The Calcium Factor

The Calcium Factor is a book written Robert Barefoot and Carl J Reich MD. It looks on the role of calcium in a modern day diet. The authors argue that increased calcium in the diet will prevent or alleviate common diseases, and that information on this treatment is being suppressed by mainstream medicine and the pharmaceutical industry.

The blurb explains: “Did you know that most degenerative disease attributed to aging, such as cancer, osteoporosis, heart disease and other diseases such as allergy, kidney stones and gallstones have all been scientifically linked to mineral deficiencies that result in your body fluids, including your saliva, becoming more acidic? Only one of many questions. You owe it to yourself to read The Calcium Factor, not only for the sake of your own health, but for the sake of your family and friends.”

An Amazon review reads: “This book proves how important it is to have the body fluids slightly alkaline and tells you how to test yourself so you maintain a proper balance. It also proves that calcium is the most important nutrient after oxygen and water because calcium carries the other nutrients into the cells. “Over 200 diseases are linked to ionic calcium deficiency disease: Cancer, Diabetes, Arthritis, Heart Disease, Osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s Disease, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome…And Many, Many More. Acidosis (overly acid body) is the primary indicator of I.C.D.D. – ionic calcium deficiency disease. Scientists have discovered that the body fluids of healthy people are alkaline (high pH) whereas the body fluids of sick people are acidic (low pH). ‘Calcium deficiency is the universal property of all cancer cells.’ Calcium in biological systems (vol 1, l985, CRD Press, Inc.) ‘The early work of Otto Warburg, some 60 years ago (Cause and prevention of cancer; Biochem Zeits, 152:514-520, 1924), showed that cancer was associated with anaerobic (deficiency of oxygen) conditions, resulting in fermentation and a drop in the pH of the cell. (Low pH hyperthermia cancer therapy, Cancer Chemotherapy Pharmacology 4; 137-145, 1980). Moreover, the production of mutation receptors cannot occur with the pH of the cell in the healthy, calcium buffered 7.4 to 6.6 range.”

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