Metabolic and Dietary Acids are the Fuse that Ignites Inflammation that Causes Cancer!
Dr. Robert Young , MSc., Ph.D., D.Sc., ND
Naturopathic Physician at the pH Miracle Ti Sana Medical Spa in Arlate, Italy
In Latin, the word “acid” means poison or toxin and the word “inflammation” means “I ignite or set alight.”  Like gasoline, when metabolic and/or dietary acids are collected and retained in the interstitial fluids or what I call the ‘third kidney’ and then collected in the connective tissues or the ‘acid catchers’ of the blood and interstitial fluids, the organs, tissues and glands will ‘light-up or ignite” with inflammation or pain.
The 7 Stages of Acidosis That Leads to Inflammation and Then Cancer
When metabolic acid, like lactic acid and/or a dietary acid, like uric acid are not properly eliminated through the four channel of elimination, namely, urination, defecation, perspiration or respiration, the body will store these acids in the connective tissues or what I call the  ‘acid catchers,’ of the body, including the muscles, organs and glands.  This is why an athlete will feel pain in the muscles, tendons or ligaments or someone who drinks alcohol excessively will feel pain on the right side of the body where the liver is located.   I have described the retention of metabolic acids (from all body functions), dietary acids (from all food and drink), respiratory acids (from the oxygen process of the body) and environmental acids (from electro-magnetic fields, including cell-phones, air-dryers, or electric cars and chemical pollutions) and when not properly eliminated, these toxic liquids and gases will  ‘ignite’ or ‘light-up’ the connective tissues causing the first stage of acidosis or the symptoms of enervation, fatigue or tiredness.  If the elimination organs, including the lungs, bowels, kidney’s and skin become congested or blocked then acidic cellular waste cannot be properly eliminated and will build-up in the connective tissues causing the symptoms that conventional medicine calls sickness and disease.  When the facts are known concerning the retention and build-up of acidic metabolic and/or dietary toxic waste, sickness and diseases are nothing more than the body’s inability to remove its own waste products leading to the one sickness and one disease – acidosis.
The one sickness and one disease or dis-ease is the over-acidification of the blood and then tissues due to an inverted way of living, eating and thinking.  This one sickness and one disease or dis-ease has seven stages or seven expressions, which have been categorized by medical science as separate or different types of disease without any association or connection to the build-up of acidic waste in the body.  But, there is NOT many diseases only one disease and one health! [1]
For example, inflammation is precursor stage to cancer and both are part of that one acidic disease.  Cancer is an acidic condition that spoils healthy cells making them cancerous.  Multiple sclerosis is part of that one disease as acid destroys the myelin sheath.  Heart disease is the result of acid damage as is diabetes.  Cystic fibrosis is also part of this one disease as healthy body cells are being protected from dietary and/or metabolic acids creating sticky mucous.  Allergies, arthritis, osteopenia, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, bowel restrictions and constipations, from diverticulitis to diverticulosis, IBS, ulcerated colitis, Crohn’s, all of these so-called diseases are the result of a compromised alkaline environment from individual acidic lifestyle and dietary choices.
The seven stages of disease or dis-ease or excess acidity begins in the bowels, then in the blood, pushed out into the tissues, organs and glands and expressed as follows:
1 ) The first stage of acidosis is enervation or the loss of energy.  In this stage the body does not have the sufficient energy to completely remove dietary and/or metabolic acidic waste products which build up first in the blood and then in the connective and fatty tissues.
2) The second stage of acidosis are sensitivities and irritation.  An example of stage two acidosis are sensitivities to food and/or air-born allergies.
3) The third stage of acidosis is catarrh or mucous buildup.  An example of stage three acidosis would be the acidic condition of the lungs called cystic fibrosis.  It is important to understand that mucous is created when the glands of the body release the alkaline compound sodium bicarbonate for the purpose of binding up dietary and/or metabolic acids.  The combining of sodium bicarbonate to acid creates a sticky mucous.  Since dietary, environmental and metabolic acids can breakdown and destroy healthy tissues and organs the glands of the body, such as the salivary glands, the pylorus glands, the pancreas and even the stomach release the alkalizing compound, sodium bicarbonate to protect and preserve healthy body cells that make up our tissues, organs and glands.
