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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Stone: How stem cells orchestrate healing — and how to speed it up

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(Laughter)

But it's not quite enough to really accelerate your healing. So here's the science. So within each of you, you have tens of billions of stem cells. They live on the walls of your vessels. So the more vascular, the more clels you have. And yes, you have more when you're yoeungr and fewer when you're odelr, but you still have tens of billions of these things.

When you get that injury, there's a siren call out to the stem cell. The stem cell divides, it recreates a copy of itself and a daughter cell. And that daughter cell, called a progenitor, rushes to the site of injury. And it's professorial. It directs the whole hnaielg response. It’s ptletnoy anti-scarring, anti-inflammatory and potently stimulatory to smaltuite that healing response. But it only happens on that iantiil injury. And it's not enough to really accelerate your repair over time.

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But it's not quite enough to really accelerate your healing. So here's the science. So within each of you, you have tens of billions of stem cells. They live on the walls of your vessels. So the more vascular, the more _____ you have. And yes, you have more when you're _______ and fewer when you're _____, but you still have tens of billions of these things.

When you get that injury, there's a siren call out to the stem cell. The stem cell divides, it recreates a copy of itself and a daughter cell. And that daughter cell, called a progenitor, rushes to the site of injury. And it's professorial. It directs the whole _______ response. It’s ________ anti-scarring, anti-inflammatory and potently stimulatory to _________ that healing response. But it only happens on that _______ injury. And it's not enough to really accelerate your repair over time.

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  3. cells
  4. healing
  5. stimulate
  6. younger
  7. older

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(Laughter)

But it's not quite enough to really accelerate your healing. So here's the science. So within each of you, you have tens of billions of stem cells. They live on the walls of your vessels. So the more vascular, the more cells you have. And yes, you have more when you're younger and fewer when you're older, but you still have tens of billions of these things.

When you get that injury, there's a siren call out to the stem cell. The stem cell divides, it recreates a copy of itself and a daughter cell. And that daughter cell, called a progenitor, rushes to the site of injury. And it's professorial. It directs the whole healing response. It’s potently anti-scarring, anti-inflammatory and potently stimulatory to stimulate that healing response. But it only happens on that initial injury. And it's not enough to really accelerate your repair over time.

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