| There are two types of stem cells. Embryonic stem | | | | brain cells...Shamefully, beer won out and it never |
| cells form after conception and their job is to create a | | | | mattered if it was Burgermeister or Falstaff or even |
| baby. Hopefully, it will be an adorable infant whose | | | | Pabst Blue Ribbon. I lived with the knowledge that I |
| parents can show off with home movies and | | | | was destroying the greatest gift I'd been given. |
| snapshots. Stem cells don't decide this, but they are | | | | Now, science tells us, there is hope for wine sippers |
| the meat and potatoes of the process. | | | | and frat boys-repair stem cells, once released, can |
| These cells form the eyes and a nose and organs and | | | | become anything needed in the body. Although I doubt |
| have the most magnificent duty in all of creation. They | | | | this knowledge, if it had been known twenty years |
| move quick and mold and multiply and can transform | | | | ago, would have made a difference in my abandon, it |
| into any type of cell needed to get the job done. Then, | | | | may provide a modicum of comfort to college |
| they're finished. Game over. Kiss the fat lady. Sort of | | | | students today. |
| like retirement, only there is no part-time work available | | | | Still to be answered is the question of wellness. |
| when boredom sets in. | | | | Adult stem cells are released mainly from the bone |
| Right after birth, some new cells take over. These are | | | | marrow. That spongy stuff everybody thinks is so |
| called adult stem cells and it doesn't matter if you are | | | | hard is really a concubine of red blood cells and other |
| a day old or have just reached the century mark. | | | | life preserving things, but as we age science now |
| These new cells are also referred to as repair stem | | | | understands that the stem cell release slows down. |
| cells because their job is to roam throughout the body | | | | Instead of an entire Calvary coming to the rescue, only |
| and fix things. That scrape on your knee-the ankle | | | | the stragglers remain and there is usually far too much |
| sprain you got when you slid into second base. Maybe | | | | work for the very few. |
| you should have gone head first, but no worries-repair | | | | This decrease in adult stem cell production is |
| stem cells are rushing to the scene and these too can | | | | something we still don't understand, but science does |
| turn into any type of cell the body needs. | | | | know that to increase the production of adult stem |
| Got a bad sore throat or a bad cold? Out with the old | | | | cells either through the bodies own methods or through |
| and in with the new. Adult stem cells are like the | | | | injections, is a procedure that's working miracles for |
| Calvary. Therein also lies the problem and delivers to | | | | some people. |
| us humans the most confusing aspect of life-besides | | | | Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, Heart |
| of course why the Yankees continue to pay huge | | | | Disease-these are all treatable through stem cell |
| salaries and can't win anymore. | | | | therapy. But not in the United States. Here, the focus is |
| If these repair stem cells fix nearly everything wrong in | | | | on debating the ethics of embryonic stem cell |
| the body, why isn't everyone well? Then again, why | | | | research, which may or may not provide wellness in |
| does it take forever to heal? Have I not treated my | | | | the future. |
| Calvary soldiers well? Fatigue or apathy may have set | | | | What about now? Today, as millions of Americans |
| in. Maybe they're plotting a coup. | | | | suffer, why aren't stem cell injections available? Why |
| It's only been in the past five years that this information | | | | do people have to travel to Europe, China and Mexico |
| is unfolding. Prior to that we thought some cells in the | | | | to seek solutions? Only one product [ is available to |
| body simply died off-a little piece of us goes missing | | | | people that has proven to facilitate the release of |
| each day until, finally, it's curtains. | | | | repair stem cells. |
| Chugging the remains of keg beer in college, I was told | | | | I'm using it because I was told I needed a new hip and |
| repeatedly that I was killing off my brain cells. Sadly, | | | | I'm grateful to have discovered it. You can read more |
| they would never regenerate and I remember with | | | | about it if you wish. |
| melancholy the internal debate confronting me. Beer or | | | | |