mccloy jr. >> he was the surgeon. >> he had a massive heart attack. he was in liver failure, kidney failure, had a collapsed lung. >> mccloy's body somehow recovered. the question was could his brain do the same. >> can you quantify the likelihood that someone like a randal mccloy would recover, he would have a meaningful recovery? >> we felt everything supports the fact that he was truly a long shot. >> but bales was concocting an orthodox plan of saving mccloy's brain. high dosages of fish oil. >> so the concept was to try to rebuild his brain from what it was when he was in his mother's womb. >> rebuild. >> yes. we gave an unprecedented dose to make sure there were high saturations in brain. >> had it been going on ever before? >> no, it had not. >> he was going out on a limb but he had a hunch. could an injured brain be similarly restored and if so, how? >> if you have a brick wall and it gets damaged, wouldn't you want to use bricks to repair a wall? and omega-3 fatty acids are literally the bricks of the cell wall in the brain. during a traumati

. >> reporter: but mccloy's case was just one, and it remains to be seen if omega oil was really the key. the next step? convincing bobby's doctors. >> it was a fight, they didn't see, they said there was just one case. i need a thousand cases to be proven, before maybe i can give this to your son. >> he literally had to lay down in the middle of the floor and throw a tantrum until they started to put it down -- his child's feeding tube. >> reporter: the tantrum worked. and two weeks after starting his fish oil regimen, and case study two, bobby woke from his coma. about two months after that he attended his high school graduation. >> they all stood up and were screaming and cheering my name. i took my graduation cap off, and waved it around. >> reporter: the common numbers for him and mccloy, devastating brain injuries, and then omega 3 fish oil. but did the omega 3 hasten their recovery? for now, we do not know. >> i absolutely believe that it made a huge difference in bobby's recovery. and this is pure speculation. he never would have come out of a coma if it had not been for the