How Banking Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Could Save Your Child’s Life with Kathryn Cross

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, Medicine, 810564, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Root Cause Medicine Podcast is created by Rupa Health, the best way to order, track & get results from 30+ lab companies in one place. In today’s episode, Dr. Carrie Jones is joined by Kathryn Cross, the Founder of Anja Health. They discuss placenta and cord blood banking for stem cell use later in life. Key Takeaways: What Is Cord Blood? Cord blood is the blood that remains in the placenta and in the attached umbilical cord. This blood is collected after childbirth because it contains stem cells, which can be used to treat various genetic disorders. Why Should You Bank Stem Cells From the placenta? Stem cells help effectively treat lymphomas, solid tumors, inherited red cell abnormalities, leukemias, inherited metabolic disorders, and many other diseases. How Does Anja Health Help People Save Stem Cells? First, you order one of Anja Health's collection kits, which will ship to your home. When the birth has begun, bring the kit to the hospital, and the medical team will collect stem cells. Then, Anja Health will pick up and store the stem cells at their AABB-accredited lab. Building Anja Health was much more than just a startup idea. For Kathryn, it’s a life mission. Having experienced losing her brother Andrew, who could have been helped with his own cord blood stem cells if they had been saved at birth, she was aware of the promising future for this segment of the healthcare industry from a very young age. Kathryn's mission is to spread awareness on the use cases of umbilical cord blood, cord tissue, and placenta and how, by banking these at birth, parents can better prepare themselves for the future of their children.

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0:00.0	Today on the root cause medicine podcast, pretty much any disease that has ever been brought up to me
0:05.9	if I searched cord blood stem cells and then also the disease or placenta stem cells and then the
0:11.4	disease or mesenchymal stem cells and the disease, then I almost always will find at least the very
0:17.5	beginnings of research demonstrating that it could be effective. So there's usually
0:21.8	like some white paper and pubbed that illustrates that, yeah, that it would be really potent. So I think
0:26.9	the idea is, although it's not FDA approved across the board, there's really early research
0:32.6	and it's constantly advancing. So even this past February, the third person ever was cured of
0:37.0	HIV using cord blood
0:38.3	stem cells. And it's just crazy to speak also with people that are so close in science because
0:42.9	they just see breakthroughs all the time. Like one of my advisors and investors, he previously
0:48.5	worked a lot with placenta stem cells and he would go offshore a lot of the time to conduct
0:53.7	these experiments.
0:54.7	And one really powerful story that he told me was pretty recently he was in an elevator
0:59.3	coming down from their clinic and a mom was there with her daughter.
1:03.8	And then when they got out of the elevator, the mom started crying and he was like,
1:07.6	is everything okay?
1:08.8	And she was just talking about how her daughter had autism and previously felt really
1:13.9	uncomfortable in elevators, especially with other people to the point that she would become
1:17.9	excruciatingly agitated.
1:19.7	And then after receiving a placenta stem cell treatment, that was the first time that she was
1:23.6	able to be in an elevator comfortably with others.
1:26.1	Hello, hello.
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