Stem Cells: Medical Miracle Or Science Gone Too Far? (Medical Documentary) | Real Stories

[Music] they used the stem cells from an unborn fetus that mother's going to have an abortion anyway as the abortion rather than discard that fetus they harvest the stem cell [Music] we look at one of the most divisive issues in America abortion and torch planet Sophia the deadly shooting rampage at Planned Parenthood clinics bothers me as the anti-abortion people their kid was safe the kid had a disease if they were any type of parent maybe not everybody out in line to be the first one here and there's no doubt about it and I'll go toe-to-toe with anyone but they choose to donate their organs to give life I think in collecting stem cells it's a great way of just giving high the way I feel about it as babies are you getting bored in any ways that's why I felt might as well me God made something readily available if you're going to have an abortion don't waste what can save someone's life I don't want you to have an abortion but if you're going to don't waste any people need to realize that the availability of where wherever it comes from it is God's will another laboratory has reduced their effort on studies that require fetal tissues despite the importance of this research due to concerns about personal safety the significance of fetal tissue research has been reiterated by other leading research institutions including Harvard the Yale School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota [Music] [Music] if stem cells fetal stem cells ever become widely used it will change the entire profit picture of the pharmaceutical industry they don't make their money on well people they make their money on sick people and continually pumping drugs of all kinds into that is how the medical profession survives on drugs I have not had one pain episode first time in 18 years I am totally pain-free and medication free the people who have an illness who are going to be dead 12 to 15 years should have an alternative to sit on the sidelines and wait for a triple blind placebo flopping slobbin suits you know experiment there should be something else that it's thick that we know how to help people and cure illness and we can't do it so we realized there was nothing that mainstream medicine had we've been to absolutely every doctor we possibly could it's it's so exciting for the first time I see the light in the end of the tunnel I see a light we can easier diet with medicine that's not something I wanted to hear so going to a different country for treatment sounds a lot better than that I was very skeptical very skeptical it's helped me tremendously with just one treatment I've gone from school in high school as well almost flunking staying up until 2:00 in the morning with my parents just so they could help me because I couldn't even do it myself so now I'm making straight A's and B's which is phenomenal so you're saying in the form of team yeah actually beneficent yeah absolutel taking medication now live Ann's ADHD adderall she was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy after the very first treatment within that next week she went from falling fifteen and twenty five day down to no times she doesn't fall anymore her gait was really wobbly all over the place and now she's walked super straight to be able to walk in a straight line something is working well for you something is working well for me and I'm not doing anything else so what's important is it is chronic lymphocytic leukemia and that it hasn't progressed and that you're not sick which is why once a year like an insurance policy I go back and get the stem cells I've never seen anything quite like this I gotta be honest I had the bat I would never think anything like this would work I haven't seen anybody get this well what can I tell you except I look at this a 20th century America and you would let him walk without assistance so look where we are today say you might shoot go ahead filming I'm still an emeritus associate professor in chemical engineering and an adjunct professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech College I have Parkinsons the city's dummy coming out till about today I can tell the difference from the time we first start doing the trick how do you feel that the fact that you have to but this isn't available like ritalin mistakes like to the opinion in my opinion based on what I know about it now I think it's criminal much better really is your bitch'll setting up the layoffs right yeah how do you go out it's not perfect but it's a lot better it's amazing I'm not trembling so much in terms of the evolution of medicine if you think about the 20th century we turned chemistry to the service of medicine that is we learned how to deliver small molecules as drugs but if we can learn how to deliver cells as medicines and actually repair and regenerate these degenerating tissues will have a major impact on medicine I think it's inevitable there are many different types of stem cells the ones we hear most about are embryonic stem cells umbilical cord stem cells and adult stem cells these different stem cell types should not be confused with one another as they are not all created equal nor are they the focus of this stem cell story instead for this journey we focused on fetal stem cells arguably the most contested and controversial form of stem cell therapy to date I just think I don't know how to start talking a lot to tell you over one sitting you know it's it's hard I see kids in wheelchairs and my doctor's appointments and I think wow I'm lucky and then I see kids in high school and I think wow I got the short end of the stick I don't do the things that I used to anymore I don't really leave the house at all because it's hard I mean they live on my couch and in my kitchen and in my room and I don't choose to I don't I don't mean to ignore my friends because I don't wanna hang out with them because it's hard to I don't go to music shows like I used to because that's something I'm really passionate about that's the only thing that I cared about and I can't even get up the stairs without having to sit and catch hold of myself because my heart beats extremely fast and I feel like I'm about to pass out [Music] it's now what they're offering us and as far as his cystic fibrosis team is a double lung transplant which you know the horrors of that I can only imagine I know my son does not want that and there's no guarantee with that either no they even said that you know there's some people who go through it and wish that they didn't lung transplant is where you need to go if you think about it we can ease your dying if medicine that's not something I wanted here so going to a different country for treatment sounds a lot better than that I've started visualizing going over the border of Mexico and I've started fantasizing about the results he's 21 years old and he should be out living his life and dating or having a job and going to school or whatever he wants to do he pretty much just doesn't exists in this house it's really hard for me and then when we found out there is another option once that was totally realized then I remember being pissed yeah man what that this is not available readily available to us it's not talked about people living with cystic fibrosis most always experienced a steady worsening of their disease with time yet brandon has just gained seven pounds and at the time he received his first round of fetal stem cells in December of 2014 his lung capacity was only 16% and now his lung capacity is at 24 percent while fetal stem cells can't repair the genetic mutation that causes cystic fibrosis it is Brandon's hope that fetal stem cells will prolong his need for a double lung transplant or perhaps avoid the transplant altogether now imagine this is a stem cell stem cells are unique because they have the ability to generate new cells of almost any kind they all start off as unspecialized cells but given the right chemical and genetic signals the stem cells can divide to form slightly more specialized cells of different size shape and function and after a few more cycles of division these can give rise to highly specialized cells like heart muscle cells for example that help your heart pump the blood around your body given a different set of signals this same unspecialized stem cell can go down an alternative pathway and give rise to a different type of specialized cell like a neuron that transmits electrical signals in the brain most of the public doesn't understand what stem cells are much less understand the differences between their types so here is a brief overview umbilical cord stem cells are court or placental blood cells that are saved at birth however umbilical cord blood transplant have limitations as treatment of adults with cord blood has so far proved to be very challenging up until recently they are only really known to treat blood diseases while there are a handful of clinical trials recently opened for non blood related diseases and children using cord blood requires a genetic match and there is no guarantee that your cord blood will