The DMSO Moment: How an Old Medicine Finds New Life - Mary Beth Pfeiffer
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A woman facing a lung transplant reversed her condition with a $30 over-the-counter treatment. Doctors told her she had no options. A new doctor suggested DMSO. Months later? Her lungs were CLEAR. Erica Eyres, a vigorous fifty-six-year-old aerobics instructor who had struggled to breathe, was given “absolutely devastating” news in 2022: She might need a lung transplant. She had never smoked, ran cross-country track in high school, and was a personal trainer for years, but, by 2024, a transplant assessment was arranged. “I decided that I will make that decision,” she said, “only if it’s the last resort, and I’m on my deathbed.” A few months before her consultation, however, Eyres, then fifty-eight, made an appointment with a new primary care doctor for routine prescription refills. She was about to be introduced, literally and figuratively, to a new kind of medicine. It would change everything. Dr. James Miller, a former surgeon, liked to get to know his patients, so he asked Eyres...