The unique exponential growth of life is powered by anaerobic glycolysis

Abstract

Cancer and unicellular life forms with adequate access to nutriments grow exponentially. When colonies of unicellular organisms and multicellular organisms increase, the overall growth rate decreases to a Gompertzian exponential function. Ionising radiation uniquely kills living organisms according to a negative exponential function, either a fully negative exponential or negative Gompertzian form. Automatically the target of ionising radiation must be the biochemical system, which creates exponential growth. This research, starting from 1954, uses radiation therapy to help identifying this biochemical system. In 1973 it was discovered that a patient with cancer had electrical characteristics, which would improve the tuning of a semi folded dipole antenna radiating 434±2 MHz whereas the normal body would detune the antenna thereby reducing its output. The cancer cell killed per unit dose of ionising dose radiation is not improved by simple non-electrical heating to 41.8 °C (the limit of liver tolerance) nor by 434 MHz applied after the X-ray dose has been delivered. When delivered within 30 min of the X-ray dose the cell kill for the same unit dose can be increased by any factor up to or exceeding 10 times without raising the temperature of the cancer more than 0.2 °C. This is proof of a non-thermal radiosensitisation of the target and, therefore ionising radiation and 434 MHz UHF both directly hit the same target. With two different types of electromagnetic radiation targeting the same biochemical mechanism it was readily identified as an anaerobic glycolysis. The electrical conductivity of cancer has been estimated between DC and 2 GHz and has a maximum ratio of 5.16 at 180 MHz. Neither this frequency nor any other of the frequencies 8, 12, 27, 915 and 2250 MHz showed radiosensitising effects when tested on human cancer. Human cancer exhibits a greater absorption and greater reflection from 434±2 MHz incident radiation and with a multiple antenna system exhibits characteristics similar to a frequency changing superheterodyne. Reflected frequencies above and below the incident frequency are produced, on spectral analysis they appear to have the characteristics of resonance and fluorescence. These spectral characteristics disappear within 20 min of death of a patient who is being irradiated. The target of X-rays and UHF is therefore the system, which shall be designated as ER ex, which stands for the electrical reaction of exponentiality. The number of ER ex systems can be calculated to be between 2 and in excess of 30 per cancer cell. At least 1, probably 2, perhaps 3 units are active in any single cell at any one time. The total number must be killed to kill the cancer cell. The varying sensitivity of cancer to ionise radiation is thus completely explained. After UHF, the ER ex targets are partly or completely activated for up to 30 min and, therefore the equation of response to ionising radiation changes from a negative Gompertz function to a pure negatively pure exponential function. In the 1974 pilot study of head and neck cancer the control of the primary cancer is raised from 4 to 40% at 8 years after treatment. Adult neurons never become cancerous, therefore cannot contain ER ex. The glial cells alone create cancer in the brain and are electrically similar to the stem cells from which all other types of cancer arise. Since the glial cells are active 24 h a day then automatically with an electrically conductive glycolytic metabolic system creating intelligence in them they must be the most likely cells in the body to exhibit any side effects of stray electromagnetic radiation.