Quote (impulse155 @ Aug 11 2011 07:54pm)
Well, the alkaline environment thing is pretty much also misinformation. It's true, cancer cells don't grow well in an alkaline environment, but the part that makes it BS is no cells grow well in an alkaline environment. The pH of the body is kept pretty constant at about 7.4, and that's because the myriad of proteins we employ in every cell in our bodies function optimally there. Every protein is a string of amino acids, and every amino acid has an amino and carboxy terminal to it, and as you'll see if/when you take biochemistry, the pH can effect whether the amino or carboxy terminus is protonated or deprotonated, and consequently whether the amino acid has a charge, which dictates the 3D structure of the protein. Change the structure, and you change the function. Change the function, and well, let's just say that if car engines cooked eggs instead of turned wheels we wouldn't get very far. Different cancers prefer different environments. Some cancers benefit from radicals because of how dangerous they are - they can do serious damage to DNA which tends to perpetuate the malignancy, but there will come a point where that is just suicide for the cell too. So cancer cells sort of walk a tight-rope/fine line between inappropriate proliferation, and self-destruction.
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The human body is alkaline by design and acidic by function, so yes, our cells DO grow well in an alkaline environment, you do realize 7.4 is alkaline right? Even if slightly so. If you test the pH of any cancer patient guarantee you will see they measure around 5.3-5.8, I measure in on average around 7.0-7.2, what about you? Like I've said countless times already in other threads and this one, the goal is not to make the pH of the body like 10.0 or anything, the goal is to maintain the alkalinity that the body needs to be at, and by consuming things like meat, dairy, peanut products, corn products, yeast, high sugar drinks, sodas, mushrooms, coffee, tea, sugar, alcohol, artificial sweeteners, most store bought condiments, stored grains, high carb foods, etc you put a huge strain on the body by pouring all that unnecessary acid in on a daily basis, forcing the body to use It's alkaline buffering system 24/7, and after 1 year or 40 years, depending how strong you are inside, your body will break down at the cellular level, and you will develop a chronic illness.
All that stuff means next to nothing when you maintain the alkaline design by eating and drinking the right foods. You spend as much time looking at useless stuff as drug doctors do, they spend there whole lives researching "cancer cells" and developing more and different useless drugs that do nothing but cost money, kill people, give people massive side effects which in many cases include death. It's so much easier and safer to just maintain health, then what we are currently doing.
I think It's great that you sought your teacher for advice, unfortunately she is looking at the same picture that mainstream is looking at, which is in the other direction, and has been failing for a very long time. More drugs, more deaths, more money.
Looking forward to hearing the next from response from your professor.