Makes sense as a way to treat an auto-immune disorder.
Praise The Lord!....................................
We have two friends who have suffered with this disease for decades. What wonderful news!!!!
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This can cure AIDS
Now we know why they call it "MS"...
By the time FDA gets through studying for approval it most of the hopeful in this country will be dead.
Sorry, it is just that way.
After they approve it, if they approve it, the price will stratospheric because of all the hoops the providers must jump through for approval trials.
Medicine in this country is a business racket that makes the military industrial complex look like chrior boys. It is not a humanitarian enterprise. It is just business for extreme profit that preys on the emotions of people who are just clinging to life.
A friend of mine was diagnosed with MS - probably 25 years ago. She went completely vegetarian on organic foods. She is the picture of health today.
This is wonderful, if...
I am not stupid and it is not clear and there has been a lot of confusion of two types of stem cells are used, one, adult, two, from abortions.
Which is this, and please don’t be insulting as it is not clear.
Oh, I pray this is true and will help cure MS. Our daughter was just diagnosed with it. It is a terrible disease, and she is facing it with such bravery, Maybe this will be her answer, along with so many others who are battling this illness.
One of my brothers-in-law died of MS. Hope this pans out.
There HAS to be a better way to stop inflammation than chemo. Progress will mean being able to slowly IMPROVE the bacterial biome, maybe with stem cells still, but to slowly stop the autoimmune properties behind MS rather than kill kill kill and hope for the best. There is no chance of long term health for these patients, even if they’ve made some MS symptoms go away. These people may have very short lives.
Still, if someone understands the risks, I’m glad they now have this option.
One day we will truly understand we need these bacteria and we will be able to grow and nurture the good ones like in a garden. And influence something bad going on in us (cancer, MS) to wither, rather than as now throwing away the baby with the bathwater as we do with chemo.
Thanks. My wife was diagnosed with primary progressive MS a while back.
We’ve seen a lot of things like this over the years. But I’ll print it off and we can talk about it with her neurologist next time we get her morphine pump refilled.
His usual response when we bring up such things like this is to shrug.
This is a blessing...
MS is still a disease that medicine knows little about.
I personally know two women, over 40, who were diagnosed with MS 20 years ago. One never went on meds at all, one too meds for a while, left many years ago. They are both largely symptom free.
It is a disease that affects people in completely different ways-—usually men suffer more rapid decline than women, but the president of my university had MS when I got there in 1985 and I saw him a couple of months ago and he is still walking around, no cane or anything.
When TV or movies portray it, they make it seem like every MS patient is Annette Funicello. Some are, sadly. Others are like the two women I know, and still others, somewhere in between. Most neurologists will tell you that they don’t know if the available MS meds actually do anything-—it’s a better “safe than sorry” regimen, but all of them have very severe side effects, from hair loss, kidney stones, extreme flu like symptoms, etc.
This new treatment is extremely encouraging, but obviously would be more for the Annette Funicello types, not for the three people I mentioned.
The end of the article makes it clear that this is a dangerous and extreme treatment that is very risky. It is nothing like a vaccine. One of the patients died of liver failure and another was in intensive care for liver failure. It is not a recently developed treatment: the star patient who now is able to ski, underwent the treatment in 2002.
It is a hopeful event and adds knowledge to the battle against MS, but it is no easy miracle cure. My sister died at 49 of side-effects of MS treatment. Did the treatment extend her life? She was willing to try it because her MS life was not worth living.
Stem cell therapy is the future. After doing extensive research into stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease, I had treatment at Stemgenex in La Jolla, CA where they have had incredible results for 7 years now. I have to say that the results are unexpected and my quality of life is almost as good as it was before the onset of PD.
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