Cancer cells have a qualitative and persistent excess of potassium – as much as 66% – along with an equivalent excess in red blood cells and a deficiency in blood serum.

The excess potassium in red blood cells and its deficiency in blood serum is related to the fact that red blood cells can contain ample oxygen at the same time tissue oxygen levels have dropped to zero. (Serum and tissue oxygen tension levels are measured as Po2, oxygen potential pressure.)

Emanuel Revici, M.D., found low-serum potassium values correlate with an ACID pain pattern, and high-level potassium values correlate with ALKALINE pain.

Keeping in mind that intracellular potassium promotes cancer (cancer cells are OVERHYDRATED and underoxygenated) yet prevents aging and heart syndromes (aging cells are UNDERHYDRATED and overoxygenated), the following was written 74 years ago (another case of medical amnesia) …

Barclay Moon Newman, “The New Heavy Nitrogen,” Scientific American, Dec. 1937, “Potassium has three variants, atoms of weights 39, 40, 41. Atom 40 is the rarest but be far the most interesting. It is the only atom which is at the same time essential for life and, like radium, radioactive; for potassium 40 emits penetrating rays, beta rays, consisting of negative particles of electricity, or electrons, traveling at high speed. […] The radioactive variety has been found in unusually low concentration in portions of the heart – that is, in concentrations below those in other parts of the body, other plants and animals, and the sea. On the other hand, bone marrow, where red blood cells are formed, is relatively richer in the radioactive variety. Seaweed, too, concentrates radioactive potassium – the ration of potassium 40 to potassium 39 is greater in seaweed’s potassium than in the potassium in the surrounding water. What is the meaning of life’s selective action upon potassium isotopes?”

Cancer drugs such as Gleevac (despite its reengineered “new bottom-up approach to rational drug design”) can cause congestive heart failure – another example of cancer versus aging and heart syndromes.

Learn to walk the razor’s edge between beingTOO ACIDIC(death by cancer’s growth) andTOO ALKALINE(death by cancer’s metastasis).