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Cardiomyopathy Patient Can Do Triathlon After Adult Stem Cells

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Cardiomyopathy Patient Declares He Could Do A Triathlon After Adult Stem Cell Treatment

March 6, 2010 by biotechconnection.com

Until November 2005, Jason Ludwick’s life was dominated by what he could not do. He was in and out of hospital and living on a cocktail of expensive drugs to try and keep his failing heart functioning. Then, like hundreds of others he went to Thailand for adult stem cell therapy to get real help for heart disease.

Jason Ludwick then 33,now 37, from West Bloomfield, Michigan, counts himself a lucky man. Born with an atrial septal defect, by the time he was 15 he had a pacemaker; by 21 he was diagnosed as having cardiomyopathy and by 25 he had a defibrillator in place and an ejection fraction of just 8-10 percent. Heart failure dominated and restricted his life until he received adult stem cell therapy. Now he says that with training he could do a triathlon.

While his schoolmates ran and played sports, Jason’s life was dominated by his illness and his failing heart ensured he did not run or play any contact sports. He was in and out of hospital and living on a cocktail of expensive drugs. His kidneys bled, his liver swelled, he suffered from asthma and he found it difficult to throw off a common cold. Despite all this, Jason tried to live as normally as possible although his heart was steadily failing.

His mother searched for help after he was removed from a heart transplant list. He was then left only with medications, some of which had unpleasant side-effects and he felt constantly tired and depressed as he went back and forth to specialists having his medications reviewed. And then his mother read about adult stem cell therapy.

Just one month after his adult stem cell therapy, Jason knew his life was going to change, “My heart was beating better, more rhythmically, and I had more energy,” he said. “After six months I was up and flying, feeling 100 percent different. I could mow the lawns, take walks, ride a bike with my kids, lift weights – do whatever I liked,” he said. “I’m always on the go with our fifth child on the way and always busy as a full-time parent.”

Jason has always enjoyed a huge level of support from his family and friends, but is very happy to spend time advising other cardiomyopathy sufferers of the power of positive thinking. “Always try to be positive,” he counsels. “There is hope. Take care of your diet and help get the word out that adult stem cell therapy is worth getting done. It’s nothing like what you would have thought.”

Hundreds of people suffering from end-stage heart failure, cardiomyopathy or coronary heart disease, who have been amazed at the results of adult stem cells and the clinical outcomes. Those being told they are without any treatment options now have the choice of staying at home to await death or to join the 75-plus percent who will enjoy a longer life characterized by greater energy and far fewer symptoms.

Adult stem cell therapy is proving a lifeline to all those heart patients who are sick of being sick, or who do not wish their lives to be characterized by restricted activity, low energy, pain, cost and brevity. The trend will continue to grow as more and more people become aware that they cannot be harmed by a therapy that uses their own adult stem cells and that the procedures are straightforward, effective and performed in world-class hospitals by skilled, often eminent, heart specialists. Most encouraging clinical outcomes are being supported by research findings as well as by patient report. If Jason gets the time to train and does a triathlon, the world will sit up and take notice.

NOTE FROM RSCI: IF YOU WANT FULL INFORMATION ABOUT THE VERY VERY SPECIAL STEM CELLS FOR NO-OPTION HEART PATIENTS WHICH GAVE JASON HIS NEW LIFE, FILL OUT THIS FORM, THEN SIT BACK AND TAKE IN ALL THE INTERESTING INFORMATION YOU WILL GET BY EMAIL. http://vescell.com/heart-disease-treating-application.php

Posted: 3/12/2010 4:48:15 PM by Don Margolis | with 0 comments

New Heart, New Love, New Son Courtesy of Adult Stem Cells

New Heart, New Love, New Son Courtesy of Adult Stem Cells In VICTORIES & SUCCESS STORIES on March 8, 2010 at 3:50 pm

New Heart, New Love, New Son Courtesy of Adult Stem Cells

Jon Bradshaw - March 8, 2010

Ten years ago a Surfers Paradise manss life was dominated by heart disease and time was running out. Now he has been granted a new wife and baby son better health total happiness.

