Re: Thanks - I stand corrected.

Thank you Tony for standing corrected. It would be a disservice to diminish the importance of Calcium and its proper relationship to other alkaline minerals needed for good health.


The Importance of Calcium

In 1931 Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize in medicine for this discovery that cancer was anaerobic: cancer
occurs in the absence of free oxygen. As innocuous as this discovery might seem, it is actually a startling and
significant finding worthy of a Nobel Prize. What it basically means is that cancer is caused by a lack of free
oxygen in the body therefore, whatever causes this to occur is the cause of all cancers.
In chemistry, alkali solutions (pH over 7.0) tend to absorb oxygen, while acids (pH under 7.0) tend to expel
oxygen. For example, a mild alkali can absorb over 100 times as much oxygen as a mild acid. Therefore, when
the body becomes acidic by dropping below pH 7.0 (note: all body fluids, except the stomach and urine, are
supposed to be mildly alkaline at pH 7.4), oxygen is driven out of the body thereby, according to Nobel Prize winner
Otto Warburg, induces cancer. Stomach fluids must remain acidic to digest food and urine must remain acidic to
remove wastes from the body.
Blood is the exception. Blood must always remain at alkaline pH 7.4 so that it can retain its oxygen. When
adequate mineral consumption is in the diet, the blood is supplied crucial minerals required to maintain an alkaline
pH of 7.4. However when insufficient mineral consumption is in the diet, the body is forced to rob Peter (other body
fluids) to pay Paul (the blood). In doing so, it removes crucial minerals, such as calcium, from the saliva, spinal
fluids, kidney, liver, etc., in order to maintain the blood at pH 7.4. This causes the demineralized fluids and organs
to become acidic and therefore anaerobic, thus inducing not only cancer, but a host of other degenerative diseases,
such as, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, lupus, etc.
Everyone knows that the human body is made up of 78% water by weight, and that water is hydrogen and
oxygen gases. When nitrogen gas and carbon I the form of carbon dioxide and methane gases are added, the total
gas in the body by weight becomes over 95%. Almost half of the remaining 5% that makes up the human body and
controls all biological functions is the mineral calcium.
No other mineral is capable of performing as many biological functions as is calcium. Calcium is involved I
almost every biological function. This amazing mineral provides electrical energy for the heart to beat and for all
muscle movement. It is the calcium ion that is responsible for feeding every cell. I t does this by latching on to
seven nutrient molecules and one water molecules and pulls them through the nutrient channel. It then detaches
its load and returns to repeat the process. Another important biological job for calcium is DNA replication, which is
crucial for maintaining youth and a healthy body.
Calcium ions are indispensable for DNA replication (Calcium in the Action of Growth Factors, W. H.
Moolenaar, L. K. Defize, and S. W. Delaat, 1986 Calcium and the Cell, Wiley) which is the basis for all body
repair. It can only occur “on a substrate of calcium” “The rRole of Calcium in Biological Systems, Albert
Lehniger, Professor of Medical Science, John Hopkins University, Volume I, CRC Press). Thus low calcium means
low body repair and premature aging.
As important as all these and hundreds of other biological functions of calcium are to human health, none is
more important the job of pH control. Calcium to acid is like water to a fire. Calcium quickly destroys oxygen
robbing acid in the body fluids. Thus, the more calcium, the more oxygen and therefore, the less cancer and other
degenerative disease.