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To: TobagoJack who wrote (137598)	12/29/2017 5:02:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By Elroy Jetson Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219688

The proportion of people with blood metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium that do harm must be near zero these days. So stem cells to deal with those problems seems irrelevant when regular chelation does a good job without harm. Cancer and other problems are where the big bucks and grand gains are to be made because they remain catastrophically calamitous despite gains such as monoclonal antibodies, And other clever methods. I don't see how stem cells other than the person's own ones could be useful because immune systems kill foreign things if identified. But my ignorance is enormous so maybe there are clever methods of changing the game. Since salamanders, starfish, lizards and other things can grow whole new body parts and humans can do minor repairs such as skin wound healing, I guess that techniques should be doable for more extensive rebuilding in humans. Stem cells are the foundation building block so are a good place to look. Genetic engineering of stem cells would help too = cutting out bung genes and installing swishy new types. Then clone a peta trillion of them with which to flood the body. But oops a daisy problems will likely happen such as boosting growth of rapidly proliferating cancer cells as you mentioned. Such problems happen such as beta carotene feeding lung cancer. A major medical trial had to stop because people given beta carotene got worse cancer = big oops. Google could give the details on that. We mess with our natural processes at our peril even while the natural processes kill all of us sooner or later. I dislike magic and "trust me" (with your money and your life) so I would be mistrustful of a cunning linguist without understanding the mechanism of the process. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (137598)	12/29/2017 7:50:05 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219688

We'll be able to be amazing things with stem cell technology, but most of what you're mentioning is currently in the quackery stage helping people burdened down with too much money offload some of it to people speaking stem cell mumbo-jumbo. - I suspect you know as much about the science of this as the practitioner. I have a niece who studied Ayurvedic medicine after finishing college . . . prescribing spices for people. Heavily informed by a couple of years teaching English in Thailand and traveling through Asia. Fortunately for her, the world is filled with plenty of people who have more money than sense.