Storing Your Stem Cells and Immune Cells: A Smart Choice for the Future

Your body is like a complex machine that wears down and breaks down over time. If you take good care of a machine, you can keep it running longer, but it still wears down with age, and sometimes parts even break. With a machine, you can often replace a broken part with a brand-new part. What if you could do something similar with your own body? One way you can do this with existing technology today is to bank some of your immune and stem cells when you are healthy. This is a preventative and proactive plan in case anything goes wrong in the future.

How does it work?
The process involves collecting your immune cells and stem cells from your blood. This technique is called apheresis, and it has been used in the medical field for decades. Many of the stem cells in your body are found in the bone marrow, but they can be temporarily mobilized into the blood with an immune signaling molecule known as a cytokine. Stem cells are very valuable cells because they can divide and become many different cell types such as the cells of your immune system. Once some of the immune cells and stem cells are collected by apheresis, they can be preserved by freezing them at very low temperatures. As you go on with your life, the cells in your body go through a process of aging. At the cellular level, your cells age in several ways. Something called the “methylation clock” changes with time making your cells older and less functional. The caps at the ends of chromosomes known as the telomeres shorten as cells divide. Mutations in the DNA also accumulate, and if certain mutations occur, cancer can result. As your cells are aging, the cells that you froze and stored in the stem cell bank will remain in pristine condition for decades.

What are the benefits?
Having your immune and stem cells frozen and preserved could prove beneficial in many ways. There are many illnesses such as cancers, infections, and blood disorders which can be treated with immune cell transplants. However, these transplants require a compatible donor. If the transplanted immune cells are not genetically similar enough to your body, your body’s defenses will reject the cells, or alternatively, the foreign immune cells can even attack your body. There is no match that is a better match for your body than your own cells.

Banking your own cells is also beneficial because science and technology are rapidly progressing. The first airplane built by the Wright brothers in 1903 travelled only 120 feet during a 12 second flight. Only 66 years later, in 1969, humans were landing on the moon, and large airplanes were crossing oceans. Similarly, medical technologies are rapidly progressing today, and scientists and doctors will be able to cure diseases with your stem cells that are incurable today. Immunotherapy is progressing rapidly, and scientists are getting better at genetically modifying immune cells for personalized medicine to precisely eliminate cancers. Additionally, investors from companies such as Google and Amazon are funding research to understand the aging process. Discoveries from such research could potentially be used to enhance and rejuvenate your own banked stem cells, making them even better at division and repair.

In summary, banking your own stem and immune cells is a way to prepare for unexpected health issues and to take advantage of the new medical treatments of the future.

Please call Dr. Maharaj or Dr. Whittemore at 561-752-5522, https://maharajinstitute.com. Email: info@bmscti.org to see how they can help you measure and maintain your healthy immune system and bank your own stem cells and immune cells for future use. Office 10301 Hagen Ranch Rd. Suite 600, Boynton Beach FL 33437.