ATP Energy Pathways
In cancer, the bacterial symbionts go on strike - they refuse to produce any more of the ATP energy molecules they are normally busy churning out all day. The cells thus have to revert to an alternate mode of energy production (glycolysis) which involves fermentation of sugars. This is very much more inefficient than the normal cellular energy mechanism.
But more importantly, and here comes Kremer's very interesting discovery, the normal mode of energy production is not a pure chemical energy pathway. ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is made up of three molecule groups. A base adenine ring that absorbs light quanta in the near ultraviolet band of 270 nanometer wavelength, one sugar molecule and a molecular string with three phosphate groups.
The currently accepted view is that energy production and storage in ATP is by means of chemical energy, stored in the phosphate bonds. The bond energy is then released by hydrolysis in the cytoplasm, where it is used to drive energetic and metabolic processes. Not so, says Kremer. Hydrolysis only yields heat energy, which is not sufficient to drive all the various cell processes. The secret lies in the adenine groups of ATP which absorb photons, but the role of adenine is not adequately explained in the prevailing hypothesis.
The essential components of mitochondrial cell respiration are light absorbing molecules that react to frequencies from the near ultraviolet band down to the yellow/orange spectral range of visible light. Yet, the source of energy for these cellular power plants is not sunlight, as one might easily be led to assume. The flow of para-magnetically aligned electrons in the respiratory organelles gives rise to a low frequency pulsating electromagnetic field which, enormously accelerated through catalytic processes activated by enzymes, in turn activates a spin-mediated information and energy transfer from the physical vacuum, the zero point field, to the biological entity. Consequently, the human organism isn't governed by heat transfer but by a light frequency modulated energy transformation from space background or physical vacuum to the living organism.
Cancer is a result of the disturbance of the enzyme mediated transformation of that energy. The exact mechanism of that transformation and how the disturbance, once active, feeds back to cause changes in the cancer cells, is explained - it is a rather technical subject - in Kremer's paper. We will have to wait for its publication to get the whole story on this.
Curcumin
In the meantime, however, we can say that curcumin, a natural substance in the family of polyphenols contained in turmeric root or curcuma longa and used as a natural coloring agent and a spice, has been found to be beneficial to cancer patients in research at the Anderson Cancer Research Center. See Doctor, Doctor A spice for life: curcumin.
Kremer explains that the beneficial action of curcumin is due to its ability to absorb photons in the violet spectral range of visible light at a wavelength of 415 nanometers. This particular property of the health giving spice may be what enables it to bridge the broken pathway of photonic energy production and information transfer, thus bringing the organism back from the brink.