Cutting edge help heard of for all dieases.

[Spanky]

Tough subject.  I will say that "Tums" will work for leg cramps in the night, very often.  It's--unless something more complicated is going on--usually a calcium or magnesium deficiency.  Calcium tabs--either type, with Vit. D for adsorption--and magnesium tabs work for me on a long-term basis.  It's nothing new, but a lot of people don't know about it.  The "Tums" just work fast.

"Cutting edge" suggestions fall into lots of categories from FDA-approved experimental trials to quacks, to FDA compromised quacks.  "Big Pharma" is the usually applied phrase for the pharmaceutical powers that be, and, doubtless they can, will, and do sometimes impede lots of would-be breakthroughs.  FDA is there to protect us, sometimes it sells out to Big Pharma. 

"Burzynski The Movie: Is Stanislaw Burzynski a pioneering cancer researcher or a quack?"

[url=http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/11/29/burzynski-the-movie-subtle-its-not/][/url]used to be a movie on cancer breakthrough available on Utube, but no more as Discovery Channel claimed copyright.  The movie made a strong case for the method, using too much jargon, and too little sense.  The case went through court after court, but the FDA eventually succeeded in banning a few of the chemicals needed to replicate the work, so without that, no scientific acceptance.  But, as said, a layman's look at the criticisms of the "clinic' run by Burzyski left a lot of questions. 

The history of medical acceptance of new ideas is like the history of any new idea in any discipline.  They don't like it.  The doctor who first suggested doctors should wash their hands between examinations was eventually laughed out of the field, this is a fact  Then throw in the power of the RX companies, and you get a whole 'nother level of resistance, and pure corruption sometimes. 

Rev is right though, to bring up the subject.  Abigail Adams, wife of forefather John, had her kids inoculated with the chicken pox virus, taking a chance on a new idea that said inoculation would protect them from getting small pox.  Not many people supported her.  It worked, still does, in a more sophisticated form, but same idea. 

There is an old classic movie starring a very young Alec Guinness.  I know most of you don't know who Alec Guinness is, but the movies is "The Man In The White Suiit."  A young, enterprising chemist develops a fabric that will never wear or tear, and wont allow dirt to adhere.  He made a suit of it.  Showed it off.  Before the end of the film nearly half of England was out to kill him, the textile factory owners, the workers, etc.  Same idea.

On the other hand the FDA only a few years back denied the use of  life prolonging cancer treatment to people who were terminal with the particular cancer, because the treatment had not finished all human trials.  The terminals objected and said they were gong to die anyway and had a right.  And they did, and that's just asinine. 

I can only say what I've heard many of times from good docs.  It it's something like acupuncture, that doesn't have interactive possibilities, then it cant hurt to try.  If it's "Tums" you're probably in good shape.  It it's exotic, and to be ingested, you need to research and possible interactions with current meds.  If it's voodoo, or magic, or prayer, or chakral or chiropractic adjustment--as long as no animals are snuffed--for me, that's all o.k.  

Six of one, half dozen of the other. 

Spankster