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The lack of cellular oxygen appears to be the cause of lactic acid ( which is responsible for the lower PH of the patient with advanced stage cancer ) build up and the poor prognosis of the disease . Of course the lactic acid could probably make matter worse as per your opinion but it isn't the primary cause in the first place. Otherwise, all of the pro athletes are at risk of contracting cancer due to frequent generation of lactic acid.

I wonder if the causes are mixed up that they arise in concert. If a carcinogen gets a cell all confused, it starts to produce lactic acid which also cuts down on oxygen which then makes a feedback loop for the cell to divide as a cancer cell. Low oxygen is low pH. A cell doesn't like low oxygen and if it was in high pH would not have to deal with low oxygen.

I don't think lactic acid is a cause of cancer. I do think having not enough oxygen for cells would do it though. But I'm not about to study the root cause of cancer - I have not lab or skills or money. Sure I keep reading on the Internet.

Athletes that produce lactic acid are also breathing and releasing CO2 and all those other things you mention in a quote about how the body stabilizes the acid/alkaline balance. When someone works out, they produce acids becuase of burning oxygen and the body wisks it away as best if can. If the body is already more acidic, then it's harder to wisk the extra acid away since the body is already working on a pile of it.

Your quote on Hypoxic cancer cells: isn't that what I was saying about cells needing oxygen?

The interesting thing about the body trying to maintain pH is that it will do anything to keep a pH set point that is best for the body. I liked the quote on the various ways that is done. However it doesn't mention how the body will take calcium from bones and bring that into the mix when there's too much acid somewhere. These are all reasons to try to be more alkaline, don't you think?

Tissues on the verge of cancer can have calcium deposts. This is the action of the body trying to make that tissue more alkaline and using leached calcium from bones. The more acidic one's body is, the more likely the body will turn to leaching calcium to buffer the tissue. The more acidic the tissues or body is in general the more likley there will be cells that are hypoxic (low oxygen).

Cells that can't breath are going to use glucose with fermentation (which creates lots of lactic acid). That in itself can be ok if the cell doesn't divide, or dies or eventually gets oxygen before it divides into a bad copy. The pH of the cell goes down and that allows the cell to freak out and possibly divide in bad ways (cancer). What keeps a cell from getting oxygen? -> Too much acidicness around it mostly, the other ways a cell is oxygen deprived are, like your quote - too far away from blood vessels, or microbes getting into the cells or trans-fatty acids sticking to the sides of cells.