How technology is wiping out cancer and heart disease
The Current powered by Kim Komando
WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc
4.6 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Nothing affects families like serious illness. |
| 0:06.5 | Life as we know it stops when a loved one gets cancer, Alzheimer's disease, or sickle cell anemia. |
| 0:12.1 | As we start this Commando-on-demand podcast, I want to tell you about a heart patient. |
| 0:16.6 | His name is Wayne. |
| 0:17.3 | He went to the Regeneration Center of Thailand for what's called Enhanced Cardiac Cell Replacement |
| 0:23.9 | Therapy. |
| 0:24.9 | I'll tell you more about that later in this podcast, but let's talk a little bit more about |
| 0:28.9 | Wayne first. |
| 0:30.4 | Wayne was 64 years old. |
| 0:32.2 | He was a smoker. |
| 0:33.9 | Wayne survived two massive heart attacks, both resulting in angioplasty. |
| 0:39.7 | He was on nine different medications. |
| 0:42.1 | Okay, but one year after his stem cell regenerative transplant, |
| 0:46.7 | he has had zero incidence of chest pain, no visits to the emergency room. |
| 0:52.0 | He reduced two medications that he was taken, and he actually |
| 0:55.5 | eliminated four altogether. But check this out. By the end of the century, life as we know it now |
| 1:02.4 | is going to be dramatically different, because experts are sure that disease will be either |
| 1:07.5 | eliminated or just a bother, something like the common cold. |
| 1:13.2 | Impossible, you say, maybe. |
| 1:18.8 | But medicine and technology are coming together in unprecedented ways, and big things are happening. |
| 1:22.9 | Amazing things that no one even thought was possible, say, five years ago. |
| 1:28.2 | Now, the most powerful movers and shakers on the planet are betting billions of dollars on brand new breakthroughs that promise to defeat disease by the end of the century, if not before. |
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