A patient mails us:
I suffer from an autoimmunological disorder named CIDP (Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy). Can it be treated with autologous stem cells?
CIDP, like other autoimmunological diseases, may be an indication for stem cell therapy. Due to health regulations in Austria only patients with overall good health that do not need intensive medical care can be treated with stem cell therapy.
DDr. Heinrich, MD
A patient asks about hair loss:
Hello, I need some advice. I can see my hair is thinning on the top middle and was hoping to get your opinion what can be done to make it thick again naturally?
We recommend a thorough analysis to exclude any disease or poisoning. Then we would search for deficiencies in nutrition and deficiencies in hormones. Treatment can be done with a combination of autologous stem cells obtained from adipose tissue, growth factors from hair follicle cells, bioidentical hormones (Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, BHRT), and nutritional additives.
DDr. Heinrich, MD
The difference between these two treatments of hair loss is that in hair transplantation parts of the skin containing hair follicles get cut out from the scalp and implanted in the region with little hair growth, whereas in stem cell therapy cell suspension from aspirated fat tissue is injected into the scalp.
The hair treatment with stem cells is performed on an outpatient basis under local anesthesia. First, a small amount of the patient’s fat is harvested with thin microcannulas. The autologous stem cells extracted from the fat (Adipose-Derived Stem Cells, ADSCs) are immediately injected into the affected regions where the hair should be stimulated to new growth.
DDr. Heinrich, MD
A patient mails me this:
Dear doctors, I would like to know what kind of treatment you offer for the empty nose syndrome (ENS). From what I seemed to understand, you used stem cells isolated from body fat through liposuction, which was later to be injected in the turbinate.
My answer was: Empty Nose Syndrome (ENS) can be treated with the body’s own stem cells. We combine intravenous application with local application of autologous stem cells/PRP to treat this condition.
DDr. Heinrich, MD
Osteoarthritis and arthritis can both be treated very well with autologous stem cells from fat tissue. But there are also other treatment options: Especially the intake of collagen and hyaluronic acid via nutrition can benefit the regeneration of joints.
Beneath “normal” collagen peptides, which are also contained in our product Perfect Skin, there is a very special form of collagen, which is able to inhibit inflammation that is common particularly in case of arthritis. Small amounts taken daily already help to show an effect.
DDr. Heinrich, MD
A patient mails me:
I was diagnosed with an ulcerative colitis, they tried every treatment they had to stop the inflammation but none of them worked so they had to remove my entire intestine. Since then I started to lose some hair. So my conclusion is the hair loss I’m experiencing is due from all the surgeries and stress I had during that time I spent at the hospital.
He is probably true. Hair loss can be caused by all the stress he experienced with surgery, treatments and hospital time.
So what can our patient do to stop the hair loss caused by the treatment of colitis ulcerosa? Hair loss is a symptom of a weakened health condition and should thus be treated systemically by strengthening the body. Intravenous stem cell therapy as well as bioidenticals (BHRT) will be useful.
Also directly addressing the hair follicles by local application of stem cells and PRP should be considered, as well as taking nutritional additives that contain collagen and hyaluronan. All this will help the hair to grow better and stop the hair loss.
DDr. Heinrich, MD
A patient asks me about therapy of adrenal fatigue with stem cells and platelet-rich plasma (PRP):
If your practice is willing to provide stem cell treatment for adrenal fatigue, can you explain how long the procedure takes and how painful it is? Will I be under local or general anesthesia? Do you extract HGH/PRP from fat or from blood? Does this get injected into the adrenals directly?
My answer was: All together takes about 1 to 2 hours, the fat harvesting by liposuction is done in just 15 minutes, normally no pain, just local anesthetics are used. Stem cells will be extracted from a small portion of your fat, PRP from your own blood. We will inject the stem cells intravenously, which is the appropriate form in most ailments.
DDr. Heinrich, MD
Is Multiple Sclerosis (MS) caused by an infection with a retrovirus? Background of this thesis is that patients receiving antiretroviral therapy do not appear to fall ill with MS. Swiss researchers at the University of Geneva have developed antibodies that might be able to cure MS. These are antibodies against the “Multiple Sclerosis Retrovirus” (MSRV). Initial successes are encouraging.
It has long been suspected that MS is an overreaction of the immune system that is caused by contact with viruses. Stem cells from fat have proven themselves as suitable in such false reactions of the immune system. Read more on our page about stem cell therapy for nervous diseases.
DDr. Heinrich, MD
A patient would like to know the following via e-mail:
How much time does hair loss therapy with stem cells take? I want to know… let me know.
Such a hair treatment with autologous stem cells takes about two hours; the most time-consuming part is the stem cell isolation. The extraction of the body’s own fat from which the stem cells are isolated and the injection into the scalp together take about half an hour. The procedure is performed under local anesthesia on an outpatient basis.
DDr. Heinrich, MD
A patient whom I have treated with his own stem cells because of finger joint osteoarthritis on the fingers of his left hand a few months ago just wrote me:
I already had significant limitations in two knuckles of the fingers on the left hand. These knuckles have become significantly better after stem cell injection and also (almost) retain this better state today. However, osteoarthritis of the little finger of the right hand has since gotten worse. Basically I would therefore like to give a second injection of stem cells a chance to see whether further success is possible.
So this time we will treat the finger joints of both hands with stem cells from adipose tissue of the patient.
DDr. Heinrich, MD