4) The fourth stage of acidosis is inflammation.  There is only one cause of inflammation and that is acid.  Acid equals pain and pain equals acid.  There is no other cause.  Any pain or inflammation in the body is the result of localized acid that has not been properly removed by the lymphatic system.  That is why exercise is so important because the lymphatic circulation is activated by the contraction of muscle and especially the calf muscles.  Therefore, inflammation is always caused by dietary, respiratory, environmental and/or metabolic acid.
5) The fifth stage of acidosis is induration or fibrotic tissue or the hardening of the tissues or organs.  This is the classic symptomatology of cystic fibrosis.  The tissues and organs are turning into leather.  Another classic symptomatology of induration is atherosclerosis or the hardening of the vascular system.
6) The sixth stage of acidosis is the ulceration of tissues and/or organs such as in ulcerated colitis, or cirrhosis of the liver, or any lesion where ever it may appear.
7) And, the seventh and final stage of acidosis prior to death is the degeneration of tissues, organs and glands.  All degenerative conditions are caused by dietary, respiratory, environmental and/or metabolic acids, such as in the symptomologies of osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, ALL cancerous conditions, heart disease and all respiratory dis-eases are preceded by inflammation, induration and ulceration and all caused by the retention of acids..
It is important to keep in mind that whatever the disease or dis-ease condition there is only one cause.  And, that one cause is the retention of excess acid first in the blood and then the tissues and organs.  When excess acid is not eliminated through the four channels of elimination they are then deposited into the connective and fatty tissues.  This is why I call the connective tissues the “acid catchers” of the blood.
You do not need a doctor to tell you your stage of acid imbalance. You can know this based upon your the symptom(s) you are experiencing or feeling.  If you are overweight this is an acidic condition and the body protecting the organs that sustain life from excess dietary, environmental and/or metabolic acids.  In other words, obesity is NOT a fat problem any more then cancer is a genetic problem.  They are both an acid problem.
All stages of acidosis or sickness and disease are manifested in the tissues, organs or glands when cellular waste is NOT properly eliminated through the four channel of elimination – urination, defecation, respiration and perspiration.  This is why I have stated that there is only one sickness and one disease and that one sickness and one disease is the over-acidification of the blood and THEN tissues due to an inverted way of living, eating and thinking.  And if there is only one sickness, one disease and one cause THEN there must be only one treatment.  The one treatment would be to prevent or reverse the retention and build-up of acidic waste in the interstitial fluids and the connective tissues or the ‘acid catchers by opening the channels of elimination, improving system circulation and micro-circulation, reducing acid loads on the body through an alkaline lifestyle and diet as outlined in The pH Miracle books, and finally hyper-perfusing the interstitial fluids with alkaline minerals such as sodium and potassium bicarbonate. [2]
A microenvironment of interstitial and/or intracellular metabolic acidosis can cause chronic stage four inflammation and increase the risk of a cancerous condition, bolstering chemotherapy resistance and turn on oncogenes, genes that can turn healthy functioning body cells into unhealthy, non-funcitonal cancerous cells. [3]
Most importantly, interstitial acidity causes inflammation throughout the entire body promoting the cellular breakdown and biological transformation or mutation of healthy cells into cancerous cells, systemically.  What I am suggesting is the acids that cause inflammation and cancer run throughout the body and affect every body cell negatively in a lesser or greater degree.
Acidity that leads to inflammation causes the increase of blood flow in response to cellular degeneration in the buffering and/or elimination of acids and the repair, removal and/or replacement of inflamed and/or cancerous cells.  If interstitial acidity continues to buildup causing uncontrolled degeneration of the affected cells the body will form tumors or encapsulation of these damaged cells and their associated acidic waste products in order to protect healthy surrounding cells that make up tissues, organs and glands.  In addition, the formation of a tumor serves as the process for healing and regeneration of the acid injured tissue, much like clotted blood forms in the creation of the scab for regeneration after injury.  The tumor inside the body is similar to the scab you see outside the body.  Both serve to protect and to cause the regeneration of the specific tissue injured.  Another example of this would be in the fracture of a bone.  The blood flows to the injured bone at the specific area of the fracture.  The blood because the clot and the clot differentiates into new bones. That is why when there is physical trauma to any tissue there is a risk of a tumor or clot forming such as in a head-bang injury or when someone is exposing their brain to radiation from a cell phone and a clot or tumor is formed in and around the affected area.
