Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy, and today's episode is part two of a special episode series on how to get your body to recover far more quickly between workouts. We're going to delve

into fringe techniques that go way above and beyond the acupuncture that you learned about

in last week's episode. So today I'm going to give you some more recovery techniques that I

personally use. Let's fly through these, shall we? Let's start with stem cell therapy.

Now, stem cell is a potent recovery method that flies under the radar. You'd want to reserve

traditional injectable stem cell therapy as a last ditch effort to, say, avoid a hip or a knee

replacement, or to fix a joint before trading in running or lifting or cycling for something

like foosball.

But stem cells do have incredible healing properties since they can be transformed into neurons,

muscle, and several different types of connective tissue.

And this allows for rapid joint regeneration.

In the United States, companies like recite therapeutics and regentics are on the cutting edge

of developing injectable stem cell treatments

to do everything from regrowing spinal cords to eradicating cartilage pain. And if the idea of

using stem cells doesn't jive with your ethics, you'll be surprised to learn that stem cells can be

harvested from sources other than human embryos like body fat and bone marrow. And there's clinics

like the Institute of Regenerative Medicine and orthopedics in places like Tampa Florida that will

inject completely non-embryonic stem cells into injury sites that you need to

heal fast or to permanently fix chronic aches and pains and in fact at this point

you do have to head over to Europe or Asia if you want to be injected with

stem cells from actual embryos but there are plenty of other options.

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