Recently, I summarized approximately 2000 studies and 200 reader reports showing DMSO treats "incurable" CNS neurological diseases (including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS, multiple sclerosis, seizure disorders, psychiatric conditions, and Down syndrome) through its foundational properties: improving all forms of circulation, reducing inflammation, protecting cells from lethal stressors, crossing the blood-brain barrier, and reawakening dormant cells. This article extends that work to the spine, where DMSO's regenerative properties are perhaps even more dramatic.

Remarkably, veterinarians have been using IV DMSO for spinal and neurological conditions in animals for decades. When a horse goes down and can't get up from a severe neurological problem, IV DMSO is often standard practice. When a dog is hit by a car and paralyzed, many reports exist of IV DMSO routinely getting them walking again. Multiple veterinarians who contacted me described personally witnessing "miraculous recoveries" in paralyzed animals, and veterinary textbooks from the 1980s already listed IV DMSO protocols for brain and spinal cord injuries. Yet in human medicine, a spinal cord injury patient is told nothing can be done and to prepare for a life of severe disability.

This disconnect inspired Todd, the Air Force veteran with ALS featured in the previous article, to try IV DMSO in the first place. After reading about DMSO's properties, he asked a veterinarian friend whether she ever used it intravenously on animals. She did: whenever an animal was down with a severe neurological problem and couldn't get up. "Many times I can get the animal on its feet and start treating it," she told him. Todd's response captures the absurdity perfectly: "We're using that for a severe neurological problem on an animal that can't get up, but we're not doing this for humans."

As I will show, the answer to Todd's question is not that DMSO doesn't work in humans. It is that the FDA effectively prevented it from ever being properly tested, and the medical profession never looked at what veterinarians already knew.

Note: the night before I published this article, one DMSO doctor I correspond with shared with me "I just heard from my patient that he had a cow that was found down, completely unconscious with a heartbeat. He called his vet who told him to mix DMSO and saline and infuse it. Within 30 mins, the cow was back up like nothing happened and lived until they sold it off."