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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."
Need to bathe me in some virgin blood - Ahahahahaha!
A use for all those annoying neighborhood children.
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.
We should try it anyway. For Marty's sake.
Professor Farnsworth knew it all along, so did Mr. Burns.
You can't handle the truth.
One of the points made in Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy beginning with Red Mars is that even with things like multiple space elevators, you'd never be able to move more people off the planet than are being born everywhere on it. The colonization of space is not a solution for population pressures.
I'm afraid not. There is no conclusive link between aspartame and MS within the scientific community. Such claims are often repeated by doctors-turned-authors, scam artists, and conspiracy theorists, though.
Moving on, I do wish this madness with stem cells would end. They have their own soul as much as my feces (mostly dead blood cells and bacteria) do.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
I always thought the high incidence of MS in Seattle was due to their headquarters being in Redmond
*ducks
Monstar L
I've been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Started with lesions in my spine taking out all the sensation from my neck to my hips for a month or so, then the blindness in one eye, since then various bouts of stocking+gloves neuropathy that come and go, mixed with random sensations of walking barefoot on gravel and every now and then I lean right while walking in a straight line.
At the time of the first incident, I was drinking about 2 liters (straight from the bottle) of non-diet Dr. Pepper a day, and didn't touch the diet stuff.
Now I drink the diet stuff (still about 2L/day) and lost 60 pounds. Doesn't seem to make a difference neurologically to me. YMMV.
MS and MSFT are both equally virulent diseases which have resisted our efforts to cure.
I could see this becoming a new business in the third world. Selling children's blood would not be far fetched. Look up were all (or most) of the hair for natural wigs and extensions comes from: Little girls in India.
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!
Required reading for internet skeptics
natural aging, can be reversed by an infusion of stem cell rich blood from younger mice.
That explains how Dick Cheney manages to hang on so long; he's been sucking the life force from local villagers at night.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
I hate to break it to you, but he has Parkinson's, not MS.
when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
Even cheaper, and something that can't be patented by unscrupulous scientists and pharmaceutical companies, but researchers have already found MS can be reversed by changing your diet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc
Dr. Terry Wahl presented at TEDxIowaCity that eating nutrient dense foods reversed her second stage MS, and they have moved on to trying it is more subjects. But it sure won't get government stem cell money. And the recommendations fly in the face of government dietary recommendations. Not to mention probably more than a few slashdotters habits.
Compare, trials in mice. Versus clinical trials in humans.
Easy enough, right? Just get regular transfusions from someone young. Except nobody is going to advocate blood donations from children. Could you have your own cells harvested, reverted to stem cells, and reintroduced into your bloodstream?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
I only submitted the story because of the original headline "MS damage washed away by a stream of young blood", in anticipation of Microsoft jokes. (Curse you, competent editors.) Glad to see I got my jokes after all.
Thank you sir and/or madam.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
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.
It's due to a hoax that made the email rounds years ago and it's never been completely eradicated. People keep it going because of irrational fears and conspiracy theories.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.