stem cell

I love it when we have episodes like this because you see the article come out and you're like, oh, I've got so many questions.

We get the opportunity to ask the senior author of this particular paper that's been published in Stem Cells and Translational Medicine.

Welcome Dr. Megan Finch-Edmondson from Cerebral Palsy Alliance and University of Sydney.

Welcome.

Megan, very excited to get into this.

And I know it's a topic that is often discussed and brought up, but I'd like to start right at the start today with just some basic definitions to give us all a bit more of an understanding about some of the basic and right terminology.

So can you talk us through stem cells and umbilical cord blood and how they relate to one another?

Yeah, absolutely.

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... and stem cells.

So can you explain, just give people a refresher on what methylation-

Mm-hmm

... is, and what we need to do it, and how it keeps our cells healthy?

Yeah.

And then why we don't want it to go all the way back to a stem cell, and what a stem cell is, and maybe what the future for us is when it comes to stem cells-

Yeah

Uh, any other cool shit like interventions or supplements or whatever you've been playing with?

The other, the other big one that I've seen and, and I know Ben's experienced it too, is, uh, the MUSE stem cells.

It's, it's-

Mm-hmm

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... uh, Mari Dezawa out of Japan discovered a subset phenotype of stem cell called MUSE.

And it's fascinating because everything they've been doing outside of the United States with tinkering with stem cells and trying to put them under stress and trying to get them to adapt and change has been in an effort to create a cell that would have a certain phenotype that would be optimal for healing, recovery, uh, and treating an array of different chronic diseases, but that would not become tumorigenic.

Yeah.

So, um, we have a technology which is loosely based on pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, and what we did in our initial tests was we worked with an organism called planaria.

And what's interesting about planaria, they're a flatworm, and between 20 and 25% of their bodies are stem cells.

So when you cut off the tail of this worm, it will regrow, uh, another tail.

And even you can cut off its head, and the tail will regrow another head.

Wow.

So w- so what this means for human beings is that you have someone that, let's say they get in an automobile accident.

You can give them an injection of stem cells, apply this very specific type of electromagnetic field around the injury site, and within about 15 minutes, the wound will heal.

That's, that's what we have to look forward to.

It still is, of course.

So the idea of using stem cells, pluripotent stem cells, which could be driven to become terminally differentiated into different cell types, you see, The idea was we could study stroke, we could study muscle damage, wound healing, we could study all forms of cancers, and of course, the general consideration of chronic autoimmune disease, like osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, right? By terminally differentiating cells in culture, that we think are involved in specific pathophenotypes.

And then studying those cells in culture and examining what might be good targets go from the cell back to the organism.

See how that consideration was being wrought.

With a 100-day trial, you can try it completely risk-free right now.

Going back to stem cells real fast, is there a type, any pointers, pro tips you have for people that are considering stem cells, like the type of stem cells, where they would go for something like that? I know.

Yeah, I would say, well, number one, try and boost your body's own stem cells.

The best way to do that is eating a really clean anti-inflammatory diet like we teach in Heal Your Cells, like a cellular diet.

So that's going to look like eating lots of pomegranates and berries and kiwi.

It's gonna be doing a lot of vegetables, especially steamed vegetables that are easy to digest.

It's gonna be doing a lot of wild salmon and lean grass-fed beef and things like eggs.

I mean, if you're eating that sort of bone broth, if you're eating that sort of diet, it's gonna be very therapeutic and healing for your cells and stem cells.