Powerful Insights to Cancer Treatment
Unfortunately, interstitial and intracellular acidity in the cause of inflammation and cancer is completely ignored for ALL inflammatory conditions and cancerous conditions in the oncology world. Basically, dietary and metabolic acids that cause inflammation and cancer are one of the leading factors that contributes to uncontrolled injury to healthy body cells creating more unhealthy cancerous body cells and spreading or what I call the ‘dominos effect’ (metastasis) where one cancerous cell spoils s healthy cell much like one rotten apple in a bushel of healthy apples will cause all apples to spoil, rot or become cancerous.
In this article I will explain helpful approaches to give acidic cancerous patients an edge in the prevention and treatment for overall cancer planning.
Uncovering, preventing or treating the cause of inflammation, rather than just treating the symptom, is an important key when reversing a cancerous or chronic dis-ease condition. To get to the root of the inflammation, we have to learn what causes inflammation and how to deal with it. Let’s get started.
Inflammation is the result of damage to the tissues, organs and/or glands, caused by metabolic acids, respiratory acids, dietary acids, environmental acids, physical injury, ischemic injury (caused by an insufficient supply of blood to an organ), exposure to electrical/magnetic and air pollution or other types of trauma. The body’s response to the symptom of inflammation causes cellular transformations and immune responses that result in repair of the damaged tissue and cellular proliferation (biological transformations or spoiling) at the site of the injured tissue.
Inflammation can become chronic if the cause of the inflammation persists or certain control mechanisms in charge of shutting down the process fail. When these inflammatory responses become chronic, cell mutation and proliferation can result, often creating an environment that is conducive to the development of cancer. The so-called “perfect storm” is an extreme challenge that cancer patients face.
This is true for the onset of cancer, but also even more important for advancement of the disease. The cancer a patient begins with becomes very different in the later stages, becoming more mutated and complex to treat. Various signaling pathways are key contributors to creating epigenetic changes on the outside of the cell, switching on these internal mutations or biological transformations into bacteria, fungi and mold. Therefore, treating the inflammatory cause is always important.  And what is that cause?  It is a four letter word – ACID!
The Link Between Acids, Inflammation and Cancer
This, in turn, causes a drop in levels of proteins involved in DNA repair, resulting in a higher rate of spontaneous gene mutations, which can lead to cancer.
MicroRNAs form a large family of non-coding genes involved in many important cell processes. They carry out this function by suppressing the amount of particular proteins in cells, with each type of microRNA often affecting many different proteins.
MiR-155 is known to influence blood-cell maturation, immune responses and autoimmune disorders, and high levels of this molecule have been directly linked to the development of leukemias, and breast, lung and gastric cancers.
For this study, Tili and her colleagues examined the effects of inflammation-promoting substances such as tumor necrosis factor or lipopolysaccharide (found in the outer walls of bacteria) on miR-155 expression and on the frequency of spontaneous mutations in several breast-cancer cell lines.
The investigators learned that miR-155 also targets WEE1 and showed that high levels of miR-155 lead to low levels of WEE1. They reasoned that low levels of WEE1 allowed cell division to continue even when DNA damage is present, leading to a growing number of biological transformations or mutations. [6]
Many cancerous conditions are linked to once healthy cells that are damaged by dietary, metabolic, respiratory and/or environmental acid which causes  these cells to biologically transform into bacteria, yeast or fungi and mold with their acidic waste products of exotoxins and mycotoxins causing reversible, epigenetic changes in other healthy body cells. At minimum, 20 percent or more of ALL cancerous conditions are linked to acid generated biological transformations of body cells and their associated extotoxins and mycotoxins, according to the Journal of American Medical Associates.
Some Examples of Acid Caused Cancers
Human Papillomavirus leads to cervical cancer.
Hepatitis C leads to liver cancer.
Epstein Barr leads to lymphoma.
Herpes Virus Six leads to brain cancer.
Helicobacter Pylori leads to stomach cancer.
HIV leads to Karposi’s sarcoma.
Today, conventional oncology recognizes only around 13% of all infections are reported to cause inflammation that leads to a cancerous condition. These acidic caused  infections bring about cellular changes or breakdowns leading to even more acidity resulting in increased inflammation or acid that causes a cancerous condition.
In addition, chronic acidic inflammation held in the connective tissues produces increased body heat that can be seen and measured using full-body, non-invasive, non-radioactive medical thermography.   A special infrared camera is used to view and measure the temperature of thehot spots of the body indicating localized tissue acidosis.  The hottest areas of the body will show red to white.
