Chronische Cerebro-Spinale Veneuze Insufficiëntie

Swank appears to have predicted the work of Zamboni in his Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) hypothesis of MS causation. Not only did he develop the treatment for the disease, but he may have found the cause as well.

On p81 of his book, Swank says: "...the frequent location of the pathological lesions (plaques, or areas of demyelination) in the brain and spinal cord surrounding small venous channels, suggest that the small blood vessels (microcirculation), which includes the arterioles, capillaries and venules, play a role in the genesis of this disease. This contention has been supported by the observations that small arterioles and venules of the brain and spinal cord are thickened, often tortuous, nodular, and alternately constricted and dilated...."

On p84 Swank states that "...Recent study of the cerebral blood flow (CBF)......revealed significant reduction of the flow in the MS patients. ...In patients with MS, there was a progressive, generalized decrease in CBF....The rates of decrease were significantly greater than in normals, and they correlated directly with the speed of progress of the disease."

But Swank took things further than Zamboni. He postulated a cause for these small blood vessel obstructions and decrease in blood flow: on p86 he says: "A search for a mechanism that could cause both an interference with, and slowing down of, the cerebral... blood flow, and breakdown of the blood-brain barrier in the central nervous system, leads to a consideration of the circulatory changes that have been observed in a number of species, including man, following large saturated fat meals." And of course he followed this up with an intervention trial, where he gave people with MS a low saturated fat diet, with startling results.

wie let er anno 2010 nou niet op een lage inname van ader-slechte verzadigde dierlijke vetten...

CCSVI, Big Pharma's Kryptonite.``