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(0:00) Introduction to stem cells and their potential in treating neurological disorders (0:29) Welcome to Health Decoded (1:08) Debates and considerations in stem cell treatments (1:49) Sleep optimization: tracking and effects of workouts (6:08) Overview of stem cells and FDA-approved therapies (15:23) Future of stem cell therapy and market growth (19:31) Sponsor: Authentic Nutrition (20:27) Ethical and regulatory considerations in stem cell therapy (23:36) Role of insurance and partnerships for affordable treatments (26:08) Evaluating the quality and effectiveness of stem cell products (27:03) Balancing optimism with informed research in therapy (27:53) Integrating stem cells with lifestyle choices and promoting ethical care (28:58) Listener engagement and closing remarks (29:49) Outro and contact information00:00:00
Stem cells and what's the future of this medicine, or is it just hype?
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Intermittal therapies using stem cells are being explored for stroke recovery, Parkinson's
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disease, and Alzheimer's.
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Honestly, this is groundbreaking because it's it's allowed for more avenues in personalized
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medicine.
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The the applications for this are usually in disease modeling, drug discovery, and and
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there's a lot of promise for using these for cell therapy as well, potentially reducing,
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like, immune rejection risks.
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Welcome to Health Decoded, your number one source for real health information with your
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host, doctor Alessi and Matt Tack.
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Welcome back to another episode of Health Decoded.
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I am your host, doctor Alfred Alessi.
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And the co host, Matt Tac.
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Matt Tac, my guy.
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Well, welcome back.
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Today, we're gonna explore some cutting edge health and wellness topics, specifically diving
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into the world of stem cell therapy.
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We really wanna separate what's fact, what's fiction, and kind of explore the potential, for
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stem cells in functional medicine.
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Yeah.
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And we also wanna highlight some growing interest and debates surrounding stem cell
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treatments.
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Are they the magical bullet for radical healing transformation or setting the stage for an
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in-depth discussion?
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We're excited to talk about it.
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I'm excited to talk about it.
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This is something that we've been trying to pilot for a while and really just kind of, I
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wanna say, like, organically came upon a relationship with, with a clinic who offers
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this and that we have, you know, partnered with.
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And it just it feels like it was kinda meant to, elaborate and kinda come into this
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fruition.
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So, how you doing, man?
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First off, how are you?
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I'm doing fantastic.
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Had a little bit of an issue last night.
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You know what?
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It it it's funny.
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You try to optimize your sleep, and sometimes you have, sleep interruptions.
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You know?
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So I'm figuring that out right now.
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I've had a few sleep interruptions.
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So Yeah.
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But overall, doing good, man.
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How about yourself?
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I'm doing good.
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Are you tracking your sleep in with anything?
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Or
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I need to get back to that.
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So I was using the Whoop Band.
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Yeah.
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But I am gonna go over to the Oura.
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It's just something that I think I can sleep with.
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I usually don't sleep with, like, various things, like, on my end.
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Yeah.
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But I feel like, data in general, gets it I I think the Oura is probably some of the best
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value in terms of data feedback, that you can get, with it being on your with it being on
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your ring, but not imposing you.
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You know?
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Your wrist tend to, like if you wear something on your wrist at night Yeah.
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I feel like it it poses you a little bit more.
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So, I'm gonna try out the Oura ring.
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Yeah.
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How about yourself?
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I mean, yeah, I'm wearing the Garmin, and it's it's nice because it's a seven day, eight day
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life on the battery, so I do wear it to sleep.
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I don't it doesn't bother me too much.
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I can definitely feel it, but, I have I like the tracking because I've noticed that if I can
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get a cold shower or do, like, a cold plunge, like, later in the day, my deep sleep is, like
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it's almost, like, 1.5 x.
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Like, I'm getting another hour of deep sleep at night.
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It's awesome.
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So I've definitely seen that correlation as well as, like, the nights where I get home late
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and I don't have dinner till, like, 8PM.
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You know, those nights where we're at the clinic late or something, that's affecting my
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deep sleep so that I'm getting less deep sleep and less REM.
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And more than likely because my body's, you know, still kind of metabolically processing
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that that meal.
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I've I've switched from, like, a meal to just, like, doing a big smoothie instead so it at at
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least digest a little quicker.
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But, again, man, it's like data.
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Like, knowing, like, wow.