The following thermography pictures show the heat coming off the left breast of a patient with medically diagnosed ductal cell carcinoma.  You will notice in the left breast a large red to white area indicating a clot or tumor mass that initially measured in excess of 14cm. The patient followed a lifestyle and dietary protocol called the pH Miracle and within eight weeks the noted tumor mass and inflammation was eliminated and the tumor reduced to less than 2cm.  The tumor was then surgically removed and tested and found to be non-cancerous. [7]
It is important to note that abnormally high body heat, caused by localized tissue acidity can lead to thermogenesis or hyperthermia showing metabolic acidosis or what I call ‘latent tissue acidosis’.  Thermography is the only scientific technology that can visualize tissue inflammation and those specific acidic areas of the body that may be showing inflammation and at risk for becoming cancerous.   When an area of tissue acidosis is viewed using thermography another non-invasive, non-radioactive medical diagnostic tool called ultrasound can be used to determine anatomically if there is a pathological clot or tumor mass, the size of the tumor mass and whether or not the tumor mass has angiogenic blood supply.
Other Changes in the Microenvironment
Acidity or inflammation is known to cause other such changes in the microenvironment of body cells.  Body cells often undergo adaptive changes to survive stressful or acidic environments. These adaptive changes can include: an increased expression of sodium bicarbonate, increased antioxidant levels, increased anaerobic respiration and metabolism-; and development of angiogenic factors. This adaptation is usually transient, however, and allows normal body cells to survive only until the acidic condition that is causing the inflammation or cancerous condition is alleviated.
This means it’s not enough to have a strategy to eradicate cancerous body cells or to kill cancerous body cells with chemotherapy or radiation.  Chronic acidic inflammation or ‘latent tissue decompensated acidosis’ needs to be buffered and eliminated through the four channels of elimination – urination, defecation, perspiration and respiratory in order to prevent any systemic acid build-up in the connective and/or fatty tissues leading to a cancerous condition.
Gene Pathways That Fuel Cancer Spread When Inflamed
Oncogenes can push for the greater expression of EGFR because tumors have genes just like healthy body cells. Why?  Because tumors are the collection of unhealthy body cells which are now rotten or cancerous cells with their associated acidic waste products encapsulated in a web of cross-linked fibrin-monomers.
One of the most highly expressed receptors is called Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR), which is normally used to tell cells to grow. It is found in all cancerous body cells. However, EGFR over-expression has been linked to numerous cancers, such as lung, prostate, anal and many others. The greater the expression of EGFR means faster growth and enhanced spreading via the ‘domino effect’ where one cell spoils or rots another cell just like one falling domino will topple another standing domino. The bottom line is, acid causing inflammation is the cause of it..
This increased expression is also associated with increased chemotherapy resistance, leading to tumors that are not well-formed and have blood supply. When you combine chronic acidic caused inflammation, these misused signaling pathways and overgrowth, you get a cancerous condition that is “immortalized.” Treating a metastatic cancerous condition is hard enough, but when it’s of this magnitude it can be extremely difficult, if not impossible, especially when ignoring the chronic acidic inflammation or ‘latent tissue acidosis’ at the unhealthy or spoiling cancerous cells’ metabolic core.
There is no singular legend drug that can currently treat any of these pathways. However, there are some integrative and complimentary approaches that, when used properly, can impact these inflamed targets from a multi-dimensional approach. This is how the integrative non-invasive, non-chemical, non-radioactive and non-surgical methods can be used to provide much needed support for buffering and eliminating metabolic, dietary, respiratory and environmental acids that are the cause of ALL cancerous conditions.
There are many different approaches to get at the root of a cancerous condition, rather than just a “one size fits all” protocol that offers little to no assistance to removing the acidic cause of inflammation that leads to all cancerous conditions.
There is only one cause.  The one cause and only cause of inflammation that leads to a cancerous condition  is the over-acidification of the blood and then tissues due to an inverted way of living, eating and thinking.  It is that simple.  Prevent and eliminate the acidic waste products of diet, metabolism, breathing and the environment through the four channels of elimination and you will prevent or reverse ALL potential and/or present cancerous conditions.
