The point was about the lowest common denominator.

I am quite capable (or was...) of driving at 100+MPH but most aren't so we have speed limits quite a bit lower.

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FYI, here is the state of the art in MSC studies. Granted it's neurological which is my particular focus, but it's still applicable.

He is probably doing everything right and performing a useful service. From my cruising the site last night (from a question on Quora) it seems legit. The conditions treated are quite limited, unlike most quack sites.

The problem is that he has a duty to prove himself by doing the required trials. He apparently can't be bothered with that. Sorry, but the rules are in place for a reason. For every legit doctor like we assume he is there are hundreds selling snake oil.

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If anything, the Internet makes quackery much easier. Trust me that you do not want to go down that road with me. Since 2008 I have been dealing with that issue every day, 365 per year. You really think that people who can barely understand a VCR can make intelligent decisions regarding something as infinitely more complicated as medicine? The empirical evidence says otherwise.

You have a right to do as you wish to yourself, but not to others. If you wish to offer a medical service, you have a duty to prove it's safe and effective. Deregulation allowed a huge loophole called "supplements" and people are getting scammed at best and injured at worst (especially when the supplements interact with prescriptions because they didn't tell the doctor "because they are natural"). This loophole is being closed too.

Read some history of the quackery before the FDA and the cost in suffering and lives.

Actually, the FDA does regulate medical procedures. This is to prevent quackery. It's especially relevant with invasive procedures that transfer tissue from one area to another. Not all cell types are harmless in all areas of the body.

Stem cell treatments are something to which I pay close attention (for obvious reasons). There is a lot of evidence that mesenchymal stem cells can promote healing, but that hasn't been proven in humans. There was an clinic in Louisiana called TCA that was doing MSC trials but the FDA shut them down because they were also selling the procedure outside of the study and against the filed protocol. This is no different except the clinic in TFA isn't even bothering with doing real scientific clinical trials. Preclinical animal data is great, but mice ain't men. There is still much work needed to find optimal dosing levels and tease out other potential hazards.

A certain publishing house is trying to assert copyright over public domain material. (yes it's a link to my blog but typing is very difficult for me so I don't want to repeat myself).