Fashionable medication usually sidelines “miracle” medication that work too nicely. Regardless of a long time of proof displaying that the naturally occurring chemical Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) is a remarkably secure and versatile therapy for a spread of difficult situations — similar to strokes, head trauma, spinal twine accidents, dementia, and even Down Syndrome — it has been largely missed.
This sidelining is especially outstanding as DMSO can also be some of the efficient therapies for acute and power ache, musculoskeletal accidents, and power degenerative situations (e.g., arthritis).
DMSO, Nature’s Healer
DMSO is a robust, pure compound with a number of distinctive properties that make it an extremely versatile therapeutic agent:
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Fast absorption — When utilized to the pores and skin or ingested, DMSO shortly spreads all through the physique. |
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Mobile safety — It shields cells from deadly stressors like burns, frostbite, blood loss, radiation, and shockwaves, and may rescue already broken cells on the verge of dying. |
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Security profile — DMSO is extraordinarily secure,1 and in virtually all instances, its solely unintended effects are short-term pores and skin irritation or making a garlic-like odor. In distinction, the usual of care (NSAIDs) kill tens of 1000’s of People every year and are the main reason behind drug induced hospital admissions. |
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Conduction blocking — DMSO selectively blocks ache indicators from small nerve fibers (e.g., C fibers)2,3,4 which are sometimes concerned in power ache (e.g., DMSO is likely one of the handiest therapies for complicated regional ache syndrome). This blocking impact is reversible and would not trigger tolerance. |
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Choline esterase inhibition — By inhibiting acetylcholinesterase,5,6,7,8 DMSO boosts acetylcholine ranges, enhancing parasympathetic operate and lowering ache. |
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Anti-inflammatory motion9 — DMSO is extremely efficient at quickly lowering irritation (e.g., it lowers inflammatory cytokines, scavenges free radicals, and drains edema that may in any other case compress tissues). |
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Muscle rest — DMSO quickly relaxes skeletal muscle tissues, easing ache from rigidity and spasms.10,11,12 |
DMSO and Tissue Therapeutic
DMSO drastically improves wound therapeutic (e.g., from burns or surgical procedures). For instance:
• A examine of 1371 power pores and skin wounds that had usually remained unhealed for years (e.g., contaminated ulcers or extreme burns) discovered 95.04% had a speedy and full restoration (e.g., no burn scars).13 Likewise, a scientific assessment discovered DMSO successfully handled ulcers.14
• Quite a few research present that DMSO accelerates limb regeneration in animals15 and surgical wound therapeutic in people.16 It additionally enhances the viability of pores and skin grafts and flaps, providing advantages for plastic and reconstructive surgical procedure.17,18,19,20,21,22
• Animal research have proven DMSO will increase the tensile power of surgical scars23,24 (which considerably improves surgical outcomes), decreases experimentally induced intestinal adhesions25 (a typical complication of belly surgical procedures) by 80%, prevents hypertrophic (extreme) scar formation.26
• Human research present DMSO can flatten and loosen keloid scars27 and progressively get rid of subcutaneous fibrosis induced by radiation.28
• Lastly, DMSO can also be typically used to restore keloid scars. For instance, in a single examine of ten individuals with keloids, making use of 50% to 80% DMSO a few occasions a day induced scar flattening with the loosening of the collagen surrounding the fibrous bundles.29 Equally, one other examine discovered DMSO eradicated (by a gradual softening and discount of it).30
DMSO and Musculoskeletal Accidents
Most of the early adopters of DMSO went from skeptics to believers due to the speedy and dramatic enhancements they noticed from it therapeutic acute accidents (e.g., as they’d sufferers with debilitating bursitis within the shoulder recovering inside minutes of receiving DMSO).
Because it was far safer and more practical than some other strategy to deal with musculoskeletal accidents, joint issues or power ache, DMSO was quickly adopted by docs and pharmaceutical corporations throughout the nation (e.g., thousands and thousands had been invested to convey DMSO merchandise to market and lots of of 1000’s of People had life-changing advantages from it).
Within the Sixties a miraculous therapy for power ache, traumatic harm, strokes and spinal twine paralysis was found that unfold throughout America like wildfire—till the FDA buried it.
