Interesting Article

[jwh7699]

Saw this on Yahoo. It's regarding using stem cells in the future to help repair injuries in place of Testosterone . Interesting read.

"The enforcers should enjoy this moment while it lasts, because sports science is on the precipice of a potentially new era of performance enhancement: stem cell therapy, which could soon make testosterone injections as ancient as the typewriter and press enforcement agencies like USADA to play catch up once again.
"Sports medicine will definitely see a revolution in the next 10 to 50 years," says Allston Stubbs, associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Wake Forest Baptist Health. "We'll go from traditional scalpel surgery to biologic surgery. Now we operate with a knife, but we'll move to cells or growth factors."
This is both thrilling and daunting in the performance-enhancement realm, because stem cell therapy is potentially both an avenue to better performance and a doorway to undetectable enhancement."


"First, a short primer: Stem cell therapy is where fat and/or bone marrow (both of which contain stem cells) are drawn from the body. The stem cells are then separated out from the extracted fluid and re-injected into an injured area (i.e. Colon's elbow) to help stimulate the re-growth of healthy tissue."



http://sports.yahoo.com/news/undetec...nt-future.html

[warchild]

very cool!

[kelkel]

Interesting! One step beyond prolotherapy which I'm going through for my shoulder now. Nice post jwh.

[jwh7699]

Something to look forward too in the future! I'm gonna need it when I get older!