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Mike wrote:

Did you prove that his idea about anaerobiosis of cancer cells
(see http://healingtools.tripod.com/primecause1.html) played no
role in awarding him the Nobel prize? No. In fact, it probably did.

Yes, I did prove that he was not awarded the Nobel prize
for his cancer research. The presentation speech by
Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Nobel Committee
for Physiology or Medicine of the Royal Caroline
Institute, states very clearly the reason for giving
Warburg the prize:

"Your discovery about the nature and effect of the
ferment of respiration, which the Caroline Institute
is rewarding this year with Alfred Nobel's Prize for
Physiology or Medicine, has added a link of brilliant
achievement to the chain that binds for all time,
John Mayow (England), Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
(France), and Otto Warburg (Germany). On behalf of
the Caroline Institute I invite you to accept the
prize from the hands of our King."

Also, in his Nobel lecture, on the occasion of
receiving the prize, he does not even mention
cancer:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1931/warburg-lecture.pdf

Try reading that lecture. You'll see that his
lecture matches up exactly with the reason
stated by the presenter for awarding him the
Nobel Prize, namely his research on "the nature
and effect of the ferment of respiration".
In fact, the title of the lecture is "The
oxygen-transferring ferment of respiration".
You'll also see that his lecture has nothing
to do with cancer. Nothing at all.

Liar, liar, pants on fire................

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2004/02/03/otto_warburg_cancer_and_oxygen.htm

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931

Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Nobel
Committee for Physiology or Medicine of the Royal Caroline Institute

Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen.

The discovery for which the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is to be
awarded today concerns intracellular combustion: that fundamental vital
process by which substances directly supplied to cells or stored in them are
broken down into simpler components while using up oxygen. It is by this
process that the energy required for other vital processes is made available
to the cells in a form capable of immediate utilization.

Many famous names and many discoveries have been associated with research on
this vital process, while, before natural philosophical thought was limited
by the demands of accurate measurement, it was a fertile field for
speculation. The life work of many savants finds a place in the volume of
which Otto Warburg has written - for the time being - the last pages. The
first were written by John Mayow in 1670, then less than 30 years of age,
whose observations on the power of saltpetre to set fire to organic
substances led him to the view that certain igneo-aer al particles existed
in saltpetre, in the air, and also in organic substances. He inferred that
the significance and function of respiration was to bring these particles
into the body, and so make combustion therein possible. It is clear that
Mayow's igneo-aerial particles correspond with oxygen, which had not yet
been discovered. Some thirty years later the ill-famed phlogiston theory of
combustion was born, and spread like an epidemic throughout the scientific
world, causing the seeking for truth to be diverted from its proper course
that had been opened by Mayow's discovery, which had, if one may use a
somewhat dubious expression, been made before its time and had received
little attention. Comprehension of the mechanism of combustion was thus,
quite foolishly as it might seem, delayed for more than a century. Return to
the proper path had to await the discovery by Lavoisier of the real nature
of the process in connection with the final discovery and isolation of
oxygen in the hands of Priestley and Scheele. Otto Warburg's work has met
with a kinder fate.

As combustion of foodstuffs outside the body in the presence of atmospheric
oxygen occurs only at high temperatures, it must be assumed that during
combustion in living cells, something happens that alters the rather inert
air-oxygen, or the foodstuff, or perhaps both so that they can react with
each other. Fully conscious of the insuperable difficulties of explaining at
present the innermost mechanism by which this inertness was overcome,
Warburg decided to investigate the nature of the mysterious substance that
acts as the primus motor in intracellular combustion. Nature often seems to
use methods that appear to be indirect and less «natural» than those we
should have devised, and such was the case here. It was not possible to
isolate the active substance, the catalyst, or respiratory ferment as
Warburg called it, by ordinary chemical methods, because it forms less than
about a millionth of the weight of the cells to which it is firmly bound,
while it is easily destroyed by procedures which might be used for
liberating it. So, just as in modern atomic research, indirect methods had
to be used.