Right here, 60 Minutes uncovered the FDA utilizing the identical playbook they used all through COVID-19. A🧵 pic.twitter.com/Bh0dcjNk5w
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) October 14, 2024
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Sadly, as DMSO’s use was skyrocketing, on November 10, 1965, the FDA determined to globally ban all analysis on it by falsely claiming it was extremely harmful. Due to this, there was an explosion after which sudden disappearance of DMSO analysis, which sadly continued even with Congress repeatedly attempting to get the FDA to overturn their indefensible prohibition of DMSO.
Observe: An in depth assessment of DMSO’s intensive security knowledge and toxicology research may be seen right here.
Because of this, little or no information now exists of DMSO’s use in human musculoskeletal accidents aside from it current in just a few FDA permitted merchandise (the place it sometimes is mixed with one other agent). Remarkably nevertheless, it’s totally permitted in veterinary medication (which led to a whole lot of People utilizing DMSO that was “meant for horses”) the place it’s regularly utilized for musculoskeletal accidents. These forgotten research embody:
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A 1964 examine,31 the place 22 out of 25 sufferers with subacromial bursitis skilled a speedy enchancment inside half-hour of DMSO, whereas in power instances 32 of 40 sufferers improved and in some sufferers, a discount in shoulder calcium deposits was additionally famous (which in a later 1967 examine,32 had been proven on X-ray to vanish following DMSO). |
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This huge 1967 examine:34 Observe: In that examine,35 most of the outcomes had been rapid and dramatic. For instance, this was one bursitis affected person. |
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This 1967 examine:36 |
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This 1967 examine:37 |
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A 1967 examine that discovered:38 Observe: The miscellaneous situations handled on this examine by DMSO included 19 instances of sciatica, 6 instances of coccydynia, and a pair of instances of lupus.39 |
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One other 1967 examine40 discovered: |
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A 1967 examine41 gave PT and 70% DMSO to 7 individuals with frozen shoulders, 4 of whom had wonderful ache reduction and improved movement. |
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A 1967 blinded examine42 for acute musculoskeletal issues (utilizing 10% DMSO gel as a “placebo”) that discovered: In that examine, its creator (a former president of the Aerospace Medical Affiliation43) remarked:
He then carried out a follow-up double-blind examine44 on sufferers with sprains, strains, bursitis, or tendinitis which discovered DMSO considerably improved these situations and lowered the time sufferers misplaced from work. |
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A 1994 blinded examine45 gave 157 sufferers with acute tendinopathies (e.g., tennis elbow) 10% DMSO gel or a placebo ointment 3 times a day for 14 days inside 3 days of signs beginning. Ache of motion underneath loading and the mobility of the joints had been considerably improved after, respectively, 3 and seven days of therapy with DMSO. After 14 days on DMSO, an extra enchancment was noticed, and 44% of the sufferers (and 9% of placebo) had been pain-free. Observe: DMSO has additionally been reported to be efficient for carpal tunnel syndrome46 (and different hand points like set off fingers). For these scuffling with carpal tunnel syndrome, I mentioned our approaches to the dysfunction right here. |
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Lastly, a 1967 evaluation47 of 76 research utilizing topically utilized (90%) DMSO for musculoskeletal situations discovered 72% improved. Particularly: Observe: The assessment additionally included 102 Traumas (contusion, fracture, and many others.), 29 Tenosynovitis, 27 Neuritis, 20 Muscle spasms, 20 unspecified sorts of arthritis, and 220 miscellaneous points (e.g., fibrositis, epicondylitis, synovitis, calcific tendinitis). To cite the authors:
Lastly, at a symposium on DMSO,48 knowledge on 9,521 sufferers had been offered, which confirmed DMSO was efficient remedy in all kinds of acute traumatic situations, in acute and power subacromial bursitis, osteoarthritis, gouty arthritis, and in some sufferers with rheumatoid arthritis (together with different situations similar to early Dupuytren’s contracture). Observe: A later 1981 examine49 additionally discovered DMSO was superior to indomethacin within the therapy of gout. |
Sports activities Accidents
“What I like about DMSO is that you just don’t should interrupt your coaching each time you get a minor pull or sprain. It doesn’t pump you up like sure capsules. It’s merely a really helpful factor to make use of for easy athletic accidents.
Some individuals have instructed me that you just should not use it as a result of it’d masks the ache of a severe harm, however an excellent athlete is aware of his physique nicely. Even after I’m utilizing DMSO, I do know after I can push and after I can’t.” — Al Oerter, a discus thrower and the primary American to win 4 consecutive Olympic gold medals.50
One of many biggest challenges skilled athletes face are sports activities accidents which stop them from returning to the sphere, significantly since many sports activities accidents are a product of micro-injuries build up till a vital level is handed (e.g., from adhesions and scars within the comfortable tissue).
