Adult Stem Cells
Remember, that every single day your cells are attacked, repaired and reproduced as part of it’s daily process.
- The key to better health as you age is to regain the ability to repair the damage done to your cells each day before they are reproduced
- If your body can’t repair this damage each day, damaged cells will get reproduced
- This accumulated cell damage results in the decline of your health
Keep reading for a more detailed description of the details… or take a shortcut to the solution for Complete Cellular Health.
We learned on the previous page that DNA holds the details that determine your health and long term protection from chronic disease. We also talked about why it is so important to protect the DNA repair process of your body.
Now, it’s time to learn about the mechanism used to protect your DNA… adult stem cells and the importance of stem cell health.
What Are Adult Stem Cells?
Adult stem cells are what gives you the ability to repair the damage that is done to your body every day. Clearly, this means that your adult stem cell health is extraordinarily important to your health, especially as you age.
You have “adult” stem cells on the day you are born. On a daily basis, these adult stem cells multiply through the process of cell division to replace dying cells and to regenerate damaged tissues. The “regeneration” part of that is the exciting new breakthrough in the science world. Not only do they work to replace cells that die as part of the daily process, but they have the ability to regenerate.
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An adult stem cell is an undifferentiated cell found in a differentiated tissue. It has the unique ability to renew itself and create specialized cells of the tissue it came from. Adult stem cells have the ability of self-renewal for the lifetime of the organism. |
It’s important to make a distinction here between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells.
There is a great deal of political and moral debate regarding the use of embryonic stem cells for any kind of purpose related to science and health. This is not the case for adult stem cells. The name is similar, but their purpose is not.
Is There Controversy About Adult Stem Cells?
There is no controversy surrounding adult stem cells. They are the natural DNA repair mechanism system in your own body. The quality and condition of your adult stem cells determine how healthy your body is and they have the ability to slow down aging and disease. In some cases, they can actually reverse damage that has already occurred.
In fact, the current science and research being done on adult stem cells is mind blowing. We have talked about them because they can regenerate themselves, however, they also have a unique ability to transform into other kinds of cells.
The theory is that (for example) your adult stem cells can find damaged tissue in your liver, transform themselves into healthy liver cells and replace the damaged ones. The future is that if you had liver, kidney, etc problems, your adult stem cells could be used to produce a new, healthy organ. Think about the health problems that will be eliminated when the researchers better understand how to use adult stem cells in this capacity.
However, for our purposes, we are only focusing on adult stem cells and their ability to protect the health of your DNA to keep you from becoming ill in the first place.
Why Do You Get Old?
The reason people tend to get less healthy as they age, isn’t because they’re "old".
They slow down and become less healthy because their body has lost the ability to repair the damage done to their DNA each day.
Protecting the health of your adult stem cells means your body will retain it’s ability to withstand the daily attacks for a much longer period of time. This keeps you younger, for a longer time and helps protect you from chronic disease.
Clearly, it’s important for you to protect the health of your adult stem cells.
The $64,000 question is whether or not there is a way to protect your adult stem cells.
There is. The answer is the concept of cellular nutrition. Check out the next page…
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