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VIrginiaPerson ago

You can only get stem cells from fetuses and from the umbilical cords of infants. I have only heard of stem cell treatments being used in Chinese trials for rare diseases. Supposedly, the person getting the stem cells feels about 10-20 years younger, but in the studies/personal accounts I read, it wasn't known how much was from the physical therapy the people got and how much was from the stem cells themselves.

Something that was being considered, last I checked, was that when a person was injected with the stem cells, their own shitty cells were not removed, so they were rejuvenated, but not cured from whatever was wrong with them. Let's say they had heart disease. The new cells would take over, so they would have a temporary benefit. But eventually whatever gave them heart disease in the first place would give it to them again. A genetic or environmental issue or whatever. So one would have to keep getting the stem cells, which was economically impossible.

For a normal person. If you had unlimited resources you could drink up all the stem cells you wanted and stave off lots of different diseases.

The only drawback was that there was not yet enough data to know if the stem cells would/could turn cancerous. Or that, possibly, you would put a stem cell in one place and it would mistakenly turn into something else. Your heart cells would turn into foot cells or whatever. You wouldn't want a foot growing in your chest.

Sorry if this information is old. I stopped reading about this stuff several years ago.