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The Miracle of Adult Stem Cells

By Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter www.lagunajournal.com

I was always big for my age, looked older than my age and hung out with older kids. Many people even thought I was older and therefore expected more of me. I was always healthy, strong and I thought invincible.  I felt like I could jump tall buildings in a single bound and had always been athletic, played all sports and even boxed.  Then suddenly I got caught up in making a living, charged into that endeavor and didn’t do much else. For example I didn’t mow my own lawn anymore, or wax my car or even take walks, much less any athletic activities. 

Then years later, after much fast food and fast living, I woke up morbidly obese. Shortly after that sobering realization during a routine physical exam, a diagnosis came back that I was a diabetic – full-blown, adult Type II.  The doctor estimated that I had probably been a diabetic for ten years or more before the diagnosis.  Being shocked into the realization of all the ramifications of having diabetes, I started researching for answers.   When I researched the American Diabetic Association, along with most diabetic specialists, it wasn’t long before I concluded they were about twenty years behind in their knowledge of the subject.

I weighed 389 pounds, stood 6’3 ½”.   I had to change my lifestyle, my habits and develop an exercise program.  I had to walk at least an hour a day, cease all the fast food intake and temptations, even cut out social drinking. But, I was determined to control my diabetes and do it without painful injections of insulin.

I am not a Doctor, Lawyer or an Indian Chief. I am just a guy who was mis-diagnosed as having heart disease and was told I would die from it in the near future. When in reality I actually had diabetes and had the symptoms for at least ten years before that. Although I had many doctor exams and regular check-ups. My diabetes was still missed. It is estimated that as many as 33% of Americans suffer from diabetes and many of those don't even know they have the disease. 

 Diabetes is a national killer. With heart disease and cancer leading the way. Many times the underlining cause of death is diabetes, but is often listed as heart attack or other causes. Diabetes can lead to heart failure, kidney disease and disease of all your vital organs. It can also lead to blindness and often amputations.

It was early 1997 when I was first told I had heart trouble and in July 2000 my diabetes was discovered. My first heart attack was Aug of 2004. I weighed in at 389 lbs. My blood pressure was 198/110. Discovering Isagenix was one of the best things that has happened to me. After doing the isagenix cleansing and nutritional shakes for 52 days I was down to 280 lbs., and my BP was 140/80. My BP remains within normal range of a healthy 40-year-old male. I have more energy and stamina now then when I was 40, my thinking is clearer than it has been in years and my libido has gone off the charts. I attribute this miracle to God’s healing powers and His bringing me the knowledge of isagenix and stemEnhance.

Because of the diabetes, I knew losing weight was imperative, so in 52 days I lost 111 pounds, thanks to God and the Isagenix body cleansing and nutritional shake. 

(For more information on the amazing Isagenix program, go to www.Akkeeia.isagenix.com.   

Then later on while spending a week at one of my favorite places in the world, Stevenswood resort & Spa in Mendocino, California, www.stevenswood.com I was out hiking with the boys and my wife, Peggy, I felt some distress in my chest.  I thought I had pulled a muscle and would have the rest of the week to work it out.  Well, it ended up that I couldn’t drive home; I had to lie in the back of the SUV.  I wasn’t in serious pain, just some discomfort, but not so much that I thought I was having a heart attack.  When we got home, my wife insisted I see a doctor, and I wasn’t in his office more than a short time before he called the paramedics and they came and rushed me off to the hospital.

