Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The other exceptions to the Hayflick limit, by the way, are those current stars of political, medical, and ethical debate—stem cells. stem cells are "undifferentiated" cells—in other words, they can divide into many different kinds of cells. A B-cell that makes your antibodies can only divide into another B-cell, and a skin cell can only produce another skin cell. stem cells can produce many types of cells—the mother of all stem cells, of course, is the single cell that started you off in your mother. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Normally, stem cells can change into neurons, replacing those that have been destroyed. However, the same processes that kill neurons also destroy stem cells. In fact, stem cells may be more sensitive to these destructive processes than fully mature neurons and glial cells. High concentrations of stem cells can be found in the hippocampus of the temporal lobe, the area most affected in Alzheimer's disease.
Nutrition, Aging and the Brain
The brain has one of the highest metabolic rates of any organ in the body. Like the heart, it is never completely at rest. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Red blood cells are derived from precursor cells called stem cells. These stem cells are dependent on vitamin A for normal differentiation into red blood cells. In addition, vitamin A facilitates the mobilization of iron from storage areas to the developing red blood cell for integration into hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the oxygen carrier in red blood cells. Now that we have seen how vitally important vitamin A is, let us look at the food sources.
Sources of Vitamin A
Certain vegetables and fruits have abundant provitamin A and others have very little, as seen in Graph 3-1. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 The attention-getting concept with this product is the use of stem cells. Amatokin is supposed to enhance the expression of srem cells in the skin, which the company claims will reduce deep and superficial wrinkles and discolorations from sun damage. The problem is that there is no published, independent research to prove that claim.
Here's how Amatokin explains their formula: "Skin is the largest reservoir of stem cells in the human body. Amatokin is the first and only topical compound shown to highlight the expression of stem cell markers in skin.... |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| However, the same processes that kill neurons also destroy stem cells. In fact, stem cells may be more sensitive to these destructive processes than fully mature neurons and glial cells. High concentrations of stem cells can be found in the hippocampus of the temporal lobe, the area most affected in Alzheimer's disease.
Nutrition, Aging and the Brain
The brain has one of the highest metabolic rates of any organ in the body. Like the heart, it is never completely at rest. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 They derive from stem cells in the bone marrow stroma. These stem cells are pluripotential, having the capacity to develop along multiple lineages, including fibroblasts, hematopoietic cells, smooth myocytes, adipocytes, chondrocytes, and osteoblasts. During linear growth, osteoblasts invade a temporary cartilaginous template to form primary lamellar bone. During remodeling (see later discussion), a wave of osteoblast precursors migrates to the base of a resorption cavity, acquires the characteristics of mature osteoblasts, and lays down new bone (Figure 3). |
Dawson Church
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 These genes express, stimulating stem cells to turn themselves into healthy, fully functional skin cells. The signal results in the putty being formed into a useful shape. Such processes are occur ring all over our bodies, all the time: "Healing via gene expression is documented in stem cells in the brain (including the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, and hypothalamus, muscle, skin, intestinal epithelium, bone marrow, liver, and heart. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| If this differentiation of adult stem cells can be controlled in the laboratory, these cells may become the basis for therapies for many serious common diseases, and they could solve the important problem of immune rejection. Scientists are experimenting with different research strategies to generate tissues that will not be rejected.
Many complicated questions remain to be answered about stem cells. The following are a few I learned from www.wikipedia.com, the National Institutes of Health (www.nih. |
| Is it possible to manipulate adult stem cells to enhance their proliferation so that sufficient tissue for transplants can be produced? Does a single type of stem cell exist—possibly in the bone marrow or circulating in the blood—that can generate the cells of any organ or tissue? What are the factors that stimulate stem cells to relocare to sites of injury or damage? As you can see, there are far more questions than answers, and the answers certainly aren't found in this $173 cosmetic product sold by a company known for its deceptive advertising.
