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With respect, I have to take issue with the comments, re bandaids. I do understand that researchers are working on this, and have been for a lot longer than the 10 plus years I have enjoyed a normal life; but over that time, and working through a number of doctors who have either retired or just moved on from their family practice, I have yet to meet a single one who had ever heard of the treatment options I have taken. Further, in spite of their seeing how my condition has improved, and to a (wo)man having offered the standard "just keep doing what you are doing" advice, they have never been able to suggest a single doctor or researcher who would be interested in looking at how or why this approach to our problems could be useful.If, indeed, I had not lucked or blundered into these supplements, I would presumably be prescribed a statin for my cholesterol, popping Immodium like jelly beans or on an anti-depressant for the D, a PPI for the GERD, some kind of anti-inflammatory for my arthritic hip and knees, a restrictive diet to keep my weight down and reduce the liklihood of diabetes that is rampant in my family since I could no longer be active, something--if something even exists other than a painful surgery--for my growing prostate, and god knows what for the liklihood of cancers, especially as I had spent some time in an asbestos mine in my 30s, always assuming I hadn't already died from that heart attack or driving off the road, asleep at the wheel. Then I would have a bandaid over every one of my "wounds." Of course I am lucky this has all worked so well and I know that given the number of causes for our problems that nothing will address all of them; but I can never believe that I am in any way special, given the numbers of others who have similar stories to tell.This commitment to my health came late in life and only after things had gotten so untenable that I could no longer pretend that I hadn't backed myself into a corner. Having had 10 years of pretty vibrant life as an effect of these changes, rather than just limping along, is an end that I would imagine everyone here would be pleased to share. Ciao.Mark