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That made me do a cartoonish head-shake. Is that something you can request from your physician? Is it the same process as donating marrow? How much does it cost

• markkat 10y ago
  >Is that something you can request from your physician? In MI, NC, and CA atm. Full disclosure, I co-founded the company: https://www.foreverlabs.co/ https://www.foreverlabs.co/. >Is it the same process as donating marrow? Like an aspiration, but less. 60cc are taken from your pelvis on your lower back under local anesthetic. It takes a few minutes. >How much does it cost? $3500 + $250/yr >Is there science on this technique? Yes. There has been an explosion in clinical trials using the MSCs (and HSCs to a lesser extent) for treatments of ailments ranging from osteoarthritis to heart disease. Personally, I've been developing therapies bone mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for stroke, brain injury, and other neuropathologies for 15 years. You cells diminish in number and quality with age, so it makes sense to store young ones for treatment later. But, beyond that, there is evidence that young-to-old transplantation increase lifespan: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23967009 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23967009 We are currently doing our own young-to-old preclinical work in mice, with the aim to do the first autologous young-to-old human trials.