Guest guest Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Here are a few abstracts on stem cell therapy successes in animals and humans (mostly humans). All the human trials are small due to the cost, limited cell lines and political grandstanding. But if you go to scholar.google.com, you will find thousands of animal studies that are really unequivocal. Stem cell will effectively treat many illnesses as soon as there are enough resources put towards this. While drugs may not work in animals exactly as they do in humans all the time, the basic physiological mechanisms of stem cell differentiation and rejection of foreign tissues are pretty much the same in all mammals. So these models are considered highly transferable to humans. Most interesting about much of this research is that it works best in younger less advanced stages of illness. European and mexican clinics offering cord blood stem cells typically state in their patient literature that the therapies work much better when combined with lifestyle changes. these clinics will prescribe detailed dietary and supplement/herb regimens for their patients seeking general rejuvenation. Many offer acupuncture and other holistic therapies. So there is already an acceptance in some european holistic health circles of stem cells as a part of natural medicine. This is the same europe that bans American meat due to hormones, is very skeptical of genetically modified organisms in the food chain, suspicious and hyper-regulatory of corporations in general and whose doctors prescribe far less pharmaceuticals than the US. Why do they embrace stem cell therapy then? For the same reason they embrace herbology? It works. http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U & q=http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/ NEJM200103083441002 http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U & q=http://www.nature.com/doifinder/ 10.1038/73128 http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U & q=http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1056%252FNEJM200007273430401 http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U & q=http://www.neurology.org/cgi/ content/abstract/55/4/565 Chinese Herbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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