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According to Henry Lindlahr, M.D. "The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning."Your health is a function of healthy habits; a daily adventure rather than a drug or surgery deficiency and dependency. ."The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine says William Osler, M.D. If you've been directed that your only hope for a natural life or survival is drugs/surgery, find someone with enough knowledge to assist you with complimentary alternatives. If you're on prescription medication, or orthodox therapy stay on it as going off cold turkey can result in organ damage and/or death. Find a practitioner who has enough knowledge and adequately experienced in the intersection of two complex fields (orthodoxy and complimentary remedies) to assist you with supervised transition off orthodox dependency till you attain better health with fewer or no pills.

According to The Council Of Food And Nutrition Of The American Medical Association, ‘Nutrition is defined as the science of food, the nutrients and other substances therein, their action, interaction and balance in relation to health and disease and the processes by which the organisms ingest, digest, absorbs,transports,utilizes and excrete food substances’

Despite spending about $15 trillion dollars each year to care for diseases, Americans are still dying from malnutrition. Often overlooked is the pain associated with orthodox management of diseases and the promise alternative remedies have to offer. The question often asked is which herbs and nutrients are crucial to my healing? How much should I take? What about the latest infomercial? And who can we believe with so many choices out there? The public need guidance on what supplements to take and how much should be taken. The public of often bombarded with breakthrough formula with no guidance on the principle of the cancer process and no protocol on the use of alternative remedies ‘Cure cancer with alternative remedies’ presents a paradigm shift from suppression of symptoms to repair of the immune system which ultimately leads to regression of symptoms. It emphasizes metabolic shift over reduction in tumor size. It shows the sufferer, the ways and means of attacking cancer. With the regression of symptoms and regeneration of the immune systems, the spread of cancer is contained, quality of life is improved and aerobic oxygen driven metabolism restored.

The cause and mechanism of cancer

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According to Dr Keith Brewer ,There are two factors that are always present with cancer, Those two factors are acid pH and lack of oxygen. When we manipulate those two factors that always have to be present for cancer to develop,we can reverse cancer. Toxins and carcinogenic substances have the ability to displace nutrients and attach to the outer membranes of cells. This change alters the biochemistry of the cell membranes where over 90% of the cellular activity takes place and alters it ability to allow free flow of essential nutrients and materials like magnesium, calcium and sodium etc. Since the transport of oxygen depends on the integrity of calcium and magnesium transport and oxygen permeability, the cells begins to show signs of lack of oxygen. This leads to an acidic shift in PH, DNA disruptions and change of normal cellular enzymes into toxins which leak out of the cells and cause cancer.

The American Association of lymphology indicates that laboratory research and studies on the cause and cure of all diseases were done between 1930 and 1963 at the Harvard, Tulane and Mississippi medical schools by Drs Cecil H Drinker, H. S Myerson and Arthur C. Guyton but were suppressed by special interest. They believe that every healing art involves the movement of oxygen into the cells while all illness including cancer involves the movement of oxygen away from the cells. According to Dr. C. Samuel West, ‘blood proteins and water must be removed from the spaces between the cells referred to as intercellular space by the lymphatic vessels to keep the cells in what is called the "Healthy Dry State." In this situation the cells effectively burn complex carbohydrates to produce carbon dioxide, water and energy. If this does not happen, the blood proteins and water around the cells will alter the "Dry State" to the “Diseased Wet State." This produces lack of oxygen and loss of energy at the cell level which is the cause of all disease that afflicts humanity. If there is insufficient oxygen at the cellular level, the metabolism will be incomplete and carbon dioxide and lactic acid will be produced.

