The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer Revised Lindau Lecture By Dr Otto Warburg

(Director, Max Planck Institute for Cell Physiology, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany)

Adapted from a lecture originally delivered by O. Warburg at the 1966 annual meeting of Nobelists at Lindau, Germany. O. Warburg won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1931 for his discovery of the oxygen transferring enzyme of cell respiration, and was voted a second Nobel Prize in 1944 for his discovery of the active groups of the hydrogen transferring enzymes. Many universities, like Harvard, Oxford, Heidelberg have offered him honorary degrees. His main interests are Chemistry and Physics of Life. In both fields no scientists have been more successful.

“There are prime and secondary causes of diseases.

By a prime cause of a disease I mean one that is found in every case of the disease.

Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.

All normal body cells meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen, whereas cancer cells meet their energy needs in great part by fermentation.

From the standpoint of the physics and chemistry of life this difference between normal and cancer cells is so great that one can scarcely picture a greater difference. Oxygen gas, the donor of energy in plants and animals is dethroned in the cancer cells and replaced by an energy yielding reaction of the lowest living forms, namely, a fermentation of glucose.”

Global Health View.

This brief explanation by Otto Warburg simplifies the key issues regarding general health and when oxidising stress becomes more extreme, as in cancer. However general oxygen therapies are vital for all sustainable immune therapy

Based on this knowledge the need for both high bio oxidative therapies combined with an attitude and lifestyle which reduces stress is essential for immunity and ultimate health thereby reducing the oxidising effect.

Ozone & Oxygen Treatments, Hyperthermia, Vitamin C, Antioxidants, Oxygen rich fresh foods, Detoxing, Exercise, Effective breathing, Mindfulness, Yoga, Tai Chi, Meditation, Digestive enzymes and Probiotics as well as Detoxing are all commonsense approaches to improve blood and cell oxygen levels.

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