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One of the things I have been struggling with is what
@attheedgeofscience mentioned before, when it comes to stem cell therapy, you are expected to pay first and upfront a large amount, and then hope for some results that are hopefully good.
This is the situation regardless of how "good" the facility is.
In the Hope Hospital case,
@attheedgeofscience got what he called a rare allergic reaction. But allergic reaction is only one of many factors that can impact a treatment like this. There are so many other factors that may influence the safety and efficacy of the treatments. If so, does a top quality facility really provide a better safety and efficacy result - or are we at such an experimental juncture of stem cell treatments that "quality" is but a mirage? That is, even a shabby facility, if they happen to get some things right - by random accident - one might get a good result? Even a good "quality" facility can easily kill you if they get some things - that are not currently understood - wrong...
@attheedgeofscience had mentioned that the Bangkok facility had changed several treatment protocols on the fly ... and even given him wrong information regarding his treatments that they had to correct later. It seems like "quality" is but only a small factor ... There seems to be so many unknowns, randomness, luck ... that goes into these treatments.
As I think about stem cell treatments more, I am amazed how much promise it holds - especially the systemic approach that
@attheedgeofscience underwent. I mean, in addition to making his Tinnitus better and curing several of his other conditions, what else has it done? Has it increased his life expectancy a few decades by repairing a bunch of other age-related damages that he may not even be aware of? Has it also reduced - for example - his chance of getting cancer, heart attack, stroke, etc.? Or has it created problems in his body with foreign cells? Are the "cures" or "abatements" of his T temporary or permanent (stem cell treatments for cartilage repair works, for example, but the results are good only for a few years)?
I am sure
@attheedgeofscience understands this. T is really just the beginning of the ice berg. As we age, live, we have many other challenges that each of us independently have to overcome. With regenerative medicine - and genetic re-engineering of cell so they do not undergo senescence - can we all have at least dramatically increased health span? What the heck, can we in the process end up dramatically increase our life span?
There is a Chinese saying that life is about 4 things: birth, aging, sickness, death. No one can escape it. It'd be good if we can escape aging and then drastically decrease sickness. Death will come because statistically, even if one has a minuscule chance of dying, he/she will die with sufficient time. But at least it's not a time bomb the way aging is...
But I digress. I suppose it'd be sufficient if we can just find a cure for T ... and then take our chances with all the other diseases that are surely to come as we age... for now ...
For now, we need to know that there will be lots of people selling snake oil.
@attheedgeofscience mentioned that he had trouble booking with Bangkok facility a second time due to a member of the original team leaving and setting up shady competing websites and facilities...
I wish we were living 100 or 200 years from now. Today will seem like the dark ages of medicine ... and science...