Since carbon dioxide displaces oxygen from the hemoglobin and prevents the red blood cells from getting the needed oxygen for cellular functions. Organs near the stagnation are awash in their own wastes, cannot take in nutrients neither can they eliminate wastes .Studies show that excess blood proteins and water leave the blood stream under shock, stress, toxins malnutrition or injury. Healing occur when we pull out all the dead cells, poisons, excess blood proteins and water from around the cells to keep them in what is called the "Dry State" so the cells can get oxygen. The diseased ‘wet state’ constitutes a shift from oxidation to fermentation. In this condition the rate of production of cancer cells outweigh the rate of destruction. Organs. Oxygen oxidizes (Mop up) toxic build up. Its deficiency is the culprit in all cancers; it creates a state of cellular confusion or drowning. It occurs when the human body’s oxygen availability, demand and utilization drops lower than normal due to exposure to conditions that stems from malnutrition, environmental pollution, physical inactivity, stress and westernization of ancestral life. These conditions suffocate our cells because the supply of oxygen falls short of our demand; metabolism is faulty, immunity is lowered and the cells shift from using oxygen (aerobic process) for metabolism to predominately using sugar (anaerobic process).

In his book Oxygen and Aging. Dr. Majid Ali, M.D., president of Capital University Of Integrative Medicine in Washington, D.C. points out ‘the significance of oxygen in metabolic restoration and rejuvenation and he encourages people to get as much oxygen into their bodies from the most natural way possible. Degeneration kicks in when there’s not enough oxygen in the cells. The body’s ability to transfer oxygen to the cells becomes damaged with age. This transfer of oxygen from the blood to the cells is perhaps the most significant underlying factor in whether you live a healthy life or not! The more damaged the transfer mechanism becomes, the more likely we will become ill or more susceptible to illness as we age’. Dr Ali warns that ‘Star Wars, medical technology and gene therapies will not extend human life span unless we learn to preserve human oxygen metabolism’.

According to Dr. Reckeweg, M.D., the father of homotoxicology, ‘as long as the body eliminates toxins, the body maintains health, even if health is at an extreme illness level’. This emphases the significance of reestablishing the flow of interstitial fluid within the organ's intercellular structure to sustain health. This proves that the endothelial gap's malfunction is the culprit the development of 'disease' states like cancer and when mechanical dysfunction is rectified , treatment is one step closer in advancing towards success in cancer management’. He points out that when the lymph system malfunctions, excess toxins and large molecular weight proteins accumulate within the intercellular spaces causing inflammation. When the fluid pressure in the intercellular space is high (too much fluid), the endothelial gaps are impaired in function. Our metabolic waste products includes diacetic, lactic, pyruvic, uric, carbonic, acetic, butyric, and hepatic acids. The implication of this is that the staging, type or location of cancer is irrelevant to its cause and cure. If these wastes are not removed by the lymphatics, they cause organ degeneration at the weakest or the most venerable body part and death. Intercellular fluid accumulates on the outside of the endothelial gap and inflammation and degeneration occurs. In diseased condition, the intercellular space between the cells is wet and flooded with proteinous cellular wastes like a blockage and backup in the home plumbing system. This process is similar to what happens in a swimming pool during a heavy rainstorm. When too much water is trying to get through the flap covering the drain on the side of the pool, the flap closes and water cannot drain from the pool. The water level rises, reaches the brim, and spills out carrying debris into the surrounding area. When the endothelial gap is processing, fluid in the intercellular space maintains the cells 'dry state' level, and intercellular space is free of toxins and disease
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Studies indicate that over 96% of the body’s daily nutritional needs is for oxygen everything we do is all about making oxygen available to our cells for metabolism and ultimately to produce energy. While we can live for about 40 days without food, 4 days without water, we will not be alive if we are deprived of oxygen for about 5 minutes. One of the major by product of metabolism of food substances is carbon dioxide which has to eliminate rapidly from the body through the lungs and other eliminative channels. Problem arises if we can’t convert food to energy and if we cannot get rid of metabolic wastes. The accumulation of metabolic wastes involves the production of carbon dioxide. While the lung alone is incapable of ridding the body of carbon dioxide produced during exhalation, nature devised other means to eliminate it. These include the combination of carbon dioxide with ammonia to form urea which is eliminated through the kidney. Also carbon dioxide combines with water with the aid of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase and zinc as a co-enzyme to form end products like hydrogen and bicarbonate atom. The hydrogen atoms are ‘Acids’ while the bicarbonates (base) are “Alkaline”. The inability of the body to eliminate the acids often leads to an overall acidic constitution. The body’s effort to maintain homeostasis includes putting equal amount of bicarcarbonate substances into the blood to counter tissues acidity. As the body gets more acidic, crucial minerals like s potassium and magnesium are displaced from the cells while sodium is left behind. The body compensates for this acidic situation by leaching calcium from the bone to the blood to maintain alkalinity which is picked up in laboratory blood test as normal. The presence of high acid concentration tissues triggers the body’s homeostatic mechanism to balance excess acids in the tissues with bicarbonate or alkaline substances by stimulating the body’s compensatory mechanism to maintain normal PH by making the blood alkaline. When the blood become very alkaline, it retains more oxygen that it cannot release to the cells and tissues. This causes oxygen deficiency to the tissues while we have excess oxygen in the blood. This sets the stage for anaerobic respiration, fermentation, cancer, microbial proliferation and organ degeneration

