Regenerative medicine is the best way forward to living as fulfilling a life as possible. There’s no avoiding the long trek that is time. What we can do, however, is improve our physical experience as we move forward.
The key player in these regenerative medical treatments is what is known as stem cells. What are stem cells? They’re cells that can become other cells. They are the basis of our very formation. Embryonic stem cells can become any of the 200+ cells in our bodies.
As we get older, our cells shift. Instead of being capable of becoming any cell at all in our system, they’re more limited. We still have stem cells that can become any cell, but they’re split apart. Blood cells, for example, contain stem cells that can become red or white blood cells, or even bone marrow. However, those stem cells derived from blood cells cannot become muscle tissue or nerves.
There are many different conditions that you can better with a stem cell transplant. The most famous and successful of them all is the bone marrow transplant, which is used to treat blood disorders like leukemia.
That, however, is just the tip of the iceberg of what stem cell therapies can accomplish.
What Can Stem Cell Therapies Do For You?
Stem cell treatments can help those with a wide variety of conditions. Currently, however, the only FDA-approved use of the treatment is as a blood disorder treatment.
Before you worry that means that getting a stem cell transplant isn’t safe, know that FDA approval is not the be-all-and-end all. It mostly means that you can get covered by insurance at a medical center.
You can still get stem cell medical treatments at private clinics like Bioxcellerator on your own dime. The treatments themselves are very safe, with minimal side effects. Of the side effects that have been reported (like nausea or fatigue), most go away within the day, if not the week.
This means you can opt-in to get stem cell treatment for:
- Chronic pain
- Arthritis
- Spinal conditions
- Autoimmune disorders
- Injury recovery
- And more
The question you need to ask yourself isn’t so much is it safe to get stem cell treatment, but instead what is the success rate of stem cell therapy.
Since you are paying the stem cell therapy cost yourself, knowing the success rate and being realistic about your chances is essential in helping you make the decision to get treatment or not.
What is the Success Rate of Stem Cell Therapy?
The success rate of stem cell therapy depends on several factors.
- The Condition Being Treated: Some conditions are naturally more suited for stem cell treatment than others. A viral infection, for example, cannot be treated with stem cells, but long-term chronic pain conditions might be.
- The State of Your Immune System: Your immune system may attack foreign stem cells before they can be put to work, which will impact how successful the treatment is for you.
- The Source of Your Stem Cells: In some cases, stem cells might be sourced from your own body or a relative’s, which increases the success rate. Stem cells, however, can also be sourced from third-parties. Though less successful, we take several steps to increase the chances of integration.
- Your Overall Health: Your overall health will impact how well the treatment works. If you are recovering from an injury, for example, the stem cells may help with injury recovery instead of a long-term chronic condition.
Success Rates – In Numbers
The success rate varies depending on all of the above factors. For example, the life expectancy of those with leukemia after a bone marrow transplant are very high. The 5-year survival rate was between 55 to 68% for those getting their stem cells from related donors. If the donor isn’t a relative of yours, however, then the success rate sits at 26% to 50%[1]
There is also high success rate numbers for those with autoimmune conditions, with an average 85% 5-year survival rate for those with those conditions after a stem cell transplant.[2]
The numbers for other treatments, however, are not as easily cataloged. This is because it’s easy to track survival rates, but more nuanced factors (like pain levels) aren’t as straightforward.
If you’re committed to getting treatment here at Bioxcellerator, we highly recommend creating a list of symptoms you experience and tracking how you feel on a scale of 1 to 10 now. You will want to start at least a month before treatment, and continue to track your day-to-day experiences for up to a year after the treatment, so you can see for yourself if the treatment was a success for you, or not.
How Bioxcellerator Works to Increase the Stem Cell Success Rate
The biggest obstacle in getting regenerative medicine to work is your own immune system. Your system is designed to seek out and destroy foreign bodies. Foreign bodies are, after all, typically bacteria or viruses, two things that can kill you if left unchecked.
That very defense response, however, is what makes it harder to get an accurate success rate for stem cell therapy. This isn’t as much of a problem if you are in a medical center getting treated for a blood cancer, since the process uses your own cells that are, by their very definition, not foreign cells. If you are paying out of pocket, however, every treatment matters.
That’s why we use a very specific type of stem cell that has been derived from the Wharton’s Jelly of donated umbilical cords.
What are stem cell injections then, that they are less likely to be rejected by our immune systems? These Wharton Jelly stem cells are less developed than other sources. This means they lack a protein that immune systems tend to seek out and destroy.
We also carefully screen all potential patients at all of the locations we cover. We only accept you on as a patient if you have a good chance of seeing success with the treatment.
While we cannot guarantee that the treatment will be a success for you, these steps do help increase your chances significantly. We also follow up with you after treatment, to help understand how effective the treatment was for our own records.
[1] https://www.medicinenet.com/bone_marrow_transplant_risks_survival_prognosis/article.htm#:~:text=The%20survival%20rates%20after%20transplant,if%20the%20donor%20is%20unrelated.
