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remarkable transformations and I saw it happen before my very the outsides of his feet and it was very difficult for him to get own eyes. There's no amount of journalists or medical people around at all. After 11 hours of treatment on the machine, Paul's who can tell me that what I saw I didn't see. I saw people who _ lesions went away. He was able to wear leather shoes and, most were unable to walk, be able to walk again. I saw people who importantly to Paul, he was off morphine for the first time in four were very, very ill just get considerably better, and all of the treat- —_years. Prior to his going to the Philippines, the cancer hospital had ment was cut short by a raid by the government. told him that he had reached the maximum amount of radiation The Philippines government came in and shut down the entire that he could receive safely, and he would have to simply continue operation, and only about one-third of the prescribed amount of 0 increase his morphine to deal with his increasing pain. And treatment had been accomplished. It was a trial, so remember _ Paul believed that he experienced just miraculous treatment, that there wasn't an absolute number on how much treatment they were _in 11 hours of that treatment the lesions on his feet went away and going to need—that was part of what they were there to estab- _he could wear shoes and walk normally again. lish—but one-third of what they were expecting would be close to GN: Let's now describe what the treatment consisted of. the magic number of hours on the machine, had been accom- SAT: Certainly. The polyatomic apheresis looks like the fol- plished, and in that period of time remarkable reversals in these lowing: a patient sits in a chair that looks a little like a dentist's people's conditions were evident. chair. It's a comfortable chair. There are needles, intravenous GN: Alright, describe the clinic. needles inserted in both of their arms. The blood coming out of SAT: The [Cebu] clinic itself was an upscale home in the _ the left arm is pulled through a pump that is somehow in synch Philippines. An upscale home in the Philippines looks kind of like with the heart rate, and a circuit of blood is created between the an upscale home in America. It was a very large home, two _ left arm coming out and the right arm coming in. The blood goes storey, fairly large lot, and behind the home they had built grass _ through a series of tubes, goes down through a cascade tube where hut kind of things, but it wasn’t as crude as that makes it sound; it _ it is met with ozone under pressure, and at that point that's where really had a vacation resort feel to it. It was not really unaccept- _ the viral kill happens. The blood continues down through an able—and by Philippines standards it was just fine. I had an escape tube, through a filter, back into their right arm. What you opportunity to go to one of the Philippines hospitals, and our _see visually is the blood exiting the left arm is a very black colour, cleanliness within the clinic beat the cleanliness of the Philippines _it is black. It goes down through this cascade tube, which is a hospitals that I visited. So, what I had to wide-bore cascade tube, about an inch in do was readjust my westem berchn ks A diameter, and it goes back into the arm, the to a third world's benchmarks, and I learnt right arm, a bright cherry-red colour. It a lot in the process, educating all the . comes out looking alarmingly different— Filipino staff who were excellent—I " Paul believed that he: this is with the HIV patients—alarmingly Id pit their trainin; inst any train- . . + different than you would expect. mar - aaaket rtentiea tee experienced just miraculous Now, the first oaltien 3 saw on the Bar Mae of ie tingetwe ake for gam, Weaement, thatin V1 HOUrS Tae ona pean who had an infec ed, like refrigeration and insect control, of treatment the lesions On foot, and her blood came out looking like they just have really come to learn to live * : yours and mine would, and went back in with those things, so we had to educate his ee a only slightly differently than it came out; so those people as to what western standards ¢Q) Ww nd w what I witnessed was that the HIV patients’ would be. The clinic was, by our own oa ee; a blood was considerably blacker than a nor- standards, crude but it was, you know, normally again." mal person's and went back considerably acceptable also. The materials were all lighter. That's, in a nutshell, what it is. new; it's just, again, it didn't meet my pre- GN: Alright, now, what other parts of the liminary expectations. A therapy were included with this ozone treat- GN: Who was working there? ment, and how does this ozone treatment differ from, let's say, one SAT: Working there were three parties, actually. There was a which would be done in New York where you pull out about, oh, a group from Australia—the clinic was actually owned by a couple half a pint of blood, ozonate it and put it back in the arm over named Bob and Rosanna Graham. The second group was PAI, the about a 15 to 20 minute period? polyatomic apheresis unit group, and all they did was supply the SAT: Okay, I've never witnessed any of the other treatments equipment and people to train the Philippine staff to use the equip- _that you're talking about. The only two ozone treatments that I've ment; and the third group was the Philippine staff which consisted seen actually operate are the polyatomic apheresis and, using the of two Philippine doctors and 11 nurses. same equipment, a process called rectal insufflation where the GN: And who were the patients? ozone gas is put in through a catheter into the rectum, which SAT: The patients were 20 Australians, 19 with HIV, one with becomes an ozone enema, so to speak. Those two were used at multiple cancers. the clinic and in conjunction with one another. Some of the par- licipants in the study had experienced that treatment that you are talking about and had some success with it. What they believe from their own experience, what they told me, is that it was the difference between a Volkswagen and a Rolls Royce, from what they felt with the treatment you're talking about getting in New GN: Is it illegal to enter the Philippines if you are an HIV-posi- tive person? SAT: My understanding is that it is illegal to go in HIV-posi- tive, but Immigration does not question you; there is no testing and I don't know that the patients realised that it was illegal. York versus What they got in the Philippiacs GN: Could you tell us some of the success stories of the GN So. for mare ha ts the Philippines? 3 The most dramatic success story was a man named Paul Cae Conan, ‘ y : GN: Now, what happened to these 20 patients? Where are they Hoy ie: ips = SS baeme The pekes # Keane at i ~ have there been any additional protocols for these peo- 4 ple to follow? sarcoma lesions on the bottom of his feet were so great when he . ‘ A left for the Philippines that he couldn't walk. He was in slippers SAT: Okay. The turing point of everything was on March 19. for over a year. He could not wear shoes. He gingerly walked on | The youngest participant was a 23-year-old woman named Jodi, NEXUS¢29 DECEMBER '93 - JANUARY '94