"Everyone of us gets dozens of cancers each day," Dr. Carl Pfeiffer of Princeton, N. J. used to say; But our bodies immediately check the growth of most of them, so, usually, nothing happens. Thousands of scientists are daily working on means to grapple with this great destroyer, but it appears to me that their efforts are largely misdirected. An enormous amount of their time seems to be devoted to "early detection" of cancer, at which time the battle is often lost, rather than to measures that might wholly prevent emergence of the great killer.

Cancer is known to be mostly a disease of the aging, as the immune system of the body goes into steady decline. Indeed, it is this same "system", or "response", that has brought us forward through the ages, against almost insurmountable odds, as we fought every imaginable enemy. Yet, somewhere along the tortuous pathway of our development, we either lost, or never had, the one, almost magical, cellular balancer, detoxifier, and fortifier necessary to extend our lives, to help make our bodies whole, and to step up mightily our resistance to disease.

It appears that, in approaching the problem, we must, first, consider what is most missing in our bodies, that might provide the "fuel" to enable our cells to throw off a host of vicious invaders, including bacteria, viruses, and radiation.

The Missing Agents

Outstanding among these missing elements are the mineral ascorbates, of which their intermediate form, ascorbic acid, has been mislabeled Vitamin C. It is in the full study of these peerless carbo that our medical science has been grossly deficient. Yes, there are some 80,000 papers on the subject of ascorbic acid, but little consideration has been given to the most active forms of this powerful molecule, which protect more than 99.9% of all other animals, the mineral ascorbates.

Thanks to the pioneering work of the British navy, long ago, which found that lemons (limes) could protect its men at sea for months from almost sure death, an awareness of the need for ascorbate, after countless centuries of radically shortened life, is slowly emerging. But this need should be measured in grams rather than in milligrams, because it is not really a vitamin but a liver metabolite, as world authority, Dr. Irwin Stone labeled it many decades ago. Yes, minute quantities will not suffice, if we would strive to be fully alive and fully well.

The stage for our two most basic ailments, heart attack and cancer is slowly set, with each advancing year. Deprived of adequate mineral ascorbates, the linings of our arteries start to bleed, then clot, forming scar tissue. This scar tissue then collects the cholesterol, lipids, and, finally, calcium of the plaque that, finally, totally blocks the flow of blood to the heart, inducing death.

However, with a poorly functioning immune system, which can be due in great measure to lack of the mineral ascorbates, either heart attack or cancer may get you first. This wonderful immune response, as some researchers like to call it, must have every nutrient working for it in synergistic power to help ward off a multitude of invaders ranging from the common cold to the most life-threatening diseases.

So, if we were able to produce enough mineral ascorbates to give six to ten grams daily to the entire population, I am confident that the incidence of death from disease, say, to the age of 80, would decline about 50% or more.

Won’t you join me? I like to keep some friends close to my own age (85).

P.S. When we had the UCLA Cardiovascular Center in Torrance, CA., x-ray 10 of our employees with the Ultrafast CT scan, 8 out of 10 showed zero (0) plaque, and the 9^th and 10^th showed very low levels, also insignificant, at which no symptoms appear.

Furthermore, we are inviting several hundred physicians, who have taken our mineral ascorbates for many years, to get their arteries, also, checked We shall publish the results as soon as available.