Growth Factors and Stem Cells to Accelerate Healing

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Growth factors are proteins that stimulate the cells to turn over and lay down new cologin. There are other factors called pito kinds, which are, again, protens usually, that help recruit your bodies on stem cell derived self repare cells. We've learned that the stem cells aren't really the cells that come and do the work. It's their progeny. And so we can stimulate the stem cells to create more progeny, to migrate those cells to the siht of injury and accelerate healing. So now with almost every injury that i see in my office now, and almost every surgery that I do, we add stimulating factors to the injury, to the sight of

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