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Those things are affecting my sleep.
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That's why I'm waking up the next day feeling like a little, weird.
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But last night, I played I played lacrosse until, like, 08:30 at night.
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So my you know, everything's burnt, like, real hot.
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But then I came home and I did a real, like, real cold shower before bed, and I got amazing
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deep sleep last night.
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So, you know, little hacks that you can implement to obviously kind of make sure you're
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not disrupting that sleep pattern.
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Yeah.
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That was something we had something going on last night, and I told you, like, I wanted to
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go hit the gym and workout.
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But then I kept getting later and later.
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And I'm like, if I accelerate my heart rate, like, at Yeah.
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08:30 at night, it's not something I wanna do for my sleep.
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So I, like, chose not to work out last night.
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But, those are things that I think about in terms of, like, how late do you typically work
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out because we're usually those, you know, midday guys, lunch hour, get in there, get out.
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So, you know, that that's something I think about as well.
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It's just like, how do you how do you kinda modify your heart rate to prepare for sleep?
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That's a good word.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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Accelerating it either early or midday, but not, like, later than 4PM or 5PM.
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You know?
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That's good.
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Obviously, if that's the only time you have to exercise, then you'd make it work.
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But Yeah.
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Make it work.
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Taking a day off every now and then when work guys who are there five, six days a week is not
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gonna kill you.
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You know?
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It's not gonna That's right.
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It's not gonna derail your results.
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But That's Cool, man.
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Well, that's good, brother.
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Well, sorry you didn't get the best sleep, but let's, let's let's provide value here, man.
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That's the goal with this podcast.
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So we wanna thank you guys for tuning in.
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As always, we really wanna just separate what is what is real and what's, you know, maybe
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some fluff information.
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And so everything we talk about, we do a little bit of research into.
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We get some studies around kind of the information.
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That way, you know, we're on top of it.
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And these you know, we're not going back twenty years for these studies either.
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We're we're we're sticking, like, you know, very recent within the last five years.
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Right?
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Stuff that's relevant and stuff that has some merit to it.
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So, you know, today, we're gonna talk about stem cell therapy and what does regenerative
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medicine look like and kind of the emerging world of this because it is relatively on the
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forefront.
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And, you know, like anything, the FDA has their hands in it, and they control a lot of it.
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And so there's, like, what is FDA approved, and then there's, like, what is available, and then
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there's, like, what is out there.
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Right?
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And so, you know, there's if if you go, you can find, right, you can find whatever you need if
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you go certain places.
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So we're gonna kinda get into that.
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But first off, we wanna obviously give a little background, like, what are stem cells for for
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people, listeners who may not even know what this is.
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And so stem cells are amazing because they are unique cells with the ability to self renew,
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and they can differentiate into whatever they need to be.
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So, basically, the term is undifferentiated.
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So then as soon as they get into the body or your body technically has them within the bone
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marrow, it's gonna use them where needed.
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Right?
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You injure your your soft tissue muscle tendon, it's gonna become tendon.
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You have, a disorder with the the vasculature, it's gonna become artery tissue.
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Right?
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And so this dual capacity allows them to play a crucial role in the body's repair and
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maintenance systems.
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They can develop into many different cell types in the body, especially during early life and
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growth.
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So at young ages, the body is producing mass amounts of stem cells to build you and to
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create that new tissue.
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And so there's really four types that that you're gonna hear about or or see or that are
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available, I should say.
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And so let's just touch on those real quick.
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So kind of the most popular is, like, embryonic stem cells.
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Now these are derived from early stage embryos, specifically the inner cell mass of a
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blastocyst, which is typically around five days post fertilization.
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And so these are pluripotent, meaning that they can differentiate into all cell types of the
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adult body.
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This characteristic makes them invaluable for developmental studies and potential therapeutic
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applications.
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So due to this versatility, ESCs are extensively used in research to understand
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early human development, and they're being explored as regenerative medicine.
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The next type is adult stem cells or what we would call somatic or tissue specific stem
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cells.
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So these are located in various tissues throughout the body, such as bone marrow
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primarily, as well as the brain and the liver.
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So they remain in a what's called a quiescent state until they are activated during some type
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of disease or tissue injury or inflammation.
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So unlike embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells are are typically multipotent, meaning
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they can differentiate, but only into a limited type of cell.
