I've sacrificed nearly everything of myself for the past 10 years studying medicine so that I can help protect others, and especially children, from mental illness.
My mom's really sick so I care a lot about brain diseases. Don't get me wrong -- physical diseases like cancer are horrible, but brain diseases invade your very soul. If you've ever seen a kid with low functioning autism or Downs, can you even think of living like that? It's screwed up trying to imagine what they go through.
I got into ultrasound research because high frequency sound waves can be used to change the body's natural chemistry. You don't have to add drugs or chemicals to it, you just shoot it with a little sound beam and it stimulates whatever you're aiming at. This has INCREDIBLE potential in medicine. Imagine being able to combat Alzheimer's disease, ALS, Parkinson's, and others with just some cheap sound. It's within our reach, and in just a few years we'll have it.
And once we figure out how to use sound in medicine, we can share it with the world because ... well, it's sound. It's not some overpriced commercial chemical.
Along the way, I learned another important thing... Because I studied how to use sound as a cure, I also learned that it can cause harm if you use it wrong. You know how ultrasound is used in nearly every pregnancy to image the baby? Research shows that too much ultrasound can cause developmental problems, and maybe even can cause autism. I can point to several mechanisms where ultrasound exposure can cause autism linked pathology.
If you want to read more about this prenatal ultrasound topic check out this online petition. Sign it if you're awesome:
http://www.change.org/p/health-risks-of-prenatal-ultrasound-the-urgent-need-for-more-research-and-regulationAnyway...All of this school and sacrifice has left me poor as hell, and both of my parents were diagnosed with Hepatitis C this month... Treatment in the USA would cost us over $100,000 per person, and I do NOT have that... but, with medical tourism, I could get them to Egypt or something where the price for the pills is affordable within the $30-50,000 range for a full treatment over a 6 month period.
...if you gave me 100 bitcoins, it would save my parents' lives. I don't know if you're for real about this give away, but if you are ...please consider