Dr. Tullio Simoncini is a roman doctor specializing in oncology, diabetology and in metabolic disorders, as we can read on his website: http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/. He achieved astounding success in treatment of tumours (with numerous X-rays and medical documents on-line). How? He uses injections with 5% sodium bicarbonate into arteries leading to the tumour’s site. Why would this protocol work? The question is important since even Dr. Simoncini has no clear answer.
Dissolved baking soda has only one effect on composition of arterial blood: it increases its CO2 content. CO2, as many medical studies proved, is a powerful vasodilator. It expands arteries and arterioles leading to the tumour since these blood vessels have layers of smooth muscles sensitive to CO2. (The opposite effect, vasoconstriction, takes place when we voluntarily hyperventilate. Reduced brain perfusion causes reduction in brain oxygen supply, feeling dizzy and fainting. Another simple exercise one can perform: when you get a small cut with bleeding, instead of expected hyperventilation, hold your breath and breathe little for 2-3 minutes and you will be astounded by greatly increased blood losses.) If the tumour gets more blood, after soda injection, it will get more oxygen as well. But tissue hypoxia (low oxygenation) is the main factor that defines its dynamic (see modern oncological references below).
Moreover, increased local CO2 content in the tumour area, normalizes the Bohr effect, a physiological law that governs O2 release in tissues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_effect) As Wikipedia describes: This effect facilitates oxygen transport as hemoglobin binds to oxygen in the lungs, but then releases it in the tissues, particularly those tissues in most need of oxygen (as in exercising muscles that generate more CO2). Hence, soda enhances 2 processes responsible for O2 transport: blood vessels dilation and easier O2 release in tissues.
For those who cannot receive this wonderful treatment, there is a natural solution. If a person learns how to breathe less 24/7 (so that to have more CO2 in the blood and tissues), then body oxygenation will naturally increase too and the tumour, which afraid of oxygen, will start to shrink.
Indeed, even with normal breathing, our blood is 98% saturated with oxygen. Heavy breathing or chronic overbreathing, as over 95% people have these days, does not improve arterial blood oxygenation. But overbreathing creates 2 negative effects in oxygen transport: constriction of blood vessels and incaresed affinity of O2 and haemoglobin cells, both leading to tissue hypoxia.
For a modern man, sleeping on one’s back, mouth breathing (e.g., during sleep, execise, walking, etc.), lack of physical exercise (with strictly nasal breathing) are among the main factors that increases lungs ventilation at rest and reduces body oxygen content.
References (cancer – tissue hypoxia link)
Evans SM & Koch CJ, Prognostic significance of tumor oxygenation in humans, Cancer Lett 2003 May 30; 195(1): 1-16.
Powell ME, Collingridge DR, Saunders MI, Hoskin PJ, Hill SA, Chaplin DJ, Improvement in human tumour oxygenation with carbogen of varying carbon dioxide concentrations, Radiother Oncol 1999 Feb; 50(2): 167-171.
Ryan H, Lo J, Johnson RS, The hypoxia inducible factor-1 gene is required for embryogenesis and solid tumor formation, EMBO J 1998, 17: 3005-3015.
Ryan HE, Poloni M, McNulty W, Elson D, Gassmann M, Arbeit JM, Johnson RS, Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 is a positive factor in solid tumor growth, Cancer Res, August 1, 2000; 60(15): 4010 - 4015.
Harris AL, Hypoxia: a key regulatory factor in tumour growth, Nat Rev Cancer 2002 Jan; 2(1): 38-47.
What you report may have validity - and I am glad to see that for once you did not push your own website and expensive breathing method books. HOWEVER, Tulio Simoncini has in my opinion been pretty well documented here in this forum as a shameless self promoter whose success rates have been greatly exaggerated, whose lack of successes have been fatal, who fails to list his educational background or credentials on his own website, and whose witnesses and other proofs have been called into question.
Rather than repeat the same information yet again, simply do a forum search for "Simoncini" and you will see what I am talking about.
I'd never read any of your posts before nor don't know anything about your website and books but I'm glad to see a post about Dr. Simoncini because I do like what he's doing. However, don't expect your opinion of him (or maybe any of your views) to be well-received here, as long as Mr. Isaac is around Dr. Simoncini is going to be put down at this forum and maybe all around Curezone. I think it's very ironic though that he's pointing at you wanting to promote yourself when he too has a book to promote, where I come from they call that "hypocrisy"!
Now, changing the subject, it has intrigued me to read that "breathing less" could increase tissue oxygenation (did I get that right?). I am a person who suffers from chronic nasal congestion and have believed the exact opposite, that because I'm taking in less oxygen that couldn't be good for my health. So, can I now assume that could actually be good for me??? That would be very interesting since there's been several cases of cancer in my family and naturally I have some personal concern...Thanks for your reply! (You can send it to me direct if you wish).