natural therapeutic. are definitely not a cannabis, which is one of the substances that help with pain, help comfort, and this has been the case with many other patients as well. it s always important that we are always exploring and looking at new therapeutics on your medication and not just the traditional chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. your foundation, the olivia newton foundation, she has been able to help support and motivate and encourage many millions of other women and men who maybe diagnosed or suffering from breast cancer as well pack it does affect both men and women. carley: after ashton kutcher is opening up after being diagnosed with a disease called vasculitis. at a rare autoimmune disorder that apparently affects vision, hearing, and your ability to walk back up what we need to know about this? share, so first of all, vasculitis is rare, and it s a condition in which you have inflammation in the blood vessels, information in your
ability to hear and sight and not being able to walk. where does that strength come from with you. like two years ago. i had this weird, super rare form of vasculitis that knocked out my vision, knocked out my hearing. and knocked out like all my equilibrium. took me like a year to build it all back up. you don t really appreciate it until it s gone. until you did i don t know if i m ever going to be able to see or hear again. i don t know if i m ever going to be able to walk again. ainsley: we are learning about justin bieber. now we are learning about ashton kutcher. what exactly is vasculitis? what it is, ainsley when the body s own immune system attacks blood vessels, arteries, capillaries and veins. a lot of things called it. rheumatoid arthritis. lupus. it can be treated with steroids, by logic agents and suppressives. they have side effects but they
seeing, hearing, and walking. the actor is opening up about his battle with a severe form of a rare autoimmune disease. he discussed it in an episode of running wild with bear grylls. it, like, knocked out my vision. knocked out my hearing, and knocked out all my equilibrium. it took me like a year to build it all back up. you don t really appreciate it until it s gone, until you go, i don t know if i m ever going to be able to see again. i don t know if i m ever going to be able to hear again or walk again. what an ordeal. talk about strength through adversity. lucky to be alive. lucky to be alive. cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here. wow. elizabeth, to see him now, he seems okay. explain what is vasculitis. what happened to him is clearly so scary. a lot of people don t know about vasculitis. it s an autoimmune response. your blood vessels get restricted, so your immune system is attacking your blood