Dr Young's work validated in Cancer Research

A new MRI technique using sodium bicarbonate could detect a cancerous condition before tumor formation or tissue degeneration. This experimental alkalizing test measures tissue acidity and could gauge if medical or natural treatments are actually working," according to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH Miracle Living Center, and Jupiter water alkalizer user.

A new imaging technique that relies on naturally occurring baking soda or sodium bicarbonate
in the body could help pinpoint a cancerous condition earlier and quickly gauge if treatments are working, British researchers said.

The non-invasive method uses magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in alkaline pH -- or acidity -- in tissue that is often the hallmark of a cancerous condition and other conditions such as heart dis-ease and strokes, said Kevin Brindle of the University of Cambridge, who led the study.

Currently there are no safe ways to measure tissue pH levels in humans but doing so is important because tumors, for example, are far more acidic than surrounding
tissue.

According to Dr. Young, "the urine pH is a simple and an inexpensive way to determine the acid/alkaline pH of the body tissues. When the morning urine pH is below 7.2 this indicates tissue acidosis and a potential for a cancerous condition in the body tissues."

"You are imaging not just tissue structure but tissue function," said Brindle, whose study is published in the journal Nature. "We wanted to measure tissue pH, which is a surrogate for dis-ease."

"Disease is the expression of an over-acidic body."states Dr. Young.

The researchers injected mice with a tagged form of sodium bicarbonate -- an alkali more commonly seen in baking soda -- that occurs naturally in the body and balances acidity of the body, Brindle said.

They used MRI to see how much of the tagged sodium bicarbonate was converted into carbon dioxide within the tumor. In more acidic tumors, more bicarbonate is converted into carbon dioxide.

"The body tissues use sodium bicarbonate as a primary buffer to maintain the natural alkaline design of the tissues and to prevent degeneration of that specific tissue," states Dr. Young.

The researchers measured pH levels using an emerging technique called dynamic nuclear polarization that boosts MRI sensitivity more than 10,000 times.

The method developed by GE's GE Healthcare unit involves cooling down molecules to near absolute zero and then warming them up quickly -- a process that keeps them polarized and easier to detect as an image.

"MRI can pick up on the abnormal acidic pH levels found in cancerous tissues and it is possible that this could be used to pinpoint where the disease is present and when it is responding to treatment," Brindle said.

The next step is testing the technique in humans in early stage clinical trials expected to start in 2009, he added in a telephone interview.

According Dr. Young, "hyper-alkalization of the body tissues with sodium bicarbonate is the safest and most effective and natural way of reversing ANY cancerous condition."

More of Dr Young here

Gerson Therapy

I was asked recently why I don't feature the Gerson Therapy for cancer in the subjects I cover here. Simple: I haven't yet found a good enoufgh source. But here's a rather frightening (graphic images) but compelling video about Gerson's radical therapy system.


..and here's another excellent video on Max Gerson's work.


Like to know more? I've prepared a page of links for you here

Oxidation at work

This video shows oxidation at work on a humble apple, yet it's the same oxidation that imperceptibly yet inexorably ages you me and the family dog.
Oxidation is caused by acids.
When we die our acids take over and we rot.
Acids and ageing are, in this sense, synonomous.


While we are on the subject, let's discuss apples.. and carrots, and mangoes and all things that make for wonderful juices.

An off-the-shelf high speed juicer is an excellent oxidiser. The heat it generates as it mecerates the fruit or vegetable kills the enzymes that keep a glass of juice alive, oxidation begins almost immediately. Juices go brown and begin to rot.

Enter the live enzyme juicer, borrowing from the cold press technique. It operates far more slowly, and uses crushing action rather than tearing. It's still efficient as a juicer - very efficient in fact - but the juice you receive from a juicer like this is far more healthy than one from the el cheapo juicers you see at the supermart. Not only that, it's far more flexible. You can make pates, dips, baby foods, and grind your own wheatgrass!

Why am I telling you all this? Because I am about to receive our first shipment of cold press juicers, and you can see just how good they are here.
Give the team a call on 1800-268-469 if you are interested.

Blind About Your Red meat Consumption?

This report tells us that if you have over ten serves of red meat a week, you have double the chance of retinal deterioration as you age.

