Metabolic Therapy
In this video, Francisco Contreras spends about 26 minutes speaking on "Metabolic Therapy" at the 28th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Dr. Francisco Contreras
Dr. Francisco Contreras serves as director, president and chairman of the Oasis of Hope Hospital. A distinguished oncologist and surgeon, Contreras is renowned for combining conventional and alternative medical treatments with emotional and spiritual support to provide patients with the most positive treatment experience possible.
Oasis of Hope was founded by Contreras’ father, Dr. Ernesto Contreras, Sr. in 1963, and since then the hospital has provided integrative cancer treatment for more than 100,000 patients.
As director, Contreras continues the practice of his father’s two fundamental principles – do no harm and treat the patient as yourself. Today, Contreras oversees the treatment of 800 cancer patients annually.
After graduating with honors from medical school at the Autonomous University of Mexico in Toluca, Contreras studied alternative therapy at the Oasis of Hope Hospital. He then completed his specialty in surgical oncology at the University of Vienna in Austria, where he also graduated with honors.
Contreras has authored and co-authored several books concerning integrative therapy, cancer and heart disease prevention and chronic illness, including “The Hope of Living Cancer Free,” “The Hope of Living Long and Well,” “Fighting Cancer 20 Different Ways” and “Dismantling Cancer.” His newest book with co-author Daniel E. Kennedy, “Hope, Medicine & Healing,” is scheduled for release in fall 2008.
In addition to writing for numerous medical journals, Contreras has participated in medical conferences such as the World Conference on Breast Cancer and is active in the Cancer Control Society. He has been a part of governmental organizations, including the Georgia House of Representatives Health Policy Task Force and the Japanese Medical Association. He has also been on special assignment to Slovakia as a member of the Mexican Health Advisory Board.
A qualified entry-level professional motorcycle racer, Contreras says that racing is similar to performing surgery in that it requires 100 percent focus. Contreras and his wife, Rosa, have four daughters and one son. The family attends church in Bonita, Calif., and enjoys skiing and travel.
Transcription
Thank you.
Good afternoon. Because this is so little time I've got just to it, but it is an honor to be here with you, and I congratulate the organization because this year's is so much better. I wasn't able to to be here, but this location is just beautiful.
Results Of Hyperoxygen Therapies
And I want to talk to you about something that I started about 3 years ago that I announce precisely on this convention that we started a new program of research. We've been doing research for the last 37 years. Well, we started a new program with a lot more people involved and scientists from around the world. And today, I'm happy to say that I'm going to present some of the results of that research. And we started researching more deeply into oxygen 3 years ago, because, as you know.... And could we have this the first slide? Hippocrates about 2500 years ago said that man is an obligate aerobe, meaning that we definitely need air to survive.
They probably found out this by people that were strangled or or people that were drowning. It's very obvious to us now that that we need air to survive, but on a scientific basis, this was a very, very profound statement. 2500 years later, in 1931, a German doctor by the name of Otto Warburg went even further and found out scientifically that all normal body cells are obligate aerobes, meaning that every cell in our body, in order to survive, needs oxygen. And he also found out that malignant cells are not necessarily aerobic. They are partial anaerobes meaning that they can survive without oxygen.
And he also described at that time, and that's why he won the Nobel Prize, what is the thing that happened to them. The normal cells, when they are rich in oxygen, they produce energy or ATP through a process named glycolysis, which has the metabolism of sugar. In conjunction with oxygen, they obtain ATP, CO2, water and the waste product is pyruvate. But there are instances in our lives when we are oxygen poor. For instance, when we do a tremendous amount of exercise, you've all felt that, that you just can't grasp for more air, so your system is oxygen poor. Or if you're diving, or if somebody is strangling you. For a while, we're able to survive even without oxygen, because our cells, all of our cells have the capability of still generating energy and surviving without oxygen, but it changes the metabolism from glucolysis as to what is called glycolysis or fermentation. And it's the production of energy without oxygen from glucose.
But the problem with this,