Is The M.D.’s Lung Protocol, by Alan Inglis, M.D., of significant practical value and safe to use for improving lung function for people with COPD, emphysema, and asthma? Will it help most people with these issues, or more selectively, for some but not others?

Although you are skeptical of this, we fully endorse this approach as having merit. And the ambitious goals you describe that reflect their promotion and its utility we would say are a fair assessment of the benefit of the approach to bring symptomatic relief to these major causes of impairment of lung function. It is truly remarkable that such can happen given the long, long, history of human suffering from these disorders and having to rely only on bronchodilators and/or inhaled corticosteroids for extra anti-inflammatory effects when warranted. These pharmacologic tools have benefits, but also a downside and are not capable of truly influencing the chronicity in a profound way, let alone the progression of these diseases. Most people, even those using such drug therapies, will exhibit a further improvement in lung function following this protocol and that is indeed remarkable.