Stem Cells, Cancer
In this video, David Steenblock spends about 24 minutes speaking on "Stem Cells, Cancer" at the 41st Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About David Steenblock
DAVID STEENBLOCK, M.D., D.O. was born and raised on a farm in Northern Iowa. His B.S. Degree was in Zoology and Chemistry from Iowa State University, Ames and his M.S. Degree in Biochemistry and his Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) Degree both from Des Moines, Iowa. Dr. Steenblock did a rotating Internship at Providence Hospital in Seattle, Washington and then for two years practiced in a rural logging town as a Solo Practitioner, Surgeon and Gerontologist. He did residences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland, Oregon.
In 1978, Dr. Steenblock founded The Health Restoration Medical Center which evolved into The Brain Therapeutics Medical Clinic in Mission Viejo, California. He has been a Medical Editor of Total Health, Let’s Live and a contributor to a variety of other scientific and health publications. In April 2002, Dr. Steenblock was awarded the Charles Farr Pioneer Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research and Development in Oxidative Medicine for his use of Hyperbaric Oxygen in his comprehensive rehab programs for stroke and other brain injured patients.
Dr. Steenblock uses Hyperbaric Oxygen, Intravenous Glutathione, Magnetic Therapies, Acupuncture, External Counterpulsation, Intermittent High Altitude Therapies, Physical Therapy (RPT), Nutrition, etc. for the prevention and treatment of stroke, brain injuries, cerebral palsy, autism, Alzheimer’s Disease, intestinal disorders, diabetic complications, etc.
Currently Dr. Steenblock is working internationally with other scientists studying the application of umbilical cord stem cells for the treatment of a variety of health conditions. His Clinic phone is 949-367-8870 and his website is http://www.stemcellmd.org
Transcription
Thank you, Doug. Christine Bluck sends his regrets that he couldn't be here, he had some family issues that he had to attend to, and so he asked me to step in for him here today. We do stem cell therapy at our clinic, and there isn't a day that goes by that someone doesn't call with the idea of wanting to come to the clinic for stem cells. And they're dealing with a cancer right now. The state of stem cell therapy in and in cancer is very fluctuate because there are a lot of issues that still have yet to be determined. As far as the one stem cells are appropriate when they're not, for example, stem cells are pluripotent cells that have the ability to differentiate and to keep dividing and become any kind of tissue that the body needs them to be. Unfortunately, also, cancers themselves generate stem cells. So the same growth factors that can stimulate the growth of traditional good stem cells can also stimulate the growth of not such good cells. The cancer stem cells. And so right now, we're in a very critical point in things changing. And so I'm going to present basically an overview of stem cells and cancer and where things are going. And there it does indeed hold a lot of promise.
STEM cells can either promotor fight, fight against various types of cancers, the cancer stem cell can initiate malignant malignancy metastasis just on its own right as stem cell therapies are now being used, inhibit malignancy metastasis.
For example, I just wrote a paper the other day where it was determined that with acute myelogenous leukemia, that stem cells in the bone marrow were actually sleeping.
And the focus of research today is to try and wake up the sleeping stem cells because then we could crowd out the malignant cells themselves. STEM cells are the first cells, the embryo that build new life and stem cells continue to help with growth and tissue repair as we age and slow down after age 40. STEM cells do create more stem cells themselves. So theoretically, the body can repair itself or as long as we live. We view stem cells as kind of repair kit. God had given us for bodies. Praise to Lord Jesus Christ for giving it to us. Without that, we wouldn't be able to continue to heal. But these repair kits that God has given to us can help help us get past a lot of issues in our lives. And also there to help regenerate tissues, tissues. They've been ravaged by cancer. The characteristics of stem cell include its ability for self