It's not exactly news but the alkaline diet does not cure cancer. You can find it on the list of unproven or disproven cancer treatments.
Alkaline? Not so fast...
Many of the food items listed as part of the alkaline diet are not even alkaline and while some are, some of them are even acidic in solution. And some, like the baking powder solutions that this guy recommends for injections, are amphiprotic. It can act as either an acid or a base, depending on the environment. This regardless of what it does in a petri dish.
I'm not too clued up on chemistry any more but I'm guessing injecting yourself with a baking powder mix is going to give unpredictable results at best. Your body is an extremely complex system, which is part of why they can't really do away with animal testing as a prelude to human testing for the time being (as great as that would be).
It's not all poor advice
An alkaline diet, or parts of it, may work for improving your health, but does not cure your cancer. The parts that work form part of old timey doctor advice:
- Eat less meat, primarily a plant-based diet (but no need to skip meat all-together, at least if health is your concern)
- Of the plants, eat more greens
- Drink plenty of water
- Avoid refined foods. Of course, no need to avoid these vices all-together, but part of the list of 'acidic' foods are not acidic, or just slightly so. Milk, for example, is either only slightly acidic, and close to neutral. Sugar, as another, has no effect on pH levels in solution, but of course this is a petri dish model too so
<punIntended>take this sugar solution with a pinch of salt</punIntended>
- Get regular exercise
- Avoid stress
Don't supplement healthy food with pills
The rest of it demonstrably does not work, especially the supplements part. You should only be taking supplements recommended by your doctor for a specific reason, and not general purpose, catch-all supplements. Needless to say, a real doctor, not a homoeopath or a naturopath or someone with a fancy name and a printed degree on the wall from the University of Googlelethu. Especially regarding cancers, where supplements may interfere with proven effective treatments like chemotherapy, one should be very wary.
Overall cancer incidence, as indicated above, has been stable. There is a small decrease in men, due to the prostate issue, but if we take this out, cancer incidence has been pretty flat. Again – this breaks the “cancer epidemic” narrative that is dredged up to stoke false fears about vaccines, cell phones, GMOs, or whatever boogeyman you want to attack.
Cancer death rates continue to decline, but not because people are avoiding Big Pharma. In fact, it's quite the opposite.
By all means, eat more healthy, get regular exercise and avoid stress, and obtain the benefits from that. That's the fine print on every infomercial gadget for a reason too - it works, with or without the gadget (passive aggressive hinting here). Even more happily, avoid the disgusting alkaline mixes and injections, because those parts are inconsequential at best and potentially devastating at worst.
A healthy lifestyle also won't cure your cancer, but it will improve your life.