What Do You Know about DMSO?

Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) Molecular Structure. By Achiraya @ Adobe Stock

What do you know about dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)? According to A Midwestern Doctor (pseudonym) writing at Mercola.com, DMSO “effectively treats many ailments, including strokes, tissue injuries, autoimmunity, and a myriad of skin diseases and challenging infections.” A Midwestern Doctor continues:

DMSO is a naturally occurring substance that, when used correctly,¹ safely, and rapidly improves a variety of conditions medicine struggles with — particularly chronic pain. For example, thousands of studies show DMSO treats a wide range of:

•Injuries such as sprains, concussions, burns, surgical incisions, and spinal cord injuries (discussed here).

•Strokes, paralysis, many neurological disorders (e.g., Down syndrome and dementia), and numerous circulatory disorders (e.g., Raynaud’s, varicose veins, or hemorrhoids), which were discussed here.

•Chronic pain (e.g., from a bad disc, bursitis, arthritis, or complex regional pain syndrome), which was discussed here.

•Many autoimmune, protein, and contractile disorders such as scleroderma, amyloidosis, and interstitial cystitis (discussed here).

•Head conditions including tinnitus, vision loss, dental problems, and sinusitis (discussed here).

•Internal organ diseases such as pancreatitis, infertility, liver cirrhosis, and endometriosis (discussed here).

•A wide range of skin conditions such as burns, varicose veins, acne, hair loss, ulcers, skin cancer, and many autoimmune dermatologic diseases (discussed here).

•Many challenging infections such as shingles, herpes, chronic ear or dental infections, and osteomyelitis (discussed here).

Sadly, once the FDA realized the extent to which DMSO would transform medicine, the agency made the decision to erase it from history. As a result, millions of patients who it helped and the thousands of studies on its therapeutic potential have been largely forgotten. Consider for example this 1980 60 Minutes program:

In the 1960s a miraculous treatment for chronic pain, traumatic injury, strokes and spinal cord paralysis was discovered that spread across America like wildfire—until the FDA buried it.

Here, 60 Minutes exposed the FDA using the same playbook they used throughout COVID-19. A pic.twitter.com/Bh0dcjNk5w

— A Midwestern Doctor (@MidwesternDoc) October 14, 2024

Fortunately, because DMSO is effective for a wide range of conditions, it’s caught on like wildfire over the last six months (e.g., I’ve already received over 2000 reports of remarkable responses to DMSO, many for a variety of “incurable conditions”²).

DMSO and Cancer

Because of the controversy surrounding DMSO, once its pioneers realized it also treated cancer, a decision was made to downplay this facet of DMSO as “unproven” cancer cures are always attacked by the medical system. As a result, DMSO’s anticancer properties still remain relatively unknown.

In the first part of this series, I presented dozens of studies that show DMSO effectively treats cancer pain (which is often very challenging to address) and dramatically reduces many of the complications experienced from radiation therapy and chemotherapy (as it selectively protects healthy cells from those agents).

Given how debilitating each of those can be for a cancer patient, it is remarkable DMSO has not been adopted for any of those applications, particularly since addressing those does not take business from the cancer industry (and if anything would make more patients want to undergo conventional cancer care).

Note: 65% of oncologists’ revenue comes from chemotherapy drugs³ (which coincidentally are by far the most profitable drug market⁴).

In this article, I will focus on how DMSO eliminates cancer.

Read more here.