Many years ago a compelling fascination manifested within, to seek foundational truth in facets of the human experience.
Otto Warburg, researched the etymology of Tumour formation in Cancer, Winning the 1931 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. His profound research showed that Cancer is fuelled by a low Oxygen environment, where cells switch to Anaerobic respiration, from the normal Aerobic state (switching to sugar from Oxygen to preserve their life). This he found was the basis of Tumour formation.
Johanna Budwig, some years later, taking on Warburgs’ studies as a foundational point of reference, found that when the body’s cells lose 25% of their Oxygen perspiration ability, the terrain becomes such that tumour formation may follow. Budwig was the German Governments head of lipid research, a Laboratory Scientist not a Medical Doctor at that time. Budwig found that Flaxoil blended with Cottage Cheese/Quark was the optimal method of restoring Cellular function back the it’s Aerobic state, stating that the 18 Carbon Chain PUFAs of Flax to be the richest source of surplus Electrons.
Budwig began to apply her knowledge to those of stage 4 Cancers who Medicine had failed, miraculously bringing 10,000’s away from deaths door, with the application of some basic dietary changes. Budwig found herself on litigation charges repeatedly, for practicing medicine without license, she successfully defended her cases, eventually taking the decision to become Medically certified to avert such complications from the medical industrial complex.
Budwig also found the emotional aspect of Cancer to be profoundly important, stating the person must wish to be alive for any such change to work. She cited a case where a young boy was profoundly unwell, after his mother had passed, when her associates questioned the boy on his eating, he stated that when his step mother fed him breakfast, it tasted bad and made him feel unwell, yet the same food was given that his Mother had previously prepared him. The associates had dismissed this claim, however Budwig said it should not be, that previously it was found that his mother made the food for her child with love, the step mother with resentment or lack of care, showing the profound psychological nature of the human condition.
At a similar time to Budwig, Carey Reams was developing a method of returning the human body to energetic function, via testing the biological state of the person. Reams was no expert on Lipids, his expertise was in nurturing foods to yield optimal nutrition, via analysis of soil and crop, Biological farming. From Reams book a hugely important understanding was gleaned that Sugar and Oxygen share the same space in blood. This is a foundational aspect of diabetes and many other ailments to good health, sugar going high will always push the space for Oxygen down (hence the proven links between Psychosis and uncontrolled escalated sugars. Reams was fond of citing his Prize Watermelon, which won best in Category in a farmers fair two years running (the very same Watermelon, a year later was still the best! Because his High Brix, nutrient dense methodology, meant that his produce would simply very slowly petrify from loss of water, not rot).
Reams was drawn into a parallel form of human health to Budwig by a local Child, whose parents came to him as traditional medicinal doctors had failed to cure his illness and given up on him. Reams stated that he spent 3days in deep meditation and fasting, focused solely on what he may do to help the child, after 3days he came to an understanding of using his tools for soil and crop analysis to test multiple factors within the human body and use these readings to form a basis of what is optimal and what needs addressing to bring those biological markers back into a healthful state. Exactly like Budwig, Reams became a local phenomenon where 2 local Hospitals would send their lost cause cases to him. Almost identical to Budwig, he stabilised 10,000’s of people in the following years, leading to being taken to court for practicing medicine without license. Reams defended his cases by stating he was not practicing medicine (he had 2 Doctorates but chose to not become an AMA Dr instead maintained independence), he was analysing factors in the human body which were not needing a second optinion, biological markers, hence there was no need for a second opinion.
Back to the topic, when learning of Reams work, from those who had learned from Reams chiefly, the topic of Nitrogen came into focus. A crop consultant of Reams style, would repeatedly talk of NPN, or “Funny Proteins” as he would describe them.
Non-Protein Nitrogen, he would describe as plant proteins, which exist in under ripe or poorly developed plants, fruits, vegetables. This is immature proteins which were yet to fully synthesise their full animo acid chains, due to poor soil conditions and/or chiefly from being harvested under ripe. These crops, he stated repeatedly, yielded excessive Nitrogen within them, leading to Nitrite (potential) toxicity.
To explain this to those who lack the scientific background in Crop/Human Bio-Chemistry, he would explain that these poor crops lead to the body up taking excess Nitrogen, in the form of Nitrite, which is a chief player in lowered Oxygen status within the body. He would explain how plants yield Haemoglobin supportive substances (especially green leafy) such as Chlorophyll which is Magnesium at it’s centre, surrounded by a shell which is virtually chemically identical to Haemoglobin, so the body may use this readily to create this Heme with Magnesium being replaced by Iron (simple body alchemy), the Magnesium may then be used in ATP production (pertinent to this dynamic). The Haemoglobin is that which allows Oxygen to bind to it within the Bloodstream, and carry it into tissue, conversely, Methaemoglobin is it’s Oxygen uptake antagonised state (Fe3+ Ferric once Oxidised becomes Methemoglobin Vs Fe2+ Ferrous where normal Haemoglobin) the Iron is oxidised it becomes compromised.
Cursory research of the scientific literature, shows that issues with Methaemoglobin, induces Oxygen desaturation, Cyanosis, and is often Nitrogen driven (this is why Nitrogen levels in drinking water are controlled, though many companies sell mineral/spring water with levels way above that which is healthful).
The blood of those with good Oxygen saturation may be bright red, those with high Methaemoglobin may show blood which is brown with blueness. Showing this state in action. The blueness aspect is how humans may externally show that there is imbalance, blue lips, around the eyes blueness and brown circles.
Sadly, although they existed and were active research (and application of findings) Scientists at the very same timeframes, to my knowledge Reams and Budwig never communicated, though it seems certain Budwig was aware of Reams and talked of how “those who advocate Olive Oil are very unhelpful”, talking of this dynamic. Reams advocated light dinners of Salad with Olive Oil (showing his inferior understanding of lipid dynamics) to allow the digestion rest and ready itself for the following day, no protein rich foods later as the digestion of these uses more Oxygen, leaving potentially less as we sleep if the digestion is unfinished, circadian rhythm shows that the adrenals long for oxygen to repair and replenish from 11pm-1am giving credence to this thinking.
Conversely, Budwig lacked the deeper understanding of plant matter that Reams had, how high nutrient density played such a crucial role in that very same function of optimal Oxygen conductance and uptake in the human body. Both geniuses of which I am hardly qualified to talk of, let alone critique, so please know it is just a longing for the fuller picture to emerge from science which draws out these words, not negativity to either giant of nutritional healing.
So, it is easy to see, the inherent pitfalls of many modern techniques for returning to well being, given the excessive saturation of poor crops on the vegetable side, lacking nutrient density, being farmed for high yield, early, to allow cheap Supermarket produce which we all see is often rotting by the time you get them home. Likewise meats grown on these poor crops/lands, which pushes their tissue Oxygen saturations lower and heightens their Nitrate status for the consumer. On the lipid side, Flaxoil in most shops are not vitally fresh, seeds are old and pre-ground when Budwig said they should be fresh ground, soo much of our produce is coated in Oxygen antagonistic lipids.
When it is discussed “who would your dream dinner party guests be” Reams and Budwig are always two of mine, if only they could have been locked in a room together for a few days, a broader pioneering truth would surely have emerged.
In Edit. Position Notes : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen%E2%80%93hemoglobin_dissociation_curve