Did you ever dream about a time when human diseases and aging would be cured not by using different drugs, but rather by the person’s own youth and health that has been carefully preserved many years ago? The global race to successfully develop stem cell therapies will allow tissues preserved from younger stages of life to become powerful therapeutic tools to treat currently incurable diseases and reinvigorate your health.
Reintroducing a person’s own stem cells into his or her own aging body will create a rejuvenating effect because of the active substitution of the old degraded cells for the young and healthy ones. In this way, we will be able to restore one’s youth by the constant application of self-rejuvenating cells that restores the entire body’s physique to an earlier, healthy state; thereby extending the resources of human life indefinitely.
1. What are Stem Cells?
2. Therapeutic Cloning. Why do we need it?
3. What is Stem Cells Therapy and how it works?
Stem cells are very unique precursor cells. They have the amazing ability to transform into any specialized cells of a human organism. This creates the potential for an unlimited number of practical medical uses. Stem Cells are also indispensable for the second stage of our program which rejuvenates your youth.
The term “stem cells” means undifferentiated, basic initial cells - the progenitors of any and every other cell. All the different types of cells in our body are derived from such stem cells. As a result of the fusion of male and female reproductive cells a “zygote” is formed. This cell is a progenitor to billions of cells in our body. At the early stages of its development, this “zygote” forms embryonic stem cells, the only function of which is the transfer of genetic information to the other generations of cells. Such embryonic stem cells can be potentially developed into any other cells because their genome is at “zero level” and the mechanisms that predetermine specialization of the cells are not yet turned on.
During embryogenesis (early fetal development) three fetal layers are formed from embryonic stem cells: the exoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. These layers initiate the development of hundreds of types of cells that form tissues and organs of the human body.
The ability of embryonic stem cells to transform into and substitute any specialized cells in our body is called Totipotency and makes them unique for modern medical applications.
The adult human body also contains certain amounts of stem cells that are located primarily in bone marrow and in minute amounts in all organs and tissues. However, such stem cells do not maintain their universal ability and their activity spectrum is fairly limited. Their main function is to repair damaged areas of organs and tissues. Once the signal of damage is transmitted into regulatory pathways, stem cells are sent via blood stream to the damaged area. There they can repair any kind of damage and be trans-formed “in situ” into any required cells (bone, muscle, liver, heart and even nerve cells). Stem cells also stimulate inner reserves of the body to regenerate organs or tissues.
But the supply of the stem cells in the adult body is limited. For that reason, in some cases, the body cannot repair certain lost functions by itself. These situations emerge due to aging processes or in cases of serious diseases when the damaged area is too large and when the body is weakened. In the former case, stem cells are practically depleted and are unable to help the aged body. For example, blood stem cells cannot divide more than 100 times. This occurs because adult stem cells have limited fission and abilities to replicate.
The discovery of the usage of embryonic stem cells can be compared to a revolution in modern medicine. Unlike the other types of cells in the human body, the number of fissions, or cell divisions, is theoretically unlimited for stem cells and they can divide practically forever. Embryonic stem cells not only possess totipotency, the ability to regenerate into any tissues and organs in our body, but their proliferation ability is infinite.
Therapeutic Cloning technology is currently the most advanced and developed method for converting regular cell fibroblasts into a powerful and potent therapeutic tool: totipotent stem cells. These cells will be capable of restoring and rejuvenating tissues and organs of the aging or diseased human body due to their universal characteristics and physiological activity.
Therapeutic Cloning is often criticized for ethical reasons. While we respect the rights of others to disagree, we at StemCure nevertheless must take into account the interests of our clients. We can not exclude the right to use therapeutic cloning as the most viable way to achieve our goals at StemCure.
The word “cloning” derives from the Greek word “klonos” which means grafting. This describes a form of asexual reproduction. To simplify the process of Therapeutic Cloning, the nucleus is removed from the female egg cell and infused with the nuclear material from the somatic or body cell of another organism. By our procedure, we take nuclear material from your cells – preserved fibroblasts extracted from your body. We then use specialized factors that help induce the development of regular “blastocysts” from the cell containing your unique “Youth Genome.” An embryo will be formed during the first few days. It will look like a sphere containing similar non-specialized cells.
These cell groups will form a “blastocyst” within approximately 6 days. This “blastocyst” will look like sphere of peripheral cells surrounding a cavity containing liquid and stem cells. After about 14 days cell fission will be terminated. At this time these amazing stem cells are ready for extraction. Embryonic stem cells are also commonly called totipotent , indifferent, or universal cells. Such progenitor cells are capable of differentiating themselves into any of the 350 types of cells and tissues of the adult human body.
