It’s basically your body’s way of recycling old parts and making room for better ones, Maintains brain health and Clears toxic proteins and preventing diseases like Alzheimer’s.

So it’s All about the body Balance, you know what they say “Healthy body, Healthy mind.”

is one of the rarest and most disabling genetic conditions in the world, when soft tissues like muscles, tendons, and ligaments progressively turn into bone “Ossification” forming an extra skeleton that locks the body in place.

Caused by

a mutation in the ACVR1 gene, which misguides the body’s repair system. Even minor injuries, intramuscular injections, or biopsies can trigger explosive bone growth in abnormal places.

As bone formation spreads, patients lose mobility and often become wheelchair-bound by their 20s or 30s and Average life expectancy is reduced due to complications such as respiratory failure, since the chest wall becomes ossified

How rare is it ?

affects about 1 in 1–2 million people worldwide.

Treatment

There is currently no cure.
Some clinical trials are testing drugs that may slow down abnormal bone formation, but nothing definitive exists yet.

Case example (Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019)

A 10-year-old boy in Pakistan underwent surgical excision of bony masses. Instead of improving, his condition worsened drastically after the operation, with new ossifications spreading rapidly. This highlights why surgery is strongly contraindicated in FOP patients.

What is a Placebo?
A placebo is a substance with no active medical ingredient, often a sugar pill or saline solution. It’s used in clinical trials to compare with real drugs and to study the psychological effect of treatment. Surprisingly, many patients report real improvement after taking a placebo, simply because they believe they are receiving actual medicine. This is called the placebo effect, showing how powerful the mind can be in healing.