After realizing the prescribed medications and treatments were only providing temporary relief from symptoms and were not providing any lasting healing or improvement, the author set out on a 4+ year, 6500+ hour research project searching for the cause of the disease progression. The doctors said it was a mystery! Mr. Miller developed a hypothesis that logically described the disease progression. "Smoking introduces a pathogen into the lungs that continues proliferating whether the patient quits smoking or not. As the pathogen proliferates the body adapts by distending the lungs causing a condition common with COPD patients known as 'barrel chest.' Eventually the distending lungs crowd the stomach making normal-sized meals impossible and the patient begins losing weight." We have all seen these people in "End Stage" sitting in wheelchairs, on supplemental oxygen and looking like 'skin and bones.' Reversing emphysema begins with starving the pathogen and restoring the body to optimal health.