Chapter #2: Learning the pH Scale
At the end of chapter #1, we told you that once the cancer has started,
it becomes an INTRA-CELLULAR ACIDITY problem.
Now to understand the
research made by
both Dr. Warburg in Chapter #1 and Dr.Brewer in Chapter #3, we need
to leave cancer aside for a moment and go back to high-school chemistry
classes to learn about the "pH Scale" or if you prefer, the
acidity-alkalinity scale.
To know the acidity of a solution (ex: pool, aquarium,
saliva, urine, normal or cancer cell, etc...) we use this pH Scale.
This
scale is graduated from 0 to 14 where 7 being the neutral point. When
the solution's pH level is between 0 and 7, the solution is considered
acidic and it is alkaline when the pH level is between 7 and 14
(see Figure 1).
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The pH Scale
Figure 1
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To give you an idea, the pH of vinegar is 3 (very acidic) while the pH
of baking soda is about 8.5 which is slightly alkaline.
What's important to know here is that the pH Scale is exponential
meaning that each point is 10 X more acidic than the one to the right.
For example, the pH level of an acidic lake at 6.4 is 10 times more
acidic than a lake that has a pH of 7.4.
A pH of 5.4 is therefore 10X more acidic than the 6.4 and 100 times
more acidic than a pH of 7.4 (10 X 10).
As
we saw in chapter #1, when a cancer cell starts to ferment sugar, the
residue of the fermentation of sugar is lactic acid and the more sugar
the cell
ferments, the more acidic the inside of a cancer cell becomes and the
cell's pH is now dropping lower and lower.
Now if a
glass of water has a pH of 7 (neutral) and we add vinegar to it, the pH
level will also drop. However, if we now add baking soda in the glass,
the pH of the glass will now start to rise and become neutral again.
On the periodic table (see picture on the left), you can see a list of
alkaline minerals that we can find in nature like Sodium
(Na), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), Potassium (K), Rubidium (Rb) and
Cesium (Cs) just to name a few.
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Just like baking
soda,
if you add 1 of these alkaline minerals in the glass containing the
vinegar, you will see the pH start to go up and become neutral again
since the alkaline minerals will neutralize the acidity of the vinegar.
For
those of you who want to do a funny little chemistry experiment, just
poor about 1 inch of vinegar inside a glass and then poor some baking
soda in it after and watch the chemical reaction.
In chapter #1, Dr Warburg told us that cancer is an INTRA-CELLULAR ACIDITY problem
and in this chapter #2 you learned that an acidic solution can be
neutralized using an alkaline mineral like Sodium, Calcium or Magnesium for example.
In
chapter #3, we will present you the research of Dr. Brewer (see
photo above) who wanted to know if there was 1 or more of these
alkaline minerals that would enter a cancer cell and
neutralize the acidity located inside that cell.
In other words, boost the pH level of the cancer cell to bring it back
to a more neutral pH.
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