Stem Cells Therapy
If conventional medicine has failed you, alternative medicine could help.
What are
Stem Cells?
If your body were a building, your stem cells would be the foundation. Stem cells are the only cells in your body that can create specialized cells. They can make more than 200 specialized cells, such as blood and bone cells, among the trillions of cells in your body. One stem cell type builds your body. After building your body, another stem cell type serves as maintenance crew teams assigned to specific structures.
About Stem Cells
Common Questions Q&A
Stem cells do two things that no other cells can do:
They continuously renew and divide to make exact replicas of themselves. Typical or normal cells multiply and divide, but they have limited lifespans.
They’re the only cells that make specialized (differentiated) cells to replenish or repair specific cell types. Hematopoietic (pronounced “heh-ma-tuh-poy-EE-tik”) stem cells support blood and immune cells. Basal stem cells support skin cells. Mesenchymal (pronounced “mes-EN-ke-mul”) stem cells support bone, cartilage, muscle and fat.
Stem cells are important for the work they do to build and maintain your body. More than that, they’re essential to medical research. Researchers study stem cells to:
Understand how diseases happen. Researchers cultivate (grow) stem cells in various tissues and organs. Watching how stem cells change as they grow may help researchers to understand how diseases develop.
Learn how stem cells could replace damaged or unhealthy cells. Researchers are studying ways stem cells can become different kinds of cells that can treat damage or disease in specific parts of your body. For example, someday, researchers may make stem cells to treat severe burns by replacing damaged skin.
Test new treatments and medications. Researchers use stem cells to evaluate medications that may be more effective in treating specific diseases. By using specially prepared stem cells, researchers can determine if a treatment works and is safe before they give the drugs to people participating in clinical trials.
You have stem cells throughout your body, including your bone marrow, brain, blood vessels, skin and heart.
What are stem cell types?
Embryonic
(pluripotent)
These cells have the power to become any cell type. (“Pluri” means many. “Potent” comes from the Latin word for posse, or being powerful.) Medical researchers obtain embryonic stem cells from donated cord blood.
Tissue-specific
(multipotent or unipotent)
These cells can make new stem cells, but only for the tissue in which they live. For example, blood-forming stem cells in your bone marrow can make new blood cells and platelets. But they can’t make new liver stem cells.
Induced
pluripotent
These are lab-made stem cells that resemble and act like embryonic stem cells. Medical researchers use these cells to study how tissues develop and how disease affects tissue, and to test new drugs and treatments.
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Based on your medical reports, the doctors will assess whether you’re a candidate for the therapy. They will consider:
Whether stem cell therapy will be effective in your specific case?
What the treatment involves?
How much does it cost?