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By: A Midwestern Doctor

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Chronic respiratory diseases remain profitable but poorly treated, subjecting patients to expensive healthcare, impaired stamina, and painful decline

• DMSO is an "umbrella remedy" treating diverse ailments through therapeutic properties including reducing inflammation, improving circulation, and reviving dying cells

• These properties uniquely address underlying causes of chronic respiratory diseases by reducing fibrosis and inflammation, restoring damaged organs, and improving circulation

• DMSO addresses respiratory infections through antimicrobial activity, reduced lung inflammation, and potentiation of antimicrobial therapies

• Extensive published data and user reports demonstrate DMSO's remarkable results for asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, and pneumonia, including cases in which transplant was no longer necessary due to significant organ recovery

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Since childhood, I've known numerous smokers who had slow, agonizing deaths from COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). These deaths were often quite traumatic for their family and friends, particularly as patients became increasingly disabled from their loss of respiratory function.

Once I entered medicine, I saw the other half of this tragic story. I lost count of how many COPD patients were subjected to the same medical protocols — which they often couldn't refuse because people will do anything to be able to breathe. They'd eventually get hospitalized for COPD exacerbations or pneumonia (common COPD complications), and before long, they'd enter a cycle of ever more frequent repeat hospitalizations until they died.

Note: Steroids are frequently used to manage COPD and slow lung destruction. However, steroids suppress the immune system, which coupled with the reduced respiratory turnover seen in COPD, makes patients much more vulnerable to pneumonia.

I later learned that the lungs concentrate a coating of glutathione (at levels 100 times that in other parts of the body¹) to protect them from damage and that restoring this coating with nebulized glutathione could (without side effects) prevent further progression of COPD. Numerous studie