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So, for example, like a hematopoietic stem cell in the marrow can become various blood cells,
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but it's not gonna become a neural cell or a or a muscle cell.
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Right?
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And so applications for these are currently used in treatments like bone marrow transplants
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for leukemia patients.
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Research is ongoing to expand the therapeutic potential for these as well for other things.
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The next type is what we call induced pluripotent stem cells.
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So these are actually generated by reprogramming the adult somatic cells, such as
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skin fibroblast to then an embryonic stem cell state, through the induction of specific genes.
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So these are a little bit more modified.
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Right?
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And so these exhibit that pluripotency, which is similar to the embryonic, allowing them to
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differentiate into any cell type.
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And, honestly, this is groundbreaking because it's it's allowed for more avenues in
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personalized medicine.
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And, you know, the the applications for this are usually in disease modeling, drug
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discovery, and and there's a lot of promise for, using these for cell therapy as well,
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potentially reducing, like, immune rejection risks.
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Right?
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When you put something into the body, is the body gonna accept it or reject it?
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That's always something to consider.
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And then the final form is the mesenchymal stem cells, and these are found in various tissues
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including bone marrow, adipose tissue, and umbilical cord tissue.
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And these are multipotent as well, so they can differentiate into bone, cartilage, muscle, and
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fat cells, and they actually do have an immunomodulatory and anti inflammatory
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property.
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So it's very important.
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These are mostly the type of stem cells that we kind of work with within our kind of
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boundaries, and would focus on.
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And so they're widely studied for the regenerative capabilities as well, specifically
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in things like orthopedic injuries, autoimmune disease, cardiovascular conditions, and they're
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currently being used in clinical applications as regenerative medicine for treating
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osteoarthritis, degenerative disc or joint disease, and tissue healing.
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And so these have, you know, vast, applications for longevity as well.
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And so, you know, within personalized medicine, which we talk about a lot, which is where we
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can just kind of do you know, explore the boundaries of what our body can do, these have
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a great, tremendous, use.
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So, you know, understanding the distinct characteristics and potentials of each type is
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fundamental for how we advance this this regenerative medicine, you know, field.
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And so developing different therapeutic strategies.
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And then, you know, the research is ongoing to continue to unlock these capabilities aiming to
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translate these findings into effective clinical applications, down the line.
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So that's, you know, that's just the different types of stem cells that are out there and,
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that you can see obviously being researched, but then also now being applied to different
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treatments.
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Yeah.
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And there's many different applications of stem cell therapy, and I'm just gonna dive into a
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few here.
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So the FDA has approved, stem cell treatments, and these are the ones.
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So the most widely used and FDA approved stem cell therapies is hematopoietic.
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So stem cell transplantation, it's also known as HSCT, primarily used to treat blood
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disorders such as leukemia, lymphoma, and certain immune system deficiencies.
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This therapy involves transplanting healthy hematopoietic stem cells from the bone marrow
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or peripheral blood to replace damaged or diseased cells.
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Emerging applications in regenerative medicine, research in stem cells is rapidly expanding as
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Alfred doctor Alfred said, showing promise in a variety of chronic and degenerative conditions.
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As mentioned before, the number one being cardiovascular disease.
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Studies suggest that stem cells could help generate heart tissue after myocardial
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infarction, which is a heart attack.
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Early trials indicate that mesenchymal stem cells, also known as SMCs, may improve heart
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function and reduce scar tissue.
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That was from the Journal of American College of Cardiology in 2020.
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So stem cells and what's the future of this medicine, or is it just hype?
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So neurological disorders.
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Experimental therapies using stem cells are being explored for stroke recovery, Parkinson's
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disease, and Alzheimer's, which preliminary results showing improved cognitive and motor
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functions in animal models.
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So this was coming from Frontiers in Neuroscience in 2021.
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So there's a lot of research that is behind this.
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And where you wanna focus the use of stem cells for tissue and joint healing.
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So that's that's where we're going into the regenerative side, and we really wanna dive
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into this.
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So one of the most exciting frontiers in stem cell therapy is it's in orthopedic and
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musculoskeletal conditions.
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This is where we see the biggest impact for our patients at Alessi Functional Health.
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So research shows that mesenchymal stells, also known as MSCs, derived from bone marrow or the
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umbilical cord tissue can regenerate damaged cartilage, tendons, and ligaments offering a
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naturally minimally invasive alternative to surgery.
