Alan Blaustein struggled with doctors and insurance companies while battling cancer of the thymus gland.

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The surgery transplants a healthy thymus into the body, providing it with the ability to manufacture sufficient T-Cells to fight off infections.

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In a study from India, kidney transplant patients had crushed donor kidney tissue injected into their thymus - the body's "immune engine room" where cells can be "educated".

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It was hoped that time would allow the developing T cells in the thymus to be "introduced" to the donor tissue, so that when they were circulating around the body they would not attack the donor organ.

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The good news was that four of them are in sound working order, a shock given that I don't even know where they are, and thus haven't watered them lately. (In Western medicine-speak, Bramham detected imbalances in my thyroid, thymus and adrenal glands.) To address such afflictions a client would be prescribed two spa treatments and two hours of exercise daily, all custom-tailored, plus a nutritional consultation.

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