Dr. Ed Park: Unclear Regulations Holding Back Stem Cell Treatments (iHealthTube)

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Dr. Ed Park: Unclear Regulations Holding Back Stem Cell Treatments (iHealthTube)
YouTube video by Dr. Ed Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r4Yf7NOhN0). Transcript is the auto-caption track — verbatim ASR, not a certified transcript.

discuss St uh stem cells if you would and and are there still legal issues that affect widespread use of those uh there are regulatory issues so apparently if you take stem cells out of somebody you can't expand their number and reintroduce them but you can take them out and um select them and put them back on the same day and this is kind of an arbitrary thing that the US Food and Drug Administration imposes in other countries you can do that expand them that is but it's largely experimental or outof pocket kind of Fringe medicine which is unfortunate so the unfortunate thing is that the idea of stem cell treatment is great people embraced it we even have the the California Institute for regenerative medicine but um people just don't have a basic knowledge of stem cell biology in the way that you would assume they did MH so we don't really know how they differentiate how to manipulate that yet but day by day there's more information on that but um yeah it's really unclear to me what the regulations are I don't practice stem cell medicine myself but um it's a it's of concern the FDA sometimes jumps in sometimes they don't and we really are not sure what the so