Updates To The Book “ERIC IS WINNING”
October 2009
STEM CELL TREATMENT IN GERMANY--JULY 23, 2009
We flew to the town of Cologne in Germany in July of this year for a stem
cell implant. The name of the clinic is XCell-Center GmbH. For more information
about the clinic, go to their web site below:
http://www.xcell-center.com/
The first thing I must caution you about is their very low success rate
with ALS patients. The explanation for that is very simple in my mind.
I strongly believe that you must have stopped all progress of ALS BEFORE
any stem cell treatment and probably most ALS patients have not done that.
If you still have toxins in your body and/or you are still exposed to
toxins in your home or work environment, then the new implanted stem cells
will probably just be destroyed soon after implant and there would be
no gain. In a minute I'll tell you about my improvement.
The second most important item is that NO ALS PATIENT should ever have
stem cells implanted that came from ANOTHER PERSON. You must use your
own in my opinion. Glenna and I met a lady recently who had stem cell
treatments in Russia and again in Mexico, but they were using other people's
cells. BECAUSE OF POSSIBLE REJECTION, they must give you drugs to destroy
your immune system. Well, folks, YOU JUST CAN'T DO THAT. An ALS patient,
in my opinion, cannot stand the toxic drug and the idea of destroying
your immune system is really stupid. The lady we met has already died
and I believe the drugs did it.
Now for more info on my experience.
The implant treatment I experienced at the X-Cell clinic was using MY
OWN stem cells. Again, that's the only way to go. On July 21, the clinic
removed 25 vials of bone marrow from my hip bone. They then processed
that and removed almost two million viable stem cells. On July 23, they
re-implanted my own stem cells directly into my spinal fluid through a
lumbar puncture. I should mention that on both days the procedure took
only a few minutes and without a general anesthetic. I never felt any
pain and the clinic doctors were very professional. They do speak English.
Incidentally, they are located on one floor of a local hospital.
There are no immediate effects from the implant. They suggest that you
may see some improvement between six weeks and three months. During the
nine days we were in Germany, I was not eating all organic food, I was
not drinking my pure mineral water, I was not taking any of my supplements,
etc. Consequently, I had a mild relapse in my overall condition. It took
me about the six weeks just to recover from that. Plus the air travel
is grueling for anyone but even more for an ALS patient.
September 5 was about six weeks from the date of my implant. Oddly enough
that's about when I began to have feelings that I was improving. Now bear
in mind that nothing major has happened. Only very slight day-to-day improvement.
Every move I make seems to be a little easier and other people have mentioned
that they can understand my speech better and I look better. I'm very
hopeful about future improvement based on what has already happened.
Let me remind you about one thing. I had every reason to almost expect
improvement from this treatment, BUT ONLY because I had stopped all progress
of my ALS long before. It is my firm belief that any stem cell treatment
without eliminating the cause of your ALS first would be foolish. I believe
any improvement will be slow because simply restoring your nerve cells
does not immediately make your muscles stronger. It may take a long time
to restore your muscle strength.
The clinic recommends that you be treated by a physical therapist soon
after your treatment. I'm doing that twice a week for one hour each visit.
Also, I have purchased a "Power Plate" which is probably the
best form of muscle exercise for an ALS patient that I know of. I can
only tell you that it works.
The entire cost of the trip for Glenna and I plus our daughter was about
$20,000. About half of that was the actual cost of the treatment.
Next month I plan to write more about a clinic in China where they are
treating ALS patients with Chinese medicine involving herbs and teas and
no drugs. They have improvement in many of their ALS patients and very
low cost.
There is every reason for all of you to be a little more hopeful about
your future. There's no reason why we should not be able to duplicate
the stem cell treatment here in the U.S.A. soon. Also, I plan to learn
much more that might help you about the China clinic.
Keep up your P.M.A.
Eric