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[jessellivermore]

Rosey and Babr...

Quote:.. "It is the structural damage in COPD that is the big impediment."

There is no doubt this is the current thinking in clinical medicine..Disruption (decrease) of lung capacity by scarring and fibrosis secondary to chronic insults from tobacco, other airborne toxins or chronic infection..

Cetrtainly there is scarring with loss of alveolae and bronchiolar passages in COPD but what if we are wrong about the extent of structural damage and are underestimating the significance of active and reversible inflammation..Or even wrong about the irreversibly of the "structural damage"?

I have witnessed a patient of mine with COPD who was totally dependent on supplemental O2, able to come off her O2 after being treated with V 4gms/day..Furthermore my administration of V was not intended or expected to have any effect on her COPD, but was given to improve the wound healing following a facelift..It was the patient who brought up the improvement in her lung capacity...on the telephone...and this was in no way an expectation on my part..

Babr...I appreciate your skepticism and understand this case is only anecdotal...and flies in the face of current thinking...I am not involved in treating COPD..as you are..However it might be worth try V on some of your COPD patients...It is good for CVD...You might be in for a surprise.

":>) JL