Ryan Tannehill Has Stem Cells Banked In Cayman Islands

[Phinsguy]

Our bodies constantly produce stem cells. There's no need to collect and store them anywhere.

The whole "stem cell therapy" thing borders on being a real scam, is rife for abuse (money grab) and comes with very dangerous pitfalls:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html?noredirect=on

"Two years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine published an account of a man who ended up with a huge spinal growth after getting fetal stem cell injections overseas. A 69-year-old woman died in 2010 after a doctor at a Florida clinic injected bone marrow stem cells into the arteries of her brain. In 2012, the same doctor infused fat-derived stem cells into the bloodstream of a man who died soon after, according to the findings of a state health department administrative hearing. But it wasn’t until 2013 that Florida’s state medical board revoked that physician’s license."

 

[oasis]

The whole "stem cell therapy" thing borders on being a real scam, is rife for abuse (money grab) and comes with very dangerous pitfalls:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html?noredirect=on

"Two years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine published an account of a man who ended up with a huge spinal growth after getting fetal stem cell injections overseas. A 69-year-old woman died in 2010 after a doctor at a Florida clinic injected bone marrow stem cells into the arteries of her brain. In 2012, the same doctor infused fat-derived stem cells into the bloodstream of a man who died soon after, according to the findings of a state health department administrative hearing. But it wasn’t until 2013 that Florida’s state medical board revoked that physician’s license."

Sort of. It's real, and the benefits will be immense one realized. But for every type of stem cell and every imaginable application, there will need to be a tremendous amount of research before therapies are safe. You can't just throw stem cells at the site of injury or disease and expect miracles, although that is what a lot of research trials and companies have attempted, hoping for pay dirt, sometimes irresponsibly with unfortunate results. Learning to control stem cells - get them to do exactly what you want, where you want it - is going to take time.

Also, given Shinya Yamanaka's research, for which he promptly earned the Nobel, I'm not sure what banking in the manner Tannehill promotes, really accomplishes. We can already take any adult non-stem cell and turn it into a very early stem cell. The challenge is actually utilizing those stem cells, whether harvested or induced, therapeutically. Unfortunately, there will be a lot of Frankenstein science in the meantime, much of it unsurprisingly offshore.

 

[doogle0868]

Our bodies constantly produce stem cells. There's no need to collect and store them anywhere.

Telomeres shorten over time. It's good practice, if you're in the practice of harvesting stem cells, to harvest early.

 

[Trade Viper]

I saw this, yeah it worked so well on his knee. A quick search will show what medical issues stem cells are having success with now, and it is very limited. The sad part is that since they can come from your own body, and you can store them, they are not regulated, as long as they come from YOUR body. Sooooo any quack can come up with a bunch of unproven nonsense, and sell the procedure to any "True Believer" that comes along. Getting them from your own body and then storing them, in case science progresses to the point where they can be more widely used on different illnesses, makes sense to me, but right now, they are like solar cells, expensive for the best and limited in efficiency. I posted something about his use of the stem cells with the original knee deal, I guess science was right again, it don't work for that, not yet anyway.

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[finomenal]

The whole "stem cell therapy" thing borders on being a real scam, is rife for abuse (money grab) and comes with very dangerous pitfalls:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html?noredirect=on

"Two years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine published an account of a man who ended up with a huge spinal growth after getting fetal stem cell injections overseas. A 69-year-old woman died in 2010 after a doctor at a Florida clinic injected bone marrow stem cells into the arteries of her brain. In 2012, the same doctor infused fat-derived stem cells into the bloodstream of a man who died soon after, according to the findings of a state health department administrative hearing. But it wasn’t until 2013 that Florida’s state medical board revoked that physician’s license."

Florida! Of course!