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Is there a pill that boosts my stem cells?

What the experts say

Dave AspreyEntrepreneur, author and podcast host · founder and CEO of Upgrade Labs · no clinical or scientific credential claimed

Yes, and here is a discount code

What it rests onThe mechanism that circulating stem cell numbers decline with age, and the product's claim to mobilise them.

Source: daveasprey.com ↗
Paul KnoepflerPhD · Professor of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, UC Davis School of Medicine · stem cell and cancer biologist

No, and this one has no published data

What it rests onA search of the published literature and of ClinicalTrials.gov as a stem cell biologist, plus laboratory evidence that MSC conditioned media can activate tumour cells in culture.

Source: ipscell.com ↗

Overview

Both are addressing healthy adults buying over the counter. Neither is describing a patient with a diagnosed condition.

Where they agree

Both accept that circulating stem cell numbers decline with age and that mobilising them is a coherent biological target. They disagree about whether any oral product does it, and Knoepfler adds that succeeding would not obviously be good for you.

What would settle it

A published, controlled trial of the specific product with a clinical endpoint. Knoepfler notes that Clinicaltrials.gov does list studies in this space and that the one with results he examined, on a different supplement, did not convince him.

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