Abstract
This brief review addresses cancer and human neurodegenerative diseases (HNDDs) from a unified perspective, entirely different from that of current medicine, oncology, neurology, and neuro-oncology. It is based on the classical concepts of homeostasis and allostasis of Walter Cannon and Hans Selye, as well as the extraordinary discoveries of Otto Warburg in the field of cancer biochemistry. Drawing on numerous publications from our group and thousands of other recent high-impact publications, the main objective of this article is to summarize and update what is already known as "The New Anticancer Paradigm." Recently, this perspective on cancer, centered on altered pH, or H+ dynamics as underlying all the various cancer stages from initiation to metastasis to therapy, has been broadened to include the study of etiology, pathogenesis, and treatment of HNDDs under the same comprehensive and unified approach. At the same time, another positive effect of this conceptualization is to introduce and inaugurate the novel interdisciplinary concept of “The Approaching Hydrogen Age” or “A New Hydrogen Era”.