Re: Chronic cellular hypoxia

 though the consensus of opinion is that cellular hypoxia normally arises at the site of tumors,


I don't see the connection here DQ ! If its a tumor its old cancerous cells!

Not all tumors are malignant. A wart is tumor, but it is benign. So are keloids, lipomas.......

This does not account for the morphing event that turns normal young aerobic cells into anaerobic cancerous cells! Cancerous cells by their very makeup prove its the lack of oxygen that created it!

No it does not.  Cancer is not caused from hypoxia. The most common cause of cancer is viruses. Other pathogens have also been implicated, but to a much lesser extent. If hypoxia caused cancer then why don't all COPD patients have cancer? Why don't endurance athletes who are in hypoxic states for extended periods of time all have cancer? Why doesn't increasing oxygen levels, such as through hyperbaric oxygen cure cancer? There is a simple answer to all these questions. Hypoxia DOES NOT cause cancer.

The problem is that Otto Warburg has been misquoted so many times that the misconception of a lack of oxygen causing cancer has become a standard mantra in the alternative community. What Warburg really stated was that cancer uses fermentation as a measn of energy production REGARDLESS of whether oxygen is present. It is the same as active yeast that ferments regardless if oxygen is provided.