"The Deanna Protocol"—a Breakthrough in the Cure for Lou Gehrig's Disease?

Aimee Herd : Dec 7, 2012
Lorie Johnson – CBN News

"I have a strong faith. Things happen for a reason. Maybe, just maybe, I got this so my dad would get involved, and this would eventually lead to a treatment that would save people's lives until a cure was found." -Deanna Tedone-Gage

One of the world's devastating diseases is ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, which attacks the nerve cells, rendering them unable to communicate with the body's muscles, which quickly atrophy since they're not being used.

The disease is terminal, and usually acts quickly—but now there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon for those afflicted with ALS, with a new treatment that may be able to slow, or possibly even stop the heartless progression of the illness.

The treatment—which is just now being lab-tested on mice—is known as "The Deanna Protocol"—named after Deanna Tedone-Gage; Dr. Vincent Tedone's daughter who was diagnosed with ALS shortly after she was married five years ago. (Photo: CBN News)

After the heart-rending diagnosis, Dr. Tedone took his daughter to all the different places that specialize in the disease, to no avail. So Tedone left his job as a surgeon, and went full-time into developing a cure or a treatment for his daughter, himself.

Eventually he developed a regimen of supplements, cardio, weight lifting and massage that slowed and then actually stopped the progression of ALS in Deanna.

The main ingredient of the treatment is an cell energy-boosting supplement called AKG.

". . . we put her on the AKG and then we ran out of it," Dr. Tedone described in a CBN News interview. "Within one day her tremors became unbelievable. Got some more, put her back on it, the tremors subsided."

Now that The Deanna Protocol is being tested on lab mice—if the treatment slows or stops ALS in them, it may soon be available to human ALS patients.

Deanna herself has a unique way of looking at her affliction . . . (Photo: CBN News)

"I have a strong faith. Things happen for a reason," Deanna said in the CBN interview. "Maybe, just maybe, I got this so my dad would get involved, and this would eventually lead to a treatment that would save people's lives until a cure was found."

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