It had been known, since the days of Davy and Berzelius, that many metals
possess the power of initiating or accelerating various reactions, including
combustion. Starting from the possibility that had indeed been envisaged
earlier, Warburg assumed that intracellular combustion might also be
regarded as being due to catalysis by metals, i.e. that it might be
initiated by some metallic compound. Definite proof that he was on the track
of this well-hidden secret of Nature was obtained by the use of exact
measurements of combustion in living cells or, as Warburg calls it, cell
respiration. The quantitatively measured variations in the process of
combustion under different conditions threw light on the nature of the
respiratory ferment. Its tendency to enter into compounds with substances
which combine with iron showed that it is itself an iron compound, and that
its effects are due to iron. The correspondence between the effects of light
on cellular combustion inhibited by carbon monoxide and on carbon-monoxide
compounds of certain pigments closely related to blood pigments led, with
the aid of a detailed mathematical analysis to the conclusion that the
respiratory ferment is a red pigment containing iron, and that it is closely
related to our own blood pigment. This was the first demonstration of an
effective catalyst, a ferment, in the living organism, and this
identification is the more important because it throws light on a process of
general significance in the maintenance of life.

Professor Warburg. From the start, your research has been focussed on
problems of central importance. Your bold ideas, but above all, your keen
intelligence and rare perfection in the art of exact measurement have won
for you exceptional successes, and for the science of biology some of its
most valuable material.

I take the liberty of mentioning those two of your discoveries, which seem
to be of the greatest value.

The medical world expects great things from your experiments on cancer and
other tumours, experiments which seem already to be sufficiently far
advanced to be able to furnish an explanation for at least one cause of the
destructive and unlimited growth of these tumours.

Your discovery about the nature and effect of the ferment of respiration,
which the Caroline Institute is rewarding this year with Alfred Nobel's
Prize for Physiology or Medicine, has added a link of brilliant achievement
to the chain that binds for all time, John Mayow (England), Antoine Laurent
Lavoisier (France), and Otto Warburg (Germany). On behalf of the Caroline
Institute I invite you to accept the prize from the hands of our King.

From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1922-1941, Elsevier Publishing
Company, Amsterdam

Last modified June 27, 2003 The Official Web Site of The Nobel Foundation
Copyright© 2003 The Nobel Foundation

http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Loxygen2.htm


The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer
Dr. Otto Warburg
Lecture delivered to Nobel Laureates on June 30, 1966
at Lindau, Lake Constance, Germany



There are prime and secondary causes of diseases. For example, the prime
cause of the plague is the plague bacillus, but secondary causes of the
plague are filth, rats, and the fleas that transfer the plague bacillus from
rats to man. By the prime cause of a disease, I mean one that is found in
every case of the disease.

Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. Almost
anything can cause cancer. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime
cause. The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of
oxygen (oxidation of sugar) in normal body cells by fermentation of sugar.

All normal body cells meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen,
whereas cancer cells meet their energy needs in great part by fermentation.
All normal body cells are thus obligate aerobes, whereas all cancer cells
are partial anaerobes. From the standpoint of the physics and chemistry of
life this difference between normal and cancer cells is so great that one
can scarcely picture a greater difference. Oxygen gas, the donor of energy
in plants and animals, is dethroned in the cancer cells and replaced by the
energy yielding reaction of the lowest living forms, namely the fermentation
of sugar.

In every case, during the cancer development, the oxygen respiration always
falls, fermentation appears, and the highly differentiated cells are
transformed into fermenting anaerobes, which have lost all their body
functions and retain only the now useless property of growth and
replication. Thus, when respiration disappears, life does not disappear, but
the meaning of life disappears, and what remains are growing machines that
destroy the body in which they grow.

All carcinogens impair respiration directly or indirectly by deranging
capillary circulation, a statement that is proven by the fact that no cancer
cell exists without exhibiting impaired respiration. Of course, respiration
cannot be repaired if it is impaired at the same time by a carcinogen.

To prevent cancer it is therefore proposed first to keep the speed of the
blood stream so high that the venous blood still contains sufficient oxygen;
second, to keep high the concentration of hemoglobin in the blood; third, to
add always to the food, even of healthy people, the active groups of the
respiratory enzymes; and to increase the doses of these groups, if a
precancerous state has already developed. If at the same time exogenous
carcinogens are excluded rigorously, then much of the endogenous cancer may
be prevented today.

These proposals are in no way utopian. On the contrary, they may be realized
by everybody, everywhere, at any hour. Unlike the prevention of many other
diseases, the prevention of cancer requires no government help, and not much
money.

