Ben Greenfield explains why his team prefers umbilical cord-derived stem cells over cells taken from patients' own bodies. Cord cells come from newborn blood, so they're younger and less exhausted. Patients also avoid invasive procedures like liposuction or bone marrow extraction.
You know, we, we evaluate all the stem cell providers out there and we go actually visit their labs, we look at their certifications, et cetera. So these are umbilical cord derived stem cells. And why do you go with umbilical cord? Well, so there's different ways of getting stem cells, as you know. Right. You can do either autologous stem cells, which is allergenic stem cells. Right. So the autologous ones, they come. You get mesenchymals from your fat, hematopoietic ones from your bone marrow. What we find is that most people don't want to go through like a little liposuction procedure or bone marrow procedure. So I don. A hole drilled in my hip in Hawaii. Exactly, exactly. So. And not only that, but, you know, when we take your own stem cells from you, you're young and you're super healthy, but a lot of people are getting these treatments. They're a little bit older. These are older stem cells. They already experience some level of stem cell exhaustion. Right. So they're not as effective. And so we like the umbilical cells because they are. They're from brand new umbilical cord blood that's been donated.
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