Combination of nutritional ketosis and hyperoxygenation therapy-promising ground for integrative cancer treatment: a systematic review

Though the cancer is a multifactorial disease,where various types of cancers exhibit varying mechanisms,pathways,genetic and cellular defects,the study of tumor micro-environment confirms that upregulated glycolysis and hypoxia are the part and parcel of almost every cancer subtypes.Therefore,targeting them with nutritional ketosis and hyper-oxygenation therapies could create an unfavourable environment for cancers to thrive.The aim of this review is to study the significance of these interventions in the integrative cancer treatment.Extensive search has been carried out through the online scientific database like PubMed and other medical journals with the search words,‘cancer metabolism’,‘tumor micro environment’,‘hypoxia and tumor’,‘ketosis and cancer treatment’,‘hyperbaric oxygen therapy and cancer’and‘ozone therapy and cancer’.All biomolecule studies,preclinical and clinical studies,received as search results are reviewed.In addition,a nutritional book,named‘Healing with Whole Foods:Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition’by Paul Pitchford is also referred.These studies recommend the use of various therapeutic approaches like ketogenic diet,ketone supplementation,hyperbaric oxygen therapy and intravenous ozone therapy,individually or in combination with standard therapies,based on its antitumor effects,safety,tolerability,its ability to potentiate the radio and chemo therapy,while decreasing its side effects and its efficiency to improve the quality of life.Rewardingly,when combined,the synergistic action of nutritional ketosis and hyperoxygenation therapies elicited profound,supra additive anti-cancer effects.As per present studies,these therapies are safe to include in an Integrative cancer treatment,though large clinical trials are needed to systematize its clinical usage.

Oral administration of hyperoxygenated solution for the prophylaxis of gastric ulceration induced by stress or Helicobacter pylori

Oxygen was first discovered by Sweden chemist Scheele in 1773 and convinced as an essential factor for living by French scientists in 1777.To tackle with different hypoxic emergencies,corresponding medical approaches,e.g.mask or nasal catheter oxygen inhalation,breathing machine,hyperbaric oxygen therapy etc.,have been contrived in succession.However,one mortal trouble exists in all these conventional ways,i.e.they must rely on the ventilation and gas exchange via lungs,thus not being able to promptly render oxygen to specific hypoxia tissues.Hyperoxygenated solution(HOS),a new kind of medical liquid which can be orally taken or intravenously administrated,has been widely applied as an auxiliary method of offering oxygen in China.A large number of experiments have proved its validity in the treatment of myocardial and cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury,nerve lesions,shock,respiratory diseases,neonatal hypoxia and so forth.These findings suggest that HOS might not only play a role of increasing oxygen pressure in local region,but also conspicuously contribute to improving the pathologic process of hypoxia,which coincidently is the vital link in stress-induced lesions in the gastrointestinal tract.Additionally,Helicobacter pylori(H.pylori),a kind of microaerophilic(anaerobic)bacterium which can hardly survive in an aerobic atmosphere,has also been identified as an independent risk factor for the occurrence and development of ulceration.Considering the etiology of peptic ulceration and the features of HOS,we hypothesize that drinking HOS might prevent gastric ulceration caused by stress or anaerobic H.pylori.

Treatment of Sudden Deafness by Acupuncture plus Hyperbaric Oxygen

Yifeng (TE 17), Tinghui (GB 2), Zhongzhu (TE 3) and Xiaxi (GB 43) were selected as key acupoints plus hyperbaric oxygen to treat 50 cases of sudden deafness, and the total effective rate was 98%. Key Words Acupuncture Therapy - Hyperoxygenation - Deafness, Sudden Author: GUO Min (1971-), female, acupuncturistTranslator: WU Xue-fei