michele_g

Hi, I recently stumbled upon this while helping someone to check out StemEnhance. I'm not a fully-fledged scientist, but would like to add some points: 1. SE increases # circulating CD34+ cells. There are many types of CD34+ cells including hematopoietic cells, endothelial progenitor cells, endothelial cells of blood vessels and mast cells. Hematopoietic stem cells are CD34+CD38-, so SE is wrong in identifying all CD34+ cells as stem cells. In any case, it is generally thought to be impossible to obtain 100% pure population of cells even when using a battery of markers, much less just the 1 marker used here. 2. So SE simply floods the body with CD34+ cells, which may or may not be stem cells. Even if there were an increased #hematopoietic stem cells released into the body, these could very well either simply be unused and later metabolised, or in a worst-case scenario, develop into cancers. Stem cells are, after all, characterised by their ability to form any type of cell downstream of their lineage. I'm upset by the variety of hyped pseudo-scientific medical treatments being touted today, which throw up some big, multi-syllable scientific words and then try to make money off people who are wont to believe in just about anything in their desire to maintain or improve their or their loved ones' health.