Dr. Glen Jeffery
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It couldn't open their eyes.
This child, the first child...
within a month or so had semi-mobility.
I got a video of her walking to school.
I went to the bathroom and sobbed.
Done something that's really helped someone.
Then we had another couple of kids and they all had small improvements.
We got a clinical trial for it.
And our biggest problem is we couldn't get enough kids into the study.
The density of kids with mitochondrial disease in the UK, we got funding for it, was just too low.
So one of the things I've got to do, sadly, when I go back, certainly before Christmas, I've got to wrap that up and hand the money back.
I'm just going to say, just could not get the kids.
And some of them, as I told you, when that disease digs in badly, we can't do anything about it.
Some of those kids were just so sick.
It was a major effort to get them to the hospital to assess them.
But let's take a defocused image on this.
And theoretically, red light should help kids with mitochondrial disease.
It will do absolutely no harm whatsoever.
And I generally say if all of this is a pile of rubbish, A, I'll look an idiot, but I don't think I am going to look an idiot.
B, you will not have wasted money on something that's just completely worthless.