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You can donate cord blood for free to a public bank. Obviously you're not guaranteed that it won't be used by someone else before a sibling potentially needs it
by Alex3917 5y ago
You can donate cord blood for free to a public bank. Obviously you're not guaranteed that it won't be used by someone else before a sibling potentially needs it, but the chances of it being useful to your own family are almost zero anyway -- not exactly zero, but if you were making a list of the ways to best increase your life expectancy given $5k to spend, I doubt it would even make the top 1,000 options in terms of expected ROI.
- acchow 5y agoWhat would be some things you might expect to see in the top 50?
- Alex3917 5y agoThings generally related to diet, exercise, health, and education.
- acchow 5y agoI don't think of "exercise" as a "5k" investment. Sure you could buy 5k worth of equipment, but how much more does that improve your health over calisthenics and a set of dumbbells? Yes, education I'd say is in the top 10 or 50. But how can you possibly fill out the top 1000 without including umbilical cord stem cells?
- op00to 5y ago- Spend good money on therapy - At home exercise equipment - Dental care Just a few things off the top of my head.
- pkukp9 5y agohello - founder of Anja Health here :) I would actually argue that the chances of using it are actually much higher & it would make the top 1000 options in terms of expected ROI. Using type 1 diabetes as an example: By age 18, approximately 1/300 people in the US develop type 1 diabetes https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240160#1 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240160#1 -> here's an article demonstrating how cord blood has successfully reversed type 1 diabetes and that's just for diabetes. Consider the chances and corresponding research around cerebral palsy, hair loss, heart failure, liver disease, cancers, and more that stem cells - and specifically cord blood stem cells - have been successfully used for.
- metb 5y agoThere was some research that indicated stem cells can be made from skin cells. Is there a chance this field will eventually catch up by the time stem cell therapies become more widely accesssible?