Its a old article that I never found in my previous searches

http://www.stemcellpioneers.com/show...y-Inflammation

http://www.patientsforstemcells.org/...re-stem-cells/

Hi Jurgen,

Interesting articles - especially the second.

I have always found stem cell therapies to be a moral grey area at best, and benefits/risks are huge unknowns. Personally, I would only ever consider the use of my own stem cells, and the 2nd article states those treatments are of the least value to Medical Research. What is the likelihood of this research being pursued?

Dave.

I agree with you that the second article is interesting.I am not a expert but the university of San Diego is doing research if some kind of stemcell therapy could help people with a PN.

Those articles, doesnt have any peer-review or come from a scientific journal, i avoid searches that arnt academic, it seems to fishy to be true, if its not been tested.

I agree with you but i keep digging. Ithink we need to be proactive.
And to be honest i am getting a little bit bored we need solutions.

In everything in life we have choices.....we can sit back and wait for a solution...or we can be part of the solution. This is why I decided to try the adipose (my own stem cells taken from abdomen fat) stem cell therapy for nerve regeneration.
Of coarse in every situation, each must weigh the pro's and cons. In my situation, being very healthy other than the PN, I did not feel I was putting myself at risk with this procedure.
My biggest concern was having it done in a real doctors office---clean sterile environment, and having a real Doctor, knowledgeable and excited about the future of stem cells doing the procedure. I was fortunate and found these.
Now to wait and see if it does anything to regenerate my nerves...........

The problem with stem cells, is that they like to form tumors when placed in the body, so programming a stem cell to do what you want is very difficult, we dont know alot about stem cells, and how they are able to differentiate. iN DIABETES pn, people dont even know how nerves are damaged by being diabetic. Let say it works, but the healing will reverse itself, because you are still diabetic(assuming your not type 1) and the damage will re-occur even after treatment.