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To: ConservativeMind
Brother had H&N cancer around 2003. Successfully treated with radiation, but three long-term side-effects: a permanent bald spot, retinal damage in one eye eventually resulting in 40% loss of visual field in that eye, and eventual complete closure of the carotid artery on the side that was irradiated. Fortunately, the carotid artery closure happened so slowly that his body grew new arteries around it, so he barely noticed it.

He joined me on niacin 2 1/2 years ago. A few months later his haircutter of 15 years asked him if he had gotten implants. No, he said, why? His bald spot had grown back.

Not long afterward he noticed the return of nearly 100% of his visual field in the affected eye. The cholesterol that had been clogging the capillaries in the retina had apparently been dissolved by the niacin.

15 posted on 09/05/2023 11:21:04 PM PDT by AZLiberty (All I want for "Stand Up To Cancer Day" (9/8) is President Trump back in office.)
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That is an amazing recovery and it should provide hope to others that maladies are not only a one-way street.

There can be hope that bad situations can still turnaround. This is part of what I try to show with these breaking medical studies.


16 posted on 09/06/2023 5:22:12 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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