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Man lost his finger and was able to regrow it using a powder composed from the cells of a pig's bladder. Watch the video.
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I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. I have Ostio arthritis.which has destroyed the cartilage in my hips and knees. I have already had to undergo hip replacement surgery, but only after putting up with excruciating the pain for over 15 years.
The thought of benefiting in any way from animal research sickens me. Every day I feel the guilt wearing on me to the point that I wish I had just continued living on the pain medicine and not consented to the surgery. Trust me, living in a wheel chair would have been much better than suffering with all this guilt and shame. -
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Re-Growing Organs: the Future is Here
When Lee Spievack sliced off the tip of his finger, his brother Alan, a medical research scientist, sent him a special powder and told him to sprinkle it on the wound. In four weeks, his fingertip grew back completely.
That powder was a substance called extracellular matrix, a mix of protein and connective tissue surgeons use to repair tendons. It signals your body to start the process of tissue regrowth, and holds some of the secrets behind the emerging new science of regenerative medicine.
In one lab at Wake Forest University, researchers are already “growing body parts,” including muscle tissue and whole organs. And using this technology, a patient’s own cells have been used to grow a bladder that was then transplanted into the patient.
Many scientists believe that every tissue in your body has cells that are capable of regeneration, and the key is to find enough of those cells and direct them to grow. At least in theory, this process could be used to regrow limbs, organs, and other body parts.
Your Body Has the Ability to Regenerate
This is true on many levels, such as healing a skin wound or broken bone. It’s also true for organs, such as your liver. And, it turns out it may also be true for your limbs.
According to Bruce Lipton, PhD., who is a forerunner in the field of epigenetics and The New Biology, you could actually regenerate a lost limb -- if you had the right belief system.
“We’ve...Re-Growing Organs: the Future is Here
When Lee Spievack sliced off the tip of his finger, his brother Alan, a medical research scientist, sent him a special powder and told him to sprinkle it on the wound. In four weeks, his fingertip grew back completely.
That powder was a substance called extracellular matrix, a mix of protein and connective tissue surgeons use to repair tendons. It signals your body to start the process of tissue regrowth, and holds some of the secrets behind the emerging new science of regenerative medicine.
In one lab at Wake Forest University, researchers are already “growing body parts,” including muscle tissue and whole organs. And using this technology, a patient’s own cells have been used to grow a bladder that was then transplanted into the patient.
Many scientists believe that every tissue in your body has cells that are capable of regeneration, and the key is to find enough of those cells and direct them to grow. At least in theory, this process could be used to regrow limbs, organs, and other body parts.
Your Body Has the Ability to Regenerate
This is true on many levels, such as healing a skin wound or broken bone. It’s also true for organs, such as your liver. And, it turns out it may also be true for your limbs.
According to Bruce Lipton, PhD., who is a forerunner in the field of epigenetics and The New Biology, you could actually regenerate a lost limb -- if you had the right belief system.
“We’ve already shown abilities of regeneration that go far beyond anything that we’ve given credit to,” Dr. Lipton said, “But then we also have to recognize that, up to now, we have total beliefs against such a regeneration. I mean, it’s like people [say], 'It just can’t happen!'
Well, if that’s the belief -- it’s unfortunate because many patients in the medical system are actually prevented from really doing great healings on themselves because they buy the belief of the conventional system that this cannot happen, and it totally limits their ability.”
In other words, the only thing keeping you from the ability to regenerate any limb, organ or tissue in your body is the belief that it can’t be done. This is engrained in you from the time you’re a child, and you’re told that you must go to the doctor when you’re sick. Well, if you grew up believing that YOU could heal your body, without medicine, without doctors, and without surgeries, it would be another story.
Further proof that you have the ability to regenerate lies in stem cells, which are already in your body right now.
“I work on stem cells,” Dr. Lipton says. “Stem cells are embryonic cells. They can replace any tissue or organ in your body right now. You’re filled with stem cells.
And yet, here’s the interesting cultural belief: “Well, God must’ve given me these stem cells but apparently they don’t work, and so we’re going to give them to pharmaceutical companies and we’re going to give them billions of dollars and they’re going to find the key to how to make the stem cells works.” And it’s like, come on, give me a break. Do you think you got these stem cells with no way to use them?”
And the answer, of course, is no.
But harnessing your body’s ability to heal itself involves major shifts in your thought processes. You must believe your body can heal for it to work.
Your beliefs are energy fields, and they are working to promote either health or disease in your body right now. Which one is up to you.
If you’d like to experiment with this concept in your own life, I recommend taking it in baby steps. Start by releasing your negative emotional challenges using a tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Focus on changing one thought, such as “I am tired,” into “I am full of energy,” and see what happens.
Keep your mind open, and accept the idea that you’re in control of your health. As you continue to let go of the limiting beliefs that you have been “programmed” with since you were a child, you will increasingly see that when it comes to the ability of your mind to heal you, there are NO limitations. The sky is the limit.