HYLEXIN
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Dawson Church
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| Such processes are occur ring all over our bodies, all the time: "Healing via gene expression is documented in stem cells in the brain (including the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, and hypothalamus, muscle, skin, intestinal epithelium, bone marrow, liver, and heart."31
When there is interference with this signal, which in the wound healing studies comes from the emotional states of angry subjects, the stem cells don't get the message clearly. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 His research also suggests that the main link between the electromagnetic Polarity field and the physical body is via the stem cells in the red marrow of the bones. Biologically, this link could be quite important in health because marrow stem cells are precursors of many types of immune cells.
Polarity is especially upset by travel, especially airplane travel, and it must be corrected through use of the Polarity Infoceutical early in any NES protocol because the body-field resists changes in other areas until irs Polarity field is corrected. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| A zygote (which is the union of a sperm and an egg) obviously has to be able to produce every kind of cell; otherwise you'd still be a zygote. stem cells are not subject to the Hayflick limit—they're also immortal. They pull off this feat by using telomerase to fix their telomeres the same way that some cancer cells do. You can see why scientists believe stem cells have such potential to cure disease and alleviate suffering—they have the potential to become anything and they never run out of steam. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Speaking of outstanding science, a White House spokesperson today said the Bush Administration has never forced former Surgeon Generals to censor their speeches or scientific conclusions, except for requiring that they avoid talking about same-sex couples, stem cells, secondhand smoke, emergency contraception or anything involving climate change. Surgeon Generals were also required to repeat the phrase, "Bush is King" at least three times in every speech.
Salmonella for ya, Aaarrrr!
Salmonella contamination was recently found in Veggie Booty snacks. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| In fact, stem cells may be more sensitive to these destructive processes than fully mature neurons and glial cells. High concentrations of stem cells can be found in the hippocampus of the temporal lobe, the area most affected in Alzheimer's disease.
Nutrition, Aging and the Brain
The brain has one of the highest metabolic rates of any organ in the body. Like the heart, it is never completely at rest. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| What are the factors that stimulate stem cells to relocare to sites of injury or damage? As you can see, there are far more questions than answers, and the answers certainly aren't found in this $173 cosmetic product sold by a company known for its deceptive advertising.
HYLEXIN
© $$$ Hylexin ($95 for 0.78 ounce) was a heavily advertised product that quickly became one of the products my readers most urgently requested me to review. I initially held on to my belief that my readers would dismiss the ads and claims as too good to be true. OK, I was wrong. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It can shrink a tumor (but does nothing to kill the tumor's "cancer stem cells" that will regrow the tumor later). That is exactly what the cancer industry is basing everything on. Have you ever noticed that they do not run drug trials for long durations anymore? That's because they want to get the early results that mask symptoms without ever facing the truth about what happens when you take their drugs over a period of many years or decades.
The drug companies know most of their drugs are toxic and the longer you take them, the worse the cumulative effects are. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 On the other hand, exercise results in a marked increase in the production of stem cells and new motor neurons—those same motor neurons that are so essential for remyelinating myelin sheaths and axonal nerves in neurological autoimmune disease. Likewise, exercise can stimulate injured neurons to regenerate their axons; animals that exercise regenerate significantly more sciatic nerve axons than sedentary animals. Other reports show that children with type 1 diabetes who exercise regularly have improved blood glucose levels compared with those who do not. |
| He lowers his hands to stem the tide of applause, eager to explain to the crowd how, utilizing embryonic mouse stem cells in a novel set of strategic scientific steps, he has been able to regenerate the damaged axonal nerves and myelin sheaths in paralyzed rats.
