Few of us can forget the thirteen West Virginia coal miners buried 2 � miles underground for 41 hours. When they were found, only one, Randal McCloy was rushed to West Virginia University Hospitals’ Intensive Care Unit. The 27-year-old miner was practically dead, his other twelve colleagues all perished from oxygen starvation.
     Upon his arrival at the hospital, his situation was grim. According to Jullian Balles, M.D., the neuron surgeon assigned to Mr. McCloy’s case; McCloy was in a coma and deep shock, his heart barely beating, one of his lungs collapsed, his liver and both kidneys shut down. Even if he somehow managed to survive, doctors prepared his family that he would be severely brain damaged. The carbon monoxide levels he had been exposed to had stripped the myelin sheath from most of his brain’s neurons. “It’s very difficult to come back from a brain injury,” says Dr. Balles. “There’s no drug that can help that.”
     While McCloy was being given daily oxygen infusions in a hyperbaric chamber, Dr. Balles knew that wasn’t going to produce any miracles. He then ordered a dose of 15,000 mg of docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid be given to the miner daily. In simpler terms, Dr. Balles ordered doses of fish oil (the oily type high in omega-3’s).
     Several weeks later, McCloy unexpectedly emerged from his coma. That in itself was considered a medical miracle. But McCloy didn’t stop there. His progress stunned even the most optimistic medical experts by recovering his memory, then regaining his ability to walk, talk, and see. By all accounts his turnaround was deemed by most in the medical field a true ‘medical miracle’!
     Although Dr. Balles gives some credit to the hyperbaric chamber, he feels much of the credit belongs elsewhere. “The omega-3’s help rebuild the damaged gray and white matter of the brain,” says Dr. Balles, who now takes his own medicine, swallowing an omega’3 oil supplement daily. McCloy , on doctors orders, continues to take the supplements daily. “I would say he should be on them for a lifetime,” says Dr. Balles. “But then I think everyone should.”
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