The Warburg effect- the process of cancer growth
Otto Warburg observed that cancer cells are often characterized by intense glycolysis in the presence of oxygen and a concomitant decrease in mitochondrial respiration.In the early 1920s, Nobel Laureate Dr Otto Warburg points out that When oxygen deprivation of cells fall below about 60% of it’s requirement ,the cells switches from oxidative respiration mechanism to a fermentative respiration mechanism i.e. the cells stops breathing oxygen because there is no enough oxygen and it starts fermenting the body’s glucose to keep it alive.It involves a shift in energy production from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis. The Warburg effect might directly contribute to the initiation of cancer formation - not only by enhanced glycolysis - but also via decreased respiration in the presence of oxygen, which suppresses apoptosis. Dr Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize for his cancer research and was nominated for the award fifty three times but was consistently denied the noble prize by the medical establishment over a period of twenty three years (1921-1942). Warburg showed that many tumors relied on glycolysis even in the presence of oxygen. Warburg thought cancer was caused by defects in oxidative phosphorylation, or "respiration," in the mitochondria, forcing the cell to revert to a more "primitive" form of energy generation—glycolysis.This does not mean that cancer cells do not need oxygen at all, the need fewer amount of oxygen for survival than normal human cells. Normal cells will not survive if they had the amount of oxygen that is made available to cancer cells. Any activity (stress, toxins or chemical like fluoridation and chlorination) that interrupts the enzymatic activities of cells essential to any step in the sequence of the kreb’s cycle will shut down aerobic respiration and causes cancer. Different heavy metals, carcinogens and toxins that could disrupt any of the enzymes in the kreb’s cycle can prevent aerobic stage and result in the formation of cancerous cells or at least tumor formation. Dr Warburg successfully induced cancer in normal health cells by depriving them of oxygen and providing them with glucose rich environment. He found out that by increasing the oxygen content of these cancerous cells, they were able to revert to health normal cells. He believes that the key to cancer management is to ensure that the cells derive their energy from oxygen rich sources.

In the march 13, 2008 issue of the Science Daily & Journal Of Nature, researchers at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School, find that the metabolic process that has come to be known as the Warburg effect is essential for tumors' rapid growth, and identifies the M2 form of pyruvate kinase (PKM2), an enzyme involved in sugar metabolism, as an important mechanism behind this process. Senior author Lewis Cantley, PhD, Director of the Cancer Center at BIDMC and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School explains that metabolic regulation in rapidly growing tissues, such as fetal tissue or tumors, is different from that of normal adult tissue, Cantley explains. "Through aerobic glycolysis, or the Warburg effect, cancer cells produce energy by taking up glucose at much higher rates than other cells while, at the same time, using a smaller fraction of the glucose for energy production. This allows cancer cells to function more like fetal cells, promoting extremely rapid growth." This unique metabolic property of cancer cells has led to the success of PET imaging as a means of cancer detection; because radioactive glucose injected into patients prior to the imaging exam is preferentially taken up by glucose-hungry tumor cells, the areas of high glucose uptake are displayed dramatically on the PET scan.

