Excerpts
translated from Dissertation
of Doctor of Medicine, Nasser Drakhshan, at the
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, 1995.
“History of Oxygen
Therapies” (Translated title of the Thesis).
In 1979, a German, Professor Dr med, A.
Pakdaman developed the first process to enrich water with oxygen
to 60 mg O2/l. In 1988 he introduced oral oxygen therapy into the
clinical medicine and nutrition. Pakdaman’s process uses an
ion physical linkage of molecular O2 and H2O molecules. The O2 molecules
lodge themselves in the "voids" formed between the H2O
molecules, which are covered with a protective water membrane. Direct
contact with mitochondria cell tissues (glands, intestine, liver,
kidney, brain, heart, etc) ruptures the sealing membrane and the
released oxygen is then readily available to the cell.
Oxygen will be mostly absorbed by diffusion
and osmosis through cells in the stomach and intestine and will
enter the body’s blood circulation system through the portal
vein. Such additional oxygen can perform all the same functions
as the oxygen absorbed through the lungs. Several structures of
our organs participate in the absorption and transportation of the
oxygen. Among them are the villi and cells containing mitochondrion
in the small intestine as well as the lymph system.
One of the many pollutants in our ground,
surface and drinking water is Nitrate (NO3). Bacteria in the water
will reduce the nitrate to nitrite, which in turn can evolve into
e.g. nitrosamines, a known cancer causing substance. Especially
vulnerable are small children, who can suffer from hemoglobin blockages.
The oxygen in the water can drastically reduce the levels of nitrate
and 1992 tests by the Hygiene Institute of the University of Düsseldorf
have shown that oxygen enriched water can reduce nitrate by up to
500%.
Scientifically confirmed effects of oxygen on the human body (are):
- Improved oxygen utilisation disorder
and cellular hypoxia (oxygen starvation);
- Correction of hypoventilation due to
functional weakness of the respiratory tract, by virtue of oxygen
transport directly into the blood circulation via the gastrointestinal
tract and portal vein;
- Correction of disorders of intracellular
respiration caused by anemia, enzyme defect, poisoning etc;
- Conversion of anaerobic metabolism in
cancer cells, inhibiting the growth of malignant cells;
- Prophylactic and therapeutic improvement
of migraine due to reduction of cerebral hypoxia;
- Immune system stimulation and modulation:
leucocytes, monocytes, granulocytes, natural killer cells;
- Elevation of cellular energy delivery
and increases in physical and psychological ability;
- Improvements of cell metabolism and biological
oxidation through increased availability of oxygen for the mitochondrion
and also influencing the regulation of cellular calcium ion concentration;
- Acceleration of body detoxification via
activation of cytochrome P-450 in the liver;
- Improvements of the micro-circulation
in the capillary blood vessels;
- Improvement of myocardial hypoxia and
prevention of heart tissue necrosis insufficiency;
- Regulation of blood pressure through
effects on chemo-receptors in the carotid and aortic bodies;
- Increased number of blood cells; erythrocytes,
Hct, Hb and platelets;
- Antibacterial and antiviral effect, especially
on anaerobic bacteria;
- Cytotoxic effect on campylobactor pylori,
plus other gastric and intestinal mucosa improvements;
- Neutralization of the stomach acids secreted
by the parietal cells and transformation into water;
- Acceleration of the wound-healing process
(washing and cleansing of open wounds).
Suggested applications (were): restrictive/obstructive
lung diseases; gastric and intestinal ailments; vegetative disorders;
arterial hypertony, hypertension, irregular heart rhythms; micro-circulation
disorders; toxicity; poisoning; migraine; infections; wound healing;
scotoma, sicca-syndromes, immune dysfunction; immune diseases; oncology
(cancer).
Side effects: No side effects have arisen.
Material exchange of maligned cells are
mostly based on an anaerobic condition, also called fermentation.
The lack of oxygen creates an anaerobic metabolism and production
of lactate and pyruvic acid. Such conditions are conducive to cancer
development (and infections), which can be markedly improved by
a consumption of oxygen-enriched water one hour prior to each meal.
Professor Pakdaman pioneered oral oxygen trials in 1990 with cancer
patients (11 different organs) in a clinical setting with controls
and tumor monitoring, blood and cellular immune status tests. Utilizing
150 ml, 3 times a day (average oxygen level: 45 mg/l), after 6-8
weeks revealed significant improvements, especially for the leukocytes,
monocytes, granulocytes and natural killer cells. In addition, the
numbers of erythrocytes, Hb, Hct, and platelets also increased.
The vast majority of the main group showed improved blood tests
and immune systems. In comparison, the patients in the control group
all showed continuing deteriorating results.
Conclusion by Dr. Med. N. Drakhshan:
Oral O2 therapy is not widely used. It is
surprising that the therapy, which has no side effects and does
not need constant doctor’s supervision, has not found a wider
audience. One of the main reasons is the lack of production of adequate
levels of oxygen-enriched water, commercially available only relatively
recently.
Other Studies
More recently, at a medical congress accredited
by the European Society of Medical Oncology, one of the main topics
was the fatigue syndrome, which results from the anemia induced
by the tumor and also from radiation and chemotherapy. It has long
been known that hypoxic tumors are more resistant to both the immune
system and medical treatments. It emerged at this symposium, that
oxygen therapy improves the host’s defence against the tumor,
its side own effects also those of conventional medical treatments
itself, and was aptly described as “an interesting solution
in oncology”. (Oxygen &
Cancer, Seville, Sept 2000)
Oxygenated mineral water therapy for duodenal
ulcer speeds up the rate of Enteral (intestinal) wound healing,
shortens the time of arresting the pain syndrome and makes it possible
to discharge clinical patients earlier for outpatient treatment
(Godetski V, et al, Ter Arch, 57(10),
1985) (Article in Russian).
Human cells are mostly water and the human
body is roughly 60% water by weight (Gerstein
M, and Levitt M, Scientific American, November 1998).
The oxygen composition of the human body is 65% of the total body
weight (Scientific Tables, Documenta
Geigy, 1962). Evidently, “we are what
we drink!”
To put the above
information into perspective, consider the words written by Sir
Robert McCarrison, Director of the Laboratory of Human Nutrition,
University of Oxford, in the Cantor Lectures to the Royal Society
in 1936: “Strictly speaking, both oxygen and water
are to be treated as foods, for of all the supplies on which the
body are dependent, they are chief.”
(McCarrison R, Nutrition and Health, 1961)
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