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So it's reducing the inflammation.
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So joint pain and osteoporosis.
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A study published in stem cells translation medicine in 2019 found that MSC injection
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significantly improved pain and function in knee osteoporosis patients with long lasting
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effects.
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So another thing is tendon injuries.
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A lot of tendon injuries, sports related injuries that could date back to high school
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days, college days, whatever it might be, but MSCs have shown to promise an accelerated
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healing conditions like a rotator cuff and Achilles injury, and that was from the American
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Journal of Sports and Medicine in 2020.
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So longevity and antiaging.
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Stem cells are also being studied for their role in promoting tissue repair, reducing
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inflammation, and improving overall cardiovascular health.
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Key components of longevity and healthy aging.
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So MSCs have been found to secrete bioactive molecules that promote tissue regeneration and
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modulate the immune system.
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So here in conclusion, understanding the distinct characteristics and potentials of
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these stem cells is fundamental for advancing regenerative medicine and developing novel
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therapeutic strategies.
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The exciting applications of stem cells and joint tissue healing combined with their
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potential to enhance longevity offer a glimpse into the future of personalized natural health
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care.
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So ongoing research continues to unlock their capabilities, but aiming to translate these
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findings into effective clinical applications for the pain free future.
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Yeah.
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That's right, man.
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And like you said, like, old injuries that could be that's what we see all the time.
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Somebody had something that was from a long time ago.
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Hey.
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I got in a car accident ten years ago, and they had a cervical sprain or a lumbar sprain plus
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some degenerative disc, and now it's snowballed into severely degenerative spinal condition.
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These have applications for restoring that tissue ten years later.
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It's amazing.
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And so it's like the body's always healing.
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The body's always turning over new tissue.
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And if you can add to that, right, you can put some gasoline on the fire.
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You're gonna speed that up, obviously.
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And so, you know, there's, you know, there's significant advancements being made in this
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field, and that's kind of, you know, the next little little piece we wanna talk about here.
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And, you know, some of this applies to what we're we're doing and some of this doesn't, but
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either way, there's some really cool studies being done specifically, like, one is is and I
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wanted to highlight this.
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A phase one trial showed the safety of stem cells in treating vision loss from a condition
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called retinitis pigmentosa, basically where the the the retina starts to get kind of worn
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and degenerative over time.
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And so people are losing their vision or the vision's becoming less effective.
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This can restore that.
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So it's pretty amazing what they're doing, and this was from the journal stem cells,
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translational medicine in 2021.
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Another really cool one was, Australian scientists conducting a world first trial
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aiming to restore movement in paralyzed patients by implement implanting their own stem
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cells into injury sites within the spinal cord.
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And so this came from the Lancet of neurology just couple years ago in 2023, and it suggests
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that patients had regained partial motor function, improved quality of life from these,
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stem cells.
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And so the cool thing, man, is, like, what is on the horizon and really kinda like what the
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market and and patient outcomes can are are coming from this.
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And so the global stem cell market is projected to grow from 18.0 in 2024 to
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54.0 in 2033, which is a growth rate of about 12.6%.
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And this is according to Grand View Research in 2024.
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And this growth is driven by, obviously, increased investment into regenerative
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medicine, but also the rising prevalence of chronic disease.
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Right?
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And then the advancement in in the need for different technologies.
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So the patient success rates that that we can expect preliminary data from clinics, like DVC
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STEM suggest that approximately eighty seven point five percent of patients have report
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sustained improvements within three months of therapy.
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And that's amazing, I mean, especially with the mesenchymal based therapies.
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And this led to significant pain reduction and functional improvement in seventy eight percent
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of osteoarthritis patients.
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That is a huge number and very exciting for us.
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Right?
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And we already get amazing outcomes with our patients, but the limited few that we maybe are
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are are hitting kind of a wall with, this will be able to then obviously take them to the next
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level.
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And so these findings really highlight that transformative potential that stem cell therapy
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has in regenerative medicine and the promising future for patient outcomes as well.
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And so we we discussed in a previous episode how the incorporation of stem cell therapy
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along with our natural and alternative healing modalities is really gonna amplify the results
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that we can achieve with our patients, helping them to avoid things like spinal surgery and
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recurrent steroid injections and ultimately what's called pain management, which is
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managing someone's pain and symptoms for a long time.