"Is this the first time that paralysis has been cured in adult mammals?" a man in the audience calls out from his wheelchair, near the back of the ballroom. |
| Once Kerr's team succeeded in prompting undifferentiated embryonic mouse stem cells to become differentiated motor neuron cells, they had to figure out a way to make these newly differentiated motor neuron cells do their natural job—to grow brand-new nerves from the spinal cord down into the legs. Kerr's lab team took these motor neurons and injected them into the paralyzed rats' spinal cords, hoping they would begin to grow new nerves. |
| Undifferentiated stem cells are kind of like college freshmen who haven't yet decided what subject they want to major in. Some go on to become heart tissue cells, others skin cells—and some become motor neurons. During our development in the womb, motor neuron cells are responsible for creating the complex nervous system that runs like a superhighway throughout our bodies, connecting our brain, cerebellum, and spinal cord to every nerve in our skin, limbs, fingers, toes, organs, and muscles. |
| Under Kerr's microscope, undifferentiated stem cells don't look like much; a group of fifty thousand appears no bigger than a speck of table salt. To the naked eye, they are invisible. But these small cells are integral to human life. When the axonal nerves and myelin sheaths become damaged we become—in simplest terms—a bit like marionette puppets without any strings: nothing connects the brain and the toes, the central nervous system and the muscles in our arms or legs. Or, imagine the body as an electrical system. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| Here's how Amatokin explains their formula: "Skin is the largest reservoir of stem cells in the human body. Amatokin is the first and only topical compound shown to highlight the expression of stem cell markers in skin.... Amatokin's functional isolates have been clinically shown to dramatically reduce the appearance of both deep and superficial wrinkles, as well as skin coloration associated with photo-aging." Give me a break!
The ingredient list is incredibly ordinary. |
Jack Challem
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 Such differentiation and specialization of cells enable a few embryonic stem cells to develop into a fetus. In Lee's experiments only vitamin C triggered this transformation from generic cells to heart cells. He wrote with amazement in the journal Circulation that the heart cells even pulsated! Thus, vitamin C plays a crucial role in creating new and replacing old cells in the body, and it can do this only by regulating the activity of DNA in embryonic stem cells.
In 1970, the Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, Ph.D. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| You can see why scientists believe stem cells have such potential to cure disease and alleviate suffering—they have the potential to become anything and they never run out of steam.
Many scientists believe cancer prevention is the "reason" cells have evolved with a limit on the number of times they can reproduce. The flip side to the Hayflick limit, of course—compromise, compromise—is aging. Once cells hit the limit, future reproductions don't really work and things start to break down. cancer protection and the Hayflick limit aren't the only evolutionary explanations for the aging mechanism. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| At the same time you maintain that research using non-genetically oriented stem cells to promote cures is immoral and heretical. Do I detect a hint that pharmaceutical CEOs might have indicated to you that stem cell research leading to a cure for any chronic illness would not be good for the economy (or for them)?
Stem cell research is already taking place in laboratories around the world. Your ban only hinders U.S. researchers. Are Americans going to have to leave America to be cured of diseases? That does not speak highly of your regard for our citizens. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Sometimes p53 can become overstimulated and halt replication in your progenitor cells (another name, you'll remember, for your adult stem cells), which is a bad thing—especially when you're older and don't have as many progenitor cells to help revitalize your organs. By stopping reproduction of progenitor cells, you reduce the ability of your body to repopulate organs, meaning you may end up without enough cells in your lungs or liver or kidney or anywhere else, for that matter. Lack of these progenitor cells equals less repaired organs. |
| While biology textbooks teach that throughout a woman's reproductive life, those eggs come through her body like sand through a monthly hourglass and eventually run out, recent research suggests that adult stem cells (progenitor cells) can influence a woman's total number of viable eggs. We'd expect that to be true and offer some specific therapies to increase egg numbers in the next ten years. But it's not really the eggs we're concerned about; it's the estrogen that controls those eggs, turns the dials of menopause, and determines whether you'll feel its effects. |
| The Major Ager of shortened telomeres also slows down our stem cells, so the damage is compounded. The process of breathing is kind of like taking sandpaper to your lungs. But with fibrosis, the lungs are rough like cement. You can get the smoother, varnish-like lining you want by eliminating some of the risk factors, like smoking, high blood pressure, and diabetes. |
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