In 1932 Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his 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 and 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 for 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, inducing 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 an alkaline pH 7.4 so that it can retain its oxygen.  When adequate mineral consumption is in the diet, the blood is supplied the 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, kidneys, 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 in 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 in almost every biological function. This amazing mineral provides the electrical energy for the heart to beat and for all muscle movement.  It is the calcium ion that is responsible for feeding every cell.  It does this by latching on to seven nutrient molecules and one water molecule 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.  DNA replication is the basis for all body repair and can only occur “on a substrate of calcium”.  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 than 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. 

       This information then begs the question,  “How much calcium is necessary ?”  The answer can readily be determined by examining the diet of millions of people around the world who consume over 100 times our Recommended Daily Allowance, RDA, and who suffer the side effects of living 40 years longer than we do,  of aging at half the rate that we do, and of being devoid of cancer, heart disease, mental disorders, diabetes, arthritis and all other degenerative diseases. Almost all of these people, the Armenians, Azerbaijans and Georgians in Russian, the Tibetans, the Hunzas of Northern Pakistan, the Vilcabamba Indians in Ecuador, the Bamas in China and the Titicacas in Peru  live at high altitudes above 8000 feet.  Their only source of water is melting glaciers, and the glacial water is so turbid and white with ground up rock that all of these cultures call the water “milk of the mountains”.  Each quart of this water contains over 17,000 milligrams of calcium along with other minerals and 60 trace metals.  These cultures drink several quarts each day and the water fertilized crops are also loaded with calcium and other nutrients.  The only long living and disease free culture that does not live  above an altitude of  8000 feet, is the Okinawan’s.