EVERYDAY MIRACLES

A life-changing treatment which uses the body to heal itself is conquering auto-immune disorders - why doesn't anyone know about it?

Thirty-five years ago, Dr. Richard Burt began a journey to treat chronic autoimmune diseases like they'd never been treated before. Using a treatment originally developed for leukemia but modified to be a more gentle process - a one-time combination of immune targeting drugs followed by a transplant of the patient's blood stem cells - Dr. Burt has documented the successful and often dramatic reversal of multiple sclerosis, systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIPD), neuromyelitis optica, and Crohn's disease. In a departure from invasive procedures, Dr. Burt's method uses the body to heal itself. After decades of study and randomized trials, his approach, which has been duplicated in other parts of the world, is finally being recognized as an effective means of reversing these "incurable" diseases. Some of his patients have been symptom-free for more than twenty years, and in this book Dr. Burt tells their stories alongside his own journey of developing and refining the treatment, known as hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) for autoimmune disorders. "These patients are the heroes," Dr. Burt has said. "Their bodies and spirits faced unrelenting disease, and yet they fight valiantly against the suffering and obstacles." What is HSCT? How does it work? What are the risks? Why aren't more doctors talking about it? And why is it still out of reach for so many patients who could benefit from it? Dr. Burt answers these questions and many more. Written for the layperson, EVERYDAY MIRACLES is for those living with autoimmune diseases and the people who love them - providing information and insight s into the revolutionary approach that could convert their life sentence into a one-time reversible illness. Dr. Richard K. Burt is a Fulbright Scholar, Professor of Medicine at Scripps Health Care, tenured retired Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, and CEO of Genani biotechnology. He endeavored for thirty-five years, first with animal models then with some of the world's first clinical trials, to bring the field of stem cell and cellular therapy to the patient's bedside. Dr. Burt has published more than 145 first-author articles and edited four medical textbooks. He was the first Autoimmune Committee Chairperson for the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry (IBMTR) and was the principal investigator of a National Institute of Health (NIH) $10,000,000 multi-center contract to develop stem cell clinical trials for autoimmune diseases. Professor Burt performed America's first hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) for multiple sclerosis (MS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Crohn's disease (CD), stiff person syndrome (SPS), and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and published the world's first randomized clinical stem cell transplantation trials for systemic sclerosis and multiple sclerosis. He has been awarded Leukemia Scholar of America, the Lupus Foundation of America Fidelitas Award, the Van Bekkum Award by the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the Distinguished Clinical Achievement Award by the Clinical Research Forum, and the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Clinical Achievement Award. Dr. Burt was presented in Vatican City, Rome with the "Keys to the Vatican", was speaker at the Festival of Thinkers in Leadership in Healthcare in the United Arab Emirates, and chaired the biotechnology session at the Baku Azerbaijan International Humanitarian Forum. Dr. Burt was recognized by Science Illustrated for accomplishing one of the Top 10 medical breakthroughs for the next ten years, and by Scientific American as one of the Top 50 individuals, teams, or organizations for improving humanity and outstanding leadership.