What Causes Cancer ?
What Can You Do About It ?

"Cancer has only one prime cause. It is the replacement of normal oxygen respiration of the body's cells by an anaerobic (i.e., oxygen-deficient) cell respiration." ~ quote by ~ Dr. Otto Warburg

Dr. Otto Warburg won 2 Nobel Prizes for his pioneering work.
In 1931, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his discovery of the oxygen transferring enzyme of cell respiration, and he was given a second Nobel Prize in 1944 for his discovery of the active groups of the hydrogen transferring enzymes.

He was offered honorary degrees from prominent Universities such as Oxford, Harvard and the University of Heidelberg in Germany - to name a few.

While we may not all agree on the answers to these questions, they are something most of us have asked ourselves (and others) many times. We have all been affected by cancer in one way or another, either with our own personal experience or watched a loved one struggle with the effects of both the "cancer" and the subsequent treatments following the diagnosis.

This brief information is here for you to read and perhaps decide to do further research on your own. We do not have medical texts - papers and archives here. So you will have to search the internet for these and do further study on your own. We agree with the scientists and doctors we quote here and their line of reasoning. You are free to disagree. We think that this line of inquiry will bring hope and perhaps a different perspective to a common problem.

This is a copy of the lecture delivered to Nobel Laureates on June 30, 1966 at Lindau, Lake Constance, Germany by : Dr. Otto Warburg . . .

"There are prime and secondary causes of diseases. For example, the prime cause of the plague is the plague bacillus, but secondary causes of the plague are filth, rats, and the fleas that transfer the plague bacillus from rats to man. By the prime cause of a disease, I mean one that is found in every case of the disease.

Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. Almost anything can cause cancer. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen (oxidation of sugar) in normal body cells by fermentation of sugar.

All normal body cells meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen, whereas cancer cells meet their energy needs in great part by fermentation. All normal body cells are thus obligate aerobes, whereas all cancer cells are partial anaerobes. From the standpoint of the physics and chemistry of life this difference between normal and cancer cells is so great that one can scarcely picture a greater difference. Oxygen gas, the donor of energy in plants and animals, is dethroned in the cancer cells and replaced by the energy yielding reaction of the lowest living forms, namely the fermentation of sugar.

In every case, during the cancer development, the oxygen respiration always fails, fermentation appears, and the highly differentiated cells are transformed into fermenting anaerobes, which have lost all their body functions and retain only the now useless property of growth and replication. Thus, when respiration disappears, life does not disappear, but the meaning of life disappears, and what remains are growing machines that destroy the body in which they grow.

All carcinogens impair respiration directly or indirectly by deranging capillary circulation, a statement that is proven by the fact that no cancer cell exists without exhibiting impaired respiration. Of course, respiration cannot be repaired if it is impaired at the same time by a carcinogen.

To prevent cancer it is therefore proposed first to keep the speed of the blood stream so high that the venous blood still contains sufficient oxygen; second, to keep high the concentration of hemoglobin in the blood; third, to add always to the food, even of healthy people, the active groups of the respiratory enzymes ; and to increase the doses of these groups, if a precancerous state has already developed. If at the same time exogenous carcinogens are excluded rigorously, then much of the endogenous cancer may be prevented today.

These proposals are in no way Utopian. On the contrary, they may be realized by everybody, everywhere, at any hour. Unlike the prevention of many other diseases, the prevention of cancer requires no government help, and not much money.

Many experts agree that one could prevent about 80% of all cancers in man, if one could keep away the known carcinogens from the normal body cells. But how can the remaining 20%, the so-called spontaneous cancers, be prevented? It is indisputable that all cancer could be prevented if the respiration of body cells were kept intact.

Nobody today can say that one does not know what the prime cause of cancer is. On the contrary, there is no disease whose prime cause is better known, so that today ignorance is no longer an excuse for avoiding measures for prevention. That the prevention of cancer will come there is no doubt. But how long prevention will be avoided depends on how long the prophets of agnosticism will succeed in inhibiting the application of scientific knowledge in the cancer field. In the meantime, millions of men and women must die of cancer unnecessarily."

We follow this same line of thinking with a Doctor who is alive and well today - Dr. Simoncini of Rome, Italy.

The following are excerpts from Dr. Simoncini's website - We thank him for having the courage and honor to stand up for what he believes in - the truth. Cancer can be cured. We need more Doctor's like him. Further down the page, there is a link you can click, that will take you to Dr. Simoncini's website.

"Tullio Simoncini (1951) is a roman doctor specialising in Oncology, diabetology and in metabolic disorders.He has a strong opposition to any type of intellectual conformity, which is often based on suppositions without foundation or worse, on lies and falsities."

"A fungus infection – that of the Candida species – could supply the explanation for why a tumor occurs, and it is in this direction that research should move in the attempt to solve the problem of cancer once and for all."

"And tumors, which are also an incurable disease of the organism, the symptomatological overlapping of systemic candidosis and cancer, and the strict genetic relationship between mycetes and neoplastic masses make this clear. These are all elements that support and confirm the point of view that all types of cancer, as happens in the vegetal world, are caused by a fungus."

Please Review . . .
"But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen (oxidation of sugar) in normal body cells by fermentation of sugar"

"In every case, during the cancer development, the oxygen respiration always fails, fermentation appears, and the highly differentiated cells are transformed into fermenting anaerobes, which have lost all their body functions and retain only the now useless property of growth and replication. "

*Anaerobic respiration (anaerobiosis) refers to the oxidation of molecules in the absence of oxygen to produce energy, in opposition to aerobic respiration which does use oxygen. *en.wikipedia.org

"Why do you have such a hard criticism to the regular Oncology?

