MiracleStemCells

All the tissues of the body begin with stem cells. These cells are the template from which all types of cells are derived. As cells die off or are damaged, the hundreds of thousands of stem cells in the human body grow into new tissue. Injuries as simple as the scalding of the tongue with a hot beverage or as severe as the immune supression of chemotherapy require the activity of stem cells to repair cellular damage.

The quantities of stem cells produced by the body decreases with age. By age 50, most adults produce less than 2% of the stem cells they had at birth. That may explain the lower healing rates of older people.
In theory virtually every person could benefit from stem cell enhancement. However, for those of us with more serious conditions and degenerative diseases, stem cells present a unique healing opportunity in providing the buliding blocks for cell regrowth and repair.

Those stem cells that are procured anytime after birth are considered "adult stem cells."
Stem cells that are obtained from embryonic tissues are considered fetal or "embryonic stem cells."

Cord-blood derived adult stem cells are utilized exclusively by our clinic for ethical reasons and because they can be highly effective to treat the same conditions as embryonic cells without ethical objection.
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ALS

Victor, 54, has had ALS for 3 years, a disease that is usually fatal within two to five years. He was an accomplished university professor and private entrepreneur. Today he cannot walk, talk, eat or breathe properly. ALS is genetic in Victor's case, so his 3 children and 5 grandchildren are at risk. If successful, stem cell transplants will help Victor live longer. Eventually, stem cells may help his body grow new connections between his nerves and muscles and help him move again, breathe on his own, feed himself, hold the people he loves and give his family, who is also at risk, hope.

Cancer

Alice, a 35 year old mother of two young children, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at a young age and is at high risk for recurrence. Her two daughters are also at high risk for cancer. Stem cells can be used to treat the tissue toxicity resulting from cancer therapy as well as replenish white blood cells, restoring health and immunity.

Rett Syndrome

Rett Syndrome (RS) is a debilitating neurological disorder that deprives little girls of communication and motor skills, leaving them completely dependent on others for every basic need. Although the gene that causes RS is known (MECP2), the neurobiology of the disorder is not understood. Stem cell transplants could replace subpopulations of neurons that are not functioning properly. Rett Syndrome currently has no treatments and no cure.

Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal cord injury patients would benefit greatly from even limited restoration of lost functions-gaining partial use of a limb instead of none, or restoring bladder control, or being freed from pain. Such limited restoration of part of a patient’s lost function is, for some less severe types of injury, perhaps a more achievable immediate goal. In many spinal injuries, the spinal cord is not actually cut and at least some of the signal-carrying neuronal axons remain intact. But the surviving axons no longer carry messages because cells called oligodendrocytes, which produce the myelin sheath that insulates the axons, are lost. Stem cell therapy can help repopulate stimulate new growth of these message-carrying cells.

What is unique about stem cells from umbilical cords?
Stem cells from umbilical cord blood are "younger" stem cells than those obtained from adult bone marrow. They are able to divide many more times in cell cultures than most adult stem cells, and are capable of transforming into many different tissue types, therefore, providing the stimulous to heal, repopulate damaged cells, and restore lost functions.

Umbilical cord blood stem cells are used for stem cell transplantation to reconstitute blood cell formation (the hematopoietic system) in patients that have been irradiated or treated with specific drugs for cancer or leukemia. Also, in some genetic diseases, where patients have a problem forming normal blood cells, a transplantation of matched umbilical cord blood cells can give them a new blood-forming system. The new cells are carefully infused into the vein of the patient and then they are able to find their way into the bone marrow, in a process called "stem cell homing." *

*Courtesy of http://www.isscr.org