The Foods To Eat To Increase Stem Cells

The Foods To Eat To Increase Stem Cells

Stem cells are the work crew that repairs cells that are damaged due to various diseases and injuries. Stem cell therapy has proven effective for pain management, can prevent nerve damage, has a quick recovery time, is non-evasive, and might prove effective for battling many other severe diseases.

You can also boost your own internal production of stem cells by eating certain foods and avoiding toxins. We will cover these topics later, but first, we need to know what stem cells are and what they do.

What are stem cells?

Stem cells are the mother of all our other cells; without them, we wouldn’t exist. When a man’s sperm meets the woman’s egg, a fertilized egg results. The egg starts to divide and morphs into an embryo made up of 150 stem cells in the woman’s uterus within a few days.

These stem cells then go to work, divide, and form all of the tissues and organs in our bodies. We carry, on average, a mind-boggling 37.2 trillion cells, but only a mere 0.002% are stem cells. This tiny but mighty army waits for the alarm to sound in whatever part of the body needs to be repaired or regenerated.

Research has found that stem cells are primarily found in bone marrow but are also found in skin, hair, fat, and the heart. Here is an analogy: our gas-powered lawnmowers have small gas tanks. Once they are filled, we put the remaining fuel in the gas can back in the garage to wait until it is needed.

And it will be needed eventually when the lawnmower runs dry, just like stem cells will be needed to repair the inevitable damage that the body will suffer in the future and replenish the cells that die when our organs renew.

And our organs renew continually and quite often. The small intestine renews every two to four days; the immune system cells every seven days; the lungs and stomach every eight days; the skin every two weeks; the red blood cells every four months; the fat cells every eight years; and the skeleton every decade.

Stem cells are the guardians in the body that are constantly on alert for our good health and will sometimes appear at designated locations in preparation for rescue operations.

Hopefully, you can see stem cells' crucial role in our continued well-being. Here are a few suggestions for things to avoid:

• Smoking and inhalation of air pollutants. Smoking is devastating to stem cells. This is also true for secondhand smoke as well. If you smoke, quit! And remember that the majority of polluted air is inside our homes. These two irritants are linked. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Typical office and household products are often the sources of nasty chemical emitters like formaldehyde, pesticides, heavy metals like airborne lead and mercury vapors, asbestos, and Radon. These toxins are impossible to avoid totally; the key is to be aware of them and strive to minimize your exposure.
• Excessive alcohol drinking. In addition to liver, brain, immune system, and pancreas damage, drunk driving arrests and fines, and increased risk of heart attack, cancer, and stroke, heavy consumption of alcohol kills stem cells by pulling them out of the bone marrow into the circulatory system which damages their regeneration abilities...something no one needs. Moderation is the key.
• High blood sugar and high blood pressure are a tag team that wreaks havoc on stem cells. Diabetics usually have around 47% fewer stem cells than usual. If that weren’t bad enough, their remaining stem cells are challenged to function correctly since high blood sugar adversely affects stem cell migration and replication. Cut down on sugar as much as possible and as soon as possible.

Here are a few food recommendations for protecting the stem cells and keeping them in fighting shape, ready to swing into action immediately and move at warp speed to repair and regenerate wherever needed

• Dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is jammed-packed with flavonols, (compounds that have anti-oxidant properties. Researchers at the University of California conducted a one-month controlled study on patients with coronary artery disease. One group drank hot chocolate low in flavanols (only nine mg per serving) twice a day, and the other group drank hot chocolate high in flavanols (containing 375 mg per serving) twice a day. The results were unexpected: the group with high-level flavanol had twice as many stem cells in their blood as that with low-level flavanol, and the former’s blood flow improved twice as much as the latter.
• Black tea. Another study by a team of Italian scientists separated patients who had moderate hypertension but were not taking prescribed medication into two groups. Group A drank plain black tea without sugar and milk twice daily, while group B drank other beverages twice daily. One week later, blood tests found that the number of endothelial progenitor cells in the black-tea group rocketed by 56 percent, with an enhanced ability of blood vessel widening.
• Olive oil. The heart benefits of Omega-3 fatty acids like Olive Oil are well-known. But that’s not the only benefit that olive oil delivers; it also helps boost stem cells. A month-long control study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded that compared to those on a diet high in saturated fat or a diet low in fat but high in carbohydrates, those on a Mediterranean diet rich in virgin olive oil showed a significant increase in their endothelial progenitor cell count in the blood.

Combining Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) with stem cells is indeed a winning combination! Contact us for a FREE, no-obligation discussion about the benefits of HRT!

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