YouTube video by Joy Kong, MD explaining why using autologous (your own) stem cells can be risky—chiefly because aging reduces the body's ability to detect and eliminate nascent cancer cells. The speaker warns that introduced stem cells may stimulate growth broadly, potentially promoting existing microscopic cancer foci to flourish, especially in middle age and later when cancer risk rises.
When do cancers start to occur? Middle age and later. Age is the biggest predictive factor for cancer. As you get older, your own stem cells somehow are just not very good at detecting cancer anymore. When they see cells, they see all cells as cells. But cancer cells should be treated differently, but they're still treating them the same. This is why there's a risk of cancer promoting concerns from using your own stem, they will tell everything to grow, including existing cancer cells. As we know, all of us have cancer cells popping up here and there. But if our immune system is strong and intact, it will get rid of those cells. But if you start putting stem cells in there, that's going to tell everything to grow. All of a sudden, existing, those little cancer cells could flourish. So that's one of the concerns.