Many experts agree that one could prevent about 80% of all cancers in man,
if one could keep away the known carcinogens from the normal body cells. But
how can the remaining 20%, the so-called spontaneous cancers, be prevented?
It is indisputable that all cancer could be prevented if the respiration of
body cells were kept intact.

Nobody today can say that one does not know what the prime cause of cancer
is. On the contrary, there is no disease whose prime cause is better known,
so that today ignorance is no longer an excuse for avoiding measures for
prevention. That the prevention of cancer will come there is no doubt. But
how long prevention will be avoided depends on how long the prophets of
agnosticism will succeed in inhibiting the application of scientific
knowledge in the cancer field. In the meantime, millions of men and women
must die of cancer unnecessarily.

http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/warburgcancer-cause-prevention.html

Preface to the Second Revised German Edition of the Lindau Lecture
(The way to prevention of cancer)
Since the Lindau lecture of June 1966 many physicians have examined - not
unsuccessfully - the practical consequences of the anaerobiosis of cancer
cells. The more who participate in these examinations, the sooner will we
know what can be achieved. It is a unique aspect of these examinations that
they can be carried out on human patients, on the largest scale, without
risk; whereas experiments on animals have been misleading many times. The
cure of human cancer will be the resultant of biochemistry of cancer and of
biochemistry of man.

A list of selected active groups of respiratory enzymes will soon be
published, to which we recently added cytohemin and d-amino-Levulinic acid,
the precursor of oxygen-transferring hemins. In the meantime commercial
vitamin preparations may be used that contain, besides other substances,
many active groups of the respiratory enzymes. Most of these may be added to
the food. Cytohemin and vitamin B 12 may be given subcutaneously. (A synonym
of "active group" is "prosthetic" group of an enzyme.)

There exists no alternative today to the prevention of cancer as proposed at
Lindau. It is the way that attacks the prime cause of cancer most directly
and that is experimentally most developed. Indeed millions of experiments in
man, through the effectiveness of some vitamins, have shown, that cell
respiration is impaired if the active groups of the respiratory enzymes are
removed from the food; and that cell respiration is repaired at once, if
these groups are added again to the food. No way can be imagined that is
scientifically better founded to prevent and cure a disease, the prime cause
of which is an impaired respiration. Neither genetic codes of anaerobiosis
nor cancer viruses are alternatives today, because no such codes and no such
viruses in man have been discovered so far; but anaerobiosis has been
discovered.8

What can be achieved by the active groups, when tumors have already
developed? The answer is doubtful, because tumors live in the body almost
anaerobically, that is under conditions that the active groups cannot act.

On the other hand, because young metastases live in the body almost
aerobically, inhibition by the active groups should be possible. Therefore
we propose first to remove all compact tumors, which are the anaerobic foci
of the metastasis. Then the active group should be added to the food, in the
greatest possible amount, for many years, even for ever. This is a promising
task. If it succeeds, then cancer will be a harmless disease.

Moreover, we discovered recentlya) in experiments with growing cancer cells
in vitro that very low concentrations of some selected active groups inhibit
fermentation and the growth of cancer cells completely, in the course of a
few days. From these experiments it may be concluded that de-differentiated
cells die if one tries to normalize their metabolism. It is a result that is
unexpected and that encourages the task of inhibiting the growth of
metastases with active enzyme groups.

As emphasized, it is the first precondition of the proposed treatment that
all growing body cells be saturated with oxygen. It is a second precondition
that exogenous carcinogens be kept away, at least during the treatment. All
carcinogens impair respiration directly or indirectly by deranging capillary
circulation, a statement that is proved by the fact that no cancer cell
exists, the respiration of which is not impaired. Of course, respiration
cannot be repaired if it is impaired at the same time by carcinogens.

It has been asked after the Lindau lecture why the repair of respiration by
the active groups of the enzymes was proposed as late as 1966, although the
fermentation of the cancer cell was discovered as early as 1923. Why was so
much time lost?