Peter Irwin from Surfers Paradise in Queensland, Australia, has much to be thankful for. Ten years ago he was depressed, ill and deeply unhappy. He suffered from both Dilated Cardiomyopathy and some Ischemic Heart Disease that was slowly but surely killing him. Told there was nothing more that could be done for him and with no hope of living beyond another two years he started to seek for someone or something that could give him better odds.

An internet search unearthed that adult stem cells can offer hope and help. Peter failed to get on to a clinical trial in his own country because he was too ill to meet their entry criteria and so he went to Bangkok in October 2005 thinking he had nothing to lose.

Within four months of a simple procedure at a Bangkok Heart Hospital Peter was feeling much better and far more optimistic. His cardiologist had to agree that on clinical tests his heart was performing far more efficiently. His life since then has continued to improve. He still has some health issues but they no longer dominate his life. The greatest improvement has been that he can enjoy a far better quality of life and has high expectations of a very positive future.

Adult stem cell therapy helped his heart strengthen, revascularize and repair and he made other dietary and lifestyle changes that he thinks have also benefited him. If you are beyond hope of treatment because of heart disease, all is not lost, he said. Almost every day research is being published that shows just how many seriously ill heart patients can be returned to a life they thought they had lost.

To cap off all his gains Peter and his new wife have just recently brought into the world a new son. “Stem cells made me reconsider my life. I now have the love and care of a new partner and a son whom I love more than I thought it possible to love. It is indeed a miracle and I am so grateful”, Peter said.

Looking at the family photographs he sent at the time of his son’s birth Peter looks the picture of health and happiness. One would never know that such a short time ago he faced a brief, painful, anxious, hopeless and debilitating future.

Jon Bradshaw writes constantly about the next to miraculous effects of adult stem cells. Theravitae’s Vescell adult stem cells the new frontier of regenerative medicine. They offer a return to a more active, longer and healthier life to patients who have heart disease or PAD. They are derived from the patient’s own blood so cannot be rejected by the body.

by biotechconnection.com

Posted: 3/10/2010 4:35:51 PM by Don Margolis | with 0 comments

HIV PATIENT FREE OF AID's # YRS AFTER STEM CELLS

“A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.”

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease.

The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops taking AIDS drugs, the virus stampedes through the body within weeks, or days.

Dr. Gero Hütter isn’t an AIDS specialist, but he ‘functionally cured’ a patient, who shows no sign of the disease.

“I was very surprised,” said the doctor, Gero Hütter.

The breakthrough appears to be that Dr. Hütter, a soft-spoken hematologist who isn’t an AIDS specialist, deliberately replaced the patient’s bone marrow cells with those from a donor who has a naturally occurring genetic mutation that renders his cells immune to almost all strains of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

FANTASTIC! BUT WHILE THIS IS GREAT NEWS, IT IS NOT “NEW” NEWS…

Why does this sound familiar?

The original article that got almost no coverage is from Wall Street Journal – Nov 2008 – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122602394113507555.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs%3Darticle
This article was then posted here in Feb 2009 – http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/stem-cells-hiv-part-2-a-doctor-a-mutation-and-a-potential-cure-for-aids-wsjcom/
The abstract of the case was posted in the New England Journal of Medicine in Feb 2009 – See abstract below

SO WHY IS IT ONLY NOW GETTING PICKED UP BY THE MEDIA??

Good question….Perhaps because they have been ordered to not publish anything other than embryonic stem cell stories over the past 3 years or so? SCREW THE EMBRYOS, THEY’RE IRRELEVANT!

Some clarifications on the story:

There were no embryos involved in this. Any time you see the words “treated” or “improved” or “recovered” associated with the words “stem cells”, assume it was from adult or repair stem cells until proven otherwise. http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/stem-cells-for-newbies/

In this case, there were 80 compatible blood donors living in Germany and on the 61st sample tested, they found one with the “retrovirus resistant” mutation from both parents.

I’ve been told the procedure cost about $150k.