spontaneously transform into the required specialized cells to help with your ailment and be forewarned if you are currently expecting a child and plan on banking your child's cord blood it's important to realize that gaining access to your own child's cord blood cells is no easy task we spent approximately $4,000 before his cells and when it came down to it my disease per se happened to be autism I could not get them they would not release them to me even though I mean I went all the way to the top they advertise that they will be able to do this this this and this that did not happen I could not get them when I finally got to the head of vai accord when I asked finally how many have you released the answer I received from the clinical director was one I bought them I paid for them and I could not get them adult stem cells are the most popular and the least controversial now researchers have found adult stem cells in more tissues than previously thought bone marrow skin brain liver eyes and this has led to research into using the patient's own adult stem cells to repair damaged organs however there are currently several limitations to using adult stem cells adult stem cells are often present in only minut quantities and therefore can be difficult to isolate and purify adult stem cells may also contain more DNA abnormalities caused by sunlight toxins and errors and making more DNA copies during the course of a lifetime there has been recent buzz about how scientists can now reprogram adult stem cells to behave like embryonic stem cells but they are still adulterated cells and may also suffer DNA abnormalities the use of embryonic stem cells has been a hot topic of public debate so much so that President George W Bush banned all federal funding for embryonic stem cell research in 2007 only to be overturned by President Barack Obama two years later embryonic stem cells are unadulterated stem cells that can be easily grown in a petri dish and harvested within the first five days of development but they also come with limitations the ability of embryonic stem cells to form non cancerous tumours called teratomas is one of their defining traits it's a frightening one particularly for those who hope to develop therapies from these cells what makes fetal stem cells uniquely different is because the fetus provides stem cells harvested from nearly all relevant organs the fetus contains pure unadulterated stem cells right out of the gate after all these stem cells have only nine months to create an entire human being and harvesting them is quite easy a woman decides that she wants an abortion and then is given the option to have her fetus discarded or donated to science when fetal stem cells are injected the idea is that they go into our body's nervous and immune system and hone in on areas that need repair this basic biological phenomenon is also observed between a mother and child during pregnancy fetal cells migrate into the mother during pregnancy and can persist for decades fetal cells also appear to target sites of injury crossing both the placental and blood brain barrier x' fetal cells appear to change into whatever specific type of cell is needed so fetal cells and a mother with liver damage could transform into liver cells so to summarize in order for umbilical embryonic or adult stem cells to be effective they must spontaneously transform into the different cell types of our body while fetal stem cells also work the same way they already contain the unadulterated building blocks of our nervous and immune systems while the logical superiority of fetal stem cells makes sense when observed objectively their research and use has sparked a political firestorm Iran and Planned Parenthood killing babies in America but 32 $100 prices are that's per specimen that we're talking about right yeah this makes deciphering facts from fiction in the media near impossible as special interest groups will only defend stem cell types that fit within their agenda look at whenever there's a news story of a great success with stem cells it's always a stem cells and leaving currents fetal stem cell researchers to work in the shadows out of fear for their lives what the doctors told us in the United States is that Joey his lifespan that might not be out of his teens because of his heart and lungs and you know he'd be in a wheelchair before he's even ten this is my son Joey he has muscular dystrophy limb girdle and that's that's wasting of the muscles throughout the whole body eventually mainly it starts in the shoulders and the hips the disease was being pretty aggressive oh so I prank on get him in here fast enough really once I did my research since then you know he is maintained his heart his lungs are full strength how do doctors feel about his improvement I told them what we were doing and you know at first they told me not to not to do it you know that you know if there's not enough research on it there's not enough documentation on it but after we got back from the first or even the second time basically this to keep doing what you're doing because they don't see it any way they see thousands of patients of them a month a year you know I'm not sure the exact number and there's never they never get better yeah always get worse and it's aggressive most of the kids that were his age with the same disease are not mobile right now and as you can see he stands straight so this is something that should be you should be readily available to everybody there should be scientists working around the clock on this instead of trying to make pills you know people I have to tell people that I have Parkinson's nobody would ever believe it so it's it's it's big since the treatment I've always been active and play golf my lowest golf score was a 77 and since then I have shot even par I don't have the shakes and tremors so that makes a big difference in being able to walk 18 holes the physical liabilities that in curve almost people with Parkinson's you just can't do that always remarkable before he had trouble walking ever since he's come back the last time he's like his old self I've known Steve for about I'd say I'd say about ten years now but I've been playing golf with him for a number of years too and that's where I've noticed most of his affliction you know you could see the similarities to who's the actor that would had Parkinson Michael Fox I think and so he had a lot of those same things a shakiness and whatnot and then I guess it was probably two to three weeks ago I saw Steve out here play and he wasn't playing with our group but I saw him I I saw somebody that I thought might be Steve everyone in the group commented that looks like Steve now because he wasn't you know having trouble getting started walking and I and I thought no that that's not Steve because he was he was walking normally and so sure enough it was human the chat and it was obvious that something had happened and now he's really walking just just like the rest of us it really appears to me burnouts miraculous now he's shooting he's playing better than the rest of us and so a dramatic improvement I have a wonderful physical therapist most patients are progressive with with the Parkinson's but his spirits are high I think and be very encouraged I think by the treatment so he's working hard to to continue translator I actually build last week go to 278 which is the highest game I've ever bowled and Lola you know you'd ask me if my doctor knew and I told you guys I'd never told him because he had mentioned to me that if he could take me to a convention that he would win doctor of the year because I was doing so good Steve's story is somewhat unique during this investigation I found that not everyone with Parkinson's got better fetal stem cells only appeared to help those with Parkinson's who were recently diagnosed usually within one to two years like Steve and the case of Carolyn Porter so my husband and I sat down at the table and I remember that night that I took my fork and I started to take a bite in my hand started trimming trembling so bad that I couldn't stop I took the left hand and I finally was able to take a bite well for a year and a half I had been going to my computer every single night and I would type in Parkinson disease and stem cell popped up on my computer and I thought I didn't type in stem cell why does stem cell I had gotten to the point that I couldn't walk and I certainly couldn't talk I went in May of 2013 when I came through the airport everything was in a wheelchair they told me there were no guarantees so we we were wide open we knew there were no guarantees and they said it would be up to six months probably if the stem cell helped me well we finished the treatment on a Saturday and we came back to the hotel and we left on a Sunday going home I said to my husband I think I can walk he said oh no no you can't walk she informed me on the way home that but that she could get up and walk on wrong and she did which was very surprising we got to the to the airplane and I just could tell that I was getting better three days after I had the stem-cell treatment I just started