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Asked by Ayush123 to Arthur on 13 Nov 2014.
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Arthur Dyer answered on 13 Nov 2014:
This is a really really brilliant question!!!
Out of interest why did you choose adding an alkaline solution to a cancer and not an acid?
Cancers are really really greedy and grow really quickly and take up a lot of sugars and oxygen to grow.
Because they grow so quickly they often don’t get enough blood vessels to the center of the cancer and end up making energy through a process without oxygen (called anaerobic respiration) which produces lots of lactic acid (when you exercise and feel burning in your muscles it’s that same acid as you’re making energy without lots of oxygen).
The cancer cells like this acidic environment and most of the rest of our cells like white blood cells don’t and so yes decreasing the acidity in cancers is a really important way to help fight cancer but it wouldn’t be a total cure as it wouldn’t kill the cancer just slow it down.
What made you ask this awesome question?
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Ayush123 commented on :
I had recently found out that cancer cells are acidic, this made me think of neutralising it by applying alkaline. Thx for the reply .
Ayush123 commented on :
thank you for the reply. I wondered wether alkaline solutions will work, because I had found in a study that cancer cells are like acidity, this promoted me to put alkaline on the affected area to help.