According to News-Medical.net, “[NF-Kappa-B] spends most of its life in the cell’s cytoplasm, quietly awaiting protective orders for healthy body cells.” But when extracellular  and interstitial  signals – of dietary and/or metabolic acids build-up in and around cells, for example – this sets off cellular protective alarms, the cell unchains its warhorse of antioxidants, such as glutathione, bicarbonates and hydroxyl ions, allowing it to protect itself from the acids that cause inflammation and cell death. [9]
These are only a few of the many signaling and inflammation pathways that can be targeted in an alternative and/or complimentary treatment. When the cause of inflammation is understood, it makes it that much easier to prevent and/or reverse a cancerous condition from building-up and negatively affecting the health of the tissues, glands and organs and outgrowing the window-of-opportuniy for a non-invasive, non-radioactive, non-chemical and non-surgical alkalizing lifestyle and dietary treatment. Helping enhance the effectiveness of any cancerous treatment with a holistic and/or integrated approach involves strong comprehensive anti-inflammatory or ant-acid and cancer-signaling treatments.
Buffering and eliminating  metabolic, dietary, respiration and environmental acids that cause inflammation is only one part of a complete treatment plan – there are many other aspects to consider, including hyper-perfusing the tissues with alkalizing compounds such as sodium and potassium bicarbonate, alkalizing nutrition with vitamins and herbs, alkalizing colon hydrotherapy, alkalizing exercises, alkalizing food, healing the core and restoring its alkaline design, supporting the immune system, buliding healthy stem cells in the crypts of the small intestines with chlorophyl and hemp oil, targeting antioxidants, alkalizing exercise, infrared sauna and much more. However, if you can reduce interstitial acidosis or ‘latent tissue acidosis’ you will reduce inflammation and reduce the risk of a cancerous condition which makes it much easier to maintain and hopefully, overcome. Otherwise, if you keep building-up and holding onto the acids that cause inflammation, a cancerous condition can outgrow any holistic alkalizing treatment. It becomes a race-to-the-finish to slow down the build-up of dietary and metabolic acids in the interstitial and intracellular fluids that systemically flow through the body fluids touching every body cell and potentially causing more healthy cells to become unhealthy acidic cancerous cells.  If this scenario is not stopped there is no-way to stop acids from causing all tissues, organs and gland to start spoiling and becoming cancerous.  This is what conventional oncology calls metastasis.  But it is NOT metastasis!  It is systemic interstitial decompensated acidosis that leads to inflammation, tissue acidosis and an acidic condition conventional medicine calls ‘cancer.’
The best part about this alkalizing approach to the treatment of any inflammatory and cancerous condition is they are helpful for most, if not all cancers. If you have any questions about your inflammatory and/or cancerous condition, or would like to know more about how integrative and/or complimentary medicine might help YOU, please contact us today at: phmiracleliving@aol.com or universalmedicalimaging.com
[1] Young, R.O., Young, S.O., Sick and Tired, Woodland Publishing, 2001.
[2] Young, R.O., Young, S.R., The pH Miracle, revised and updated, Hachett Publishing, June, 2010.
[3] E. Tili, J.-J. Michaille, D. Wernicke, H. Alder, S. Costinean, S. Volinia, C. M. Croce. Mutator activity induced by microRNA-155 (miR-155) links inflammation and cancer . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2011; 108 (12): 4908 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101795108
[4] Immunity, Inflammation, and Cancer http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867410000607
[5] Inflammation: Gearing the journey to cancer – http://www.uccs.edu/Documents/rmelamed/kundu_surh_2008_18485806.pdf
[6] Ohio State University Medical Center. “How inflammation can lead to cancer.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 April 2011.
[7] Milgalko, Galina, Universal Medical Imaging Group, http://www.universalmedicalimaging.com
[8] The Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor: A Link Between Inflammation and Liver Cancer – http://ebm.sagepub.com/content/234/7/713.abstract#target-1 – See more at: http://www.envita.com/cancer/chronic-inflammation#sthash.GiEKT9gi.dpuf
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The Cure for Cancer? That’s an easy question to answer! The Cure for Cancer is Found in its Prevention NOT in its Treatment! – Dr. Robert O. Young
Do you know what rotten apples, grapefruit or bananas look like? If you do then you know what cancer cells look like. Cancer cells are nothing more that healthy cells that are spoiling because of a compromised environment! Look at the picture below and you will see colorized cancerous body cells rotting in their toxic acidic environment.
What compromises the internal environment of a human body that causes body cells to begin spoiling and rotting? The answer is simple! The body’s build-up of acidic metabolic and dietary waste that has not been properly eliminated through the four channels of elimination – urination, defecation, respiration and perspiration!
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