Short video clip from a clinician advising abstention from alcohol around stem cell therapy. The speaker warns that alcohol disrupts cell-to-cell signaling, alters cytokine production, increases reactive oxygen species and systemic inflammation, and impairs stem cell proliferation, differentiation, and therapeutic efficacy; recommends about a two-week abstinence period.
I would really recommend people to abstain from alcohol use. If you nail me down to a number, I'll say, okay, two weeks. It disrupts your cell to cell signaling. So the signaling and cytokine production, that's all affected. So cells can't signal to each other very well. It also produces a lot of reactive oxygen species, causing oxidative damages and causing systemic inflammation. It also can disrupt stem cell proliferation or differentiation. Right. Become different kinds of cells changes their overall vitality. That beats the whole purpose of stem cell therapy. Right. You're counting on their ability to multiply, to differentiate, to signal. We don't even use alcohol when we do topical treatment for skin because it disrupts biologics, it denatures it. So we don't want alcohol to be around.