speaking correctly all of a sudden it was like everything stopped it was like there were no more tremors they were no more head shaking it was maybe ten days after she got back she got out of her car and I literally I mean it just I had cold chills cuz she could walk we sat down her hands did not move she did not jerk she could carry on a conversation without stuttering and we both just that and cried and I promise you everything stopped I was well and I was the most happiest person in the world I played the piano all the time well for two years I couldn't blade the piano I'm just I'm not a really good pimp my thing when I get home from work the first thing I do is turn the news on and watch it and well I'm sitting in my easy chair but I always get interrupted by Carolyn playing the piano which in the future [Music] concerned effect concealed the enabled lady has a good reason better I don't have to my watching the news every night my doctor was he just couldn't believe it he calls me his miracle patient I don't need any medication anymore at the moment the largest stem-cell research agency in the world is SERM or the California Institute for regenerative medicine a multi-billion dollar agency that was voted into existence in 2004 by the citizens of California we are an agency that was created to help patients and our mission is to accelerate stem-cell treatments to those patients with unmet medical needs since their inception more than a decade ago they faced some criticism from the media for what they perceive as a lack of progress with the LA Times calling them a six billion dollar public investment that was born in height but it appears the mainstream media hasn't truly investigated why serves efforts are moving so slow welcome to the December board meeting for SERM this observation was further confirmed when we found ourselves to essentially be one of the only members of the media attending serves 2015 science subcommittee board meeting in Los Angeles sir morgue consists of a colorful assortment of members from doctors and scientists retired senator art Torres former CEO of Paramount Pictures Sherry Lansing to actress writer director Lauren Miller Seth Rogen's wife at the time of this meeting SERM announced the commencement of 15 clinical trials three of which involve fetal stem cells while SERM has plenty of money and influential people at the helm they repeatedly expressed that their biggest impediment isn't science or money but the FDA a regulatory agency that continues to insist on applying the drugged element model for a conventional drug to stem-cell treatments which is like forcing a round peg into a square hole 70% of respondents to our surveys listed FDA is the single biggest impediment to developing a stem cell therapies from the time we discover a stem cell product that looks promising to the time we can actually get an IND approved by the FDA to where we can start we can start doing clinical trials that right now for stem cell therapies is too long it's somewhere between 6 to 8 years the industry average for anything that's not a stem cell is 3.2 years and so we look at that and we say okay that's a problem cell therapies are either either essentially unregulated by FDA and very little regular take you less than a hundred thousand dollars to take you less than three months to comply or they are excessively regulated by FDA where it costs greater than a billion dollars in and caught it takes longer than twelve years and there's nothing in between and all of the other disciplines of medicine have something in between in other words to address this growing field in 2001 the FDA created a new tiered approach paradigm to deal with the approval of stem cell therapies by allowing certain stem cell therapies they deemed safe like adult stem cells to simply exist without regulation while most all other stem cell technologies including fetal stem cells are forced to go through at least a 12-year $1,000,000,000 regulatory process just to reach the market we also know that stem cell therapies from a commercial standpoint clear clearly our disadvantage so big pharma companies will disproportionately in licensed non cell technologies at a much greater rate than cell technologies only 8% of serums programs actually have partners the reason there is no commercial interest is because stem cells are just biology that anyone with the proper resources can harness they simply can't be patented or placed into the current nah Polly driven pharmaceutical paradigm the very idea that an increasing number of people are discovering this technology many of whom no longer require the pharmaceutical medications they were expected to be prescribed for the rest of their lives is an extremely frightening reality to the current business paradigm the pharmaceutical industry has relied on for decades and since the FDA's Drug Evaluation Department has literally been purchased by the pharmaceutical industry due to Congress passing the Drug User Fee Act with nearly 1 billion dollars of the FDA's annual 1.3 billion dollar Drug Evaluation budget coming directly from the pharmaceutical industry it is supposed to be regulating there is no logical reason the medical industry is going to loosen its reins on this groundbreaking technology anytime soon in fact the FDA recently began providing members of the US Congress with one-sided information reporting only the dangers of stem-cell treatments much of which was outdated and does not reflect what has documented in the clinical literature these actions cast the FDA in a very unfavorable light and seemed to make it appear that they are actively lobbying against a therapeutic modality for which they are responsible for fostering we're not anti regulation we're not anti FDA but we also will not ignore that there's a problem we reject outright the notion that a regulatory pathway that takes over 15 years and costs over 2 billion dollars is the only way to go that's not that's not an acceptable approach the demand the need is very real patients really are suffering they really are desperate they really do need help the entities the researchers and the companies that have the solutions view in in some respects the barriers between their their current therapies and those patients as insurmountable then lastly with respect to centers that operate either overseas or if the jurisdiction of of FDA that is a symptom of the problem they take their products and their technologies overseas where they're not they're not subject to the same regulatory constraints the common denominator is we're not doing anything that's meaningfully advancing the field in helping the patients due to this reality people like Lawrence Simon who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a few years ago aren't going to just sit around waiting for any well-meaning agency to catch up and alter a regulatory system that doesn't want to change I have there's no tremor which there was initially how about your grasp squeeze good very good right there very good ordinarily in your experience if you don't mind me asking I'm considering how many years ago he's been diagnosed 2011 like what do you usually see some people will just go on down the trail and become worse and worse and worse have become very which I have seen then I'll fail every therapy he's basically reached I would say a plateau and stabilized where he's not a longer declining I'm very impressed with what I'm looking at I got a tape and I've been added that 50 years almost to that autism and he's been my patient for about 30 so what do we say about all of us I don't know except to say that there's something that works here I don't think if anything we're giving him I really don't from what I've seen in the failures I've seen I'm pleased but almost can I tell you yeah that's all I wanted to hear is this even be honest it tell you the truth I thought it was crap I'd tear that - I'm the first one ask him I see a lot of stuff that's bogus I was not in the beginning enthusiastic about all this I said well if you got the money to waste go ahead but then again you're talking about a disease you can't cure so with what we have so why not and I'm you know proof of the pudding I haven't seen anybody get this well now you think I was a salesman for the thing but you know what sales been no salesman I'm glad to see him better whatever it takes and he would let him talk about assistance so look where we are today the MRI was very agnostic he had lesions in January 2011 after experiencing weakness and vertigo Lawrence's neurologist ordered an MRI which would find many areas of abnormality favoring active disease numerous lesions and plaques were found representing active multiple sclerosis a few weeks after this appointment on March 25th Lawrence had another MRI which found no new areas of abnormality and no abnormal lesions [Music] Susie became a patient 31 years ago she was frequently ill with recurring respiratory illnesses intermittent swelling of lymph glands frequently treated with antibiotics in 2004 she became more severely ill and more persistently presented with lymph glands that were swollen all