stem cell therapy

Three family members, mother, son and daughter, all with CFS, were evaluated recently in my clinic. They all became sick in Prague, the Czech Republic, on the mothers sabbatical LOA from her college teaching position after all had a chicken-pox like illness. They are all seven months out from stem cell therapy in Panama. They all have improved significantly following stem cell therapy with the daughter claiming a complete cure after 17 years of illness at the age of 29. She is the second stem cell patient claiming a complete cure and includes an unrelated 23 year old male patient, also 7 months out from stem cells. Both cures took at least 90 days to become manifest with the first thirty days exhibiting significant hypersomnolence and with little energy to do much and typical for all the CFS stem cell patients (N=13).

As of May 2009, we have now evaluated two post-stem cell patients, now three months out from their afterbirth derived stem cell transfusions in February 2009. Below is a summary of their findings through February 2009.

To me, CFS is best viewed as a very complex terrain issues and that microbes are simply taking advantage of this fact so that reductionism to drugs or pharmaceuticals directed against single agents or pathways will be a poor therapeutic choice except perhaps early in the illness and in the occasional patient who is much less complex.