New hope for Multiple Sclerosis sufferers

"Oxygen shower saved my life."

An infusion of 1000 millilitres of cortisone daily. "But my left leg was still paralysed", reported Uschi Schwarz. Yet worse was still to come: just before doctors at Bonn University confirmed their suspicion that it was MS (Multiple Sclerosis), the 45-year-old lost all feeling in her face. She lost her job as a podiatrist, became noticeably more run-down and extremely depressed. "That was before I simply breathed away my symptoms", says the patient from Niederpleis.

Say that again? Simply breathing away a muscle disorder which becomes more and more aggressive with each phase? "We can hardly believe it ourselves", admits Jochen Hövekenmeier, press spokesman for Airnergy, the Hennef-based manufacturer of so-called energy filling stations. In other words, devices which prepare respiratory air in just the right way so that the oxygen we breathe in is put to optimum use. "We have never claimed our energy station to be a miracle cure, which is why it is all the more pleasing that a seriously ill customer such as this should feel like a completely different person after a couple of breathing sessions." So fit in fact that she recently opened a small beauty studio after two years' sick leave.

Uschi Schwarz had all but given up on her plans for the future. "Facially disfigured, weakened by fever and all the cortisone I was wallowing in self-pity and despair. I felt down the whole time.", recalled the 45-year-old. Neither could she expect any real encouragement from the University doctors treating her progressive condition. "So far we have been able to ease the symptoms, but there is still no tried and tested drug to combat the cause, which is generally genetic." confirmed the MS specialist in charge of

her case.

No harm therefore in filling up on an extra dose of "air". Quite by chance Uschi Schwarz came across the energy spray which top athletes in a number of different disciplines (those at any rate keen to use oxygen more effectively and with no interest in doping or EPO) have been using for some time in the run-up to important competitions. Frau Schwarz explains: "My husband, an architect, was working on a building project for the Hennef company and after seeking advice brought the small miracle device home with him, full of anticipation."

"Breathing" just twice a day for 20 minutes was sufficient and after two weeks instead of the predicted muscular atrophy the patient from Niederpleis instead felt her old vitality returning. "You won't be surprised to hear that there will be three of these energy filling stations in my new podiatry studio" beams Uschi Schwarz.

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