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Multiple Sclerosis Damage Washed Away By Stream of Young Blood
FatLittleMonkey writes "A new study on mice suggests damage caused by diseases like Multiple sclerosis, as well as natural aging, can be reversed by an infusion of stem cell rich blood from younger mice. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that erodes the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord, and can result in serious disability. Similar effects occur naturally with aging. From New Scientist: 'White blood cells called macrophages from the young mice gathered at the sites of myelin damage. Macrophages engulf and destroy pathogens and debris, including destroyed myelin. "We know this debris inhibits regeneration, so clearing it up is important," says team member Amy Wagers of Harvard University.' Here's the academic paper's abstract."
There aren't any credible reasons to believe that aspartame causes MS. If that were the case you wouldn't expect the highest rate of MS in the world to be in Seattle where folks tend to be fairly paranoid about aspartame and artificial sweeteners in general.
Ugh, this aspartame nonsense is the worst kind of pseudo science. I suppose you also believe that vaccines cause autism? What about peach-pits curing cancer?
Wait, let me guess: the "medical establishment" doesn't want you to know the "shocking truth".
Looking below, it looks like you also believe Monsanto is in on the conspiracy!
I'd laugh if spreading nonsense like you've been doing wasn't so dangerous. People like you are causing real and measurable harm.
Leave medical science to the experts. Hmmm... I better clarify that: Reading a few conspiracy websites does NOT make you an expert!
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You sir are arrogant and unpleasant. Maybe in X years we will truly find out how safe these things are. There is no conspiracy, only a link.
People like you do not see things before they are too late. People who stop and think about things (and witness them) are people who discover problems. Nobody thought X was harmful until it was too late. Maybe I am wrong about aspartame, I honestly have no idea, I just thought I would throw it out there. There is plenty of sources that state both angles.
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You know, people make jokes, but that dude had his first heart attack (of 5) 34 years ago. Whatever he's done to keep himself alive seems to have worked pretty damn well.
What he's done is to just be rich - it works wonders with regards to access to health care.
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. They have their own soul as much as my feces (mostly dead blood cells and bacteria) do.
Who has argued that stem cells have souls? What's been argued is that embryo's are human (albeit at the earliest stage), and that getting into the habit of producing human life in a lab to be harvested for its resources (in this case, stem cells) on a mass scale open's a Brave New World kind of Pandora's box. If you're going to argue, at least begin from a real premise.
Second, all the big advances have come not from fetal embryo harvests, but from adult stem cells that have been repurposed in the lab. Feel free to correct me with a link should you have one, but I'm not aware of a single breakthrough in any of the fetal trials. Our own adult cells seem to be the best way to get the results we're looking for. And none of the people objecting to the fetal cell research object to adult stem cell research. So harvest your blood, bone, and skin tissue to your heart's delight. Not a single Catholic or Evangelical will object. And you're much more likely to actually get a working result.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
The cells of the human body have a limited lifespan. The aging process is basically you running out of replacement cells. Using blood transfusions will help some, but it's the stem cells that will make you young. And stem cells from someone else will trigger your immune system- and using anti-rejection drugs is a horrible way to live. So you want your own rejuvenated stem cells, and getting there should only be one Apollo project equivalent away- so about 10 years if you have the money. The second issue- it will cost. So most medical plans won't cover this. Meaning the rich get to live forever, not you. And if you don't see a problem with that, just think of Bill Gates NOT getting old and retiring. Ever. Having a ruling class of immortals running the earth is how that will end. Rich enough they don't care about you, from another generation so they don't understand you, owning everything and constantly looking for the next google so they can buy it up. This would make a cool plot for a science fiction movie, but in real life it will suck.