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Right?
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And we do the opposite in our clinic.
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Now back to the episode.
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I think these are some of the crucial things to talk about, and then this going coincides with
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our interpretation of what the legality comes from.
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So we wanna always consider the ethical considerations, for our patients and then also
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the regulatory landscape.
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Whether it might be it might be one of those scenarios where, they're wrong.
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Right?
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The FDA seems it seems to be wrong a lot of times.
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But we wanna make sure we're in a regulatory landscape that coincides, with how we're
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treating our patients.
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Right?
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So, of course, with anything of this nature, there's an ethical debate all the time.
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And the use of stem cells ensuring therapies are done in the right way, that is not harmful
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or unethical.
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So let's dive a little bit into the embryonic stem cells, such as the controversy over
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destroying embryos for research purposes and the legal restrictions in many countries right
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now.
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So there's a lot of unregulated clinics out there.
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Right?
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So you definitely need a deep dive and do your own research.
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And there's a fine line between offering cutting edge therapies and preying on desperate
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people.
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So too many of our clinics too many of the clinics out there make big promises without
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delivering those results.
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What frustrates me is when these places charge tens of thousand dollars for treatments that
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have zero clinical backing.
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So LSE Functional Health, our priority is to practice with integrity always, only offering
00:21:58
treatments backed by solid science.
00:22:01
That's why we have Health Dakota, and we bring you what is science backed.
00:22:05
Right?
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If we can't stand behind it 100%, we won't offer it.
00:22:09
Simple as that.
00:22:11
So clinics in The US and abroad offer unapproved therapies for 10 to $15 often
00:22:17
with no scientific backing.
00:22:19
Talked about a few where they're diluting some of their stem cell production.
00:22:24
We wanna make sure they're hyper focused and they're gonna get to that pain free future.
00:22:27
That's why people are taking stem cells for that regenerative therapy.
00:22:31
So the AFDA issued a warning in 2021 against unproven stem cell treatments.
00:22:38
And, only 29% of the stem cells advertised online had supporting clinical evidence, and
00:22:44
that was according to JAMA in the 2021, which is why we partner with a company that provides
00:22:50
the highest biologically available stem cells that have been researched for purity and
00:22:56
delivered at a cost that is feasible for our patients.
00:23:00
So that is one thing to note.
00:23:02
Right now, where we're in the realm of research with stem cells, these aren't covered by
00:23:08
insurance.
00:23:08
Right?
00:23:08
Insurance typically is going to be more reactive care than it is proactive care.
00:23:13
So this is really taking you taking your body and your health very seriously when you're when
00:23:19
you're willing to explore these opportunities of what's step cells might, do for you.
00:23:24
So patient safety is paramount, and we always stress the importance of informed consent that
00:23:29
our patients know that they're what they are receiving and verify their credentials as well
00:23:34
as published outcomes.
00:23:36
Yeah.
00:23:36
That's huge, man.
00:23:37
And, you know, this is a statement I'm about to say that maybe gets our show banned.
00:23:42
But but it's like, insurance wants people to stay in a moderately sick condition because
00:23:47
that's how they can profit off of them.
00:23:49
And what I tell every single patient who asks these insurance questions, like, why is
00:23:53
insurance not cover alternative?
00:23:55
That kind of stuff.
00:23:55
I'm like, your number one insurance is ultimately, like, knowing what your body is
00:24:00
doing and and and making those proactive choices.
00:24:03
Right?
00:24:03
Eating healthy, exercising, moving, getting adequate sleep.
00:24:06
That is your insurance.
00:24:07
Right?
00:24:08
That is your insurance against chronic disease.
00:24:10
Right?
00:24:10
You don't need a company, a multimillion billion dollar company who's, you know, taking
00:24:16
money from people all the time to tell you, you know, how to stay healthy.
00:24:20
Right?
00:24:20
And they don't ultimately do that anyway.
00:24:22
So your number one insurance is be your own advocate.
00:24:25
And then, obviously, emergencies happen and stuff like that.
00:24:28
So having backup is cool, but I think I'm gonna challenge listeners to think a little bit
00:24:35
differently about what health insurance is.
00:24:37
Right?
00:24:37
It shouldn't be, oh, if my health insurance covers it, I can do it.
