THE TUMOR
mones, and without thyroxine the mitochondria can’t do their
work.
Why are the brakes gone? Pyruvic aldehyde is susceptible to
amines, much as car brakes are susceptible to drops of oil.
Amines react and combine with pyruvic aldehyde until it is all
gone.
Our cells normally make thiourea for one minute, followed
by pyruvic aldehyde for one minute, and so on, back and forth,
like a pendulum, to keep a balance between the accelerator and
the brakes on cell division. But when massive amounts of
amines appear in the cell, there may be no brakes on cell divi-
sion for fifteen minutes at a time, followed by just one minute
of pyruvic aldehyde, typical of a fast growing tumor.
Why are there so many amines around? Some amines are
produced naturally by our cells, perhaps to do exactly this—
release the brakes by combining with pyruvic aldehyde on a
tight schedule. But the excessive amount of amines in tumor
cells is produced by bacteria. Simple bacteria! They have en-
tered the cells as they always try to do. But for some reason the
tumor cells can neither kill them, nor free themselves of them.
The predator is living within! The cells’ primitive solution to
this impasse is to divide itself (release the brakes on cell divi-
sion), so at least one of the two newly formed cells will escape
and be free of the attacker, assuring survival. Like a fingernail
you accidentally hit with a hammer, the nail will fall off eventu-
ally and reveal a new one growing underneath.
Tumor Cell Bacteria
It is understandable now, why tumor cells are not able to do
any work. They are sick. Bacteria have attacked them. Their
toxic amines have removed the brakes. Without brakes thiourea
production is endless and thyroxine can’t reach the mitochon-