Well, hey guys, we're here today with two amazing people, Drew, Drew Taylor, who's the CEO and founder of Acorn Biolabs.

We are doing stem cell, follicular hair harvesting and storage, cryostorage.

This is so interesting to be able to biobank your future stem cells.

Hey, Drew.

And the lovely Alicia Rubin, who's an amazing writer, a source of knowledge of all things,

skincare, aesthetics, and beauty. She works with Beattie Tap. Hi, thanks for coming. Thank you.

A pleasure to be here. Yes. And the honor, it's an honor to be with you too and learn from you.

Oh, we're excited your hair. We're excited you're donating your hair follicles in the name of science.

So Drew, tell us a little bit about what the heck is stem cell hair follicle transplant or

retrieval, storage, bio banking.

Well, I mean, first and foremost, I think we have to give the hair follicle a ton of credit.

It is this amazing mini organelle, so to speak, this cluster of cells that we have right at the

root of our hair, right, which is very accessible.

You can pluck it very easily.

We've all combed our hair and caught one by accident.

So that same act intentionally can really

give us this amazing cluster of cells. And there's multiple germ layers, so different types of cells

inside the hair follicle. And one of those types is mesenchymal stem cells, the same stem cells

that we actually find and target in our bone marrow. And so they have amazing capacity in

regenerative medicine. Now the downside is that unfortunately every day that goes by, those stem

cells are becoming either less in number, less resilient, and performing worse. I learned this

firsthand during my research when we were actually looking at ways that we

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