Hospitals are usually very concerned about the potential of heart attack or if you’re having a heart attack. If you are over 50, they think you’re a candidate, so they usually rush you right in, because now most hospital emergency rooms are trained that moments in a heart attack or stroke can make a difference between life or death.  They get on it pretty good.  At any rate, the local ER doctor felt like I was having a heart attack, my enzymes were up, and all tests showed that I probably was having a heart attack and that I probably had been having a “silent” heart attack for the past week.  Then some angiogram information and other tests showed that three of my major arteries to my heart were 98 per cent blocked, and that the ER doctor was getting hold of a cardiologist whom was on call at the hospital to appraise and evaluate me for possible open-heart bypass surgery, which of course, I did not want.  I wanted to avoid that wherever possible.  Lucky I think for me, or at least it appeared to be lucky for me at the time, my general practitioner, who I had a good relationship with, had a friend, an associate who was a cardiologist, and I’d been waiting for some time for the hospital on-call cardiologist to show up, several hours had gone by and he was still in surgery and couldn’t come by.  So, when my GP called me and offered me his friend, that was refreshing and within a short period of time this new cardiologist showed up.  His specialty was not open-heart surgery. His specialty was  putting stints in the artery, and most doctors will recommend your doing whatever their particular specialty is.  The new cardiologist showed up and after he did some tests, and we talked he felt that I may have coronary artery disease also called CAD. This means that vessels carrying blood and oxygen to my heart may be narrowed or even blocked. Left untreated CAD can lead to a heart attack or sudden death. The Doctor finally convinced me to go and have a test called an Angiogram this is cardiac catheterization and is the best way to gather information about the coronary arteries. During this procedure, a flexible tube called a catheter is inserted into a blood vessel and carefully guided to your heart. Once there, the catheter is used to do tests that can locate blockages. If that shows significant blockages, catheters and other devices, such as tiny balloons, may be used to open up and widen narrowed arteries. My angiogram confirmed there were three arties with 98% blockages. Treating my CAD would require angioplasty and stenting. These procedures widen the channel where blood flows in an artery. A stent is a flexible tube made of wire mesh. The stent, in a collapsed form, is mounted onto a balloon catheter. The balloon and stent are guided across the lesion. Once in place, the balloon is inflated. This pushes plaque against the artery wall and opens the stent. The balloon is then deflated and removed. The stent remains as a permanent support, helping to hold the artery open. My three stents are drug-eluting. They slowly release medication over a period of time. The medication reduces the amount of scar tissue that forms inside the artery. This can help prevent restenosis a renarrowing of the artery at the same site. During these procedures he put stints in those narrowed areas of my three major arteries that were 98 percent blocked. 

Like cardiac cath, these procedures are also performed in a cath lab. 

So after having that procedure the stents seemed to be doing pretty well.  Just a few days later, I don’t know exactly how long, I was at work and not feeling any pressure or any problems, actually feeling very good, better than I had for a very long time.  Suddenly, I had a crushing, terrible, horrible chest pain that put me to my knees.  I was able to somehow drive and rushed myself to the emergency room (not a good idea) where they did all kinds of tests again, thinned my blood, went in and did another angiogram test procedure.  They woke me up during the procedure and told me that one of the stents that had been recently inserted had clogged up. There was a blood clot there and they didn’t know what else they could do except back out, give me a lot of blood thinners and hope for the best.  That’s what we did and, fortunately, several days in the hospital with massive blood thinners and all kinds of other medications, I was able to survive that and went home. 

There I was, back out in the world, trying the E-Ticket-ride and doing all the things you’ve gotta do, which was very difficult.  I eventually came to a point where my doctors indicated I would need bypass surgery, and they actually scheduled it.  Having your bypass surgery scheduled is a frightening realization of where you’re at in your life, and I took it very seriously.  

As usual, I got to do the research and what I wanted to research was an alternative.  The doctor told me my heart was damaged from the other two incidents with my “silent” heart attack and then my second massive attack from the clogged artery or what they thought was probably a blood clot.

Then, I’d had an atrial fibrillation attack when I was in Washington State while visiting my Mother on Mother day on may 2006. Atrial fibrillation is the atrium beating out of control and rhythm with the rest of the heart and can be very dangerous. I had to be defibrillated by the paramedic’s at my Mom’s and two more times later at the hospital to shock my heart back into a normal sinus rhythm. Then, about six months later in Oct of 2006 I had another atrial fibrillation attack. I had to be again rushed to a hospital and defibrillated for a forth time. 

