 Shasbots, do you think that stem cells might be developed to the point that they could fix your back problem? In the meantime, can you recommend a pain reliever? I strained my lower back recently, I can't move without hooding. Okay, the obvious caveats are, I am not a physician, I'm not a doctor, I'm not an expert on life extension, I'm not an expert on back. So though, you know, I'm about as good of an expert on backs as probably anybody out there, given all the problems that I have. So let's start with the really good news. I mean, I think stem cells are already at a point where they could fix a lot of back problems. And here, I think Adam will appreciate the fact that the only reason stem cells are not used far more extensively for back problems is because of the FDA. You know, so here's the story, it's a simple story. My doctor, so I had a ruptured disc, L3, L4, was a 2017. I went to the doctor and he said, look, you know, we can clean it up, but we probably need to fuse it. And I said, he'd already fused L4 or 5. I said, I'm not fusing another thing. One fusion is all I'm doing in life, I'm not fusing it again. What I really want you to do is I want you to go in, clean it up and inject stem cells into the gap where I had a disc. And he said, I've never done it before. I said, you know, I like you, I trust you, you're a good doctor, figure it out. Literally, right? And he went away and he called up a bunch of people and he called up the company that produces the machine that if you take bone marrow out of a person, it spins it and you can extract the stem cells. And these are not very good stem cells because they came out of me in my late 50s. So they're not exactly the most vibrant, eager to reproduce stem cells. So ideally, I would have saved my umbilical cord, it would be frozen somewhere, and we could extract stem cells from my umbilical cord. That would be the ideal, right? And then you could use your own young stem cells to do this. But anyway, he did this and he had, so I was the first ever that he did. And I think one of the few ever in California, so he brought down, they brought the machine, people came to watch this because they'd never seen it before. It was all outpatient. I went in, they put me under, they make a hole in you, they put in the little robot, they go in, they scrape it all, they clean it all up. It's pretty cool science, pretty cool stuff. And then he went in and took, they take bone marrow out of your hip, out of my hip, they spin it, and then they inject the, not the bone marrow, they inject the stem cells, they extract from it into where the disc was. And you know, it took, you know, I had a few weeks of recovery, but it wasn't too bad because I was home that evening so it was outpatient. You know, when I had the fusion, I was in hospital for like five, six days. I mean, that was major, major surgery and major recovery time. Anyway, months later, we did an MRI, a year later, we did an MRI to see what happened. And there's a disc there. I mean, there's a disc between L3 and L4. I mean, it's not as robust as, you know, but is it this way? There was barely anything before the surgery. Now there's a disc. So the body, the stem cells stimulated the body to reproduce, you know, a disc. So I asked my doctor, I said, so you're doing a lot of these? Look, this is like any, he was all excited. He was going to write this up for a journal article. I don't think he ever did. But, but he said, you know, stem cells are not approved for this use. The FDA has not approved it for this use. So if I start doing that, I can't advertise it. And he said, if I start doing it, I don't know if I get into trouble with the FDA, you know, I don't, but he can't advertise it. He can't let people know. So as far as I know, people because I've recommended this and people have called him up and asked him if he's doing it. And he said, no. So, and this is pure FDA. This is all about the FDA limiting the use of stem cells, even when it comes to the knees, they limited, even though people have been using stem cells for knees forever and then no side effects, there's no downside. It's constrained and it's, it's just horrific. So there are solutions. So Shahzab, there are places you can go. I think, I think there's a guy in Houston that does, does it, and, and they might be, there are places in Europe that do it in Switzerland. You remember there was a quarterback manning, a paid manning, you meant paid manning the quarterback, but he had it done in Switzerland in his neck. He had stem cells injected into, into his neck in Switzerland. But in the United States, it's almost impossible, impossible to do it. There are places in Panama, but, but I, you know, I just don't know. But the FDA screwing up our lives in ways that are just horrific, just horrific. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Book Show. 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