Tumor cells preferentially use glucose for purposes other than making adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy currency used by normal cells. Compared to normal cells which can, from a single molecule of glucose, produce 36 to 38 servings of ATP, cancer cells will need 19 molecules of glucose to produce an equivalent quantity (38 ATP = 2 ATP X 19 glucose). From these numbers we can see that cancer cells will be huge consumers of glucose to satisfy their sugar crave. This is why some medical imaging techniques can help us locate tumors when they reach a certain size. Radio-active glucose is injected in patients. The Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan tool is sensible to radio-active material. Since cancer cell will consume 18 to 19 times more glucose than normal cells, they will accumulate more radio-active material. Professor Cantley suspect that this mechanism evolved to ensure that fetal tissues only use glucose for growth when they are activated by appropriate growth factor receptor protein-tyrosine kinases. By re-expressing PKM2, cancer cells acquire the ability to use glucose for anabolic processes. PKM2 is found in all of the cancer cells examined, because it is not found in most normal adult tissues, and because it is critical for tumor formation, this form of pyruvate kinase is a possible target for cancer therapy.

The body normally derives its energy needs derived from glucose in the liver and body tissues while converting the remainder to fat. When we run low on sugar gluconeogenesis kicks in. Gluconeogenesis process the body utilizes to meet its energy needs when there are not enough nutrients to supply it demands for glucose. This process occurs more importantly during fasting periods and when the body is running low on glucose –its main source of energy. During these critical periods, the body derives it energy needs from amino acids, muscles, tissues and from lactic acid- the by product of muscle and tumor metabolism. It is a known fact that cancer cells utilize about 5 times more sugar than normal cells in the body. Gluconeogenesis is also synonymous with tumor formation, its transformation to cancer and its spread. According to Mark Dewhirst, DVM, Ph.D., professor of radiation oncology and pathology at Duke University and Pierre Sonveaux, professor in the UCL Unit of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, lactic acid is an important energy source for tumor cells. They published their findings in the ScienceDaily Nov. 23, 2008 edition.

Cancer cells utilizes sugar to flourish and when it has exhausted its sugar reserves, it resorts to using the energy reserves from the muscles and fats stores to propagate itself. While gluconeogenesis is taking place, the cancer cells are also stealing crucial nutrients from normal healthy cells and tissues for their propagation and energy needs. The depletion of the body’s essential nutrients by cancer cells for their propagation from healthy cells causes a condition referred to as cancer cachexia. By feeding on the muscles and fat stores the body undergoes what is called ‘a wasting disease’. This is what causes the emaciation and wasting muscle mass associated with cancer. This process begins from the very first day cancer starts as a tumor when there is a metabolic shift from aerobic to anaerobic respiration and substantiates the theory that cancer is a metabolic disease.

Cancer cells maintain anaerobic metabolism by blocking the enzymes systems in the aerobic pathways in the kreb’s cycle. Different carcinogens can disrupt, displace and attack different enzymes system in the pro-oxygen aerobic pathway to propagate anaerobic i.e. anaerobic metabolism that fuels cancer can be caused by disruptions of any of the points in the respiratory chain –the Kreb’s cycle.The lactic acid produced by the fermentation of glucose from cancer cells are transported to the liver where there is conversion of glucose to lactate.This creates a lower, more acidic PH in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue and pain from lactic acid build-up that is often experienced by cancer patients.Cancer treatments should attempt to controll blood-glucose levels through nutrition, herberlism, supplements,exercise and medication to help starve the cancer cells and boost immune function.

According to the National Cancer Institute, environmental toxins accounts for 80% of all types of cancers. When the toxicity level in the body reaches the cells of the body, two things happen- they mutate into cancer or the stop working. Before the industrial revolution, heavy metals were fossils confined to the earth crust except during volcanoes, eruption and earth quakes. Today they are used for a variety of products of modern luxury with the attendant environmental pollution. Examples of these are brake pads, mercury, aluminum, zinc, asbestos, copper, arsenic petroleum products, jewelries and industrial chemicals. Being heavy, the have relative densities that are about five to six times that of water and essential nutrients. They rob tissues of oxygen and cause free radical damage and disrupt health because being heavier in density they displace nutrients in cells and in cell membranes

How Stress Causes Cancer At The Cellular Level

Cancer occurs when the body's cells become depleted of adrenaline, high in sugar and low in oxygen due to "prolonged stress". This leads to a breaking of the cells 'oxygen krebs cycle' causing cell mutation. There are a number of factors that create stress on the body's cells.

