Summary
Dr. Karl Feld interviews Brad Pitzele on the Integrative Cancer Solutions podcast about how oxygen therapy, specifically EWOT, supports cancer recovery and overall health. The conversation frames EWOT within the context of integrative oncology, exploring how oxygen deprivation drives cancer growth through the Warburg effect and how restoring cellular oxygenation can shift the tumor microenvironment against cancer. Dr. Feld and Brad discuss the biochemistry of cancer metabolism, including how hypoxia triggers HIF signaling, VEGF-driven angiogenesis, and anaerobic glucose fermentation that produces lactic acid. They explore how EWOT can complement traditional therapies by oxygenating tumors to make chemotherapy and radiation more effective, while also reducing treatment side effects through detoxification and energy restoration. Brad shares his origin story and customer testimonials including a stage 4 cancer patient who regained mobility.
Key Points
- Otto Warburg showed oxygen deprivation turns normal cells cancerous; Nobel Prize in the 1920s
- Tumor survival rate is directly correlated with oxygen status of the tumor tissue
- Low tumor oxygen triggers VEGF, growing new blood vessels that cancer exploits to metastasize
- Chemotherapy and radiation are oxidative therapies that work better in oxygen-rich environments
- EWOT helps detoxify chemo byproducts by providing oxygen to break them down for elimination
- After age 25, endothelial inflammation causes 1% annual loss of oxygen utilization capacity
- Von Ardenne's research showed EWOT sessions durably reopen inflamed capillaries for weeks
- T-cell and red blood cell counts have increased dramatically in cancer patients using EWOT
Key Moments
Otto Warburg's Nobel Prize: oxygen deprivation creates cancer
Brad explains Warburg's Nobel Prize research showing that any cell can become cancerous when deprived of oxygen, and that cancer accelerates in low-oxygen environments. The 2019 Nobel Prize continued this research on cellular hypoxia response.
"you can take a regular cell and turn it into a cancer cell simply by starving it of oxygen. And he also found that when you put a cell or when you put cancer rather in a low oxygen environment, it accelerates its growth."
Cancer survival rate directly correlates with tumor oxygen status
Brad presents research showing that tumor oxygen levels directly predict patient outcomes. Higher oxygen means higher survival rates, and traditional therapies like chemotherapy perform better in oxygen-rich tumor environments.
"the lower the oxygen status of the tumor, the lower the survival rate. And transversely, the higher the oxygen status, even when you're taking traditional cancer therapies such as chemotherapy, radiation, or immunotherapy, they perform better in a high oxygen environment"
Von Ardenne's research showed durable capillary reopening from EWOT
Brad describes how the founder of EWOT demonstrated that even two or three sessions could create anti-inflammatory effects in endothelial cells, reestablishing blood flow that persisted weeks and months later.
"he was able to create this anti-inflammatory effect in those endothelial cells that re-established normal oxygenation downstream. And it was persistent, meaning people did it a few times and then they came back several weeks later and they still had this re-establishment of normal blood flow. And so"
T-cell and red blood cell counts improve dramatically with EWOT
Brad reports clinical observations where cancer patients using EWOT showed dramatic increases in T-cell and red blood cell counts, as flooding the body with oxygen enables the immune system to function at full capacity.
"we've actually seen some results from folks who are doing EWOT with cancer where their T cells and the red blood cells have gone up dramatically from doing EWOT"
