SCRI treatment credited with producing an amazing turnaround in Lewy Body Dementia
Lewy Body Dementia is sometimes called "Alzheimer's cousin". Like Alzheimer's, it is an incurable brain disease that steadily whittles away most sufferers' cognitive functions including their ability to focus, sleep well, or walk normally. Those with advanced LBD may have trouble swallowing liquids and solids.
Currently, LBD affects about 1.4 million Americans. Both radio and TV personality Casey Kasem and Oscar® winning actor Robin Williams had LBD, and legendary Chicago Blackhawks coach Stan Matika was recently diagnosed with it.
LBD has no cure and the best medicine can presently do is relieve symptoms and alleviate patient suffering. The one thing doctors never see is a person with advanced LBD who can hardly walk or talk begin doing so. This all changed after 76-year-old Canadian Arthur Rechlo had an experimental treatment in Mexico.
Like many families of people with LBD, the Rechlo's were always on the outlook for developments coming out of the world of research and experimental medicine that Arthur might gain access to and benefit from. As they scoured the Web they began to come across people with neurodegenerative diseases who reported enjoying substantial improvements following being treated by Stem Cells Renew Institute.
Arthur's family contacted SCRI and submitted Arthur as a candidate for treatment. It was a case of "do or die", literally, as the elderly Canadian was, as his daughter Kim put in, in the "final stages" of LBD. He couldn't walk well, choked on liquids and food, and was almost non-verbal.
Although the SCRI treatment was experimental and there "were no guarantees", they held out help Arthur would somehow wind up being about to talk with them once more, and maybe even start doing things he hadn't done in years like dress himself and brush his teeth.
Mr. Rechlo's treatment was scheduled for February 12 and 13. When SCRI's transportation crew picked up Arthur and his wife, Vicky, and daughter Kim at their hotel in San Diego, they were shocked at how frail and debilitated he was. He looked and acted like a real-life zombie. He did, however, come to life when they tried to get him into the SCRI van by getting very agitated!
Following an incident at the hospital in Mexico in which Vickie gave him a few drops of water to alleviate his parched throat, something that brought on a fearful choking episode, he was prepped for treatment and taken into OR (operating room).
Arthur's treatment consisted, in part, of getting adult (nonembryonic) stem cells that had been primed by SCRI's director of laboratory services, biochemist Abel Pena (photo on left), to become specific types of body cells. These were given by lumbar puncture and via injection into a vein along with SCRI's proprietary Beacon Factor (which Abel invented). Arthur was also given the Beacon Factor alone by i.v. (intravenous) drip into his arm.
Within two hours after his combined stem cell and Beacon Factor treatment, Arthur opened his eyes, slowly looked around, and began acknowledging those talking to him. About an hour later he fixed his gaze on his wife for about 30 seconds and then on his daughter
Following his treatment and return to his hotel in San Diego, Arthur tried to get out of the SCRI shuttle by himself. He even insisted that those around him let him do this entirely on his own. However, everyone present was afraid he'd fall and insisted on helping him disembark. They all remarked how pink and animated Arthur's face had become. It was evident too his facial muscle tone had improved. After leaving the van he asked for a drink of water.
With 24 hours of Arthur's return stateside, daughter Kim called Nova Cell's patient care coordinator, Grace Odgers, Ph.D. cand., and began excitingly sharing the fact he had walked six (6) blocks and had also gone up and down short flights of stairs. In addition, he could now swallow normally and was speaking using whole sentences. These were things her father had not done in five years or more.
Then, upon arrival back home, the daughter texted SCRI that Arthur was using the restroom by himself, played cards with her on the flight home, and had begun telling jokes.
A few days later Arthur's wife, Vickie, got word to SCRI that Arthur wanted to give her Valentine's day card. She got one for him and asked if he wanted her to read it to him. He remarked that he could read it for himself, did so, wrote a few heartfelt lines on it, and then signed his name. On top of these feats, Arthur also began undressing himself to go to bed and brushing his teeth. These were all things her husband had not done in half a decade or more.
How is such an amazing turnaround possible? When asked about this, Abel Pena attributed Arthur's incredibly fast response to powerful circulation-enhancing, inflammation quelling properties of the Beacon Factor, plus the fact it appears to greatly increase the number and activity of serotonin receptors on neurons (which increases or amplifies nerve signal transmission).
Said Abel, "The Beacon Factor was created by combining molecules that exist in all of us. In laboratory experiments and then later human use it proved very powerful in terms of enhancing circulation, suppressing inflammation, and bolstering the number and activity of serotonin receptors in the central nervous system especially the brain. Patients including children who came in with cold, bluish limbs due to poor circulation had these pink up within an hour or less of receiving the Beacon Factor. And those with runaway inflammation including neuroinflammation and other brain imbalances showed dramatic reductions in this. In addition, the Beacon Factor amplifies the biochemical signals secreted by damaged tissue and boosts the activity of lysosomes, the inner cell's 'digestive system', which then get busy digesting biological debris that litters damaged and diseased neurons and other cells."
SCRI researchers and Abel were quick to add that the primed stem cells themselves secrete compounds that amplify nerve signals and oftentimes produce rapid improvements in functioning in children and adults with neurologic illnesses and conditions. Children with spina bifida, brain injuries, and cerebral palsy are given primed umbilical cord stem cells by SCRI doctors who have oftentimes enjoyed rapid improvements, sometimes within hours of being treated.
Abel Pena has been nominated to receive an honorary Ph.D. by a Hawaiian university in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of medicine including his Beacon Factor.
CLICK TO READ AN ARTICLE ON ARTHUR'S IMPRESSIVE TURNAROUND THAT APPEARED IN THE ST. ALBERT GAZETTE (CANADA)
1. Click to read how LBD silenced Casey prior to his death.
2 Click to read a media story on how LBD is thought to have played a role in Mr. Williams suicide.
3. Click to read about Chicago Blackhawks coach Stan Matika's LBD diagnosis.
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