In flip, since DMSO each heals micro-injuries and quickly treats traumatic harm (returning them to full performance), DMSO was quickly adopted by skilled athletes as soon as they realized what it may do for his or her careers (and being off the sphere was usually devastating to their careers).
In flip, as a result of voice their place afforded them, just a few skilled athletes (e.g., Atlanta Falcons Quarterback June Jones51 — who now could be a coach52) turned a few of the most impactful advocates for DMSO (e.g., Jones acknowledged in Congressional testimony53 that “veterinary” DMSO was broadly used however athletes had been afraid of publicly discussing it). Likewise, in 2013, a Dallas Cowboys Lineman acknowledged:54
“You get it [from] the veterinarian and it goes proper to the bloodstream. It’s an ointment that’s like anti-inflammatory. You place it in your pores and skin and you place it on a muscle, and I assure you, in about half-hour you’d really feel it. It wasn’t on the record [of banned substances] … we used DMSO and folks knew it. Everybody knew about it.”
Moreover, in his riveting testimony, Jones offered instances that left the Congressmen in disbelief, similar to a teammate with a bone chip and a torn ligament (which might require months of restoration and therefore finish their season) taking DMSO instantly after the harm and seven or 8 days later returning to the sphere (with the bone chip remaining however not inflicting points).
Likewise, at that Congressional listening to, the previous crew doctor for the Oakland Raiders55 testified that he’d used 70% topical DMSO on a cautious and managed foundation for his gamers 20 to 30 occasions a 12 months for five years. From this, he noticed that DMSO was essentially the most useful when given within the first 3 to 4 days of an acute harm the place a muscle or joint had extreme swelling, significantly of the extremities, particularly the ankle, elbow, fingers, or wrist.
General, he acknowledged that DMSO offered good to wonderful outcomes 70% to 80% of the time (e.g., by lowered ache and swelling) and the gamers felt they had been in a position to return to play 50% to 75% sooner than they’d from comparable accidents previously. Conversely, they didn’t discover DMSO was useful for power accidents, however this may occasionally have been because of it not getting used lengthy sufficient for the consequences to kick in.
Observe: He additionally emphasised that DMSO would remodel the sphere of occupational medication. I totally agree along with his evaluation, particularly given simply how regularly Employee’s Comp fails to assist its sufferers.
Equally, podiatrist Lowell Scott Weil (who was the doctor for each the Chicago Bears and the US Olympic gymnastics crew) used DMSO frequently (significantly injured gymnasts).
After 12 years of utilizing it, he shared,56 he’d seen it quickly heal accidents (e.g., he had a gymnast who suffered an ankle sprain anticipated to finish her season, however as a substitute shortly recovered and made the U.S. Olympic crew, and a soccer participant who tore his hamstring however was in a position to quickly return to the sphere).
General, he had a 60% therapy success charge and noticed the perfect response to DMSO for tendinitis, myositis, and post-injury conditions similar to muscle pulls, ankle sprains, strains, and tears of the comfortable tissue (and conversely the one unintended effects he had had been pores and skin irritation). Moreover, he additionally used it for arthritic sufferers (particularly rheumatoid arthritis) with many having dramatic reduction. Many different compelling anecdotes exist.
For instance, this e-book57 discusses the expertise of an Oregon State observe coach and early adopter of DMSO who had many superb tales of DMSO treating hamstring and achilles tendon accidents similar to an athlete with the ability to return to the sphere at full capability 3 days after a usually disqualifying hamstring harm and the story of a blind lengthy distance runner who was in a position to run because of DMSO fixing musculoskeletal accidents and (in accordance with the creator) then performed a pivotal position in opening the game to ladies.
Observe: A significant downside in sure sports activities like soccer is repeated concussions (which are actually acknowledged to place them in danger for cognitive impairment and dementia later in life). As mentioned within the first a part of this sequence, along with treating strokes and spinal twine accidents, DMSO can also be immensely useful for mitigating the consequences of concussions.
