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Fri Feb 5, 2016, 05:45 PM
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NPR: Using a placebo to mimic immunosuppressive therapy
Today (2/5/16) on NPR there was a segment: How Meditation, Placebos And Virtual Reality Help Power 'Mind Over Body', did anybody listen to it?
Jo Marchant authored a book 'CURE' and suggests that like Pavlov's dog we can condition our body to respond to a stimulus that will mimic immunosuppressive therapy. She spoke of a man taking an IST drug for a kidney transplant. She had him drink a glass of milk flavored with strawberry flavoring & pomgranite & green food coloring and ring a bell when he took his drug each day. She claims after a period of time his body will respond to the milk & bell and won't need as much (or any) of the medicine after time. I know I'm not good at recapping the segment, here is a link to the story: LINK Does anybody have any thoughts?
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Edith, mom to Eric, dx 2/11 at age 15 with SAA, began ATG/CsA 3/11, switched to Tacrolimis 8/11, off all meds 9/11 and is now considered to have bone marrow failure not otherwise specified. 
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Fri Feb 5, 2016, 05:55 PM
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Heard that broadcast too. I just put her book on my Amazon wish list.
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Marlene, wife to John DX w/SAA April 2002, Stable partial remission; Treated with High Dose Cytoxan, Johns Hopkins, June 2002. Final phlebotomy 11/2016. As of July 2021 HGB 12.0, WBC 4.70/ANC 3.85, Plts 110K.
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