Unfortunately, the current state of embryonic cloning requires additional research and the substantial investment of time and money. As of today, the cost of such a project is considerably high. But we do not see this as a reason for concern because our researchers are actively seeking viable solutions. We anticipate that you will have no difficulty committing to the most important first step: The cryopreservation of your “Youth Genome.” This procedure is easily affordable through the StemCure Tissue Banking Program.
It is our company’s mission that by the time you may need your preserved cells, the creation of totipotent stem cells will have become a routine procedure due to the reduction of scientific and production costs. Future developments promise new technologies that will further diminish expenses. History has proven that many scientific research projects that were extremely costly in their development stages eventually became widely accepted practice. Their costs fell from prohibitively high to moderately low levels.
Incredible recent achievements in cellular and molecular biology have opened practically unlimited opportunities for the therapeutic applications of stem cells.
There is little doubt that substantial financial investments and further scientific resources into the area of stem cell development will assure their practical usage in the near future.
The growing list of diseases that can be successfully cured by stem cells is expanding every day. Today, a number of malignant blood diseases have become theoretically curable due to the transplant of stem cells. Examples of such diseases are some forms of child Leucosis. It is difficult to imagine modern hematology without transplants of (hemopoetic) stem cells. The list of diseases today where such a technique is applicable exceeds 100. This list includes: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Crone Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Liver Cirrhosis, Diabetes and some drug-resistant forms of Arthritis. Oncology, as well as Breast and Lung Cancer, are other potential areas for the application of stem cells. Orthopedic practice is another area where stem cells are widely used. One of the applications here is the regeneration of large bone defects after fractures, or the regeneration of a damaged joint cartilage. In recent years, more than 20 clinical articles have been published about the regeneration of the heart muscle after heart attacks via direct injection of stem cells and various other applications (See power point presentation given recently by Professor Zavos in London, UK on this subject).
Currently, there are a number of problems precluding the wide application of cell therapy in medical practice. One of the major problems is immune incompatibility. The fact of the matter is that traditional cell medicine is oriented towards the development of universal cell lines similar to the pharmacological industry trying to develop universal drugs. But every human body has its own individual characteristics and immunity. Its distinctive set of genetic markers makes it unique. The immune system is able to recognize these markers according to the principle of “self” or “foreign.” For this reason, the use of non-related lines of stem cells that can be obtained from abortive material or some tissues left after artificial fertilization can create a number of unpredictable risk factors in addition to ethical problems. In order to introduce foreign tissues or cells into the human body, modern transplantology has introduced a method of suppressing the recipient’s immune system by certain compounds – immunosuppressors. This method is causing a number of negative consequences such as the development of infectious complications. It also has a high probability at the onset of generating malignant tumors and lacks any guaranties of the transplanted cells properly grafting.
Even if we choose to ignore the problems of tissue incompatibility, we cannot significantly extend human life, even utilizing the most modern methods of cell therapy that have been traditionally oriented towards the usage of the stem cells, if the source of the tissue wasn’t preserved from the donor. This is just one of many new methods for curing diseases, but not the extension of human life resources through the rejuvenation of the body as a whole.
That is why at the second stage of our program, we use a method of creating embryonic stem cells from your own preserved “young tissues” which have a definitive advantage for success. We strive to cure human diseases and old age not by “patching” together foreign materials that will cause constant immune stress, but rather by the application of embryonic stem cells identical to your make-up that will cause no incompatibility issues, thus being effortlessly incorporated into the harmonious structure of your body. As a result, the improvement of one’s health will be caused not only by the repeated restoration of the architechtonique (structure and function) of the damaged organs, but mostly by the constant restoration of the balance of the “stem areas”. By incorporating a person’s own stem cells into his or her own aging body, previously obtained from their “Youth Genome,” it will create a rejuvenating effect because of the active substitution of the old degraded cells for the young and healthy ones. In this way we will be able to restore one’s youth by the constant support of self-rejuvenating cells and by the restoration of the entire body’s genome, thereby extending the resources of human life indefinitely.
Once again we would like to emphasize to you that the only real cure for aging is encoded in your younger cells. These younger cells, “Youth Genomes” contain all the necessary material for rejuvenating your health. Through our process of cryopreservation, a small piece of your tissue will assure your ability to extend your life span by tens and possibly hundreds of years! Remember, the younger the preserved cells from your body and the greater the time difference between applying the two stages of our program (Tissue Banking and Stem Cell Therapy), the more effective our program will be in rejuvenating your body.
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