From the October 2003 Idaho Observer:

October: Cancer Awareness Month

compiled by Vickie Barker and Ingri Cassel

It has been predicted that cancer will affect one in two Americans this century but from what we are witnessing today, that figure appears to be much higher. The American Cancer Society, the National Institute of Health and the rest of the current medical monopoly tell us they are still searching for a "cure" for cancer despite the fact that many known cures exist that do not employ their current methods of cutting, burning, radiation, toxic chemo and poisonous drugs. Numerous testimonies have been shared by thousands of cancer survivors who have employed non-toxic, non-FDA approved cancer therapies. Instead of taking a serious look at these cases, the FedGov's agencies have chosen to either ignore these survivors or persecute those offering hope to others. It's high time for people to wake up to the truth about cancer.

It is a matter of historical record that Otto Warburg received two Nobel Prizes in Medicine in 1932 for his discovery of the cause of cancer leading to the subsequent "cure". Warburg proved that cancer is anaerobic: occurring in the absence of free oxygen and is caused by impaired cell respiration due to a lack of oxygen at the cellular level. According to Warburg, damaged cell respiration causes fermentation, resulting in hyper-acidity at the cellular level. As innocuous as this discovery might seem, it is a significant finding worthy of a Nobel Prize. This means 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 1984 Keith Brewer, PhD (Physics) translated Warburg's theories into a practical, cost efficient treatment protocol for cancer. Brewer successfully treated 30 patients with various cancers, using Cesium, nature's most alkaline mineral.

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 digestive juices and urine, are supposed to be mildly alkaline at pH 7.4), oxygen is driven out of the body thereby, according 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, magnesium and cesium, 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, inducing not only cancer, but a host of other degenerative diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, lupus, etc.

A normal cell undergoes an adverse change when it can no longer take up oxygen to convert glucose into energy by oxidation. In the absence of oxygen the cell reverts to a primitive nutritional program to sustain itself, converting glucose, by fermentation. The lactic acid produced by fermentation lowers the cell pH (acid/alkaline balance) and destroys the ability of DNA and RNA to control cell division. This causes cancer cells to multiply unchecked. The lactic acid simultaneously causes intense local pain and destroys cell enzymes. Therefore, cancer appears as a rapidly growing outer cell mass with a core of dead cells.

Cesium, a naturally occurring alkaline mineral has been shown to affect the cancer cell two ways. First, Cesium limits the cellular uptake of the nutrient glucose thereby starving the cancer cell and diminishing fermentation. Second, Cesium raises the cell pH to the range of 8.0 neutralizing the weak lactic acid and stopping pain within 12 to 24 hours. A pH range of 8.0 is a deadly environment for cancer cells causing these rogue cells to die and be eliminated by the body.

The human body is made up of 78 percent 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 percent. Nearly half of the remaining 5 percent 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 in the body.

Another important biological function of calcium is DNA replication, which is crucial for maintaining a vitally healthy body. DNA replication is the basis for all body repair and can only occur "on a substrate of calcium". Therefore, low calcium levels equate to impaired healing ability and premature aging. As important as all these and hundreds of other biological functions of calcium are to human health, the most important function of calcium is pH control. Calcium to acid is like water to a fire. Calcium quickly destroys oxygen robbing acid in the body fluids. Sufficient intake of biologically available calcium creates more oxygen at the cellular level, eliminating the environment necessary for cancer cells to thrive.

Most people wonder just how much calcium is necessary and in what form of calcium is most easily assimilated. Researchers have examined the diet of millions of people around the world who consume over 100 times our Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of calcium. These people live 40 years longer than we do, age at half the rate we do, and are 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 lots of this water everyday and their 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 in Japan.

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 calcium-rich coral reefs. 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. Today millions of people all over the world consume coral calcium, and, as a result, there are millions of testimonials.

The phenomenon of preventing and reversing degenerative disease through the consumption of large amounts of minerals and vitamins did not go un-noticed by medical doctors. 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, vitamins A and 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 American Medical Association, the spokesman for the pharmaceutical industry. Afterall, natural remedies and supplements can neither be patented nor profitably marketed.

But “the cat was now out of the bag” and by the late 1990s, other medical doctors were also discovering that calcium along with other supplements could indeed reverse cancer. Many scientists who began to research the effects of various supplements in the reversal of degenerative diseases felt compelled to bring this vital information to the public's attention.

One such company, Advanced Scientific Health (ASH), is bypassing the medical community's tight control on legally accepted cancer treatments. Rather than offering a cure for cancer, ASH has opted to educate the masses on the real scientific breakthroughs in nutrition and disease prevention that have occurred in the 20^th century. As more and more people learn of the importance of alkalinity, oxygen and nutrition at the cellular level, the demand for quality nutritional supplements will replace the demand for toxic pharmaceutical drugs. ASH offers its members the ability to purchase the finest quality, highly assimilable nutritional supplements at lab cost so that the average working American can afford to get healthy and stay healthy. The ASH vision is truly a grassroots effort involving the participation of people like yourself in saving the lives of those around you. As the ASH membership network expands, we hope to relegate degenerative diseases such as cancer to the history books where they belong. To find out if you are at risk for getting cancer, heart disease or any other degenerative disease, ASH offers a FREE Health Test Kit to anyone who requests one. To request your health test kit and for information on joining the ASH network, call Vaccination Liberation at 208-255-2307 or visit www.ashmember.com/vaclib. Your ASH membership will also support the educational efforts of Vaccination Liberation. [www.vaclib.org]

Much of this relatively unknown research is being shared on websites such as www.AdvancedScientificHealth.com and www.cancer-coverup.com, the main sources for this article.

"The preservation of health is easier than the cure of disease."

    ~ B.J. Palmer