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>> reporter: that look was a reflection of grant's injuries. they were staggering. >> he had a torn aorta, brain bleeds, a broken wrist, a broken elbow, both femurs were fractured. >> reporter: his e.r. doctors told grant's family to let him go. >> the fact that the doctor wasn't fighting for his life just blew my mind. he's not dead yet. why would you just, as a parent, how could you ever let go not knowing that you haven't done every single possible thing that you could do for your son? >> reporter: doing every single possible thing was going to take grant's family on a wild journey. full of...

Nurro surgeon. >> the concept was then trying to rebuild his brain with what it was made from when he was embryo in his mother's womb. >> rebuild his brain? >> yes. we gave him a very high unprecedented dose to make sure we saturated and got high levels in the brain. >> i'd just like to thank everybody for their thoughts and prayers. >> reporter: after the fish oil, mccloy made a dramatic, full recovery. the science is not clear. there have been no large studies and it didn't always seem to work. but despite that, grant virgin's family, a combination of desperate and determined decided to give...

Fish oil therapy, grant virgin made a phone call. >> it was unbelievable a couple days into giving him the fish oil, he is now talking in sentences. >> reporter: in time, grant became more animated and, soon, he was walking. >> starting with january. >> january, february, march. >> reporter: here is grant a year after nearly dying, a year after his family was told to let him go. >> grant white virgin. i'm 17. i'm going to be 18. >> he is doing everything doctors said he wouldn't. >> now we'd be remiss if we didn't mention that some components do receive money from fish oil companies. but they ...

Dramatic, full recovery. the science is not clear. there have been no large studies, and it didn't always seem to work. but despite that, grant virgin's family, a combination of desperate and determined, decided to give it a try. >> i don't want to wait 20 years, while they do a bunch more studies to prove it really works. i don't need that. >> grant was given 20 grams of fish oil per day through his feeding tube, even more than randy mccloy got. in december of 2012, nine weeks after his accident and only two days after starting high dose fish oil therapy, grant virgin made a phone call. >> it...

Dr. julian bales was mccloy's neurosurgeon. >> the concept was in trying to rebuild his brain with what he was made from when he was an embryo in his mother's womb. >> reporter: rebuild his brain? >> yes. we gave him a very high, unprecedented dose to make sure we saturated and got high levels in the brain. >> i'd just like to thank everybody for their thoughts and prayers. >> reporter: after the fish oil, mccloy made a dramatic, full recovery. the science is not clear. there have been no large studies, and it didn't always seem to work. but despite that, grant virgin's family, a combination o...