Analysis additionally instantly demonstrates DMSO’s utility in sports activities medication:
• A 1965 examine58 handled 47 injured athletes from a variety of sports activities (e.g., tennis, diving, or wrestling) by making use of 90% DMSO utilized to the injured areas 3 occasions a day initially after which after 2 days, twice a day. The 30 acute traumas (e.g., sprains, strains, dislocations, severe cuts) had been noticed to quickly resolve, typically “so spectacularly as to compel us to induce our sufferers to look at biggest warning to be able to keep away from additional injury to a joint.”
The ten power situations (e.g., tennis elbow) and seven situations ensuing from extended immobilization additionally responded quickly and people athletes had been usually in a position to shortly return to the sphere. These outcomes and the shortage of noticed hostile occasions led the investigators to argue DMSO urgently wanted to turn into the usual of care in sports activities medication.
• A examine59 of 78 sufferers (principally athletes) with overstrained tendons acquired Dolobene gel (15% DMSO, dexpanthenol and heparin) for two to three weeks, with over 50% having a big enchancment of signs and people enhancements together with a 94% enchancment in ache, a 55% enchancment of swelling, 95% enchancment of redness and 92% enchancment of heat.
• A examine60 gave Dolobene gel to 30 athletes with comfortable tissue accidents of the higher and decrease extremities twice each day for 4 weeks. There have been 4 athletes with contusion of the shoulder, 8 with distortion and contusion of the knee joint, 8 with muscle, tendon and ligament lesions, and 10 with distortion of the ankle joint.
Following DMSO, 10 had a superb response (enchancment), 5 had a superb to good response, 10 had an excellent response and 5 had a average response. Particularly, ache, irritation, swelling, reabsorption of hematomas, tenderness and restoration time had been assessed.
• A examine61 gave Dolobene gel and ultrasound to fifteen topics who had acquired a blunt tissue trauma (with out fracture) to the decrease extremity throughout the final 24 hours. In comparison with 15 placebos, the therapy resulted in a sooner reduction of ache, discount of edema, and restoration of mobility.
• A 1966 examine62 of 28 skilled baseball gamers discovered that giving them DMSO after accidents prompted their downtime be one third of what was noticed by the treating doctor within the earlier 12 months with 42 gamers.
Observe: Whereas not fairly the identical as getting tackled, I’ve additionally come throughout instances63 of people taking DMSO instantly after getting hit by a automotive whereas crossing the road (which prompted accidents however no fractures) and instantly totally recovering.
Conclusion
Most of the advantages of DMSO are so extraordinary that they understandably invite a wholesome diploma of skepticism, and it’s for that motive I’ve spent months fastidiously compiling the proof behind it. Likewise, after presenting the preliminary case for DMSO to the readership of the Forgotten Facet of Drugs, I put out a name for what those that’d tried DMSO had skilled.
In these feedback, dozens of readers reported outstanding experiences of DMSO, a lot of which mirror these described all through this text, but additionally different much more outstanding ones (e.g., for a kid with Down Syndrome, a person with Parkinson’s and a lady who had severed her spinal twine).
The suppression of DMSO has at all times deeply bothered me, and in flip, I really feel extremely grateful to be alive at a time when the world is able to be taught of the suppressed medical truths many earlier than me (e.g., the DMSO researchers) devoted their lives to convey to humanity.
Moreover, I consider that is simply the beginning, as past open platforms like Twitter (X) quickly eroding the general public’s belief in corrupt medical dogmas, I do know by trusted confidants instantly related to RFK Jr. that the following 4 years affords an unprecedented alternative to start rectifying most of the beforehand insurmountable issues which have plagued our well being care system and make America Wholesome Once more.
Creator’s word: That is an abridged model of an extended article that goes into better element on the factors talked about right here, others not as extensively coated (e.g., the wealth of proof DMSO is a life-changing ache therapy), and steerage for topical DMSO use (e.g., dosing, therapeutic precautions and the place to acquire it).
That article and its extra references may be learn right here (together with a companion article discussing DMSO’s outstanding utility for quite a lot of musculoskeletal accidents and power ache situations and an article about how DMSO treats quite a lot of “incurable” autoimmune and genetic issues).
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A Midwestern Physician (AMD) is a board-certified doctor from the Midwest and a longtime reader of Mercola.com. I respect AMD’s distinctive perception on a variety of matters and am grateful to share it. I additionally respect AMD’s need to stay nameless since AMD continues to be on the entrance traces treating sufferers. To seek out extra of AMD’s work, you should definitely try The Forgotten Facet of Drugs on Substack.
