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[ChromoX]

Hey everyone I have a friend that has just been diagnosed with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) and I was researching what things could possibly reverse the damage that he has done via smoking.

He has stopped smoking for good.
I have found that ALA would help repair and restore intracellular Glutathione levels.
CoQ10 - Reversing any DNA damage and providing more ATP to the body.
N Acetyl Cysteine - Helps the body create glutathione.
Quercetin - For anti inflammatory effects, and to help absorb Cordycep mushrooms
Cordycep mushrooms - Improving oxygen transport for better healing.

Other than the stuff I have found above does anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks.

[AgeVivo]

- be followed by medical doctor (in case it's not)
- sleep on the side if he snoors (snooring reinforces COPD)
- regular activity (if he can; without getting too much out of breath neither)
- various fruits and vegetables (I'd trust it more than quercetin)
- viagra from time to time (to relax airway vasculature; not for the common use)

[ChromoX]

- be followed by medical doctor (in case it's not)
- sleep on the side if he snoors (snooring reinforces COPD)
- regular activity (if he can; without getting too much out of breath neither)
- various fruits and vegetables (I'd trust it more than quercetin)
- viagra from time to time (to relax airway vasculature; not for the common use)

Thanks for the extra information.

[bdoris]

- be followed by medical doctor (in case it's not)
- sleep on the side if he snoors (snooring reinforces COPD)
- regular activity (if he can; without getting too much out of breath neither)
- various fruits and vegetables (I'd trust it more than quercetin)
- viagra from time to time (to relax airway vasculature; not for the common use)

Thanks for the extra information.

I'd recommend Idebenone over CoQ10 - Idebenone does basically the same thing, but better.

I have another idea -

Centrophenoxin (also called Meclofenoxate - otherwise DMAE which is less effective would work as well in this particular case) could help a little - though it is a speculative guess based on a few research on smoking and lipid peroxidation. Check out those articles here, here, the Wikipedia article here, here and here.

You can make the deduction easily - smoking does increases/promote age spots, therefore it does damage to skin and maybe other tissues in a similar fashion. What can removes this damage/age spots may remove the damage in other tissues. I haven't found (though there may be one) that support this, but it seems fairly reasonable to assume this - at least, it certainly isn't bad to try as there are little to none dangerous side effects.

[Lufega]

Try to get some roflumilast. It's the best thing out there. I have a few posts on COPD. Also, lithium can promote healing of the lung in emphysema. Good luck !

[Application]

....You can make the deduction easily - smoking does increases/promote age spots, therefore it does damage to skin and maybe other tissues in a similar fashion. What can removes this damage/age spots may remove the damage in other tissues. I haven't found (though there may be one) that support this, but it seems fairly reasonable to assume this - at least, it certainly isn't bad to try as there are little to none dangerous side effects.

Along these lines, there is some research pointing towards vitamin A's role as both a cure and preventive for emphysema:

Vitamin A and Emphysema

Vitamins For Emphysema: What Has Vitamin A Got To Do With Emphysema?

Edited by Application, 07 June 2011 - 06:46 AM.