Metabolic Therapy
In this video, Francisco Contreras spends about 22 minutes speaking on "Metabolic Therapy" at the 35th 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
Good afternoon. It's a pleasure to be here in an honor. Uh, last year, we, we spent some time talking to
you about, uh, some of the advances that, uh, um, the NIH and the NCI have made on the treatment of
cancer. And one of them, uh, surprisingly is vitamin C and, uh, they proposed, uh, the idea of using
vitamin C as chemotherapy. They made a series of, uh, uh, studies where they showed that
chemotherapy at the correct dosage could work as well as chemotherapy, as far as killing cancer cells
without damaging the body. Uh, unfortunately, uh, up to now, nobody has, uh, taken the challenge and
would decided about 18 months ago to begin a protocol at the Oasis O hospital using vitamin C as, uh,
uh, as an agent to destroy cancer cells, Dr. Uh, Sebastian together with Mark Levine at the NIH published
this, uh, very interesting paper of ASBA that is vitamin C in cancer treatment. Emerging evidence opens
minds and serendipity in the journal of the American college of nutrition, where, uh, they, uh, concluded
that ASBA a vitamin C treatment of cancer should be reexamined by rigorous scientific scrutiny in the
light of this new evidence.
And the new evidence, uh, basically says, and this is by Chen also, uh, from the NCI and the NIH that, uh,
now they discovered what is the mode of action of vitamin C in cancer cells. When you give vitamin C at
the correct dosage. And they, uh, were able to, uh, prove that even in very low concentrations of a
hundred of, uh, a hundred to 200 micromoles of vitamin C, it can kill cancer cells. And this is the amount
or the concentration of vitamin C that you can get through oral intake of vitamin C. If you take 10, 10
grams daily of, uh, vitamin C, you will get a concentration in your bloodstream of around a hundred to
200 micro Mo. And, uh, that is why, uh, uhlin PAing was able to get those results against cancer with
vitamin C, even though there were modest.
And, uh, then there were mocked and, and for that reason, vitamin C didn't progress. But when you
approach the milli range, that is a hundred times more than this many types of malignant cells are killed.
This was, uh, uh, uh, studied at the NCI. So when you get sufficient concentration in blood of vitamin C
and, and you can see here, the test in mouse, cancer cells, uh, uh, you, the more concentration you get,
the more cancer cells you, uh, kill from mouse or mice. And also when you use malignant cells of human
nature, the, the higher, the concentration of vitamin C in the bloodstream, the higher tumor kill you get,
fortunately, no matter how much