over her body in consideration of the fact that she has a family history of a lymphocytic malignancy it was appropriate to further investigate why her lymph glands were remaining swollen and weren't getting better after treatment for infectious causes this was the bone marrow biopsy it confirmed she had a condition called chronic lymphocytic leukemia most people with the condition do have progressive illness and that it can convert to a serious life-threatening malignancy it was interesting as we have followed her in the past ten years that there has been no progression of her lymphocytic leukemia and in fact there's been improvement in the number of abnormal cells relative to normal cells in her blood her lymph glands have remained normal they responded very quickly to treatments that she received at the you've got probably the most carefully documented body in my practice in terms of you know six to eight inches of paper charts before the new computerized records started in 2006 which if we were to print them out with like Liana PI several boxes of computer paper and we've been testing your laboratories frequently and I do have to acknowledge that we're not finding anything wrong with you or evidence of any side effects from the treatments that you've received what's important is that it is chronic lymphocytic leukemia and it hasn't progressed and that you're not sick the majority of people don't have that experience so the doctor seeing somebody with CL initially figures we'll be okay for a few years and then we're gonna have trouble you're talking about 2004 so you're talking about eleven years ago when I had this diagnosis right yeah and based on the fifth that my father started out okay with chronic and ended up with a cute I wasn't gonna do that understandably Susie's doctor was quite nervous to talk to us on camera hence his modesty not only did Suzie's chronic lymphocytic leukemia not progressed to acute pathologists were baffled at the unusual finding that her cells normalized which means her diagnosis was reversed or cured in order to have a diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia it requires an absolute B cell count of over 5,000 Suzie's absolute B cell count reduced to 304 Suzie underwent no other medical intervention for her diagnosis other than receiving a series of fetal stem cell injections part of my discomfort being part of this project I'm making myself the target but realistically stem cell therapy is becoming more mainstream it is important that people know about it and that we learn more about it my preference would be that it was done in a scientific way that we can all learn from our experiences and if we don't have explorers we never learn anything it's a chance right I mean it is working well well something is working well for you something is working well for me and I'm not doing anything else so we're good yes we are we are good welcome when she decided to have the stem cells initially as a MD somewhat skeptical I became more and more convinced of the benefit as the years went on that she just got better and better and very honestly when you go to medical school I think they pair of horse blinders on you and that unless it's taught in medical school or you read it in the medical literature it can't be can't be valid can't happen Susie is the living proof she's healthier than I am considering I have some conditions my own that I think could possibly be benefit I actually considering having this stem cells myself I've been through about 14 doctors I mean she was going to extremes to try and just lift the paint off just a little bit she even cut her hair off because she figured that that would help her neck when I look back and I think about all the doctor visits I remember being in the office with Danny and whatever physician we were with it that and then say well it's in her head or something to that nature I could see her eyes fill up with tears and I would just put my hands on her face and I would say to her I am NOT gonna stop you will not suffer one more day if I have anything to do about it I got my wisdom teeth taken out and I got prescribed the medication that she got prescribed for just if she had a really bad day you know here take some narcotics you know in late 2013 a genetic test finally helped doctors diagnosed Danny with ankylosing spondylitis this is a type of inflammatory arthritis that primarily affects the spine causing the ligaments to become inflamed the cartilage then fuses to the vertebrae causing the spine to fuse causing immobility after all medical treatments failed to help Danny from a host of anti-inflammatories to methotrexate which is a chemotherapy drug usually given to cancer patients as well as tumor necrosis factor inhibitors and some of the most powerful narcotics available she then underwent fetal stem cell therapy in Mexico on July 25th 2014 she had this smile from ear to ear I hadn't seen that smile and so long the menu being brought her back to our hotel she says mom let's go for a walk let's go shopping and go out to eat and I was like what who are you within a week of getting the stem cells I stopped taking all of my medicines they weren't allowing me to be me they changed my personality so much and that's something that stem cells has given me it's given me the ability to be me because I don't have to poison my body with all the other medicines change who I am danny is now a Division one athlete who's rowing team reached the NCAA championships rowing is probably one of the most physically demanding sports you can do it works every single muscle in your body I had no clue with even all of my hours of research that this type of therapy was most people find out about fetal stem cell therapy by word of mouth Danny's mother discovered it by looking for a used truck for her son if it wasn't for me meaning Jan good over finding that perfect truck for my son Wow I can't believe that you're here I can't believe God sent you here he didn't send you here for this truck he's hit you here here it is meet Jan good and her 16 year old adopted daughter Mariah two years ago when Mariah was 14 years old she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia as well as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis as well as systemic lupus erythematosus I first met Mariah about three years ago in April 2012 she and her mom had just moved down from Tennessee and she came in for an office visit she had been diagnosed with lupus in Tennessee however shortly after moving to Florida she started having problems with joint pain knee pain back pain and it's really limited at her ability and do the things that she enjoyed doing like playing basketball and so at that point we considered having her see a Rheumatologist and the rheumatologist concern was again lupus along with her having known juvenile arthritis and so as part of the treatment regimen at that point she was placed on a couple chemotherapy agents so the rheumatologist put mariah methotrexate which is a chemo drug and prednisone and he kept increasing the dosage she could not get out of bed she could barely make it to the bathroom barely make it to eat by April of 2013 lab reports found blood in Mariah's urine signaling the beginning of kidney failure so that's when I just said no more no more no more the steroids I was desperate I took a white sheet and wrote on there I hoped from her I give my alive something about stem cell treatment and really hung get in their front yard and people started donating furniture and different things and we had garage cells and people would just randomly knock on a door and hand us twenty dollars or a hundred dollars for her stem cell treatment and then I had to put this sheet in the back on the on the fence the city had a fit they made me take both of them down but yeah it was bit like and I guess it was because it was more old-fashioned country redneck way of dealing with the problem but it worked you know it got us probably need to be we put her in a wheelchair and got her on the plane and we were all nervous because we'd never been to Mexico this is gonna be like in your minds like is this really real and it's just going to work and you're all emotional and and they gave my baby while on the ride back to San Diego I remember her saying and so we went back to the motel that we were staying at and she ate and I went to do laundry besides a laundry room was a exercise room and she said mom can I feel free to get on this and see how what happens I got yes to take it very very slow because your muscles you know I haven't been working in a year and I have and the chicken lady she goes come here I want to show you something and I mean I'll sit there and watch the plane with three hours after the stem-cell treatment she doesn t Mars on the elliptical and then jumped on the treadmill and then two more miles she seems to be doing quite well you have any comments all doesn't they try um don't have a whole lot of background in terms of the uses of the the therapy however if it seems to be it seems to have made a difference in her life I guess it's something that can sit name it something