As a result, products under the name of stem cells (mainly skin care products) emerge one after another. In addition to plant stem cell, sheep placenta even includes umbilical cord blood stem cells and horse placenta ... It sounds more and more bizarre, and it feels more and more sinister, but there are always fairies who are desperate for beauty and are willing to try drugs on mice.
However, before everyone is ready to move, please take 10 minutes to read this article. I believe that Mom A can solve 90% of your confusion.
▍ Action principle of stem cells
Under certain conditions, stem cells can be induced to differentiate into specific cells with unique functions. Maybe one day, today's "terminal illness" may become as simple as changing a part of a car ~
As seed cells of the origin of life, stem cells can activate cell regeneration in vivo, and their main functions lie in the following aspects:
1, improve metabolic function
Stem cell therapy can improve the metabolic function of various lipoproteins, effectively reduce the concentration of total cholesterol, triglycerides and low-level lipoproteins in blood, and has the effects of reducing blood lipid, blood sugar and weight loss, which is of great value for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes.
2. Improve immune function
Transplantation of exogenous stem cells can rebuild the patient's hematopoietic immune system and restore the patient's normal immune function. The decline of immune function is one of the important signs of aging, and stem cell transplantation can effectively improve people's immune function. Therefore, stem cell transplantation is one of the most effective implementations to maintain people's health and aging.
3. Cell regeneration and tissue repair
After our skin or organs are injured, stem cells can quickly reach the injured site and participate in the repair and replacement of the injury by transplantation.
4. Application in major refractory diseases.
Regenerative medicine with stem cell therapy as the core plays an important role in the treatment of major diseases in nervous, blood, cardiovascular and reproductive systems and organs such as liver, kidney and pancreas.
5. Anti-aging
Functional stem cells can not only repair aging cells and make new cells, but also stimulate the activity of other sleeping cells in the body, improve the microcirculation of the human body, let the human body radiate youthful vitality from the inside out, and delay the aging of the body from the root.
Can stem cells really be beautiful?
But how much medical application can there be? Let's leave it to the doctor. So what is the relationship between stem cells and beauty?
In fact, stem cells have nothing to do with beauty.
Because its function is mainly to repair in vivo-as blood travels all over the body and meets damaged organs and tissues, it can differentiate into cells needed by organs and help organs recover their functions.
Naturally, it also includes restoring the vitality of the skin and making the skin have anti-aging ability, so it can reduce the skin sequelae caused by aging, such as wrinkles, age spots, acne and so on.
Because the skin changes are visible to the naked eye, stem cells will be hot spots in the beauty industry. In fact, the function of stem cells is far more than that. Because of its differentiation and repair ability, stem cells can treat or alleviate many sub-health and chronic diseases caused by organ aging, such as three highs, menopause, habitual abortion, liver cirrhosis, prostate disorders, and the repair and protection of uterus and ovary.
Therefore, stem cells just help you repair your overall function and make a beauty for you by the way.
▍ Just a little bit to distinguish between true and false stem cells
Knowing the relationship between stem cells and beauty, we only need to know a little to distinguish between true and false stem cells. That is ↓
? Stem cells must be living cells to have the ability to differentiate and repair:
However, the preservation method of these cells is extremely extreme, and they must be completely frozen below-190 degrees to maintain their activity.
Stem cells are living cells. In order to prevent stem cells from clumping, the best inoculation method is to inject stem cells into normal saline, and then drip them into the human body to survive and play their best role.
Stem cells, as living cells, have certain security risks, and must have very high standards of security measures.
▍ "IQ tax" high stem cell skin care products
How hot is "stem cell beauty"?
The business of a company specializing in apple stem cell beauty has grown rapidly, with at least 8 branches. In addition, similar products such as seaweed stem cells and grape stem cells on the market are also selling like hot cakes. But do their effects really have anything to do with stem cells?
Scam 1: plant stem cell
Knowledge: Old wine in new bottles, there is no hot spot in the world that I can't touch.
If we compare stem cells to superstars, skin care products are definitely hardcore players. All the strange terms in biology have been borrowed from skin care products when they are still in the clinical trial stage in medicine.
