Before we get into the alternative treatment for prostate cancer, it is important to know just what the prostate is, what it does and where it is.The prostate is a sex gland and is only in men. Its function is to create seminal fluid. The prostate is just under the bladder and surrounds the urethra. This position is unfortunate because if there’s something wrong with the prostate, this usually causes a problem with urination.

The alternative treatment for prostate cancer that I’m talking has its origins back in 1924 when Nobel Prize winner Dr. Otto Warburg first wrote in a paper that all cancers were anaerobic.He later tested this by giving cancer to a group of animals over a period of 48hrs by injecting them with acidic fluids, therefore, expelling any oxygen from their bodies. Since then, his research has largely been ignored by modern cancer researchers.

Some people say that prostrate cancer is the most common cancer affecting men. Other people say the prostate is second only to skin cancer. Whatever the case, prostate cancer is definitely one of the most common cancers. The good news is that prostate cancer is usually caught fairly early in its progression.

It’s caught by the PSA test (prostate specific antigen) or by the digital rectal exam. Because it is normally caught too soon, victims have time to plan out their treatments including considering an alternative treatment for prostate cancer. Traditional Western medicine treatments generally include: * radiation * chemotherapy * hormone therapy * surgery. All of these treatments are meant to kill the cancer cells, but, regrettably, healthy cells are also killed along with the immune system being compromised, so the prostate cancer normally comes back or spreads to other parts of the body. This death of healthy cells is why an alterative treatment for prostate cancer should be used.

The alternative treatment for prostate cancer that’s based on Dr. Warburg’s findings involves that ingesting of calcium and alkaline foods to raise the ph of the bodily fluids so that oxygen is present in all of the cells.

Calcium has a ph of eight so it’s alkaline, but more importantly, it also acts as a buffer in the body. Being a buffer means that just a little bit of calcium can neutralize a lot of acid in the body.

There are many types of calcium supplements that can be purchased. All of these types are good because they all have an alkaline ph, but coral calcium is the best because it is already 100% ionized, so it is ready to be absorbed by the body.

If you have prostate cancer, you should take six coral calcium capsules per day. To facilitate the absorption of the calcium, you should also take 5,000 I.U.’s per day of vitamin D.

Using calcium to treat cancer is probably the last thing you expected me to say. You probably expected me to advocate B17. In fact, scientific researchers are discovering more about the importance of calcium all the time. One result of these discoveries was and article in the October 13th, 1998 issue of the New York Times.

It was entitled “Calcium Takes It’s Place As a Superstar Of Nutrients”. This article talked about a study that was reviewed by the Journal of the American Medical Association. The journal reported that “increasing the calcium induced normal development of the epithelial cells and might also prevent cancer in such organs as the breast, prostate and pancreas”.

Another key point of this alternative treatment for prostate cancer is that treating the cancer is only part of the battle. To keep the cancer from coming back, you need to find out why it occurred in the first place and change whatever you were doing when you acquired cancer.

Finding the cause of any ailment is not really part of Western medicine, but it is a very important part of alternative medicine. As part of an alternative treatment for prostate cancer, you should closely examine your diet to see if you can eliminate foods that are very acidic.

You’d be surprised at which foods are extremely acidic. One of the bad ones is soda pop. If it’s a diet soda, that can be even worse because if it’s a citrus drink, more citrus will be added as a partial substitute for sugar. The result is an extremely acidic drink.

Water is supposed to have a neutral ph of seven, so a lot of people assume that tap water is neutral. This is not so. With all the additives it has to “purify” it, especially chlorine, it ends up being acidic. If you want to drink water, you’re better off with bottled water.

Unfortunately, most foods are also acidic. Foods are this way so that they are easier to digest. If you have prostate cancer, you try to eat foods that are less acidic than others or even some of the foods that are already alkaline such as some green vegetables. To find these foods get and follow a food chart. There are several online.