that was a benefit to her just when we thought this story couldn't possibly get more interesting janet--good had also been dealing with her own health issues incredibly one year after Mariah's recovery her adopted mother Janet was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus as well as dermatomyositis I never dreamed that a year later that I would be given a death sentence in three months to two years and I would need stem cells so finding the stem cells from Riya and it's saving her life in turn I needed them and it saved my life you got to pass it on you got to tell everybody what you've been through and how it's helped you because it can save their life - or maybe one of their family members while in a tragic turn of events on November 6 2016 Mariah was shot and killed no now the lot that would stay with this stem cells now that last me snuffed out and taken away by somebody with anger issues not only do people seek fetal stem cells for various immunological and neurological ailments some of the world's busiest professionals are seeking fetal stem cells for anti-aging better performance and overall longevity this is George slaughter a multi Emmy Award winning American comedy television icon he's best known for his work as a founding producer and writer for the groundbreaking television comedy classic Rowan and Martin's laughing I took the injections myself and when I came home my wife looked at me she said what what happened to you Ben Wright wasn't a high it wasn't like any kind of drug or anything it was just a sense of well-being it wasn't even euphoria it was just a sense of being coupled so I took the injection and I then took some people down here including my wife and including my daughter and I can understand the resistance to it except for the fact that if stem cells fetal stem cells ever become widely used it will change the entire profit picture of the pharmaceutical industry is they don't make their money on well people they make their money on sick people and continually pumping drugs of all kinds into them that is how the medical profession survives on drugs medical professions great they do great things I wouldn't want to have a plumber deliver a baby but they resist this out of the opinion that this will change the whole profit structure the medical profession and it will it's coming it's just a question of when they resisted Jonah salt and having had polio I wish they'd stop resisting before I got it my favorite is they said there hasn't been a double-blind study there's been double-blind studies on a lot of the drugs that killed people there's been double-blind studies on chemotherapy which we know a lot of people have not survived it's just that it kind of makes me very very uncomfortable to think that waiting for some kind of a double-blind study that would result in the death of one child and the cure of another my question always is how do you select which child to treat with a placebo or which child to treat with these stem cells the use of fetal stem cells is anywhere near as dangerous as cough medicine it can kill you this is William Raydor the chief scientific officer for stem cell of America a company operating out of Southern California most of the patients you've seen so far were treated by Raiders company however due to strict American federal regulations these patients had to travel to Tijuana Mexico to obtain the injections earlier in my career I was one of the first medical experts on television starting out first in radio then eventually appearing multiple times on the Merv Griffin Show dr. William Raydor his successful television career continued well into the 1990s I received a phone call from Eastern Europe and they called me and told me about fetal stem cells so I said to him I'll tell you what I want to see this I want to interview you I want to interview patients I want to just do whatever I want to do when I'm there would you agree to that they said yes ten days later I'm an Air Ukraine plane it totally blew my mind when I saw in 1995 William Raydor traveled to Kiev Ukraine and spend some time with the founders of a medical university clinic called M cell this is the late Professor Alexander Smita dupe who in 1991 is the man responsible for originally inventing and developing the technological innovation of fetal stem cell therapy along with M cells co-founder and partner dr. Alexey karpenko who you will meet later professor smig a doob and professor Karpenko taught William Raydor the basic techniques of fetal stem cell transplantation according to professor alexei karpenko emcell was also looking to partner with William Raydor on a new clinic but Rader decided to take the information he learned and open up his own fetal stem cell company instead I dropped everything else and I dedicated myself to fetal stem cell research during production on this documentary the California Medical Board revoked William Rader's medical license in their failed attempt to stop his operation nonetheless I decided to get the cells in March of 2015 and I was treated no different than any of the other patients stem cell of America doesn't perform any preliminary medical testing and this entire injection process takes about 30 minutes as with anything that is done while avoiding federal regulations obtaining full transparency as a journalist telling this part of the story was difficult as I wasn't allowed access to any of Raider's research laboratories where Rader claims to replicate their fetal stem cells instead of using new and fresh aboard selves so to truly get to the bottom of this convoluted story I traveled to M cell in Kiev Ukraine where this technology got its start more than 20 years ago and what better way to fully understand fetal stem cell therapy than to experience it by the world's original pioneers while undergoing M cells three-day longevity anti aging program M cell allowed me to document my entire treatment program and film their laboratories and facilities unlike most medical clinics in the United States M cell tested my blood and urine in their lab on site it is from these lab results in addition to a full ultrasound and electrocardiogram that M cells doctors designed a special protocol just for me which consisted of a variety of fetal stem cell types a 3-day facial using fetal stem cells hyperbaric oxygen sessions and even massage to help keep my circulatory system flowing nicely to allow the stem cell transplants to properly take hold so on day one after all my preliminary testing was complete I was moved to a private room where I enjoyed some coffee and an all organic breakfast I ordered from the menu while I waited for my primary physician to arrive this is doctor Irena who is both a medical doctor and a PhD working regularly behind the scenes in expanding M cells research and development of fetal stem cell technology this is Lena one of M sales managers and the translator assigned to me at the start of each day doctor Irena checked all my vital signs and asked me various questions related to my overall health after my physical exam doctor Irena carefully explained my entire fetal stem cell treatment program which was an incredibly complex array of a variety of fetal stem cell types that were harvested between seven to twelve weeks of gestation and scheduled across a three day period seek a variety of goals to improve my overall health the combination of fetal stem cells given to me on day one helps to create new capillaries and other small vessels across all of my organs which help to deliver more oxygen and nutrition throughout my body thus improving overall functions in my organ tissues these cells also have very positive effects on the inner wall of big blood vessels they're for protecting my vessels from atherosclerosis and if there is any current at the Rose chlorosis it prevents it from progressing they have a very positive effect on the liver blood formation bone marrow immune and hormonal systems essentially giving my entire immune system a full reboot they started first with a standard sodium chloride saline drip to open up my veins followed by some anti allergy meds just to be on the safe side and after all of this settled in they brought in my first round of fetal stem cells then it was off to see their masseuse Yuri the massage was about an hour back to my room for a little lunch and relaxation followed by hyperbaric oxygen I had never been in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber before it feels sort of like flying in an airplane only with perfect high density oxygenated air quality I'm doing fantastic thank you hyperbaric oxygen sessions are healthy anyway but in this case it serves as further nutrition for the fetal stem cells and then I was off to the cosmetologist for the first day of my facial my cosmetologist was Halina who first gave my face a thorough cleaning before applying the key ingredient of this cosmetic therapy chorion cells which Halina had already prepared shortly before my facial began chorion cells are early fetal membrane cells that are rich in high-density nutrition vitamins and minerals these cells are highly anti-inflammatory