Antiretrovirals
Antiretrovirals are a group of diverse drugs developed for HIV infections that vary widely in theoretical efficacy against HERVs, side effect profiles, and cost. HERV expression is apparently increased in…
Risk: C
Grade C: At least 10% of exposed patients experienced harms (no hospitalizations or deaths)
Basis
Basis has mechanisms of action that could theoretically be useful in treating ALS. It appeared reasonably safe in a small, short duration study of healthy volunteers and it is fairly…
L-Serine
L-serine is a reasonably inexpensive, widely available nutritional supplement that has a plausible mech-anism by which it could help a subset of patients who might have ALS from BMAA-toxicity. A…
Inosine
Inosine is a low-cost supplement that increases the levels of urate, a naturally occurring antioxidant. With appropriate blood and urine monitoring, it appears reasonably safe. Epidemiologic data suggest that high…
Accilion
In our opinion, Accilion does not have a mechanism that is plausible for the treatment of ALS. There is one patient with a confirmed diagnosis of slowly progressive ALS who…
Precision Stem Cell
At ALSUntangled our goal is to provide guidance on the mechanism, pre-clinical data, anecdotal evidence, trials and risks of various alternative treatment options. Our goal is not to challenge the…
Gluten-Free Diet
Theoretically, gluten-induced autoimmunity could trigger ALS. However, the data supporting this link are weak, consisting of two association studies and a single case-report. Further studies are needed to confirm the…
Sodium Chlorite WF10
The NP001 formulation of sodium chlorite acts through a plausible mechanism and preliminary data suggest that it is safe and may slow ALS progression in some PALS. The WF10 formulation…