This grandiose style of writing, this magical curative effect, let mother A almost think that this is the elixir of the old gentleman. ...
First, stem cells at room temperature must lose their activity.
Second, whether it's apple or grape ginkgo, plant stem cell differentiated plant organs. If plant stem cell really enters your body, even if your body doesn't produce rejection reaction, it can only differentiate plant cells such as branches and leaves. It's totally nonsense to say that stimulating human stem cells, unless you think "Hulk" is quite good?
Third, what are the stem cells in the eyes of merchants? Based on the principle of not letting a bad person go and not wronging a good person, Mom A went to find the ingredient list of a certain plant stem cell skin care product and found that their main ingredient was Ginkgo biloba extract.
In fact, Ginkgo biloba extract does have a certain skin care effect, but what does this have to do with stem cells? Is it true that in the eyes of merchants, plant extracts are about equal to plant stem cell? This rounding ability, even Ni Ping aunt to shame.
If you have unfortunately bought skin care products from plant stem cell, don't panic. If the business has a conscience, just using stem cells as a gimmick does not mean that skin care products have no other effective ingredients (for example, some plant extracts, oligopeptides, seaweed, etc. have certain skin care effects), but the effect is definitely not as amazing as boasting.
But if you are unlucky enough to meet a heartless businessman, you can only pray that there are no harmful ingredients in it, and there is nothing to be done. Otherwise, customers like the picture below bought so-called apple stem cells, but found that the heavy metals in the skin exceeded the standard seriously, which would be too painful.
Scam 2: sheep placenta
Knowledge point: The origin has stopped, and China merchants are still selling dog meat.
Like stem cells, sheep placenta extract was once a popular star anti-aging product. However, in April of 20 15, the Swiss medical supervision department, the birthplace of sheep placenta extract, completely stopped the anti-aging therapy of sheep placenta extract because of the safety of injecting living animal cells into human body.
And a large number of skin care products about sheep placenta are already spoiled products that sell dog meat by hanging sheep's head.
Scam 3: oral stem cells
Knowledge point: any living thing will become dead if eaten, not to mention that it is already dead.
When you choose to take something orally, it becomes an ordinary food. The stomach will treat all food equally. Even ordinary protein and sugar will be differentiated into small molecules of amino acids or monosaccharides by the stomach, and then slowly digested, not to mention a bottle of living cells.
Besides, a group of inactivated dead cells, at most, are some extracts, and they are not targeted drugs, so how can they be targeted? It's really glistening money, and it's all paid IQ tax.
▍A mom recommended
In order to prevent people from buying "three-no" products or harmful cosmetics, here we recommend a new APP called "Cosmetic Supervision", which is officially released by National Medical Products Administration, and is an authoritative channel for inquiring about cosmetic filing, popular science and sampling inspection. Fairies should install it quickly.
▍ Scam 4: Human stem cells that do not meet the specifications
Don't think that Mom A is finished here. The most stupid thing is not these obvious scams. It's all kinds of scams that come from the same source as real stem cells, but are caused by irregularities. For example, the danger of stem cells themselves, illegal medical operation (without formal license), unqualified storage environment, irregular medical treatment course, and the lack of authority of attending doctors will all affect the therapeutic effect of stem cells, and even lead to serious deaths! !
The choice of 1. stem cells determines the safety of the source.
Are stem cells from the human body necessarily safe?
Of course not.
For example, last year's news that wealthy businessmen from China teamed up to inject 90,000 euros of stem cells into Ukraine was questioned as a fool with more money. Ukrainian stem cells use human embryonic stem cells. Although human embryonic stem cells have a strong ability to repair, they have a certain risk of tumorigenesis because of their excessive division, and their sources are derived from human embryos, which is subject to great ethical and moral controversy.
The sources of human stem cells are also very rich, and the following are widely used.
Now in the field of stem cell anti-aging, it is umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells that have been widely recognized by authorities.
After decades of research on stem cells and regenerative medicine, it is found that there is a layer of gel-like substance rich in mesenchymal stem cells around the arteriole in the umbilical cord tissue of newborns-called "Huatong's glue". Nowadays, umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells, which are widely used, come from Huatong glue.