and regenerative when applied to the skin and M cell is the only place in the world offering chorion cells as part of a cosmetic facial the chorion cells were then carefully brushed onto my face Halina then applied a rejuvenation mask containing aloe vera and other ingredients to end the session and this was the end of my first day of treatment and they also provided transportation to and from the clinic each day at the end of day one I really wanted to do some sightseeing in the beautiful city of keeve but mSL's doctors requested that I take it easy and not exert myself too much I stayed downtown near the central square of keeve which provided a plethora of hotels shopping in food day to dr. irina checked my vitals and i was given a second round of the same fetal stem cells I received on day one off to massage and then round two of hyperbaric oxygen this is doctor Maria who was supervising my sessions not only is dr. Maria a medical doctor she received her PhD in fetal stem cell therapy back to my room where dr. irina inspected my abdomen to prepare me for my first subcutaneous injections of the cells that will improve my neuronal or nervous system these cells improve all processes regulated by my nervous system improving all interneuronal connections improving motor skills as well as my autonomic nervous system like heart rate digestion respiratory rates and pupillary response while also improving memory concentration sleep and overall cognition essentially giving my entire nervous system a healthy reboot after a standard saline drip was complete this combination of cells were injected subcutaneously into the fat of my abdomen the reason for the location of these injections is because the fat of our bodies hold the most stable temperature and allow overall protection of these cells as they adjust to my body and begin to slowly release into my nervous system and finally day two of my facial Halina started first by placing steam on my face to open up the pores followed by applying more chorion cells after allowing the chorion concentration to be absorbed by my skin Halina prepares an alginate mask at a very cold temperature to then close my pores sealing the chorion cells inside and further stimulating micro blood circulation and that was it for day two well at least at em soon as I decided it was time to do a little sightseeing the city of Kiev is gorgeous and rich with history and culture during my journey I met an American from Pennsylvania who is in love with keeve as much as me mr. DeMarco is also an EM cell patient 18 years ago I had a very bad motorcycle accident and along with many other injuries I suffered a broken vertebrae spinal cord damage and my brachial plexus nerve group was of ulster torn out on my right side those nerves control my right lung my scapula a right arm after multiple reconstructive surgeries I was left with severe spinal cord nerve damage pain I was prescribed morphine mexitini neurontin many different narcotics unfortunately none of them worked they would somewhat lessen the pain for short periods of time but nothing would stop it I became addicted to the morphine after two years I was taking over 200 milligrams of morphine a day let me describe the pain the pain there was two types of pain there was a 24/7 type of compression squeezing pain which was more bearable than the shooting pains that I experienced the shooting pains I could liken to a knitting needle that was heated over a flame and plugged into a wall and then stuck in your funny back and they would stick it in there for about 30 seconds and pull it out and then stick it in there for 30 seconds and pull it out jump ahead to a year and a half ago I was here in Kiev on some personal business and found out about stem-cell clinic M so there were no promises given to me just that in the past it had helped people in my situation I was advised to wait two or three months before I started tapering off the medication that I was on that was lessening the frequency of the episodes and I have not had one pain episode since the end of December first time in 18 years I'm totally pain-free and medication for it [Music] dr. Irina checked my vitals as usual and then time for my second round of subcutaneous injections but this round of subcutaneous injections was an array of fetal stem cells to help me with my entire musculoskeletal system which helps to improve my bones cartilage tendons ligaments and my joints and all their connective tissues improving overall metabolic processes while also increasing trophic and elasticity of my skin also increasing energy levels triggering regeneration rejuvenation and overall high efficiency which also by the way includes a great improvement of sexual functions essentially giving my entire metabolic system a nice reboot the reasons for the location of these injections is the same for the cells are received on day 2 [Music] my third massage and then back to my room where they gave me an IV drip of amino acids to further improve my body's environment giving the fetal stem cells the best chance of doing their job and finally it was back to my room where dr. irina spends a great deal of time summarizing my entire treatment program reviewing my blood urine and other tests they performed and explaining to me why they gave me the types of injections and therapy they did each patient undergoing therapy at M cell has a completely different personalized therapeutic schedule depending on their current health or any more serious ailments they may have since I'm pretty healthy already I underwent M cells longevity anti-aging program but others with specific ailments would receive a different protocol I met the kalahari who had just a ride from Houston Texas whose youngest son Beckham underwent M cells personalized treatment protocol for autism this is Beckham's father Matt and his mother teri while they're on day three I had the privilege to meet dr. Alexi karpenko the original co-founder and partner at M cell but the one thing that I this will not be most probably complete become a most of his function will benefit but for recovery we have we understand we understand we were seeking quality life improvement thank you I appreciate that thank you very much considering that autism currently strikes one in every forty five children in the United States costing each family supporting a child with autism over the course of his or her lifetime as much as 2.4 million dollars to care for such a diagnosis I was quite interested in seeing how Beckham fared after fetal stem cell treatment so four months later I traveled to the Kalahari of Houston Texas to see if Beckham had made any progress we had a lot of aggression Beckham would scratch me he would bite me so I would go to bed nightly and I would have bloody sheets I would have scratch marks there'd be on my face my back wherever I'm talking full-on fighting full-on scratching full-on bruising all gone we had no eye contact I would try to get in his face Becca back then back out in his world he would just look straight past me he looks straight past you it was it was it was really really really difficult but the eye contact was absolutely not there period it was even more than that when you looked in his eyes it was almost as if you were looking in his eyes and you were you weren't seeing any nobody was home he wouldn't respond to his name he wouldn't respond to anything and it was pretty drastic when that happened almost immediately after he had his stem cell transplant we saw changes he had this terrible eczema everywhere all over his skin within three days it was gone I have fought that eczema for years with prednisone you name it I've tried dietary changes it was gone his skin was clear his eyes turned bright all of a sudden these smiles I have not seen in years we started swimming he could not swim before he gets his head underwater he'll I sit before his stem-cell transplant he would not walk for me I always had to carry him he would just block my body and refuse to walk I couldn't walk him around the block at 3 I had to have a stroller all of a sudden he's walking he walks now holds my hand like a neurotypical child and we walk we can walk in the park I can walk with him to the grocery store to the mall that might not seem like a big deal to parents that are used to it but for those that aren't able to have a child to walk it's a huge deal so the fact that I could do that made my life so much easier so I'm not holding a 45 pound kid 18 bags of groceries I mean it that's it's really miserable and difficult so that was another huge thing he's just so much more receptive to a different idea which was not the case before he can now motor plan if he has an idea that was not there before his cognitive levels have increased significantly I've definitely seen he became more flexible because he would want to do things only the way he wanted to do it and we couldn't get change all ideas any ideas was really long since then he's giving me a lot more new ideas he's doing much better with some language and he's also started to murder plan things so the other day I was here he saw this and the ramp was