Metabolic Therapy
In this video, Francisco Contreras spends about 29 minutes speaking on "Metabolic Therapy" at the 29th 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 very much.
It's an honor and a pleasure to be here with you, and we're very happy to report to you that there's a lot of things going on in Mexico, especially the fact that we were awarded last year the possibility of doing research in our hospitals. So we are now clinical research organization with all of the permits necessary by the Mexican government to do research. We've been doing this for many, many years. But now we are an official clinical research organization. And through this, we have been doing a clinical study with oxygen therapy. Now, oxygen has been well known that in the treatment for cancer is very important. But up to now, we have not found a way to really get the oxygen inside of the malignant cells.
And we're calling it the metabolic therapy with oxygen called t.m. Oh, and in Spanish is that up at the Walekar Con Oxi Keino? It Pocket's was the first one to acknowledge that scientifically that we needed oxygen in order to survive. And then about 2000 years later, Dr. Auda Warburg, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1931, said that not only we are Arabic, but that all of the cells are obligate Arabs.
That means all of our cells need oxygen in order to survive. And then he found out that malignant cells are cancer cells are partially only Arabs, meaning that they do not like oxygen. They will survive in small amounts of oxygen, but they in general do not like oxygen. And because of this, many of us have been working to get oxygen inside the muling themselves. But the oxygenated blood in the human body is quite scarce. That's the biggest problem. Arterial venous blood is on only about 18 percent of the blood circulating in our body. Then about another 10 percent is in our organs and the rest of the blood is blue blood. Blood that is very, very low in oxygen. So the idea that auto Wartburg God was that we needed to increase the amount of oxygen in the venous blood if we wanted to have any effect against malignant cells. And this has been very, very difficult to do. A lot of people have been working with oxygen therapies from exercise, doing pure oxygen therapies through the nose. Peroxide is quite has been quite famous for a while, but still it doesn't increase. Importantly, the amount of circulating blood in the blood until ozone was brought by the Germans in general to be used to increase the oxygen blood. And they use what it's called the outl ozone nation, where they put some blood out