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Thalassemia - Chlorophyll & Medical Research |
| Thalassemia in Children If children with thalassemia are fortunate enough to be diagnosed before they die and are even more fortunate to access adequate and appropriate treatment, they will probably require at least monthly blood transfusions for the rest of their lives. They will also need to have daily infusions of iron chelating agents that mop up the excess iron resulting from destruction of red blood cells. Added to this are the risks of a number of often life-threatening complications such as heart and liver failure coupled with chronic fatigue and debilitation. Because most of these children come from developing nations where treatment is not available, many of them will simply die. More About Chlorophyll On this website are a number of summaries of medical and scientific journal articles that lend support to the clinical efficacy of wheatgrass/chlorophyll. Having debunked the usefulness of chlorophyll other than for photosynthesis on a number of occasions, it may seem rather strange that I have included it in this list. The fact is that chlorophyll has been attributed with healing properties since the 1930's. From what I can glean from a fairly large body of literature about wheatgrass/chlorophyll trials and clinical reports, researchers have blindly followed the dictum of the original wheatgrass researchers, even to the present day. In other words, because chlorophyll is similar to hemoglobin, it carries life-giving oxygen. In fact it is not at all like hemoglobin except for a porphyrin ring in the centre of the molecule. There are numerous other points of difference that refute the old argument. In fact, there are many other smaller biologically active molecules in wheatgrass and other cereals that in the 1930's were not detectable by the technology of the time. Because of recent cellular assays done in Melbourne, Australia, we now know there is a molecule or group of molecules that specifically induce fetal hemoglobin. We don't know what these molecules are, but, because there is no chlorophyll in the extract we use, we know it must be something else. I believe therefore, that the entire literature on cereal grass/chlorophyll should be comprehensively reviewed excluding chlorophyll from the equation. We could then apply modern technology and thinking to an old idea that could give us remarkable new insights into natural healing. Dr. Chris Reynolds. M.B.,B.S. |
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