Dr. Kevin Tracey

Well, Kelly and her husband, Sean, talked their way into that trial somehow.

They sold everything, as Kelly says, everything that wasn't tied down in New Jersey, they sold.

They did a GoFundMe sort of thing.

campaign with friends and family, and they moved to Amsterdam for six months.

She was implanted with what I call a Gen 1 vagus nerve stimulator, and we can talk about Gen 1 and Gen 2.

And when it was turned on, within two weeks, she felt a lot better.

And a couple weeks after that, she was on her way to a follow-up appointment in Amsterdam and saw the elevated triglycerides

He gets downstairs and is looking around like, where the heck is Sean?

And Sean is standing at the bottom of the stairs with tears of joy running down his cheeks because he hadn't seen Kelly run in years, especially not run up a flight of stairs.

He was used to her not even being able to walk up a flight of stairs.

So Kelly, that was about eight years ago.

I've been in touch with Kelly many times since.

She worked with us for a while collecting a database of patients who reach out to us interested in this therapy or in clinical trials.

And she takes no medications.

Her only therapy is the vagus nerve stimulator, which is activated for two or three days.

times a day for five minutes.

And she asked me once, am I cured?

And I said, well, Kelly, that's a good question, but you're asking the wrong guy.

Other than my conflict of interest, I'm not your physician.

But it really raises the question, if readjusting her vagus nerve activity enabled her nervous system through neuroplasticity to reset the set point on her immune response,