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Oxygen levels are sensitive to a myriad of influences. Toxicity, emotional stress, physical
trauma, infections, reduction of atmospheric oxygen, nutritional status, lack of exercise
and especially improper breathing will affect the oxygen levels in our bodies. Now let’s
see how important iodine and thyroid hormones are in this process as well.

Crucial Iodine

We can begin to see how iodine is important in cancer treatment, not only because it
provokes cell apoptosis and kills viruses, bacteria and fungus on contact (infections cause
as much as 40 percent of cancers) but also because iodine is crucial in metabolism and
oxygen delivery to the cells. Any element that threatens the oxygen carrying capacity of
the human body will promote cancer growth. Likewise, any therapy that improves the
oxygen function can be expected to enhance the body’s defenses against cancer. In order
for cancer to ‘establish’ a foothold in the body, it has to be deprived of oxygen. If these
two conditions can be reversed cancer can not only be slowed down, it can actually be
upended.

Oxygen, pH and Iodine

Dr. David Brownstein indicates that iodine is alkaline and the body uses iodine to recover
from an acid state. One’s body pH value tells you how acidic or alkaline the body is
relative to a neutral 7.0. Balanced body pH is essential for a healthy body and is a major
line of defense against sickness and disease. Most people do not know that pH is also a
measure of oxygen and cell voltage. The more alkaline, the more oxygen and the higher
the cell voltage.

To maintain a balanced pH, your body pulls certain minerals, such as sodium, potassium,
calcium and magnesium, from its’ tissues to neutralize acids in the blood. Iodine/iodide
appears to be essential to this process because it is both the key to metabolism and
important to oxygen levels. If your body cannot do this successfully because you are
deficient in the iodine (and thus low on energy) necessary for this process to occur, acids
accumulate in the body and cause health problems over time. The longer your pH remains
below normal in the acid range and the deficiency is not corrected, the higher your risk
that symptoms of various ailments will occur and increase in severity.

The most important factor in creating proper pH is increasing oxygen. No wastes or toxins
can leave the body without first combining with oxygen. The more alkaline you are, the
more oxygen your fluids can hold and keep. Oxygen also buffers/oxidizes metabolic
waste acids, helping to keep you more alkaline. Iodine sufficiency is one crucial key to
oxygen sufficiency.

According to Annelie Pompe, a prominent mountaineer and world-champion free
diver, alkaline tissues can hold up to 20 times more oxygen than acidic ones.
When our body cells and tissues are acidic (below pH of 6.5-7.0), they lose their
ability to exchange oxygen. Increased carbon dioxide, bicarbonates and electrons
lead to increased oxygen.

The quickest way to increase oxygen and pH is through the administration of sodium
bicarbonate and that is why bicarbonate has always been a mainstay emergency room

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