Did you know that these bodies we have run on electricity? Are you plugged in? Each healthy body cell has an electrical charge between the positive nucleus and the negative membrane, dense with unsaturated fats, that encloses the cell. This interaction, along with the right enzymes, enables the cell to admit nutrients and oxygen and expel waste products from its digestive process.
Each time we eat unsaturated oils that have been processed — those oils so common in supermarkets like sunflower, safflower, canola, and just plain “vegetable” oil — we shut down some of our body cells’ electrical function. How? The processing removes each oil cell’s cloud of electrons. Those missing oil electrons would have recharged a body cell’s electricity but instead, the affected body cells go dormant and cease to metabolize anything. Further, the processing removes the oil cells’ ability to bond with oxygen, which would have enabled them to then bind with protein and thereby become water-soluble, which means they cannot enter our water-based body cells and whatever nutrition is in the oil is never digested. They can’t flow into the tiny capillaries and instead remain in the larger blood vessels, clogging them up.
Disease and Early Aging
Further, the dormant cells cannot divide and produce new cells. The lack of electrons in the unsaturated fats of the potential daughter cell’s membrane prevents it from separating from the mother cell. Thus, as we continue to eat processed oils, the body has increasing numbers of dormant, electron-less cells that die without replacing themselves with new young cells. Normally the body replaces about 500 million cells each day. And since all our body organs are made of cells, each organ’s function is impaired as more and more of its cells become dormant and die with no replacements.
Processed oils and body cells are a severe mismatch. The oils’ destructive effects lead to many chronic and fatal diseases. What we need instead are unprocessed, unsaturated fats.
Enter Johanna Budwig
Dr. Budwig lived from 1908 to 2003. She was a research chemist, pharmacologist and physicist in Germany and spent much of her life researching oils. Among the many oils she studied, visiting supermarkets and working in her lab, was flaxseed oil. This oil is high in oxygen. How did it get the oxygen?
The flax plant created it from the sun, which beams photons down that can interact with electrons and increase their energy levels. A plant’s green pigment, chlorophyll, uses the sun’s energy to make carbohydrates and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water. This is photosynthesis. Then the plant stores those two products and we animals use them for food. You might have learned, as I did in grade school, that plants are our opposites in breathing: they breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. They do but they also store some oxygen for creating energy by breaking down carbohydrates.
A Cure For Cancer
Dr. Budwig wanted to devise a cure for cancer which, as she knew and we also know, occurs when the body is lacking in oxygen. How to get more oxygen into body cells when the cancer patient is too ill to go running or dancing? She chose flaxseed oil with its high oxygen content (other plant oils have less oxygen but in a blog its too complicated to go into why) and looked for a food high in sulphur to combine it with and she chose quark, the German cottage cheese. Good chemist that she was, she knew that this combination would make the oil water-soluble so it could enter body cells and bring its oxygen with it.
She offered this mix to cancer patients and found that their tumors started to shrink and they began to feel much better. In fact, she cured many people of cancer and was profusely thanked but guess what? Did the established scientific world accept her solution? Certainly not. She was nominated seven times for a Nobel Prize but each time was blocked.
However, the flax oil and cottage cheese blend is well known in the alternative cancer world. It’s dinner time now and time to make my Budwig Blend. In the next blog I’ll describe exactly how it’s done.