Compared with other stem cells, it has a very unique advantage.
▍ Advantages of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells
(1) Convenient materials: no moral and ethical disputes, large number of cells, and strong proliferation ability.
(2) No rejection: it is not easy to be recognized by immune cells. It can produce cytokines, inhibit the proliferation of T cells and immune response, and then rebuild immune function.
(3) Super homing: Mesenchymal stem cells have stronger homing and lower requirements for transfusion in clinic.
(4) Strong differentiation potential: It has stronger differentiation potential and can differentiate into different tissues and cells.
At present, there are more than 1 10,000 cases of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells in clinic, and there are basically no adverse reactions. Only a few customers will feel hot, but they will be fine in two days, and their safety has been widely verified. This is also the most common stem cell used to treat the disease before it happens, to repair it in vivo and to resist aging.
As for the hematopoietic stem cells in umbilical cord blood, mother A said something beside the point. Now that the pregnant mother goes to the hospital, someone will definitely sell you to save umbilical cord blood. However, Mama A suggested that we should not waste this money, but donate it directly to the local stem cell bank. As for why, Mom A will also send a special post to everyone in the future, and those who are interested can continue to pay attention.
2. Medical operation needs legal compliance.
The institution where you inoculate stem cells must be legal and have internationally recognized qualifications.
For example, although stem cell research in China ranks among the top in the world, people are encouraged to store and donate umbilical cord blood. Many cities have their own stem cell banks. However, in China, the research of stem cells and regenerative medicine is limited to clinical research and treatment of specific diseases, and it is illegal to carry out any commercial use.
This is mainly because the population of China is too large, and the medical market is very complicated. Once the medical sector is opened, it is prone to problems. This one-size-fits-all attitude is in line with the style of our relevant departments.
For example, Kaierku in Malaysia, as the largest umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cell bank in Southeast Asia, is the only enterprise in Malaysia that holds both umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell storage licenses and umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cell storage licenses. It passed PIC/S cGMP certification in 20 13 and is an internationally renowned stem cell medical institution.
3. The storage environment is quite harsh.
The storage of stem cells requires very high environmental requirements, and they must be stored in liquid nitrogen below-190 C to maintain their activity. This puts high demands on the authority of the organization.
Kaierku has 8 stem cell banks with grade 100 clean room.
The experimental research institute has built-in anti-bacterial and anti-fungal floors. The first medical laboratory with central monitoring and control system. 24 hours through the central monitoring system and advanced access control data communication system supervision.
Even one second before inoculation, it needs to be kept in an environment below-190 degrees to maintain activity.
4. The inoculation process must be very standardized.
Before stem cells are inoculated, it is necessary to do a comprehensive physical examination of the body. According to the functional indexes of various organs of the body, the doctor will prescribe the right medicine according to the results of the physical examination, and determine the stem cell weight and inoculation method (mainly drip and supplemented by injection). Ensure that stem cells maximize their effects on the human body.
In this regard, in the last article, we emphasized that Malaysia's medical tourism is very developed, and the health check-up system of Mega is very professional and streamlined, with as many as 120 items to ensure that every customer is the right medicine.
Click to learn: The reason behind the medical tourism fire in Malaysia is not simple.
Finally, after 3-6 months of stem cell inoculation, it is necessary to have a general physical examination again, and through the changes of various indexes of the body, we can get the repair situation of the body after this stem cell inoculation.
Is a complete stem cell treatment more complicated than you think?
5. The authority of the attending physician.
Because stem cells are essentially drugs, doctors need to prescribe different doses and different parts for drip or injection according to the patient's physical condition. This puts very high demands on the experience and authority of doctors.
This can be judged from the length of time doctors have been in the field of stem cell research, the awards they have won and the past successful cases.
In short, stem cells are expensive, but they are expensive for a reason. Although it is good, if you are not careful, you will fall into the trap set by the liar. After all, you must be cautious about what you put into your body, not to mention paying real money that ordinary people can't understand! If you don't choose a reliable institution, stem cells will not only be useless, but also make your health worse. This "stupid person has more money" hat can't be taken off.