Stem cell therapy : a rising tide : how stem cells are disrupting medicine and transforming lives

Stem cells are the repair cells of your body. When there aren't enough of them, or they aren't working properly, chronic diseases can manifest and persist. From industry leaders, sport stars, and Hollywood icons to thousands of everyday, ordinary people, stem cell therapy has helped when standard medicine failed. Many of them had lost hope. These are their stories.Neil H Riordan, author of__MSC: Clinical Evidence Leading Medicine's Next Frontier,__the definitive textbook on clinical stem cell therapy, brings you an easy-to-read book about how and why stem cells work, and why they're the wave of the future. Back Cover 2 Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Table of contents 5 Foreword 7 Introduction 9 Chapter One: The Seed Is Planted—Hope for Muscular Dystrophy 12 Chapter Two: The Body’s Innate Healing Ability— Cancer Spelled Backwards 23 Chapter Three: Redirecting the Immune System— Cancer Exposed 33 Chapter Four: Getting Started with Stem Cells 44 Chapter Five: Stem Cells in Action 59 Arnold Caplan Interview 76 Robert Harari Interview 87 Chapter Six: Spinal Cord Injury—The Ultimate Repair 95 Chapter Seven: Multiple Sclerosis— Calming the Immune System 111 Bob Harman Interview 127 Chapter Eight: Heart Failure Turnarounds— A New Approach 135 Chapter Nine: Frailty of Aging—Reversing the Inevitable 147 Chapter Ten: Respiratory Disorders—A Fresh Breath 164 Chapter Eleven: Arthritis—A New Solution 172 Chapter Twelve: Biologics in Orthopedics— The Riordan McKenna Institute 187 Chapter Thirteen: Autism—Progress, Not Regression 212 Chapter Fourteen: Ulcerative Colitis— Autoimmunity in the Gut 230 Chapter Fifteen: Diabetes—A Paradigm Shift 234 Chapter Sixteen: Lupus—An Opportunity in Autoimmune Health 241 Chapter Seventeen: Magic Juice—The Elixir of Life? 244 Chapter Eighteen: Lifestyle Choices— How to Protect Your Health 251 Chapter Nineteen: Controversy and Legality 261 Conclusion 273 Epilogue 279 References 284 Acknowledgments 340 "Stem cells are the repair cells of your body. When there aren't enough of them, or they aren't working properly, chronic diseases can manifest and persist. From industry leaders, sport stars, and Hollywood icons to thousands of everyday, ordinary people, stem cell therapy has helped when standard medicine failed. Many of them had lost hope. These are their stories. Neil H Riordan, author of MSC: Clinical Evidence Leading Medicine's Next Frontier, the definitive textbook on clinical stem cell therapy, brings you an easy-to-read book about how and why stem cells work, and why they're the wave of the future"--Back cover Em cells are the repair cells of your body. When there aren't enough of them, or they aren't working properly, chronic diseases can manifest and persist. From industry leaders, sport stars, and Hollywood icons to thousands of everyday, ordinary people, stem cell therapy has helped when standard medicine failed. Many of them had lsot hope. These are their stories. - back cover