The cancer industry is closing in on
baking soda and
beginning to do research in earnest about sodium bicarbonate and how it is a
primary tool in the treatment of fungus. Cancer is a fungus, can be caused by a
fungus, or is accompanied by late-stage fungal infections, and now the Mayo
Clinic confirms this. They are not the first to say so though. Many, even from
the official world of orthodox oncology, recognize the similarities of
cancer
and fungal infections, the decay that ties these two together in a dance that
all too often ends in miserable death.
The Mayo Clinic is saying that a fungal infection of the gastrointestinal tract
mimics cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. The invasive fungus, Basidiobolus
ranarum, is typically found in the soil,
decaying organic matter and the
gastrointestinal tracts of fish, reptiles, amphibians, and bats.
Patients with this fungal infection had non-specific symptoms such as abdominal
pain or a mass that could be felt on examination. Before a conclusive diagnosis
of the fungal infection was made, most patients were thought to have abdominal
cancer, inflammatory bowel disease or diverticulitis. Surgical resection of the
area of involvement and prolonged antifungal therapy successfully treated most
patients.
Interestingly, a few years ago researchers at
Johns Hopkins were surprised that the drug itraconazole,
commonly used to treat toenail fungus, can also block angiogenesis, the growth
of new blood vessels commonly seen in cancers. Tumor angiogenesis is the
proliferation of a network of blood vessels that penetrates into cancerous
growths, supplying nutrients and oxygen and removing waste products. Cancer
researchers studying the conditions necessary for cancer metastasis have
discovered that
angiogenesis is one of the critical events required for
metasteses to occur. In mice induced to have excess blood vessel growth,
treatment with itraconazole reduced blood vessel growth by 67% compared to
placebo. "We were surprised, to say the least, that itraconazole popped up
as a potential blocker of angiogenesis," says Dr. Jun O. Liu, professor of
pharmacology. "We couldn't have predicted that an antifungal drug would
have such a role." Itraconazole was found to reduce the numbers of
circulating cancer cells, prevent the worsening of prostate cancers, and delay
the need for chemotherapy. However, it has serious side effects when given in
the necessary high dosages that include hypertension, low potassium levels and
fluid retention. These side effects require treatment with other medications.
Effects of high doses of itraconazole could lead to heart failure.
For two decades
John Hopkins has recognized the
increasing frequency of
severe fungal infections in patients with neoplastic diseases. Most fungal
infections are caused by the commonly recognized opportunistic fungi Candida
spp and Aspergillus spp, and the pathogenic fungi Cryptococcus neoformans,
Histoplasma capsulatum, Coccidiodes immitis, and less often by Blastomyces
dermatidis. However, recently newer pathogens such as Pheohyphomycetes,
Hyalohyphomycetes, Zygomycetes and other fungi of emerging importance such as
Torulopsis glabrata, Trichosporon beigelii, Malassezia spp, Saccharomyces spp,
Hansenula spp, Rhodotorula spp, and Geotrichum candidum have appeared as
significant causes of infection in this patient population.
Dr. Tullio Simoncini does not say that cancer is caused by yeast; what he is
telling the world is that the cancer is a yeast overgrowth. What causes the
cancer (or a yeast-filled tumor) is another thing. Simoncini has always
insisted that tumors are white because they are fungi. Some have made fun of
him, but looking around at the extremely sparse information about the subject,
I ran into one person saying:
"If someone had asked me a year ago what color the inside of a tumor was,
I would have guessed red and gray. When they did the biopsy, I asked to see the
tissue specimens: five quarter-inch to half-inch strings of vermicelli (Italian
for little worms) with little streakings of blood. They didn't look evil to me,
just strings of fat. The
entire mass was white inside as the pathology report
stated.
Specialists in throat and
mouthcancer say that cancers can be red or
white patches: any patch that
appears randomly and is red or white in color could be a mouth cancer symptom.
The white patches in the mouth are called leukoplakia and the red patches are
called erythroplakia, which are pre-cancerous conditions. Though these red or
white patches are not always cancerous, it could be the result of a fungal
infection caused by Candida called thrush. Thrush will lead to a red patch that
often bleeds after the white patch disappears. A small amount of this fungus
lives in your mouth most of the time. It is usually kept in check by your immune
system and other types of germs that also normally live in your mouth. However,
when your immune system is weak, the fungus can grow.
Fungal Mycotoxins
It just so happens that a toxin produced by mold on nuts and grains can cause
liver cancer, according to
Universityof California Irvine Researchers. And a French case-control study of 1,010
breast cancer cases and 1,950 controls with nonmalignant diseases found that
breast cancer was associated with increased frequency of mold-fermented cheese
consumption. Fungi produce mycotoxins, which can kill us or cause cancer.
Dr. Wang and Groopman from the Environmental Health Sciences Department at
Johns Hopkins published on the effects of mold toxins on DNA in
Mutation
Research, a leading cancer journal. They said
mycotoxins with
carcinogenic potency include aflatoxins, sterigmatocystin, ochratoxin,
fumonisins, zearalenone, and some Penicillium toxins. Most of these
carcinogenic mycotoxins are genotoxic agents. Aflatoxin is a potent genotoxic
agent, is mutagenic in many model systems and produces chromosomal aberrations,
micronuclei, sister chromatid exchange, unscheduled DNA synthesis, and
chromosomal strand breaks. Most strikingly, the relationship between aflatoxin
exposure and development of human hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) is
demonstrated by studies.
