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Quote:sparven wrote: @Powell: :
Har hittat en klinik i Sthlm som använder sig av prp, men de nämner inget om att det motverkar håravfall utan föryngrar ansiktet… :$
Platelet rich plasma tekniken har funnits länge. Detta är inget nytt egentligen! Men jag skulle avråda från att gå till en klinik som inte har några belägg för att det faktiskt fungerar.
The final Frankenstein elixir was serious business. It included:
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) PRP is an emerging treatment mainly used with elite athletes. It
gained national attention in 2009 when used successfully to treat two Pittsburgh Steelers
just weeks prior to their Super Bowl victory. PRP contains the plasma portion of your
blood with concentrated platelets. Platelets are packed with growth and healing factors and
are part of the body?s normal tissue repair system. The PRP is prepared using a special
centrifuge after whole blood is drawn from your arm, similar to getting blood drawn for
lab work.
Making platelet-rich plasma.
PRP formed the base to which the following were added:
Stem cell factor (SCF), flown in from Israel, which assists in blood cell production.
Bone morphogenic protein 7 (BMP-7), which helps adult stem cells (mesenchymal)
develop into bone and cartilage. In retrospect, I believe this to be the most dangerous
substance in all of the cocktails I tried. Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) IGF-1 has anabolic (tissue-building) effects in adults and is produced in the liver after stimulation by growth hormone. It is one of the most
potent natural activators of cell growth and multiplication. It is also an expensive drug
used at the higher levels of professional bodybuilding.
Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1)
So what happened?
The end result four months later, according to the world-class Harvard-trained spine specialist who looked at the before-and-after MRIs, was:
?I could not appreciate any before-and-after differences.?
Now, there might have been microscopic changes (cytokines, etc.), but the MRIs reected my pain: no change.The three sessions had cost more than $7,000, and not only was the experience expensive, it ended up being a disaster. One of the injections in my right elbow resulted in a staph infection and emergency surgery at the University of California?San Francisco Medical Center, almost two months of limited arm use, and more than $10,000 in hospital expenses.When I contacted the sports scientist responsible for the injections to ask for $1,500 to help defray the costs, the e-mail response was as unorthodox as the treatment:
Why would you even waste your time asking me for this when you can just go out and make far more money? Wow.
In scientific parlance, the whole thing was a total cluster-fuck. Not because PRP, for example, doesn?t work (I believe it will completely revolutionize
regenerative medicine), but because I didn?t find the right person to administer it.
There are a lot of pitfalls when you seek out the cutting-edge: snake oil, and con artists who
capitalize on the desperate, among other things. How then can you, the reader, with no desire to waste $7,000 ?20,000, weed out the junk science and charlatans? The least painful option is to let a human guinea pig test them all for you./ Timothy Ferris