He who asked this questions ignored that in 1923 the chemical mechanism of
enzyme action was still a secret of living nature alone.1 The first active
group of an enzyme, "Iron, the Oxygen-Transferring Part of the Respiratory
Enzyme" was discovered in 19242. There followed in two decades the
discoveries of the O2-transferring metalloproteins, the flavoproteins and
the pyridinproteins, a period that was concluded by the "Heavy Metals as
Prosthetic Groups of Enzymes"3 and by the "Hydrogen Transferring Enzymes"4
in 1947 to 1949.

Moreover, during the first decades after 1923 glycolysis and anaerobiosis
were constantly confused, so that nobody knew what was specific for tumors.
The three famous and decisive discoveries of DEAN BURK and colleagues5 of
the National Cancer Institute at Bethesda were of the years 1941, 1956 and
1964: first, that the metabolism of the regenerating liver, which grows more
rapidly than most tumors, is not cancer metabolism, but perfect aerobic
embryonic metabolism; second, that cancer cells, descended in vitro from one
single normal cell, were in vivo the more malignant, the higher the
fermentation rate; third, that in vivo growing hepatomas, produced in vivo
by different carcinogens, were in vivo the more malignant, the higher the
fermentation rate. Furthermore, the very unexpected and fundamental fact,
that tissue culture is carcinogenic and that a too low oxygen pressure is
the intrinsic cause were discovered6-8 in the years 1927 to 1966.
Anaerobiosis of cancer cells was an established fact only since 1960 when
methods were developed7 to measure the oxygen pressure inside of tumors in
the living body.

This abridged history shows that even the greatest genius would not have
been able to propose in 1923, what was proposed at Lindau in 1966. As
unknown as the prime cause of cancer was in 1923 was the possibility to
prevent it.

Life without oxygen in a living world that has been created by oxygen9 was
so unexpected that it would have been too much to ask that anaerobiosis of
cancer cells should be accepted at once by all scientists. But most of the
resistance disappeared when at Lindau it was explained that on the basis of
anaerobiosis there is now a real chance to get rid of this terrible disease,
if man is willing to submit to experiments and facts. It is true that more
than 40 years were necessary to learn how to do it. But 40 years is a short
time in the history of science.10

Wiesenhof über Idar-Oberstein, August 1967
OTTO WARBURG

a) In press in Hoppe-Seylers Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie 1967. 10
g riboflavin per ccm or 10 g d-Aminolevulinic acid inhibit in vitro growth
and fermentation completely but inhibit respiration less. As expected,
ascites cancer in vivo is not cured.

Two years after the Lindau lecture LINUS PAULING (Science Vol. 160, Page
265, 1968) proposed to control mental diseases by adding to the food the
active groups of respiratory enzymes. But here the experimental basis was
lacking. No mental disease is known so far, the prime cause of which is an
impairment of the respiration of brain cells.

Preface to the First Edition
(Prevention of endogenous cancer)
Most experts agree that nearly 80% of cancers could be prevented, if all
contact with the known exogenous carcinogens could be avoided. But how can
the remaining 20%, the endogenous or so-called spontaneous cancers, be
prevented?

Because no cancer cell exists, the respiration of which is intact1, it
cannot be disputed that cancer could be prevented if the respiration of the
body cells would be kept intact.

Today we know two methods to influence cell respiration.1 The first is to
decrease the oxygen pressure in growing cells. If it is so much decreased
that the oxygen transferring enzymes are no longer saturated with oxygen,
respiration can decrease irreversibly and normal cells can be transformed
into facultative anaerobes.

The second method to influence cell respiration in vivo is to add the active
groups of the respiratory enzymes to the food of man. Lack of these groups
impairs cell respiration and abundance of these groups repairs impaired cell
respiration - a statement that is proved by the fact that these groups are
necessary vitamins for man.2

To prevent cancer it is therefore proposed first to keep the speed of the
blood stream so high that the venous blood still contains sufficient oxygen;
second, to keep high the concentration of hemoglobin in the blood; third to
add always to the food, even of healthy people, the active groups of the
respiratory enzymes; and to increase the doses of these groups, if a
precancerous state3 has already developed. If at the same time exogenous
carcinogens are excluded rigorously, then most cancers may be prevented
today.

These proposals are in no way utopian. On the contrary, they may be realized
by everybody, everywhere, at any hour. Unlike the prevention of many other
diseases the prevention of cancer requires no government help, and no extra
money.

Wiesenhof, August 1966
Otto Warburg


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