Psychological stresses include (and are not limited to): inescapable shock, repressed emotional pain and anger, depression, isolation, poor sleep, emotional trauma, and external life stress. Physiological stresses include (and are not limited to): poor nutrition, chemicals, toxins, EMF radiation, parasites, liver or colon or kidney disease, and lack of exercise.

In the vast majority of those with cancer, there exists both a combination of psychological as well as physiological stresses that have contributed to the formation of cancer within the body.

We have simplified into five separate phases, how cancer forms within the body at the cellular level over an 18-24 month period.

Phase 1 – Inescapable Shock / Trauma Experienced This initial phase occurs approximately 2 years 'prior' to the cancer diagnosis. This is where the individual experiences an “inescapable shock” or emotional trauma, affecting deep sleep and the production of melatonin within the body. Melatonin is necessary for inhibiting cancer cell growth and is the primary hormone responsible for regulating the immune system.

During this phase a part of the emotional reflex centre in the brain slowly breaks down due to the 'emotional trauma'. Each part of the emotional reflex centre controls and is connected to a different organ of the body, and when this emotion centre starts to break down, so does the organ of the body it controls, to later form cancer. This occurs through a direct suppression of the immune system, as outlined below.

Phase 2 – Stress Suppresses The Immune System During this second phase, the immune system is suppressed by elevated stress hormone cortisol levels and by a subconscious wanting to die. An individual experiencing “inescapable shock” and severe prolonged emotional stress often feels tired of life and deep down wants out of the never-ending struggle and pain of life, sending subliminal messages to the immune system to shut down. See: The Cancer Death Wish.

This causes somatids to react. Somatids are tiny living organisms (necessary for life) that live in our blood. In a healthy organism, where the immune system is functioning properly, these somatids are limited to 3 stages in their life cycle – somatid, spore, double spore. When the immune system is impaired or suppressed, somatids pleomorphise (or change) into a further 13 stages (16 altogether).

These further 13 stages are pathogenic (harmful) to the body and include viral, bacterial, and yeast-like fungus forms. Professor Gaston Naessens, who discovered the somatid after inventing the world's smallest microscope (the Somatoscope) in the 1950's, discovered that these further 13 stages always progressed over an 18-24 month time frame when the body was under severe immunicological stress, which manifested as all types of chronic illness, notably cancer. Below: The Somatid 16 stage Cycle - Professor Gaston Naessens

Phase 3 – Stress Causes Cell Glucose Levels to Rise

During this third phase, high stress hormone cortisol levels cause adrenaline levels to be depleted within the body. There are only limited reserves of adrenaline in the body, and when the a person is under "continual stress", these reserves are depleted very quickly. This causes glucose (sugar) levels to rise within normal cells in the following way:

The main purpose of adrenaline is to remove and convert glucose from cells for energy for the body, just as it is the main purpose of insulin to transport glucose into cells. When the adrenaline reserves are depleted, glucose (sugar) levels increase sharply within the cells – leaving little room for oxygen. This is why so many cancer patients are weak and lethargic, because they have no adrenaline left (or very little) to convert the glucose in their cells into energy for the body and their cells subsequently have very little room left to accept oxygen from passing blood.

Phase 4 – Fungus Enter Cells to Feed on Glucose

During this fourth phase, pathogenic microbes (virus-bacteria-fungus) that have pleomorphised and established themselves in a weakened part of the body, enter normal cells to feed on these high glucose levels. This fermentation of glucose causes “mycotoxins” (a highly acidic waste product) to be released, which 1) breaks the Krebs Cycle of the cell (a process that uses oxygen as part of cellular respiration), and 2) breaks the Electron Transport Chain of the cell, meaning the number of ATP molecules drops dramatically. (ATP molecules provide energy to the cell.) This lack of oxygen and cell energy means normal cells mutate during the dividing process – creating new rogue cancer cells.

The body’s tissue and cells become highly acidic (low pH) due to the waste by-products caused by these viral-bacterial-yeast-like fungus. Over-acidification of the body also occurs due to fermentation of excess stress hormones in the body, poor diet (low pH value foods), and lack of exercise. Viruses, bacteria, yeast, mould, fungus, candida and cancer cells thrive in a low pH acidic environment.