No Comment Necessary

Wall-E's World

Remember Wall-E, the Movie? Humans had finally 'evolved' to a point of obesity and non-physicality that they lay in a banana lounge serviced by robots as they typed commands into a keyboard and watched a huge TV.

Well, folks, it's happening in a town near you..

Download your Pesticides in Food Guide

The web is truly wonderful for some things, especially disseminating the good works some people manage to do. Amy Rosenthal of the Environmental working Group sends out a free downloadable guide to pesticides in fruit and vegetables. Well worth it!
Get it here

Cryptosporidium warning

The Department of Health in New South Wales has issued a public warning after an upsurge in cases of cryptosporidiosis was detected. 200 cases of laboratory-confirmed cryptosporidiosis were reported in February compared to 105 in January and 45 in December.

Calcium and Cancer: a pretty convincing study.

Right on the heels of Dr Simoncini's video about bicarbonate of soda and cancer, we have this report about calcium and cancer. No brownie points for spotting the link: both substances alkaline of course.

This is no small study. It is based on a study of 492,000 people. It was just released a few days ago, and it comes from the Archives of Internal Medicine. It suggests that the more calcium you have, especially as you age, the less likely you are to develop some forms of cancer.

The seven year study of almost half a million people showed that around 10% - 50,000 - contracted cancer, mostly prostate, breast, lung and colorectal. That's the bad news.

The good news is that the more calcium people consumed, the less chance they had of being in the 50,000.

Regular calcium food eaters had the lowest risk of all of colorectal cancer,
(males took 1530mg a day, females 1,881mg a day)

Men who got regular calcium (mainly from food) were around 16% safer than men who had low calcium uptake.
Women, in the same scenario, were 28% safer.

There have been some studies actually linking calcium intake in men with cancer, but no such risk was found in this study. As usual, just to be 'safe', researchers said more studies are needed to confirm the findings.

Here's the study

Dr.Dean Ornish talks about what's killing America

In this video, Dr Dean Ornish, author of so many great books I can't remember their titles, speaks about what is killing USA. He comes to the conclusion that we need to eat like Asians, which is exactly where we have been going the last ten years. Asian, in this instance, means green. Green, as my regular readers know, means alkaline. Alkaline, we also know, means antioxidant. And antioxidant, and alkaline, and negative ionised minerals, all mean longevity, immunity and vitality, not to mention weight loss!

It makes me feel sooo good when I see people like Dr Ornish turning established, blindly accepted diet patterns upside down!

Viva la Revolucion!!

Muuuve your Gruve

Lucky us.
A new device is about to hit the scene that promises a daily reality check on our exercise levels. It's the Gruve from a company called Muve.

The Gruve is designed to keep track of your movement like a pedometer. And yes, i have one somewhere in my walking kit that yes, I never use.

The Gruve threatens. It says you had better exercise - or else. if you don't, well, er, um.. it will flash a series of lights in an “embarrassing color code”. Stay inanimate and Gruve will start buzzing like a vibrating cellular phone.

Will it work? Or will it end up sharing smelly shoes and sweaty Tees with my pedometer. What do you think?

200 doctors you don't want to consult.

Over 2,000 US doctors have joined a service that supplies them with legal agreements for their patients to sign, agreements that forbid the patients from writing bad reviews of their treatment online.

Diabetics eat your heart out

You may or may not be aware that we have a good supply of this amazing full feature length video now available. if you are diabetic or have a diabetic friend, this is a must-see life changing video. Order it here.

Calcium, Milk, Alkalizing.. and colorectal cancer

The net allows me quite a different impression of information.

Information is no longer the preserve of the powerful, drip fed to the masses. It is now the opposite. It's something that is now so available that we get it within minutes of its release and in my case, I've been able to watch it 'mutate' as it spreads across the web. Such is the case of this article on the role of calcium in colorectal cancer. The article originally came from the Archives of Internal medicine but I found it on the site of a vitamin company, NutraIngredients.com in Europe.

However within 24 hours the milk lobby had grabbed the main chance and converted or -shall we say - utilised it - to sell people on drinking more milk. What will it 'morph' into next?

And here am I looking at the article and wondering what relevance it has to alkaline water, which provides a ready source of ionised calcium. Yes, I'm part of the problem - and the solution.
W are all on the same information highway,. Some of us are careful drivers, some reckless and some lane hogs.

Anyway, the article is still rather good, and especially relevant for Boomers. Here it is.

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