At the International Scientific and Practical Conference, organized recently company «Emet» made a report on stem cell therapy. He caused a lively discussion about the "for" and "against" techniques that involve working with stem cells.
Especially for the readers of estet-portal.com, the author of the report, Nadezhda Kryzhanovskaya, candidate of medical sciences, general practitioner of the highest category, specialist in anti-age medicine, answered several questions about her opinion about stem cell therapy cells.
When did you become interested in the use of stem cells and why do you consider this topic relevant?
I first heard about stem cells in 2008 at one of the congresses in Europe. The report was read by one of the very respected professors, moreover, on the topic of cardiology, which is very close to me personally. After this report, I went to the professor's laboratory, looked at their work and realized that behind the use of stem cells in medicine – future. True, we have not yet entered this future, but are only approaching it. By and large, once stem cell therapy becomes manageable and safe, it will replace so many treatments – such as therapy of joints, arteries and so on. Stem cells will work in many areas of medicine that are now associated with surgery.
Do you think stem cell therapy is safe enough?
At the moment – no. Because there is no evidence of a clear homing – places where the stem cell goes and what it becomes. While this mechanism is still being carefully studied, more and more attempts are being made to make the process of using stem cells absolutely safe – so that, like taking an aspirin, we can clearly understand where it will go, how it will work, what the side effects may be, and all these effects must be absolutely solvable. But here we are not talking about the mobilization or increase in the activity of one's own stem cells, especially tissue-specific ones, as in the case of using MesoWharton. We are talking about the transplantation of stem cells from one organism to another. And, of course, this path has not yet been thoroughly explored.
Is global stem cell research heading in the same direction as our country?
Yes, absolutely. But only in our country, and in some others, stem cell therapy is not prohibited, so many patients from all over the world come to us who want to receive this therapy, but in their countries it is prohibited. There is a single protocol for stem cell reproduction, which is used in the world, in all laboratories. But one thing – to use it for experiments or some kind of scientific research, and it’s quite another matter – application in clinical treatment.
Which problems are of greater interest to patients who come to our country for stem cell therapy - rejuvenation or recovery?
In principle, rejuvenation and health improvement – they are two sides of the same process. As a rule, it is impossible to maintain absolute health in old age, and youth is usually combined with a healthy body. This is a certain correspondence of the state of the body to its age. Throughout life, we accumulate diseases from which we eventually die. Therefore, for the general public, stem cell therapy – it is a kind of opportunity to get immortal beauty. For doctors who are seriously interested in stem cells, this is the possibility of tissue regeneration, that is, restoring them the way they should be – it is the medicine of injuries, the medicine of various involutive diseases. Of course, cosmetologists could not help but use this method, especially since it already exists. No matter how we write that the possibilities of stem cells – these are only scientific hypotheses, hundreds of people around the world have already taken advantage of stem cell therapy, their own skin stem cells, the correct work with which gives the skin a truly "rebirth".
What is your attitude towards techniques involving the use of stem cells?
I believe that the end justifies the means. If we are talking, for example, about paralysis due to brain injury – then I welcome stem cell therapy, because it solves the issue of human existence, gives the patient the opportunity to move around. When we use techniques that involve stem cells, just for fun, then this pleasure can be dangerous. It all depends on where we apply this therapy: if we treat leukemia with stem cells – then we save a person's life if we give such therapy to restore the color of the eyes, and we have a number of side effects that stem cells give – then I think that it would be possible to do without such therapy.
But this – my opinion at the moment. I believe that in the next five to ten years everything will change very much, and stem cell therapy will become absolutely safe. In the meantime, we have just learned how to manage the processes of mobilization of our own skin stem cells with the help of Meso Wharton!
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