ADULT STEM CELL: BEACON OF HOPE Launch of First Generation Stem Cell Product

02.02.10

So what is a stem cell? And how can Colostem® help?

A stem cell is a cell that has the ability to duplicate itself endlessly and to become cells of virtually any organ and tissue of the body. “Stem cells are not only entire cells; they are, to one degree or another, the exquisitely sensitive cells of early development. They speak the cellular language fluently, juggling many molecular messages at once, as they do when they’re building the body. When transplanted they appear to respond to molecular cries for help. They can react to heart-attack damage by forming or prompting the formation of both blood vessels and cardiac muscle. They react to neural damage either by morphing into and replacing neurons that have died, becoming a seamless part of the brain’s conversation with itself, or by issuing molecular instructions, teaching it the language of rejuvenation…. Furthermore, not only is this form of “medicine” potentially smarter than we are, knowing its way around the body better than we do, but the body also knows this “medicine” better than it does the conventional pill.” (Award-winning science writer Cynthia Fox in Cell of Cells.) In theory, the body has its own repair system. If body tissue is damaged, adult stem cells head for the damaged area to accelerate the healing process. However, day-to-day processes in the human body also rely on stem cells: our erythrocytes only live for about 120 to 130 days, by which time they have become too old, inefficient in the transportation of oxygen and have to be replaced. This task is taken over by the hematopoietic stem cells found in the bone marrow. According to theoretical calculations, about 350 million new erythrocytes are formed every minute. Most of the other somatic cells are also replaced regularly: liver cells after 10 to 15 days, white blood cells after 1 to 3 days. That’s in theory. In practice, due to unhealthy lifestyle choices and environmental influences, we need help to support a healthy stem cell population and proliferation in our body. Healthy or not, all of us need to help the cells in our body to continuously renew them so we can combat the effects of aging. Colostem®, developed by award winning New Zealand company New Image International, contains the following natural food that have been researched by scientists and found to help to stimulate stem cell proliferation in the body:

Source: Your-Story.org (press release)

Obesity Epidemic May Have Hit Plateau in US, Researchers Find

13.01.10

By Nicole Ostrow

Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The number of U.S. adults and children who are considered obese may have leveled off over the past decade particularly among women, even if millions of Americans are still overweight, researchers found.

About 36 percent of women were obese in 2008, little changed from 1999, according to a study published today by the Journal of the American Medical Association. About 32 percent of men were classified as obese in 2008, compared with 28 percent in 1999, with most of the increase occurring in the early part of the decade.

The number of people who are obese has more than doubled in the past 30 years to 72 million, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People who are overweight or obese have a greater risk of diabetes, heart attacks and strokes, said the Atlanta-based CDC.

“We may have halted the progress of the obesity epidemic,” said William Dietz, director of the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, in a telephone interview yesterday. “We haven’t reversed it.”

Source: BusinessWeek