IF YOU HAPPENED TO MISS THE 2007 AMERICAN ASSOICIATION OF EQUINE PRACTITIONERS CONVENTION, HELD DEC. 1-5 IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA, WELL, YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT THE ONLY ONE.  YOURS TRULY MISSED IT AS WELL.  HOWEVER, AFTER READING THIS ARTICLE, I AM SORRY I DID MISS IT.  THE RESULTS OF ADULT STEM CELLS TRIALS BEING IMPLANTED INTO HORSES IS FANTASTIC- JUST MORE PROOF THAT ADULT STEM CELLS ARE HELPING NOW , NOT ONLY HUMANS, BUT HORSES, DOGS AND CATS AS WELL.

Smith reported that lab animal studies have found that treatment of surgically created tendon and ligament lesions with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) results in better tissue organization, composition, and mechanics compared to controls. In addition, an equine study in the U.K. using bone marrow MSCs found that in 82 of 168 treated racehorses that were available for follow-up after one year, there was a 78% success rate (no re-injury) compared to 43% of horses conservatively treated in another study--a 35% improvement in success rate.

A 35% DIFFERENCE IN HORSES TREATED WITH ADULT STEM CELLS AS OPPOSED TO HORSES NOT TREATED WITH STEM CELLS.   A THERAPY (STEM CELL THERAPY)  WITH ALMOST ZERO RISK, THAT INCREASES THE SUCCESS RATE OF HEALING BY 35%,  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

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WE HAD A FEW DAYS WITHOUT ANY ADULT STEM CELL VICTORIES, BUT I AM ALWAYS HAPPY TO SHARE MORE VICTORIES WITH YOU.  LOTS OF SUCCESSFUL STEM CELL THERAPY STORIES COMING OUT OF CHINA THESE DAYS.
More than a year after she received stem cell treatment in China, Tori Schmanski is still showing signs of improvement. Tim and Maria Schmanski aren't sure how much of their daughter's progress is due to that trip to the Beike Clinic in Hangzhou, China, but they believe it helped. Progress may be slow, but Tori is still making new strides all the time.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE ARTICLE TAKES ON A PRO EMBRYONIC STEM CELL POINT OF VIEW NEAR THE END.  AS USUAL, THE WRITER FAILS TO POINT OUT THAT ALTHOUGH "proponents of embryonic stem cells say that embryonic stem cells  "offer the best chance of treating or curing many fatal and debilitating disease,"  OPPONENTS OF EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH (LIKE YOURS TRULY) DON'T AGREE WITH THAT STATEMENT.  AGAIN, FOR NEW READERS, I'M NOT COMING AT THIS FROM A RELIGIOUS/LIFE PERSPECTIVE.  MY POINT OF VIEW IS EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS DO NOT WORK AND IF THEY DO, I WILL PROBABLY NOT SEE IT IN MY LIFETIME NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE U.S. TAXPAYERS PUT INTO IT.  ADULT STEM CELLS ARE WORKING NOW AND HELPING PEOPLE LIKE TERI SCHMANSKI TODAY.  I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT ADULT STEM CELL THERAPY IS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE AND IF THE WRITER HAD BOTHERED TO ASK ME MY OPINION, I WOULD HAVE BEEN  HAPPY TO HAVE STATED IT.

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 SINCE THIS IS THE WEEKEND, I'M GOING TO TRY AND KEEP IT LIGHT.  I AM POSTING SOME OF MY FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES-  QUOTES I TRY TO READ EVERY SO OFTEN TO REMIND ME OF WHAT LIFE IS REALLY ABOUT.  SOMETIMES WE FORGET THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE AND WE SHOULD TAKE A STEP BACK AND GAZE AT WHAT IS REALLY MEANINGFUL.

MY FAVORITE QUOTE IS FROM THEODORE ROOSEVELT.  I FEEL THIS SUMS UP HOW I FEEL AS I TRY TO GET THE WORD OUT ON ADULT STEM CELL THERAPY, I MAY BE MAKING SOME MISTAKES ALONG THE WAY, BUT I FEEL I AM DOING THE RIGHT THING.  HERE IS TEDDY'S QUOTE-

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

HERE ARE SOME MORE NICE ONES-

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood -Marie Curie

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong
thing at the tempting moment."

