Dr. Gary Steinberg

Russia or India or Mexico and get stem cell therapy.

Yeah, this is a big topic, Harry.

And you may have discussed it on another podcast.

Although they haven't clamped in on those type clinics as well as they should.

But I tell patients, no, if you go out of the country, often you don't know what you're getting.

If there's not an equivalent of an FDA, which is overseeing it...

You don't know whether these cells, where they come from sometimes.

They're not published literature.

You don't know where they're derived.

We've seen cases of patients going elsewhere, getting injections into the brain or the spinal cord and developing tumors or other problems.

So I discourage that.

And I was going to bring up, even in this country, these clinics.

And that was published a number of years ago, that clinic in Florida.

Those patients had macular degeneration and they were losing their sight, but they could still see to some extent.

They had their own adipose tissue taken.

They sorted it for certain stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells, and it was re-injected into the eye.

Should have been safe, right?

Their own cells even.

And as you say, several of them went blind.

Irreversibly.