A complete guide to oxygen therapies as a path to optimum health

• Presents new scientific findings of the effectiveness of oxidative therapies in treating heart disease, cancer, herpes, HIV, hepatitis, and diabetes

• Presents the evolution of these therapies, including positive trends and challenges for the future

• Includes new chapters on using the therapies in dentistry and veterinary medicine

Scientists now agree that most disease states are caused by oxygen starvation at a cellular level. Polluted air, devitalized foods, poor breathing habits, all can lead to chronic oxygen deficiency, a bodily environment in which toxins thrive as the overall immune response is weakened. Though we receive most of our oxygen from the air around us, even deep breathing may not be enough to improve oxygen-starved cells. Oxidative therapies generate the oxygen needed to fight disease and delay the aging process.

The Oxygen Prescription is the only book to place oxidative therapies in the context of holistic health. Completely updated and expanded to include the use of these therapies in dentistry and veterinary medicine, it explores the latest scientific findings that show how ozone interacts with cells when introduced into the bloodstream. It presents treatments that stimulate the body’s own ability to produce ozone to fight cancer, osteoporosis, and hepatitis and provides the evidence of how oxidative therapies are being used to treat heart disease, herpes, HIV, and diabetes. The Oxygen Prescription also shows how to enhance the effectiveness of these treatments through diet and the use of minerals, herbs, exercise, and visualization.

1. Can Oxygen therapies cure cancer? Clinical and laboratory studies show that therapeutic ozone and hydrogen peroxide play an important role in cancer therapy.

2. Oxidative therapies increase the activity of immunocompetent cells, stimulate the release of cytokines, upregulate the body's antioxidant system and induce mild activation of the immune system. Activating the patient's neuro-endocrine system causes the patient to experience less pain and greater sense of well-being.

3. Most practitioners will not promise that oxidative therapies will cure cancers, the more conservative leaders in the field recommend ozone or hydrogen peroxide as a complementary medical procedure that can enhance the effectiveness of traditional cancer therapies and perhaps reduce the adverse side effects of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

4. Dr J.W Finney, in 1962 stated, "The use of Hydrogen Peroxide as a source of oxygen in a Regional Intra-arterial Infusion System revealed that cancer cells become more sensitive to irradiation in the presence of increased oxygen tension produced by hydrogen peroxide." The researchers noted increased regional oxygenation, which led them to believe that there is an increased therapeutic ratio in malignant tumors receiving radiation when oxygen levels of the affected area are increased with hydrogen peroxide.

5. During a Baylor University cancer study of inoperable abdominal tumors, intra-arterial hydrogen peroxide and irradiation was administered. The researchers wanted to see if hydrogen peroxide could shrink the tumors and make them amenable to surgery. Two of the three experience shrinkage of the tumor and underwent successful operations to remove the tumors. One of the patients experience not shrinkage and was sent home. He began to improve over the next several months and the tumor began shrinking considerably. The doctors removed the shrunken tumor.

6. Tottori University School of Medicine in Japan in 1966, fifteen patients suffering from maxilliary cancer (cancer of the nasal cavity) were given intra-arterial infusions of hydrogen peroxide daily for ten days followed by daily injections of mitomycin C, an antibiotic showing anti-tumor activity. Of the fifteen cases treated with hydrogen peroxide and Mutamycin, eight show almost a complete disappearance of the tumor, while six experienced a partial reduction. One had little change. The changes involve either an actual shrinking of the tumor or a softening of a hard tumor.

7. Dr. Carl F Nathan and Dr. Zanvil A Cohn wrote, "Hydrogen peroxide contributes to the lysis [destruction] of tumor cells by macrophages [immune cells] and granulocytes [white blood cells] in vitro." They found that 8 milligrams of hydrogen peroxide was able to kill more than 90 percent of P338 lymphoma cells.

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8. Researchers in 1989, found that peroxidase in Hodgkin's disease sensitizes the tumor cells to killing by low levels of hydrogen peroxide. The idea was to deliver cytotoxic quantities of hydrogen peroxide to Hodgkin's disease.

9. Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC, investigated the efficiency of using hydrogen peroxide as an adjuvant therapy after extended local curettage (scaping away lesions) for benign cell tumors of the bone. Cell cultures taken from the tumor tissue of six patients was cultured and treated with hydrogen peroxide for 2 minutes. Hydrogen peroxide was very effective in killing giant tumors of bone.

10. In 2001, a group of researchers from the Department of Life Sciences at Nottingham Trent University injected hydrogen peroxide solutions in solid tumors in mice and found the solutions had the potential to cause tumor cell death without generating dangerous by-products. They were impressed concluding that hydrogen peroxide was a potential cytotoxic agent. Hydrogen peroxide used as an anti-cancer drug benefits are that it cheap and cost effective.

11. In 2003, Jackson State University in Mississippi explored the combined effect of oxidative stress with hydrogen peroxide, Nigella sativa, a medicinal herb from the Middle East, on breast cancer. The combination of hydrogen peroxide, ethanol, and Nigella sativa could inactivate MCF-7 cancer cells.

Many disease states are caused by oxygen starvation at a cellular level: this is a fact scientists largely agree upon. THE OXYGEN PRESCRIPTION: THE MIRACLE OF OXIDATIVE THERAPIES, therefore, is founded on accepted scientific findings and not new age dreaming: it discusses oxidative therapies in holistic health and has been completely updated and expanded from its second edition to discuss such therapies in dentistry and veterinary medicine as well as general health. Discussions of such treatments for cancer, hepatitis and other disorders offer plenty of insights into medical findings and health interactions, making THE OXYGEN PRESCRIPTION a top pick for any modern health collection, especially those considering alternative therapy options.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch