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As a result of the above, we suggest that potassium is the main alkalizing mineral people should be using, together with magnesium, calcium and sodium. Potassium bicarbonate is the best form of potassium because the bicarbonate is also very helpful to increase the alkalinity of the body. This subject is explored in detail on our saliva pH test page. Food grade potassium bicarbonate is available on the Internet. Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is available in grocery stores.

Get some pH strips to measure your saliva pH. Add a teaspoon of potassium bicarbonate or sodium bicarbonate (or if muscle cramps become a problem try half a teaspoon of each) to an 8 ounce glass of water and drink it. Do this as many times each day as needed to bring the saliva pH up to at least 7.4.

You might also consume tablets of potassium magnesium citrate daily. Potassium citrate is particularly effective to increase the body's zeta potential. The body needs magnesium, even if the cancer doesn't want it. Magnesium helps make the body alkaline and the bones stronger. In addition, there are liquid cesium chloride and powdered cesium carbonate, a small amount of which can be consumed from time to time.

Each day it is good to make fresh vegetable juice or a "veggie shake". The fresh vegetable juice we like contains carrot, celery and lettuce following a recommendation from Edgar Casey. The veggie shake is made in a blender or Vitamix. You chop up the vegetables and put them in the blender, cover them with water and blend them. You might put 8 different vegetables in the veggie shake, making homemade "V8" juice.

The famous cancer doctor, Dr. Gerson (page 246) gave his cancer patients 8 ounces of fresh juice each waking hour of the day. To the juice he added a 10% potassium solution.

"Eating alkaline foods balances the pH of the blood, which, in turn, inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells. Alkaline foods keep the blood pH in its ideal range of between 7.2 and 7.4, which is important for the prevention and treatment of cancer. Ideally, the diet should consist of 80 percent alkaline-forming foods, such as those available from many raw fruits and vegetables, as well as nuts, seeds, grains, and legumes."  Gary Null, Ph.D., page 110.

There is research indicating that cancer grows slowly in a highly acid environment (because the acids cause it to partially destroy itself - "acid-induced apoptosis") and may actually grow more quickly as your body becomes more alkaline prior to reaching the healthy pH slightly above 7.4 where the cancer becomes dormant. Therefore, you will want to get your pH above 7.4 as quickly as possible by every means available. Plus, you will want to be attacking the cancer from every direction (the entire 8 step program plus other complementary treatments) simultaneously so that any lack of alkalinity is compensated for. Once you have achieved a pH above 7.4, it is useful to monitor your saliva pH regularly to ensure that your body remains sufficiently alkaline.

Also, there is research showing that it is the extracellular fluid in tumors that is acidic, not the cancer cells. Cancer cells create energy by fermenting glucose into lactic acid. The lactic acid can travel to the liver where it is converted to glucose, which then travels back to feed the cancer. Alternatively, cancer cells can excrete the H+ ion into the extracellular fluid while retaining the negatively charged lactate. This research validates the altered metabolism of cancer cells as explained on our oxygen page, and the acidic extracellular fluid of tumors serves as a barrier preventing oxygen and immune cells from reaching the cancer cells. Neutralizing this extracellular acid can be achieved with sodium bicarbonate or potassium bicarbonate. One of the mechanisms cancer cells use to expel H+ ions is called the Na+/H+ exchanger. H+ leaves the cell and sodium enters. This may be one reason why cancer cells contain an excess of sodium. You can read about the potassium-sodium ratio here.

"For cells to perform normally, they need to concentrate potassium and expel sodium. In the cells, potassium to sodium ratio is about 10 times. When cell membranes are damaged, potassium is leaked and the cells start to divide. Dividing cells and cancer cells have a lower ratio of potassium to sodium compared to normal cells. That cancer cells grow in an uncontrolled manner is probably related to the lowered potassium-sodium ratio." - Dr. Lai   

"...when blood flow to a tissue is decreased, the delivery of oxygen and nutrients is reduced; if the blood flow becomes too low to maintain normal tissue metabolism, the cell membrane ionic pumps become depressed. When this occurs, sodium ions that even normally leak into the interior of the cell can no longer be pumped out of the cells, and the excess sodium ions inside the cells cause osmosis of water into the cells. Sometimes this can increase intracellular volume of a tissue area -  even of an entire ischemic leg, for example - to two to three times normal. When this occurs, it is usually a prelude to death of the tissue...Intracellular edema can also occur in inflamed tissues; inflammation usually has a direct effect on the cell membranes to increase their permeability, allowing sodium and other ions to diffuse into the interior of the cell with subsequent osmosis of water into the cells." - Guyton & Hall, pages 308-309.

Alkalinity vs. Cancer videos - Vernon Johnston, Rod Peterson


"Manipulation of the extracellular and/or intracellular pH of tumors may have considerable potential in cancer therapy...The degree to which pH is depressed in tumors - as mirrored by their lactate levels - tends to correlate with prognosis; i.e., the more acidic tumors are associated with poorer outcome. In part, this phenomenon may reflect the fact that tumor acidity is serving as a marker for HIF-1 activation, which works in a variety of complementary ways to boost tumor capacity for invasion, metastasis, angiogenesis, and chemoresistance. However, there is increasing evidence that extracellular acidity per se contributes to the aggressiveness of cancer cells, boosting extracellular proteolytic activities, expression of pro-angiogenic factors, and metastatic capacity." - Manipulating Tumor Acidification as a Cancer Treatment Strategy, Mark F. McCarty, BA and Julian Whitaker, MD.

"Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) has shown that the pH of MCF-7 human breast cancer xenografts can be effectively and significantly raised with sodium bicarbonate in drinking water." - Enhancement of chemotherapy by manipulation of tumour pH.

"Bicarbonate Increases Tumor pH and Inhibits Spontaneous Metastases", Cancer Res 2009;69:2260-2268. Published OnlineFirst March 10, 2009.



Acidity and Free Radicals

Much has been written about free radicals and cancer. A harmful free radical is an ion that has a positive electrical charge. Acids (H+) have a positive electrical charge. Alkaline (OH-) has a negative electrical charge, as do free electrons. Due to its positive charge, the free radical attracts electrons from other molecules, thereby damaging them. Sources of free radicals include farm chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides), many prescription drugs, processed foods, cigarette smoke, environmental pollution, alcohol, electromagnetic radiation, and stress (Sharma, pages 26-27). The negative charge of alkalinity and free electrons can neutralize the positive charge of free radicals.


In 1973, a study conducted by the Department of Occupational Health at Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem found that when cancerous breast tissue is compared with non-cancerous tissue from elsewhere in the same woman's body, the concentration of toxic chemicals such as DDT and PCBs was "much increased in the malignant tissue compared to the normal breast and adjacent adipose tissue." - www.alternativemedicine.com 

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"At this time no one knows whether there is a "safe dose" of a cancer-causing agent."
- Dr. Arthur I. Holeb

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"...every so-called disease is a crisis of toxemia, which means that toxin has accumulated in the blood above the toleration point. ...the crisis, the so-called disease - call it cold, flu, pneumonia, headache, or typhoid fever - is a vicarious elimination. Nature is endeavoring to rid the body of toxin."- Dr. Tilden, Toxemia Explained, 1926, p. 49. Read this book online for free. Watch Introduction to Natural Hygiene parts 1 and 2.

"This concept of disease known as vicarious elimination has never been disproven." - Dr. Tim O'Shea.
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