It is an obligatory step that does not arise from revenge, rancour or other lower emotions, but from the rational necessity to make mankind gain insight.Only clear, accurate and true messages can stimulate the awaking of the placid, conformist souls. Friendlier and more charitable wordings could indeed be used, but in that case the result would be that we would delay, for a hundred years, that which we have achieved so far.It is a thousand pities that moral obligations and spiritual motives exist, that are not easily compatible with the calm mediocrity of a work-shy existence. Those good, decent gentlemen, physicians or no physicians, who resist against vigorous and accurate language, show in fact by their attitude alone that they belong to the ‘’blessed herd’’.Of a complete different tone, however, are the standpoints of those who, from their pure and authentic inner selves, support me unconditionally, because they recognize the will in themselves to live for 100% in spite of every gag and lie."

Dr. Simoncini has a book in print called:"Cancer is a Fungus" available on his website.

* "For almost a half century the late physician Milton W. White was convinced that a pleomorphic fungus caused cancer. In his last communication in 2002 he referred to the cancer agent as an “intracellular invasive microbe.” He termed the coccoid forms as “seeds” of an “invasive asexual spore” related to fungi. Abstracts of White’s numerous papers on his cancer-causing “mycococcus,” published in Medical Hypothesis, can be found at the PubMed website.

"Most cancer microbe researchers believe the cancer microbe is a bacterium. However, years ago I observed in bacterial cultures from scleroderma that the initial cocci and rod forms of the microbe became more fungus-like as it aged. The exact identification of this fungus could not be ascertained, even though my professor, J. Walter Wilson, M.D., was one of the world’s leading fungal experts. In my experience, scleroderma and cancer microbes are closely related to the acid-fast mycobacteria. And bacteriologists all agree that mycobacteria are closely related to the fungal-like “actinomycetes.” The word “myco” is Greek for fungus, thus emphasizing their close relationship."

Definition of Pleomorphic

*"Pleomorphic: Many-formed. A tumor may be pleomorphic. Pleomorphic is synonymous with protean (capable of assuming different shapes like the many-formed Greek god Proteus)."
*Source - http://www.medterms.com

Doctor Alan Cantwell - "One perennial complaint about the so-called cancer microbe is that is pleomorphic. For some reason, the idea that a proposed cancer germ could have more than one form is a threat to doctors and some microbiologists. Indeed the cancer germ has been described as having a virus like and fungus-like, as well as mycoplasma-like phase."

Definition of Mycoplasma condensed version:

*"Mycoplasma: The mycoplasma are a very large group of bacteria. There are more than 70 types. Mycoplasma hominis and Mycoplasma pneumoniae are among the dozen types of mycoplasma that occur in humans."
"Mycoplasma are very simple one-celled organisms without an outer membrane. They penetrate and infect individual cells."
*Source - http://www.medterms.com

Think about this - what makes Yeast grow and proliferate and in turn begin the metamorphosis into Candidiasis and Fungus?

My Mother used to keep Sour dough bread starter in the refrigerator and take it out once a week to feed it and make it bubble and grow. To the starter she would add potato flakes (Carbohydrate/Starch) and Sugar.

As you probably already know, cancer metabolizes at a much faster rate than other normal cells in the body. Cancer is always demanding to be fed - Sugar - to help speed along the growth and proliferation of the cancer cells -"Candida Albicans" - Fungus.

After reading the information and studies of Dr. Otto Warburg and Dr. Simoncini - Dr. Alan Cantwell - Dr. Milton White - Dr. Doug Kaufmann and others - we may be able to form a hypothesis (educated guess) . . .

Cancer may need . . .

Low oxygen levels - Low enzyme levels - Plenty of Sugar and Simple Carbohydrates - and low sunlight exposure can also play a role.

So it follows... what can you do to help prevent Cancer in your own body ? There are absolutely no guarantees on this of course, you can only do your best and hope for the best. Begin today to adopt a more healthy lifestyle. It may help and it certainly will not harm you.

Think about a diet low in Simple Sugars and Carbohydrates. NO refined sugar and other refined or processed foods - period!

See our Original - Yes List for good healthy foods - and our No List of unhealthy foods. And please read our Basic Keys healthy living guide.

Sunlight - one of the "Basic Keys" - get some sunlight each and every day if possible. Sunlight has been shown to help protect against as many as 16 different types of cancer. The sunlight will help your body produce Vitamin D. Numerous studies have linked Vitamin D in a critical role to help prevent cancers.

Vitamin D receptors are present in almost every part of your body. It signals your genes to produce helpful enzymes.

For more information on some of the very important effects of Vitamin D and a very informative video - Click here for our Benefits of Vitamin D page .

The Original Lists and Healthy Living Guide (Basic Keys) are compiled with the guidance and advice of a wonderful person - an RN - with well over (30 years of experience) and study of Natural Healing methods. With positive results achieved in every area of health for countless people, including myself and my family.

She also told me about Dr. Simoncini and the work he is doing to rid people of this awful "Disease" - called Cancer and asked to have him included on this page.

Again, we thank Dr. Simoncini for championing the cause of truth and right to know for everyone. We cheer him on in his battle to eradicate Cancer and educate the public in general.

You can click this link if you would like to read a little more about Dr. Simoncini and his work.

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