The Wiley Protocol

Link: http://www.thewileyprotocol.com/content/view/425/35/

Once again, another article focusing on growing evidence suggesting progesterone should be considered as a treatment option for traumatic brain injuries appeared in the Science Daily regarding progesterone and brain injuries, proving author T.S. Wiley was way ahead of the curve on information regarding the hormone and how it can benefit people.

Progesterone is a naturally occurring hormone found in both males and females that the researchers in this study say can protect damaged cells in the central and peripheral nervous systems, a viable treatment option for traumatic brain injuries.

It was April of 2007 when T.S. Wiley gave testimony before the Special Committee on Aging at the U.S. Senate, sharing her knowledge about menopause and bio-identical hormone replacement therapy.

Now that seventy-eight million baby boomers are reaching the peak years for stroke and degenerative brain diseases, it would be comforting to know that progesterone might help. In the United States each year, 700,000 Americans suffer a stroke, and as many as 500,000 are diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease (1.4 million suffer a traumatic brain injury).

In her testimony, Wiley told this story, which adds some perspective about the importance of this research. This could be your son, brother, father or grandson…

A boy named Marcus of Commerce, Ga., was one of those patients. A passenger in a head-on automobile collision just three weeks shy of his high school graduation, he was evacuated by helicopter to Emory and received the progesterone infusion upon his arrival. In addition to broken bones, early tests of his brain function suggested massive and disabling head injury, and he spent almost three weeks in a coma.

But seven weeks after his April 2004 injury, Marcus was released from the hospital with lingering physical injuries but little evidence of the severe trauma to his brain. Three years later, the 21-year-old kept up a rapid-fire conversation and lives close to his parents' home but independently, keeping track of appointments and birthdays on a cell phone scheduler.

"I wouldn't have believed that a woman's compounded hormone would help my
body and brain in a situation like that," he says. "I'm back almost 100 percent, and I don't think I'd be here if it weren't for progesterone."

You may read the entire testimony or watch the webcast of this testimony at the Senate Committee on Aging Hearing, featuring T.S. Wiley on April 19, 2007 by clicking here.

Link: http://www.thewileyprotocol.com/content/view/196/90/

"Progesterone offers the hope of being the first new treatment for traumatic brain injury in 30 years and the first-ever safe and effective treatment." This was a recent post on Health Orbit about the progesterone story. T.S. Wiley covered this topic in her testimony on behalf of the compounding pharmacies back in April of 2007. (See this related press release.)

What originally began as a scientific puzzle, started out when a scientist named Bob Stein noticed that some female rats to survive brain injuries virtually unscathed while males with similar injuries died or had severe problems. His colleagues thought he was nuts. But two Emory doctors—Art Kellermann and David Wright looked at Stein’s findings in rats and thought that maybe the scientist was on to something. This cvould change the outcomes of traumatic brain injury(TBI) patients. A clinical trial was funded by the NIH, from 2001 to 2005 at Grady Memorial Hospital.

As a researcher, T.S. Wiley was well aware of his information and studies about the use of progesterone for quite some time. She said in her testimony, "Among those left with little or no choice will be menopausal women and andropausal men; the Autistic community; individuals living with HIV/AIDS; infants and young children with conditions like gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD); hospice and nursing home patients; and people who are extremely allergic or sensitive to fillers, dyes, and additives in medicines. And now we can add researchers with imagination like Dr. Wright in Georgia and head trauma victims like the young man, whose life and mind was saved by a Compounded bio-identical hormone. Please don’t let this happen."