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If
you want to beat cancer, eliminate sugar and do pranayama.
Natural hygiene practitioners and yogis have always known this,
but now science is actually backing them up. Evidence now exists
to prove that the main difference between cancer cells and normal
cells is that the former hardly use oxygenat all. Instead, they
get energy from a
process termed "glycolisis", in which energy is
extracted from glucose without the use
of oxygen. This fact was first unearthed by Nobel Prize winner
Otto Warburg, as far back
as the 1930s. "The prime cause of cancer is the replacement
of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a
fermentation of sugar," he told fellow scientists a few
years before he died in the 1970s. The discovery was not taken
seriously but recent research seems to endorse Warburg's
discovery. Scientists have discovered that growth of cancer
cells proliferate in an oxygen-deprived environment. As cells
become cancerous, they stop getting energy from their
mitochondria, progress to glycolisis, no longer take in and
release oxygen and wind up oxygen-depleted.
Warburg's
hypothesis also ties in with a less mainstream theory that
connects cancer and acidity. For years, alternative cancer
therapists have recommended an alkaline diet to fight cancer.
The Warburg Effect provides a possible explanation, since the
major by-product of glycolisis is lactic acid. Indeed, recent
speculation is that the main way cancer spreads is through the
production of lactic acid.
This
discovery seems to suggest that nutrition may have a key role to
play in beating cancer. Scientists are looking at
the role of micronutrients in preventing cancer. These include
selenium, folic acid, vitamin B12, the carotenoids (alpha-carotene,beta-carotene,
lycopene, lutein) and vitamin D. Adding calcium to vitamin D can
provide extra cancer protection, according to a 2007 study in
the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Physical exercise
and pranayama would also help increase the level of oxygen in
the system.
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