each meal so
that the lactates or malates will keep the digested
nutrients ionized even as they pass through the alkali
duodenum, thereby allowing for greater absorption.
Also, the consumption of fruits and vegetables with meals
provides anions which enhance the absorption of
nutrients.
The
second most frequent question asked is, "Which
are the 24 pills that you take?" The
answer is 3 coral calcium (1.5 grams), 2 vitamin-D (5000
IU each), 6 multivitamins (one-a-day), 6 multi-minerals
(containing 60 trace minerals), 3 calcium (citrate), 1
magnesium citrate, 2 vitamin-C (60 mg each), 1 vitamin-E
(500mg), and 10 milligrams cesium chloride. The
result is Hunza Powder. The author
takes a heaping teaspoon each day, usually mixed in a
fruit slush or a banana shake.
Robert Barefoot, is the author of
the books, "The Calcium Factor"
and "Death By Diet". These
books are in their fourth edition, have been translated
into several languages and are used by many in the
nutrition industry as "the bibles of
nutrition". These books take scientific
knowledge provided by some of the worlds most
renown scientists and tie it together into one cohesive
scientific argument that demonstrates that nutritional deficiency is not only the cause of disease, but that by
correcting the deficiency, disease can not only be
prevented , but also cured. We have the latest printing of
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* reprinted from "The Calcium Factor" by Robert Barefoot.