These two incidents led me to try and find some alternatives, even though I knew that in medicine today, anywhere in the world, nothing could bring back heart muscle.  When a coronary artery is blocked like mine by plaque or a blood clot. When this happens, the heart muscle beyond the blockage doesn’t receive oxygen. That damage cannot be reversed. If you lose heart muscle, depending upon the percentage of it, its functionality reduces dramatically, my heart function was down somewhere between 35 and 45 out of a possible 100(called an Ejection Fraction Test or EF).  That’s how much the left chamber of the heart, is putting out into your system, and it’s a gauge to tell how much heart damage there’s been.  Once you lose heart muscle, mankind does not know how to replace it and there’s no way to do it. 

But I still didn’t want to go through major open-heart by-pass surgery and take those risks and those chances; it’s very expensive and I didn’t have any insurance, so I’d just gotten through an unbelievable experience with my son contracting squamous cell carcinoma that kept our undivided attention with him for over a year.  So I was really in no mood, didn’t want to do it and was looking for alternatives on the Internet. I researched everything I could. I followed every lead for any possible alternatives to open-heart surgery, and there just didn’t seem to be any. 

Then, one day, I found information on adult stem cells.  I’d already researched the embryonic stem cells, and that was so far away, there weren’t any clinical trials going on, etc.  It was two, five, maybe ten years away, and with the controversy over embryonic stem cells, the future of that happening in any time to help me was pretty dim.  So when I found the adult stem cells which had been discovered many years ago. I found out every adult already has stem cells in their system; we just don’t have enough of them to deal with catastrophic injuries like damaged heart muscle. 

When you have a small trauma like say a laceration on your finger, these white and red cells go to that site, the white ones are there to protect against infection getting into your closed blood system of your body. The red ones are the adult stem cells which actually do the healing, that heals that cut on your finger.  But the average adult doesn’t have a lot of stem cells circulating in their blood.  Kids, babies, young people have more than adults, because as we age, we seem to lose adult stem cells. 

The miracle of adult stem cells is that they can go to anywhere in your body, as in my case to my heart, or they can go to your kidneys or pancreas, or whatever, even brain tissue, and become that particular cell – your heart cell, your kidney cell, your brain cell, and will actually repair whatever the problem is.  So in my case, if I had enough adult stem cells, theoretically, they would have already gone to my heart and repaired it – would have built new arteries, cleaned out the congested or clogged arteries that you have.  But I didn’t have enough, and most people don’t.  When I discovered the alternative, the adult stem cell treatment that I found was available in Bangkok, where they would draw your blood that showed it had some adult stem cells in it; they would send it to a special laboratory in Israel that has an exclusive, patented process that “jazzes up” the adult stem cells, if you will, and turns the few that’s in your blood sample into millions of adult stem cells.  They then take that and through a catheter inserted through your femoral artery to the inside walls of your heart. They know through tests where the damage in your heart is located, and they inject your own adult stem cells into your heart where the damage is.  They then transform into heart muscle and they actually rejuvenate and grow new heart muscle. 

For the first time ever in history this treatment is now possible - there are actually Doctors in the world doing it. Many are American Doctors not able to do the procedure in the States but are doing them in Bangkok and elsewhere.

Here is one such company:

Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Disease and Peripheral Artery Disease ...

After having researched that and spoke with the doctors and the hospital, I was actually scheduled to go have that treatment.  It was an alternative, at that time, to open-heart surgery, and I was just thrilled to have found it.  I had my fingers crossed, and my whole family was praying that it would actually work. 

One of the amazing things about adult stem cells is that because they’re your own stem cells, you have no rejection problem like you do when, for example, you get someone else’s heart in a heart transplant operation or even putting in a mechanical, manmade heart.  In both cases, there are massive rejection problems. They have to give you lots of different kinds of medications, and it’s a very dangerous procedure.  Most people don’t last very long in either case. 

