Poly-MVA, Cancer, Strokes, Quality Of Life
In this video, Frank Antonawich spends about 26 minutes speaking on "Poly-MVA, Cancer, Strokes, Quality Of Life" at the 40th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Frank Antonawich
FRANK ANTONAWICH, Ph.D. completed his undergraduate training at the University of Rochester, New York, earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from New York University, and completed his post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurology at Stony Brook University. He is a Professor of Biology at St. Joseph's College in New York, as well as the Chairman of the Biology Department. Dr. Antonawich serves as a Senior Scientist and the Clinical Research Administrator at Garnett McKeen Laboratory Inc., Bohemia, New York. His research focuses on the metabolic benefits and improved cellular effects of Palladium Lipoic Acid Complex (PolyMVA). His graduate Fellowship was conducted in the Department of Biology and Center for Neuroscience at New York University, where he studied the protective effects of peptides and hormones on brain injury and was awarded his Ph.D. in 1994. Dr. Antonawich was awarded the Charlotte Pann Award for the most outstanding Thesis, as well as the Gladys Mateko Award, presented to the top graduate student in the program. He continued at the University as an Adjunct Professor of Biology teaching Advanced Physiology and Neuroendocrinology courses in the Graduate School. In 1994, Dr. Antonawich was awarded a National Institute of Health Post Doctoral Fellowship in Neurology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. From 1995–1997, he was awarded a second National Institute of Health Fellowship to study the programmed cell death (apoptosis) associated with stroke and ischemia. He continued his Neurodegeneration Work during his Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Dr. James Davis' Laboratory and became an Assistant Professor of Neurology in 1997 and taught in the Department of Pharmacology at Stony Brook. Dr. Antonawich has numerous publications in peer-reviewed Journals, and has written multiple chapters for books as well. His research over the past decade examines the role of cellular energy in the diseased states of cancer and stroke. This has led to his extensive studies using the unique dietary supplement Poly-MVA. Its most active ingredient is a Palladium Lipoic Acid Complex (PdLA) where the element palladium is bound to the anti-oxidant alpha-lipoic acid resulting in a potent anti-oxidant and energy facilitating formulation. His ishemia/stroke studies have demonstrated that acute, post-ischemic and prophylactic administration of Poly-MVA limits ischemic damage. Furthermore, due to the metabolic dysfunction of cancer cells, Poly-MVA's energy initiates cell death in malignant cells.
Transcription
OK, thank you very much. Today, I'd like to talk about cancer a little bit about stroke work related to poly so you can see its benefit and how it actually works and then increasing the quality of life for patients who are using it. Look at the first slide is gone. But that's all right. A cancer is now, as we know, as the number two leading cause of death, a stroke, the fourth leading cause of death within cancer. There's over one hundred and fifty thousand people dying each day from cancer and stroke being the leading cause of long term disability in our country, with over 700000 Americans suffering a stroke each year. Now, you might be seeing yourself. All right. I looked at this gentlemen's talk and I'm very curious, what does cancer and stroke and quality of life have to do with each other related to this topic? And it has to do with cellular metabolism. This is not a new concept. Dr. Otto Warburg developed this philosophy about over 80 years ago, and it centers around metabolism of the cell and metabolism for those who we don't know is a process in which food and energy that you eat it, whatever it is you take in your body, is broken down to provide energy. And the textbook definition, since I'm a professor, is to allow an organism to carry out its life processes. That's everything from allowing you to provide the energy free to walk. Make a hormone, digest food, etc., or build up your body when you're a developing organism. So that's what metabolism is. Now, at the cellular level, this is the important thing of how poly MBA, the molecule that I'm gonna talk about today works. The metabolism at the cellular level occurs at a special structure, primarily the mitochondria. But there are two actual steps of cellular metabolism. The first component of metabolism occurs in the absence of oxygen or no need for oxygen. And that's called anaerobic metabolism. It's very inefficient. It's a process called glycolysis and simple protein stone and things of that sort. Use it as their primary energy source. But we all use it. It's part of the steps, the processes in metabolism in our body. So you take, say, a sugar into your body and simply all it does is split that sugar in half. Very inefficient. The majority of energy in our bodies is produced in a process called aerobic metabolism. It involves a specialized structure inside the cell, which is called the mitochondria. Little general biology textbooks call it the powerhouse of the cell. It's like a power plant inside of each of