
Does the body replace itself?
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Is Your Corneal Cells Set in Stone?
The inner lens cells of your eye am form in your embryo and basically don't change. Now, is that why you have suffered from degeneration an vision? That's what i would guess. The reason we have a diseases like alzeimers in dementia are because the cerebral cortex has long thought to not regenerate cells at all. But Elizabeth gould did a lot of work over the years trying to prove that it did. And i think that where they are now, as they think it does some ye here, there, here, there.
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