So, the idea of the adult stem cell procedure was just fantastic.  While I’m waiting to go to Bangkok and have the procedure I’m still researching and happen to run into a company that is producing an adult stem cell capsule which actually purports to wake up your adult stem cells and puts them into your system.  It’s just a capsule!  It’s been approved by the FDA.  And, it’s in a town just down the road from me.  So, I jumped in the car and went down to meet these people.  It’s called StemTech and the product is StemEnhance. 

www.ABCDE.stemtechhealth.com

Their scientists had very recently developed a new product and had patented the ingredients.  All it seems to intel you have take the capsules. They apparently go into your system.  In your bone marrow lays your stem cells.  They lie dormant in there, and your blood just draws a few of them out and they circulate in your system.  But when you take this product (Stem Enhance), they draw those adult stem cells from your own bone marrow, put them into your system and they, like little soldiers, and go throughout your entire circulatory system searching for damaged organs.   

According to the company this capsule has the ability to not only draw stem cells out of your bone marrow, but will cause your heart, pancreas or any damaged organ or brain cell to actually send out a signal to the stem cells as they are passing by in the blood, saying in essence Hey, come over here.  I’ve got damage here in my heart, and I need your attention here.  It’s believed they go to the area in the heart that’s damaged, they embed themselves, and they then miraculously turn into heart muscle cells.  They can actually rejuvenate and create new heart muscle. Possibly repair your heart to a point where your heart is as good as ever, and in many cases, may be better than ever. 

The same is also believed true for diabetics - it will go to the pancreas, repair it and let the pancreas revive itself.  It’s also very effective for spinal injuries, Parkinsons’ disease, the liver, other organs, brain cells, and the list just goes on and on. 

This is the future of tomorrow in medicine – but its here today!  Remember, I was already scheduled for open-heart surgery, and hadn’t actually cancelled it yet and was scheduled for the alternative adult stem cell injections through the catheter into my heart in Bangkok.  Now I’m postponing the Bangkok treatment and actually canceling the open heart surgery.

I tried the adult stem cell enhancer product.  The first day I took two capsules.  The only thing I noticed the first day is I had a little more energy, and I felt a little better.  Actually in the last few days and weeks before I went to the emergency room and after I got out of the hospital for my atrial fibrillation episodes and my heart attacks, I was laying flat in bed and the only time I got up was to go to the bathroom.  My toilet was only about 30 feet from my bed and because I also have prostate problems, I have to interrupt my sleep every night several times to go to the bathroom.  Every time I’d have to get up and go those 30 feet, by the time I’d get back to bed, I’d have chest pain, pain in my left arm and shortness of breath.  These are all terrible signs of a failing heart, and if you have them, you’ve probably got some serious problems.

So after only three days of taking adult stem cells, with my wife we went to the mall (which is a pretty good-sized mall), and I did four laps around the mall, which is equivalent to about two miles.  I was able to go up to the food terrace using the stairs, not the escalator (we went up there twice), and I had no chest pain. I had no arm pain, nor any shortness of breath. 

I’ve been on the adult stem cell enhancers ever since.  I now take three capsules, four times a day.  I walk all over the place, go up and down stairs I go to meetings where often I have to stand for long periods – I’m very, very active.  I have no chest pain, no pain in my left arm and I have no shortness of breath.  I feel strong as an ox, people are telling me I look really good, I’m feeling really good, and it’s just amazing!

I now have official confirmation as of April 2007. May 2006 my Echocardiogram ejection fraction was estimated at 35-45%. Today my EF is estimated at 48-50%. Which is unheard of according to the experts I have spoken with? The EF shows how much blood your heart is pumping into the system. It is expected to get worse not better with time because heart decease is progressive. So usually the best one can hope for is for your EF to remain the same. Now remember the May 2006 test was just after my first atrial fibrillation episode and I had another episode in Oct 2006, at which time I did not have a test for my EF. I could feel it had worsened so my EF may have gone even lower. But now after only about two weeks or so taking StemHance my reading is much better and has actually gone up.

So this is my amazing, miracle stem cell story that is practically unbelievable. Its really helped me, and I believe it can help a lot of others. 

My wife, my mother and many other relatives and friends have wonderful

experiences from taking StemEnhance. Try it for yourself is all I can say.

I do recommend it. I recommend it strongly, and it is a miracle to me.  

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