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The man who grew a finger
Watch video by clicking here
Watch video by clicking here
By Matthew Price
BBC News, Ohio
In every town in every part of this sprawling country you can find a faceless sprawling strip mall in which to do the shopping.
Rarely though would you expect to find a medical miracle working behind the counter of the mall's hobby shop.
That however is what Lee Spievak considers himself to be.
"I put my finger in," Mr Spievak says, pointing towards the propeller of a model airplane, "and that's when I sliced my finger off."
It took the end right off, down to the bone, about half an inch.
"We don't know where the piece went."
The photos of his severed finger tip are pretty graphic. You can understand why doctors said he'd lost it for good.
Today though, you wouldn't know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it's all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.
'Pixie dust'
How? Well that's the truly remarkable part. It wasn't a transplant. Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip. He used a powder - or pixie dust as he sometimes refers to it while telling his story.
Mr Speivak's brother Alan - who was working in the field of regenerative medicine - sent him the powder.
For ten days Mr Spievak put a little on his finger.
"The second time I put it on I already could see growth. Each day it was up further. Finally it closed up and was a finger.
"It took about four w...The man who grew a finger
Watch video by clicking here
Watch video by clicking here
By Matthew Price
BBC News, Ohio
In every town in every part of this sprawling country you can find a faceless sprawling strip mall in which to do the shopping.
Rarely though would you expect to find a medical miracle working behind the counter of the mall's hobby shop.
That however is what Lee Spievak considers himself to be.
"I put my finger in," Mr Spievak says, pointing towards the propeller of a model airplane, "and that's when I sliced my finger off."
It took the end right off, down to the bone, about half an inch.
"We don't know where the piece went."
The photos of his severed finger tip are pretty graphic. You can understand why doctors said he'd lost it for good.
Today though, you wouldn't know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it's all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.
'Pixie dust'
How? Well that's the truly remarkable part. It wasn't a transplant. Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip. He used a powder - or pixie dust as he sometimes refers to it while telling his story.
Mr Speivak's brother Alan - who was working in the field of regenerative medicine - sent him the powder.
For ten days Mr Spievak put a little on his finger.
"The second time I put it on I already could see growth. Each day it was up further. Finally it closed up and was a finger.
"It took about four weeks before it was sealed."
Now he says he has "complete feeling, complete movement."
The "pixie dust" comes from the University of Pittsburgh, though in the lab Dr Stephen Badylak prefers to call it extra cellular matrix.
Pig's bladder
The process he has been pioneering over the last few years involves scraping the cells from the lining of a pig's bladder.
The remaining tissue is then placed into acid, "cleaned" of all cells, and dried out.
It can be turned into sheets, or a powder.
How it works in detail
It looks like a simple process, but of course the science is complex.
"There are all sorts of signals in the body," explains Dr Badylak.
"We have got signals that are good for forming scar, and others that are good for regenerating tissues.
"One way to think about these matrices is that we have taken out many of the stimuli for scar tissue formation and left those signals that were always there anyway for constructive remodelling."
In other words when the extra cellular matrix is put on a wound, scientists believe it stimulates cells in the tissue to grow rather than scar.
If they can perfect the technique, it might mean one day they could repair not just a severed finger, but severely burnt skin, or even damaged organs.
Clinical trial
They hope soon to start a clinical trial in Buenos Aires on a woman who has cancer of the oesophagus.
The normal procedure in such cases is often deadly. Doctors remove the cancerous portion and try to stretch the stomach lining up to meet the shortened oesophagus.
In the trial they will place the extra cellular matrix inside the body from where the portion of oesophagus has been removed, and hope to stimulate the cells around it to re-grow the missing portion.
So could limbs be re-grown? Dr Badylak is cautious, but believes the technology is potentially revolutionary.
"I think that within ten years that we will have strategies that will re-grow the bones, and promote the growth of functional tissue around those bones. And that is a major step towards eventually doing the entire limb."
That kind of talk has got the US military interested.
They are just about to start trials to re-grow parts of the fingers of injured soldiers.
Skin burns
They also hope the matrix might help veterans like Robert Henline re-grow burnt skin.
He was almost killed in an explosion while serving in Iraq. His four colleagues travelling with him in the army Humvee were all killed.
He suffered 35% burns to his head and upper body. His ears are almost totally gone, the skin on his head has been burnt to the bone, his face is a swollen raw mess.
So far he has undergone surgery 25 times. He reckons he has got another 30 to go.
Anything that could be done in terms of regeneration would be great he says.
"Life changing! I think I'm more scared of hospitals than I am of going back to Iraq again."
Like any developing technology there are many unknowns. There are worries about encouraging cancerous growths by using the matrix.
Doctors though believe that within the so called pixie dust lies an amazing medical discovery.(less)
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God gives human knowledge. Human uses knowledge to make unbelievable medicine like this "pixxy dust"