Re: Is ACV bad for cancer patients?

I have heard of it just as coconut vinegar, not "tuba".  If the vinegar is raw I can see it being beneficial for the same reasons as raw ACV.  Not if it is distilled though.

The tuba vinegar is obtained from the sap, not coconut water.  There's a huge difference.

http://www.naturalnews.com/030110_coconut_nectar_vinegar.html

http://www.livestrong.com/article/262961-what-are-the-benefits-of-coconut-vin...

http://www.coconutsecret.com/coconut-apple%20chart.html

I see a lot of sales hype.  First of all any raw vinegar will contain a lot of vitamins, minerals and amino acids.  That is why I said earlier if it is not distilled. Distillation removes these.

The sap is used for its high sugar content, which is needed for the fermentation.  When fermented though the sugars are converted in to acetic acid, the same way other vinegars start out with some source of sugar.

On the one page they try to do a nutritional profile based on the starting sugar source, apples vs. coconut sap.  The important part they left out is that this is not all that is used to make vinegar.  They also use things like yeast, which also provides a lot of nutrients.

And finally they try to claim that the vinegar causes an alkaline effect due to the high mineral content even though the vinegar is an acid.  This is completely misleading.  First of all if the mineral content was high enough all the acid would be buffered.  What minerals are in there that have already reacted with the acid would have no real direct effect on pH.  It is like ascorbic acid is also acidic.  But they make ascorbates by reacting the ascorbic acid with alkaline minerals so that it is no longer acidic.  Also keep in mind that lemon juice, which is relatively low in minerals is also acidic but still creates an alkaline response.  The minerals have nothing to do with this.  I am not going to go in to a lot of detail on this since I am addressing this myth in my book.  And I don't want people taking my original information and publishing it ahead of me.

This would depend a lot on what we consider life. In order to thrive the microbe would have to be living.  But the vast majority of cancers are caused by viruses, which are not considered living.

Why are viruses not considered living?  What exactly is a virus? 

Viruses are not living organisms but put more simply pieces of genetic material.  As an analogy a car engine does not make a car.  The virus is like the car engine and a living organism is the car.

Rephrasing my previous question, does an alkaline environment promote the proliferation of viruses?

Not directly.  Alkalinizing can lead to a variety of health issues, but indirectly.  Mostly this would be from people neutralizing their stomach acid with alkalinizers, which leads to decreased nutrient absorption and decreased methylation.