Phase 5 – Fungus and Cancer Form Symbiotic Relationship

During this fifth phase viral-bacterial-yeast-like fungus form a symbiotic relationship with newly created cancer/tumor cells. Yeast-like fungus is symbiotic in nature and feeds on the high levels of glucose to use for energy for reproduction of new somatids. The yeast-like fungus provides a natural fermentation process and ferments the glucose within the cancer/tumor cell, providing energy and a natural growth factor in return.

The yeast-like fungus uses the cancer/tumor cells as a host or house for their rich reserves of glucose, and stimulates these cancer/tumor cells to propagate more houses. The result is a mass of tumor cells, or tumor sites.

Yeast-like fungus prevent cancer / tumor cells reverting back into normal healthy cells (re-establishing their Krebs Cycle), as they continue to cause “mycotoxins” to be released (a highly acidic waste product), meaning cancer / tumor cells in a sense are held hostage to the yeast-like fungus that inhabit them.

See Cancer Fungus to understand more fully the Fungus-Cancer Link and what you can do to eradicate fungus within your body.

Phase 6 – Stress Stimulates Tumor Cell Growth / Metastases

During this final phase elevated stress hormone norepinephrine and epinephine levels, stimulate tumor cells to produce three (3) compounds: MMP-2 and MMP-9 (both martix metalloproteinases) and the growth compound VEGF (Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor).

Tumor cells make receptors for these stress hormones on their surface, to stimulate these three compounds. MMP-2 and MMP-9 breakdown the scaffolding of tumor cell walls making it easier for them to travel to other parts of the body, a process known as metastasis. VEGF causes blood vessels to grow in new tumor cells, so that they can grow and spread more rapidly. News of cancer at this stage, often becomes a further “inescapable shock” and the cycle begins again with secondary tumor sites forming in different parts or organs of the body.

Use the following three tools to remove internal emotional stress that is causing your cancer: The Mind-Body Self Hypnosis Cancer CD (to heal emotions at the subconscious level) EFT for cancer (to heal emotions at the meridian energy level) and the free Cancer Healing Guide (to heal emotions at the conscious level). Each tool targets and heals the emotions differently, so each is recommended.

Lothar Hirneise: Cancer Cannot Exist Without Stress

For Lothar Hirneise, world-renowned cancer researcher: “Cancer cannot exist without stress. One hundred percent impossible! There are a lot of debates on types of stress – physical and psychological – but for a cell it doesn’t matter where the stress comes from. Every cancer patient has a sugar problem. Insulin transports sugar to cells. Adrenaline takes it away. You have an excess of adrenaline initially when under stress, however, long-term stress results in adrenaline shortages. That’s what you see in cancer patients.”

According to Lothar Hirneise: “A tumour forms because someone is no longer producing adrenaline, which is needed to break down sugar. An excess of sugar is dangerous, so the body produces tumours.

Tumours ferment — burn — sugar. They also use a lot of energy — sugar — due to the fast division of cells. That's why some tumours grow so fast. Cancer cells function like liver cells, only much more efficiently. So the tumour helps you to rid your body of poisons. Without the tumour you would be really ill. I always tell people: 'The tumour is not your problem. A tumour is an incredibly ingenious solution on the part of the body.' When you get healthy, the tumour disappears on its own, which is why you shouldn't immediately operate to remove it. First detoxify yourself. If the tumour continues to grow — which is almost never the case — you can always operate later." Source:http://www.alternative-cancer-care.com

The bottom line is this ..: The human body "WILL HEAL"... If we get out of our own way and allow it, it heals itself. It is our basic nature. Anybody who tells you other than that is trying to sell you something. No matter what you have been told. Don't give up on yourself and don't buy into the lines like ... ‘oh well you've had a good life'... 'at your age'... and the worst of all ...'there's nothing further I can do, I suggest you finalize your affairs'... How dare anyone tell you to give up! So much in society combines to convince us of the propaganda that some things never get better. It's up to you ... do you want to get better? Make things better? It is human nature to make things better, evolve and grow.”-Shé D'Montford, Shambhallah, Australia

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