the body, just like your car, breaks down. Cancer is a thing that happens, not a specific malady that can be cured or prevented with any guarantee of success.
As I understand it, cancer cells come into existence in our bodies periodically throughout everyone's lives. They are identified and destroyed by the immune system. What we call "cancer" is when the body has failed to identify a particular type of cancer cell, and it runs wild. Typically, this is due to a defect in the immune system, which can be caused by multiple factors, one of which is poor diet over a long period of time.
That is my understanding as well. Cancers themselves aren't necessarily hereditary or caused by external factors; the tendency for the immune system to be compromised in a way that allows various cancer cells to propagate and not be destroyed is. Poor diet, especially over a long period of time, is not just a major contributor to cancer but most other chronic diseases as well.
An alkaline body isn't exactly a cure for cancer but it certainly is the path toward combating it. The Koreans and Japanese have been doing this for centuries. Alkaline and high Oxidation Reduction Potential water is used for almost any ailment in their culture. In addition, the Okinawans are famous for eating coral calcium to help raise body pH.
But homeostasis forces your body back into a normal pH range regardless how much alkaline water you drink or supplements you take. Your average blood pH is in the 7.35 to 7.45 pH range. One has to work pretty hard to force blood much higher and if you do, alkalosis can trigger a whole host of other life threatening problems for you. They call it homeostasis for a reason.
If you want a healthy immune system, cut out all sugar and carbs and consume more saturated fats - nut and avocado oils are best. Your PSA for the day.
I think the issue isn't so much trying to force your body to a higher pH than normal, although this
is a method used to target disease once it occurs. The issue is that among other things the modern diet, including many brands of bottled water,
acidifies the body, lowering the normal pH range to unhealthy levels.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food ― Hippocrates
Among the industrial food and industrial health care crowd the resistance to these ideas has obvious origins. Among the public it's more subtle; a combination of conditioning to believe in government agencies and marketing copy, and an addiction to convenience. As Reagan pointed out concerning freedom and liberty, they must be maintained and defended by each generation for it's own sake; it's not a given. The same applies to health and fitness; you have to take responsibility, both mentally and physically, for your own. Bureaucratic agencies, corporations, and even most doctors aren't going to promote what's in your best interest. They're going to promote what's in their own.
