What are the Respiratory Poisons Dr. Budwig refers to as to be avoided?
To requote from above: “How then do we get sick? Because we take in too many of these “electron thieves” or in other words, because we eat foods and poisons which block cell respiration. Known electron thieves are for example margarine, animal fat, butter, nitrate, radiation and zytostatics (chemotherapy). They all prevent the uptake of electrons. In other words, respiratory poisons are those chemicals and foods that interfere with the respiration of cells. These are hydrogenated fats, many animal fats, etc. which are deposited in the cell membranes and other places where they harm the proper fatty make-up of the cell membrane and therefore interfere with the oxygen transfer; certain chemicals in food and non-food substances also interfere with proper cell respiration such as preservatives (nitrite in meat, antrachinon, benzoic acid etc.). Dr. Otto Warburg proved that cells become cancerous when they are oxygen-starved below a certain threshold. Dr. Budwig with her Oil-Protein Diet aim