Harrison
et al. (1993) examined human breast cancer tissue for evidence
of the presence of aflatoxin. The researchers examined human DNA from a variety
of tissues and organs to identify and quantify aflatoxin DNA-adducts. Such
adducts are considered to be proof of the mycotoxin's presence in a particular
tissue. Aflatoxins may in fact be a risk factor for cancer induction in a
variety of organs in man, in the same manner as that of
cigarette smoking.
DNA from normal and tumorous tissue obtained from patients with cancer of the
breast was examined. Tumor tissues had higher aflatoxin-adduct levels than did
normal tissue from the same individual. The result of
this study verifies
the presence of carcinogenic aflatoxin within the cancer tissue and thus
implicates aflatoxin as a cause of breast cancer. That is the same as
saying cancer is a fungus or is caused by a fungus and this is what Dr.
Simoncini has been saying all along.
Intensive Care Units are particularly on alert with immunocompromised and
oncology patients for fungal infections. "Patients with brain tumors used
to have a life expectancy of 3-12 months, but better treatment has allowed them
to live a bit longer," said Brenda Shelton, clinical nurse specialist at
the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. "The last two
brain tumor ICU patients we treated died of infection, not of their disease.
One patient had a rare fungus, and the other had candidemia. Years ago, you
would not see most of these fungal infections in patients with brain tumors
because they would not live long enough."
"The biggest misconception is the belief that fungal infections are
rare," Shelton said. "Another misconception is fungal infections are
like every other severe infection. They are harder to manage, harder to
eradicate and more frequent than people realize." One of the most common
complications involved in treating patients with
hematologic cancer is fungal infections.
Aspergillus niger fungal infection in human lungs produces large amounts
of oxalic acid, which is extremely toxic to the blood vessels and which may
cause fatal pulmonary hemorrhages. Consequently, oxalic acid (calcium oxalate
crystals) in the sputum or lung specimens of patients is also an indication of
an
Aspergillus infection of the lung. These calcium oxalate crystals are
the same as the calcium oxalate found in breast cancers. The presence of
oxalates in the breast is indicative of the presence of fungi interwoven within
the stages of breast cancer development. Since humans do not make oxalic acid
themselves, this is an appropriate conclusion.
Dr. Robert Young states, "Bacteria, yeast/fungi, and
mold are not the cause of a cancerous condition but are the result and the
evidence of cells and tissues biologically transforming from a healthy state
and to an unhealthy state." Dr. Young astutely observed that,
"over-acidification of the body leads to the development of chronic yeast
and fungal infections and ultimately a cancerous condition of the cells and
tissues."
If one has cancer, chances are pretty good that one
also has a fungal infection to one degree or another.
According to The Home Medical Encyclopedia, in 1963 about one-half of all
Americans suffered from an "unrecognized" systemic fungal condition.
Far more Americans suffer from fungal infections today as antibiotics, hormone
replacement therapies, and birth control pills continue to be consumed like
candy. Thus more and more children are becoming infected with candidal
meningitis or viral meningitis, which means their systems are suffering under
the weight of fungi who put out an assortment of poisons - or mycotoxins.
Sodium Bicarbonate is an Antifungal Agent
The current controversy over sodium bicarbonate and its use in oncology might
be relatively new but
baking soda has a long history of helping people get
through the worst medical conditions. The Eloquent Peasant, an Egyptian
literary work dated around 2000 B.C., refers to a peddler selling natron, a
natural blend of sodium bicarbonate, chloride and sodium carbonate used in
mummification, just one of hundreds of uses this compound has been put to.
Baking soda's first widespread use was probably as a leavening agent for bread
and other baked goods. It has been used commercially since 1775, although the
now-famous Arm & Hammer brand wasn't introduced until 1867.
Sodium bicarbonate (Na2HCO3) is recognized by most as ordinary baking soda,
which is found in deposits around the globe. Its backbone characteristic is to
maintain balance of carbon dioxide, bicarbonate and pH. Sodium bicarbonate is
available and sold in every supermarket and pharmacy in the world and is widely
used in emergency rooms and intensive care wards in injectable forms but is
sold as a common household substance that is used for hundreds of different
things.
Read
Sodium Bicarbonate, and see that something as
inexpensive as baking soda will outperform the most expensive pharmaceuticals.
Across a wide range of disorders, including cancer and diabetes, we find
conclusive evidence and plenty of theoretical backing to suggest that sodium
bicarbonate is a frontline universal medicine that should be employed by all
practitioners of the healing and medical arts for a broad range of disorders
that are afflicting contemporary man.
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Mark A. Sircus, Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) http://www.imva.info/.
Dr.
Sircus was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the
Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and at the School
of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at the
Central Public Hospital of Pochutla in Mexico, and was awarded the title
of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the first
nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr. Sircus's
IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in medicine with
the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.
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