on the other side of the room and he went to try and get the ramp he's never ever had a plan about how he was going to ask so that was very novel and very new for him so we've definitely seen progress in lots of different areas I've been working with him since he was 18 months old so it's almost 3 years and at the same time it's also giving him the feeling of where his body is in space what I learned to plan and to figure out how to do things by having a really good internal body awareness yeah already so every day it's something new we're we're both shocked since the kalahari was making the trek to emcell 4 Beckham's autism they decided to see if fetal stem cells would also benefit their oldest son Matt's jr. my older son has convergence insufficiency and ADHD I never thought he would make it into college I was very skeptical very skeptical it's helped me tremendously with just one treatment in terms of school I've I've gone from middle school I've had and then high school as well flunking staying up till 2:00 in the morning with my parents just so they could help me because I couldn't even do it myself so now I'm making straight A's and B's which is phenomenal and then I'm looking into the future semesters to take on a larger workload because it seems more doable more possible so you're saying in the four month team that you're yeah I actually been officially without taking medication now at least weaning off the dosage I would go from pills like above Ivan's ADHD adderall in these past four months it's been tremendously up to one of the most important things he ever said to me was mom thank you so much thank God I don't feel dumb anymore while Matt jr. received fetal stem cells in hopes of finding relief for his ADHD he was also suffering from an overactive bladder and chronic skin conditions always having these urged yes urinate every 15-20 minutes throughout the day entirely - about two months after I haven't had the urge at all between my skin I've had acne you've had uncontrollable it was bacterial acne I've tried the strongest thing is up to accutane as high as you could go on like the dosage it would mess up my liver it makes me feel terrible but honestly in the past two months I've had skin my skin's cleared up on my shoulders my back mostly around my entire face it's a tremendous difference as well as all the eczema around the eyes mainly and in the arms I've had blotches around the arms where now it's completely gone and it's just phenomenal it's crazy and it's only been one treatment so we realized there was nothing that mainstream medicine had we've been to absolutely every doctor we possibly could I feel like we made the right choice we did there's no doubt in my mind we had a lot of information to the sift through and like everybody else and seeking information and trying to be well informed it took us literally eight months just to weed through what we thought would be the best option for us I cannot say how thrilled I am with the results it's one thing to have everyone around Beckham notice such great improvements after getting fetal stem cell therapy just four months prior and it's another to review the results of his autism spectrum test or a dose two we obtained these test results from beckham's neurologist Beckham's last a dose two tests was in December of 2013 where he scored a 22 fell into the moderate-to-severe range on the autism spectrum however while I was visiting the Kelleher's in November of 2016 another a dose to test was performed which revealed a score of 15 a seven-point reduction showing Beckham now in the moderate autism spectrum these results occurred after only one round of fetal stem cell therapy Beckham has not been taking any medications during this time I'm so excited it's so exciting for the first time I see the light in the end of the tunnel I see a light I haven't seen a light in a long time back and keeve after my three day treatment was complete I spent a couple of days with dr. Karpenko as he told me the entire story of how emcell came to be while showing me around key doctor Karpenko had worked directly in cooperation with Ukraine's Ministry of Health allowing emcell to freely and legally come into existence it was since 1991 that such technology for clinical use it was made and we use it about 25 years this year 25 years already and it is stable we can predict what is going on with the predicted time of results understand how it will behave our treatment will behave in different kinds of diseases in different ages and different conditions of the patients and so this was the start of clinic the use of fetal stem cell transplantation not just a discovery of fetal stem cell for the first pioneer I took a tour of M cells research facilities and quality control labs I wanted to get a fully comprehensive understanding of how these cells are harvested and tested before being administered to patients the process begins specifically between seven and twelve weeks of gestation where the fetal material from a legal voluntary abortion with the donors consent arrives at M cell within two hours of the abortion procedure this fetal material then enters M cells biotechnology laboratory this is Cristina M cells CEO and overall supervisor for all of M cells harvesting and quality control laboratory I would love you to see the process of the extraction of the fetal stem cells but I'm very sorry but we cannot film it that's okay that's okay thank you yeah after M cells scientists extract more than a dozen different relevant categories of fetal material in their biotechnology laboratory the fetal stem cells are immediately sent to the cryo preservation department where they are then suspended using a special proprietary method once the cells are successfully suspended they are then simultaneously sent to three different departments during the research phase the cells are tested for their functional activity viability and consistency they need to make sure they are using healthy and thriving cells capable of expanding and replicating once injected into the body this viability testing process also involves a state-of-the-art laser based flow cytometer which is capable of analyzing cow and sorting the fetal stem cells in real-time up to a thousand particles per second while that is happening this exact same batch of fetal stem cells is also being tested in M cells microbiology lab where each batch of fetal stem cells is tested to make sure they do not contain any harmful bacteria or contamination this same batch of fetal stem cells is also sent to the polymerase chain reaction laboratory where M cells scientists carefully test each batch of fetal stem cells for any harmful viruses polymerase chain reaction is the method of molecular diagnostics that allows M cell scientists to identify a single copy of the DNA and RNA of harmful pathogens and the cell's testing process is repeated three times to make absolutely certain that their fetal stem cells are up to the highest standards of viability and safety before being administered to patients MSL has the largest fetal stem cell bank in the world quite often people confuse fetal stem cells with embryonic stem cells when they aren't remotely the same thing an embryonic stem cell is harvested within the first five days of development in a petri dish after artificial fertilization unlike fetal stem cells embryonic stem cells haven't formed any organs or valuable tissue to take advantage of regardless of the misleading hype in the news media not to mention that embryonic stem cells can be quite dangerous the ability of embryonic stem cells to form non cancerous tumours called teratomas is one of their defining traits it's a frightening one particularly for those who hope to develop therapies from these cells in many cultures including the Ukrainian culture the vocabulary word for fetal simply doesn't exist which only adds to the confusion as in some cultures the terms fetal and Briona are used interchangeably hence the name emcell I had the opportunity to read a draft manuscript of dr. karpenko soon to be published paper summarizing the last 25 years of fetal stem cell transplantation in it he mentions the first patient they ever treated a young 14 year old boy with severe aplastic anemia a plastic anemia occurs when the body's immune system turns on itself and attacks the Bloods platelets and the red and white blood cells otherwise known as bone marrow failure the only potential cure mainstream medicine offers for this disease is a life-threatening bone marrow transplant and the only way to stay alive waiting for a bone marrow transplant is to undergo constant blood transfusions this disease afflicts up to 900 people per year in the United States so we decided to track this patient down 25 years later who is now a thriving husband and father living in Switzerland we had a lovely Skype call with Demetriou from his home in Switzerland and his parents who still live in the Ukraine Demetriou was cured of a plastic anemia 25 years ago after only two fetal stem cell transplants Demetriou did not undergo any other therapies other than fetal stem cell transplants completely