00:24:41
You you you shouldn't think that way because you're gonna limit yourself to a box of, like,
00:24:45
now I only do things when somebody tells me what I can do, and I'm not thinking
00:24:50
proactively.
00:24:51
I'm thinking reactively like you said, versus, okay, the health insurance is there as a backup
00:24:55
if I get into a major accident or something catastrophic happens.
00:25:00
But I am being proactive about my health, eating healthy, moving, and doing all the
00:25:04
things to focus on longevity that then I need the insurance less.
00:25:09
Right?
00:25:09
And full transparency here, I don't use health insurance.
00:25:11
I don't have it.
00:25:12
My health insurance is the way that I operate, and I have I focus on maintaining some
00:25:17
supplemental income for the back end of that if something were to happen.
00:25:20
Right?
00:25:21
But that's just a state of of where I'm at right now.
00:25:24
I'm not telling people to do that.
00:25:25
I'm not advocating that.
00:25:26
I'm just saying that that's it take a different approach to how we think about things and
00:25:31
ultimately be your own health insurance first.
00:25:33
Right?
00:25:34
And so, you know, to to kinda, like, summarize on this, man, like, the the the the clinic that
00:25:40
we partnered with and that we're gonna be providing these stem cells from, they are, I
00:25:44
mean, hands down, probably some of the best people we've ever met.
00:25:47
They're just, like, all they care about is, like, okay.
00:25:49
What is the patient outcome?
00:25:50
Right?
00:25:50
What is what is gonna benefit the person, not us?
00:25:53
And and so we're able to get, like, a a really good kind of financial, cost breakdown for our
00:25:59
patients, something that can be affordable and ultimately get them the outcomes that they
00:26:03
don't have to feel like they're, you know, going crazy out of pocket and that thing.
00:26:08
And also the the stem cells that they use, I mean, I was just going through the research and
00:26:13
and all the the literature that they provided for us.
00:26:16
Hands down, the best that you can get in this country, you know, and probably in the world if
00:26:20
if anything because they're using stem cells that are not altered.
00:26:25
A lot of these these companies like you had just mentioned are going to dilute and expand
00:26:30
the cells.
00:26:31
So when they expand the cell, the cell enlarges, it makes it look like there's more,
00:26:36
but there's actually less.
00:26:38
They're just expanded versus they use unexpanded, and so the cells are in their
00:26:42
natural state.
00:26:43
They're gonna be more effective, and they're gonna go to the place that need to be and
00:26:47
actually get the job done.
00:26:48
So, you know, that's important to us.
00:26:50
It's like we don't want to skim, but we we don't wanna use a watered down product.
00:26:55
Right?
00:26:55
So making sure we're delivering the highest potentially valuable, product that we can for
00:27:01
our patients because that's all we care about.
00:27:03
So, you know, in summary, really, to what we talked about, stem cell therapy holds
00:27:08
significant promise, but requires some cautious optimism as well.
00:27:12
Right?
00:27:12
Making sure you're you're doing the right research behind what kind of product you're
00:27:17
putting into your body and using a a provider that cares about you, not just their their
00:27:21
wallet.
00:27:21
And so making sure we're consulting qualified health care professionals before we consider
00:27:25
this.
00:27:25
What are the options?
00:27:26
Is this right for me?
00:27:28
All of that.
00:27:29
And so, you know, may making sure we're staying informed.
00:27:34
Yeah.
00:27:34
We always wanna stay informed, stay up to date with the latest research.
00:27:38
That's why listening to this podcast is gonna help, when you wanna stay informed about the
00:27:43
latest trends and activities of what it means for your health.
00:27:46
So stem cell therapy, you know, holds incredible potential, but it's not a magic
00:27:52
bullet.
00:27:53
It's up to you.
00:27:53
Right?
00:27:54
You have to use, the stem cells, actively.
00:27:58
Where stem cells gonna are gonna get the most production is when you're exercising, when
00:28:02
you're doing the maintenance in terms of your structural imbalances and a lot realigning
00:28:07
those.
00:28:07
Right?
00:28:08
Then your body's kinetically fueling that.
00:28:10
Your cardiovascular system's able to pump freely, and you'll be able to tune with your
00:28:15
central nervous system.
00:28:16
So those are important things.
00:28:17
And as always, we seek out ethical providers who prioritize patient safety and evidence
00:28:22
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00:28:24
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