Long-Term Control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 Stem-Cell Transplantation - SUMMARY

Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)requires the presence of a CD4 receptor and a chemokine receptor,principally chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5). Homozygosity for a32-bp deletion in the CCR5 allele provides resistance againstHIV-1 acquisition. We transplanted stem cells from a donor whowas homozygous for CCR5 delta32 in a patient with acute myeloidleukemia and HIV-1 infection. The patient remained without viralrebound 20 months after transplantation and discontinuationof antiretroviral therapy. This outcome demonstrates the criticalrole CCR5 plays in maintaining HIV-1 infection.

Full Text of this Article

From http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/360/7/692

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:29:14 PM by Don Margolis | with 0 comments

CEREBRAL PALSY - BRAIN DAMAGED 5 YR OLD's AMAZING IMRPOVEMENTS

EXCELLENT RESPONSE IN 5 YEAR-OLD GIRL WITH CEREBRAL PALSY/BRAIN DAMAGE AT BIRTH
March 6, 2010

The quality and quantity of a doctor's Repair Stem Cell treatment created a unique response in a 5 year-old girl with brain damage, paralyzed since birth [her SC treatment was performed at a stem cell clinic very recently].

Three days after infusion of 40 million [umbilical and placenta] stem cells prepared by the doctor's lab, the parents of the child called stating that their little girl started crawling into cabinets, then walking into cabinets & closets, pulling at objects and wandering about in their home.

This is the first time [she's ever done any of this] since birth 5 years ago. This is so far the best results that this doctor and another treating stem cell doctor has seen in the dozens of children treated. [The huge improvements are attribute to] Great stem cell culture and expansion in quantity to 40 million. All of the treating doctor's stem cells are fresh, unfrozen stem cells expanded in an incubator.

Not only is there no freezing, there is no DMSO used (Dimethyl sulfoxide - a chemical added to the Repair Stem Cells to prevent damage during freezing). No chemicals at all.

Posted: 3/8/2010 4:18:45 PM by Don Margolis | with 0 comments

CIPD Helped By New Stem Cell Research

Stem Cells Saved Her Life From CIPD

Stem cell research using a patient's own stem cells has saved a woman from chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIPD). Jennifer Osman received a stem cell transplant in 2005 that has probably saved her life.

CIPD is an inflammation of the nerves that leads to a loss of movement or sensation. Jennifer had given up hope when by chance, she was watching TV and saw a report about a stem cell research program for multiple sclerosis at Northwestern University with Dr. Richard Burt. The next day, Jennifer called Northwestern and learned they were starting a trial for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a disease similar to MS.

Below, see Jennifer and her loving husband, Rick.

Stem Cell Research Saved Jennifer From CIPD, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy

Stem Cell Research Saved Jennifer From CIPD, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy

From the stem cell news story:

The next day, she called Northwestern and learned hospital officials had been searching for qualified CIDP patients to enroll in a similar program.

"This was my first hope for life."

Her request for the experimental research treatment was initially turned down by her insurance company, but several letters from doctors and family members, as well as a financial breakdown of how the experimental program, though pricey, would still be less costly than a lifetime of the approved plasma treatments that weren't working, convinced her HMO to sign off on it.

"I was approved on my birthday," she said.

Though the hospital had been successful in treating MS patients this way, hers was the first such treatment for CIDP. No one knew what to expect.

HOW IT WORKS

In February 2005, the process of collecting stem cells began for Jennifer Osman's experimental treatment. Once doctors had gathered and frozen between 1 million and 2 million stem cells, they would knock out Jennifer's immune system and restart everything with the harvested and treated cells.

The harvesting complete, Jennifer was then blasted with high doses of chemotherapy for five days until her immune system was virtually wiped out.

Once Jennifer's blood count had been zapped, the treated stem cells were injected back into her body. It would take weeks for them to work their way into her bone marrow, creating more healthy cells and, in theory, overtaking the Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy that was attacking her peripheral nervous system.

The Power Of Adult Stem Cells- Americans Need It Now

Jennifer is now perfectly fine thanks to the power of adult stem cells. While so many marvel at the "potential" of embryonic stem cells which are great at creating tumors, adult stem cells are now helping patients improve their quality of life. Jennifer was lucky enough to qualify for a clinical trial, thousands of other Americans are not as lucky as the FDA has made it all, but impossible to get this stem cell treatment

Posted: 3/3/2010 2:46:22 AM by Don Margolis | with 0 comments

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