Lady Dorothy Nevill

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
Wayne Gretsky

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
Orison Swett Marden

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength."
A. J. Cronin

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

Swami Sivananda Saraswati
"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities."

Vic Braden

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; It is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one, When they discover that someone else believes in them And is willing to trust them."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The key to change . . . is to let go of fear."
--Rosanne Cash
"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." --Frederick L Collins

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not..

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
-Eric Hoffer


Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
---J.C. Watts

THIS OPEN LETTER ON STEM CELL THERAPY WAS SENT IN BY ONE OF OUR READERS. HE HAS KINDLY GIVEN ME PERMISSION TO POST IT HERE. INSTEAD OF OPENING MY BIG MOUTH TODAY, I WILL LET THE LETTER SPEAK FOR ITSELF.

I am not a scientist. I am a High School English teacher. Every statement in this letter is based on research that I found in news articles, internet web sites, and science and medical journals. Anyone who has access to the internet can learn what I have learned.

I have been a quadriplegic for fourteen years. I was a healthy, athletic seventeen-year-old when I became injured and confined to a wheelchair. I would love to walk again. I fully believe that a cure for spinal cord injuries will occur in my lifetime. Over the last few years, there have been many promising advances in stem cell research. Stem cells have the amazing ability to become any cell in the body and thus are capable of “repairing the damage done by numerous diseases and conditions. Stem cells are found in both the cells of adults and of embryos. Debate over which source to use for stem cells has been very heated. Recently, there has been a great media push for the United States government to overturn its ban on funding research that destroys human embryos by experimenting on stem cells. As of this moment, though, the research that exists makes it clear that it is unnecessary to continue experimenting on the stem cells taken from human embryos.

First of all, evidence supports that adult stem cells hold many advantages over embryonic stem cells. For example, embryonic stem cells have a much higher risk of becoming a tumor in the patient.[i] Also, by using a patient's own stem cells rather than injecting foreign stem cells, there will be no transplant rejection.[ii] And third, various experiments using both adult and embryonic stem cells found that adult stem cells achieved greater results.[iii]

ANOTHER ADULT STEM CELL TREATMENT SUCCESS STORY CAME OUT OF CHINA TODAY. A COUPLE FROM GEORGIA CAME ALL THE WAY TO CHINA TO RECEIVE STEM CELL TREATMENT FOR THEIR 7 MONTH OLD DAUGHTER WHO IS SUFFERING FROM OPTIC NERVE HYPOPLASIA (ONH). FOR ALL OF YOU LAYMEN (INCLUDING MYSELF WHO HAD TO LOOK IT UP ON GOOGLE), IT MEANS THE 7 MONTH YEAR OLD WAS BLIND! IS SHE BLIND NOW AFTER THE STEM CELL THERAPY? READ ON AND FIND OUT!
Treatment Seems to Yield Positive Results

After three sessions, Teague and Williams say the therapy is already working.

The doctors have told Laylah's parents that the baby now sees light through one eye, while the other eye is dilating almost to the point where she can see light.

So far, 10 patients suffering from ONH have received the same stem-cell treatment in China, and doctors there claim that the vision of all 10 improved after the therapy.

At age 5, Rylea Barlett also received the stem-cell treatment. She, too, had been blind before.

Dr. Shalesh Kaushal, an eye specialist at the University of Florida, examined Bartlett, who is now 6, after she returned to the U.S.

"This child had essentially no light perception, and upon returning she's had a gradual improvement so much so that at our exam it appeared that she had formed vision," he says. "That is to say that she could at least recognize large letters."

Kaushal concluded that the stem-cell therapy was the only clinical explanation for her improvement. Some infants with ONH gain more vision spontaneously over the first few years of life, but Barlett was already too old for that.

Kaushal is now evaluating other patients before and after the stem-cell treatment. But he is not recommending that patients go to China; he says much more research needs to be done.

"It's clearly a provocative result. ¦ If this is a real, reproducible observation or effect in other patients, one may consider it as a fundamental breakthrough," says Kaushal.

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