Current treatments — medication and other medical interventions can control the disease to a certain extent, but they often stretch on for months, even years. Many patients relapse after stopping treatment for a period of time, forcing them back into the cycle of medication, lab tests, and hospitalization. Along the way, the body gradually weakens from side effects, the mind grows exhausted, and daily life is repeatedly disrupted.
A COPD or chronic asthma patient in the Philippines spends an average of ₱3,000 - ₱5,000 per month on maintenance medication alone. When acute inflammation strikes and hospitalization is required, that figure jumps to ₱15,000 - ₱50,000 depending on severity, and that's before factoring in transportation costs, family members taking unpaid leave to provide care, and all the expenses that never appear on a receipt but still drain a household.
For patients who require home oxygen therapy, renting an oxygen tank runs ₱3,000 - ₱8,000 per month, an expense with no end in sight. And when dangerous complications arise requiring emergency surgery, costs can reach ₱100,000 - ₱200,000.
But the true burden goes beyond the numbers. It lives in the son who has to request leave every time his parent falls ill. The wife who can't sleep because she's listening for her husband's breathing in the middle of the night. The patient who watches their children scramble on their behalf and quietly blames themselves. The family plans put on hold because no one knows whether the lungs will flare up again next month.
Beyond that, while medication effectively controls inflammation and acute episodes, the lungs continue to endure damage in the quiet stretches between flare-ups. Each bout of inflammation leaves a wound behind, wounds that persist, accumulate, and slowly become scar tissue. Mucus builds up in the small bronchial tubes and is never fully cleared, gradually narrowing the airways. The airway lining thins after years of inhaled medication. The respiratory immune system erodes quietly. Without proper support, the airways' natural defenses weaken after each episode, making the next relapse arrive faster and hit harder than the one before. That is why patients can do everything right, take every dose, attend every follow-up, and still find their lungs growing weaker with each passing year.
Also from that difficult treatment reality, my team of experts in Germany and I focused on researching a method to support lung recovery from the root. That means not only temporarily reducing symptoms, but also directly affecting damaged lung tissue, promoting new cell regeneration, reducing inflammation and preventing disease progression.
LungBoost - a specialized medical nutritional therapy for lung patients.
LungBoost is designed to supplement nutrition, enhance immunity, restore damaged lung tissue and reduce the risk of disease recurrence, thereby helping patients gain more strength during treatment and improve quality of life.