restoring his entire bone marrow ever since the fact that fetal stem cells have only nine months to create an entire human being should help illustrate the power of these cells in comparison to any other stem cell type when they enter your body they are programmed to seek out anything that needs repair redefining the meaning of the power of mother nature for the record I couldn't find anyone to agree to go on camera that opposed fetal stem cell therapy I reached out to countless anti-abortion politicians including mrs. Blackburn from Tennessee who chaired an anti fetal stem cell congressional hearing in 2016 cell human fetal tissue for a profit you break the law donate fetal with zero profit you are within the law I also reached out to anti-abortion activists and Christian evangelist Franklin Graham Billy Graham's son who also refused to participate my contact with various stem-cell experts had similar responses when I contacted James Thompson Time Magazine's man who brought used stem cells for his participation in this documentary as a stem-cell expert his response was simply I'm sorry but it is out of my area of expertise gaining legal access to fetal stem cell therapy in the United States is currently next to impossible sir MS running a handful of clinical trials but these trials are currently 12 years and at least a billion dollars away from meeting FDA's requirements for market approval and that's just for one ailment it could theoretically take hundreds of years and billions of dollars to obtain approval for all relevant ailments the problem we have is we don't have after 15 years of this regulatory paradigm in place we don't have anything close to being reviewed by the FDA for approval but I think when sirum steps back and looks at that regulatory framework we think well if there were something in the middle that weren't that wasn't as daunting as the current regulatory approach instead of taking these innovative cell therapies overseas or having them be under the surveillance of FDA would they just not come into the fold and and do the work necessary to show they're safe and effective in a timely fashion and in a way which which from a cost standpoint enabled them to be successful there are only a handful of places in the world one can obtain fetal stem cells another company is stem medica based in San Diego who first made headlines in 2015 after treating hockey legend Gordie Howe in Tijuana Mexico Gordie Howe one of the greatest hockey players of all time was on his deathbed last year after suffering a stroke his son dr. Marie Howe had actually started writing his father's eulogy when he received a phone call from stem medica diego bay stem cell company Gordie Howe's stroke had left him unable to walk but within eight hours of his first stem-cell treatment he sat up in his bed at the clinic but he said well I'll just walk to the bathroom well you can't walk he said well the hell I can't and he sits up and he puts his feet over the edge of the bed and I was absolutely astounded that he could do that when Gordie Howe's story first broke in 2015 we reached out to CTV the Canadian news organization that first covered the story they told us that Gordy received neural stem cells from a sample of fetal tissue from a 12 week old fetus and bone marrow immune cells from a healthy 21 year old donor from a US tissue bank once the American media got ahold of this story stem medica began getting some negative publicity for using fetal stem cells stem medica then suddenly began claiming that the fetal brain tissue they were using was not from a 12 week old fetus but a 14 to 16 week old fetus instead claiming that they're really considered legally adult stem cells even if their fetal derived to make matters more confusing if the bone-marrow immune cells stem medica is using are from a 21 year old donor and is being injected into patients like Gordie Howe without genetically matching these patients why do we have so many bone-marrow registries around the world if they are successfully giving mature 21 year old bone marrow cells to patients without matching them genetically stem edeka failed to respond to any of our questions or requests to participate in this documentary Gordie Howe passed away at 88 from what his family says was simply old age it's important to realize that just how not all stem cell types are created equal the same is true for the various fetal stem cell companies in the case of stem cell of America and stem medica they both claim to use replicated cells as opposed to using fresh aborted most likely due to the increasing difficulty in obtaining fresh fetal cells in the United States of the handful of the American fetal stem cell experts that agreed to speak to me privately and not on camera most said that replicating the cells wasn't a good idea as the cells could not only lose efficacy but they also run the risk of maturing beyond their productive role also stem medica only uses neuronal cells from a single fetal brain and bone marrow cells from a single adult donor stem cell of America claims to use only neuronal fetal brain cells and fetal liver cells the liver cells that will eventually become the body's bone marrow this isn't to say this method hasn't made many patients happy but when you look at em cell the worlds pioneers of this innovation due to M cell's ability to operate openly and legally in full cooperation with the Ukraine Ministry of Health M cell harvests and injects each patient with more than a dozen fetal stem cell types widening the cells ability to help the patient beyond what only brain liver or bone marrow tissue can offer and M cell does not believe that replicating their cells is a good idea whilst America has begun to publish some of their data stem cell of America has yet to author any of their own peer-reviewed publications while M cell has been continuously publishing their peer-reviewed data for more than 25 years in cases of diabetes for example the child who has initial phase of diabetes one is sentenced to very low quality of life - or debilitating complications in many cases this will end with a kidney transplantation with blindness with amputations of exchange of the length of food and so on but in case of our into intervention that in the very beginning for this disease we will change the destiny of the child she will keep be a diabetic a diabetic patient but the course for diabetes will be very mild with no complications at all a results are not effective in what five persons they are effective in 30% but in cases of incurable disease it is something wrapping up my three-year journey investigating this story I tend to take greater notice of the millions of people around me we certainly have no shortage of human beings especially when I see homeless people sharing the same space as millionaires we are clearly still struggling to take care of the people that are already among us the human race collectively aborts up to 50 million fetuses every year whether we agree with abortion or not it doesn't matter if we are pro-life or pro-choice we are going to do nothing to change the hard reality that people are going to continue to seek abortions especially when 22 percent of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion the argument that women will start getting pregnant on purpose just to have an abortion to provide more fetal stem cells is well absurd no woman wants an abortion unless that abortion is absolutely necessary and if she does choose that path how is that decision any of our business so what do we have to say about all this except all I can say is we're not gonna see this technology available to the Americans anytime soon between the anti-abortionist that do not want to see this happen and the pharmaceutical industry that will take full advantage of that and not allow this to happen this is probably the biggest threat to anything the industry has ever seen so many people asked me how I am doing on the pair and frankly I feel amazing I can't really speak for a stem cell of America so much as Edison as I was sort of rushed in and out 30 minutes no medical testing I did blood work before and after nothing significant change to my health but with M cell I had a full ultrasound that shouldest showed a slightly and enlarged angriest and that normalized in only four months completely normal my cholesterol was really really high my based on my blood test but not anymore more months later my cholesterol normalized you can't do that without Pharma drugs so it's pretty remarkable it is my hope that everyone I know including my loved ones get a chance therapy but perhaps the most noticeable thing that happened to me that I experienced shortly after that the cells was aside from like skin things clearing up I slept better energy increased dramatically but my libido exploded absolutely exploded like an 18 year old again and that's not reason to know so I feel quite privileged as I'm only one in 15,000 people across this planet who have had fetal stem cells and [Music] get it built all right all right thank you no problem no from [Music] you

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