How Our Stem Cell Therapy Works
The body has two types of cells to respond to injury: stem cells and white blood cells. Stem cells help injuries heal naturally with like tissue, while white blood cells heal with scar tissue, leading to pain and decreased or lack of functionality.
Our technology helps doctors harness their patients’ own adipose derived stem cells, which are otherwise dormant and sequestered from the rest of the body in the adipose tissue and make these powerful, regenerative cells bio-available to help promote healing naturally.
In this new era of medicine, it’s critical that our work be tracked and analyzed so that we can best understand how to approach the many cellular conditions we’re faced with as physicians on a daily basis. Our database helps us make the best decision for patients and share our findings on a global level to advance personal cell therapy.
Understanding Stem Cells
Stem cells are cells that are able to either self-replicate, differentiate into other cell types, or act via a paracrine effect providing specific signals to injured or damaged cells. When we’re young, our bodies have much larger quantities of stem cells, which is why we heal quickly from injury. As we age, our native stem cell populations are depleted, and healing takes much longer, as it’s often not accomplished by stem cells but by white blood cells that result in scar tissue.
There are stem cells located throughout the body, but we choose to work with adipose derived stem cells for very specific reasons.
| 1 | Stem cells are cells that are able to either self-replicate differentiate into other cell types, or act via a paracrine effect providing specific signals to injured or damaged cells. When we’re young, our bodies have much larger quantities of stem cells, which is why we heal quickly from injury. As we age, our native stem cell populations are depleted, and healing takes much longer, as it’s often not accomplished by stem cells but by white blood cells that result in scar tissue. |
| 2 | Adipose derived stem cells are numerous There are about 500 to 2,000 times more stem cells in your adipose tissue than your bone marrow. When trying to promote healing, we would like to have the greatest number of young, healthy cells and adipose gives us the best opportunity to do that. |
| 3 | Most people are willing to donate a little bit of fat We don’t need much, only a 50cc lipoaspirate. The extraction process is simple and easy, all performed under local anesthesia. |
