[Joanne S]

Eric.

I did, however, find it interesting the site refers to the expansion of Dr. Otto Warburg's work. For those not familiar he won a Nobel Prize in 1931
in science for his discovery that cancer cells rapidly proliferated in the presence of fermented sugar. (Ironically, so do fungal cells!)

Dr. Otto Warburg (Nobel Prize Winner) found that simply reducing the oxygen supply to normal healthy tissue, it became cancerous. What he was really experiencing was that fungal spores, hidden in most living tissue, were able to grow aneorobically, becoming the dominant life form. Normal healthy tissue needs oxygen to live and grow, cancer and fungus cells can use sugar as their primary source of energy for growth, this is called anaerobic respiration or fermentation.


http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1931/warburg-bio.html

For his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to him in 1931. This discovery has opened up new ways in the fields of cellular metabolism and cellular respiration. He has shown, among other things, that cancerous cells can live and develop, even in the absence of oxygen.



Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Heinrich_Warburg


Cancer hypothesis

Main article: Warburg hypothesis


In 1924, Warburg hypothesized that cancer, malignant growth, and tumor growth are caused by the fact that tumor cells mainly generate energy (as e.g. adenosine triphosphate / ATP) by non-oxidative breakdown of glucose (a process called glycolysis). This is in contrast to "healthy" cells which mainly generate energy from oxidative breakdown of pyruvate. Pyruvate is an end-product of glycolysis, and is oxidized within the mitochondria. Hence and according to Warburg, cancer should be interpreted as a mitochondrial dysfunction.
"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." -- Dr. Otto H. Warburg in Lecture <SUP class=reference id=_ref-4>[7]</SUP>
Warburg continued to develop the hypothesis experimentally, and held several prominent lectures outlining the theory and the data.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-5>[8]</SUP>
The concept that cancer cells switch to glycolysis has become widely accepted, even if it is not seen as the cause of cancer. Some suggest that the Warburg phenomenon could be used to develop anticancer drugs.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-Kim_0>[9]</SUP> Indeed is the basis of positron emission tomography (18-FDG PET), a medical imaging technology that relies on this phenomenon.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-6>[10]</SUP><SUP class=reference id=_ref-Kim_1>[9]</SUP>
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The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer by Dr. Otto Warburg
Lecture delivered to Nobel Laureates on June 30, 1966
at Lindau, Lake Constance, Germany
http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Loxygen2.htm