GregMiller
Member since May 24, 2011Became a caregiver to my mother after she was diagnosed with emphysema and COPD in 2003. She took all the prescribed medications and by January 2006 she was in end stage and weighed only 77 pounds.
I found information from research on other illnesses and applied it to emphysema and COPD. Beginning with a drastic diet change my mother began showing improvement in only 2 weeks. I continued finding research that utilized supplements to restore the immune system and amplify the immune response, break up mucus, reduce inflammation and eliminate the need for prednisone and other drugs.
By December 2008 my mother had regained all of her lost weight and did not need supplemental oxygen. In 2006 she was on 4 liters and weighed only 77 pounds.
I have a web site with the diet and supplements along with the logic behind the cause and cure for COPD and emphysema.
http://www.emphysema-treatments.com
I now believe that smoking introduces a pathogen into the lungs that proliferates whether the patient quits smoking or not. This pathogen eventually begins occupying areas of the lungs needed for gas exchange (breathing) which causes the lungs to distend ("barrel chest"). Eventually the distending lungs crowd the stomach and the patient loses weight.
Starving and eventually killing this pathogen was first. I started that with the diet I got from cancer researchers. See the "Diet" page on the web site mentioned above for specific diet information.
These protocols worked for my mother and has now helped nearly 2000 pther patients survive emphysema and COPD.