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Stem Cells Save Hurt Hearts
When you receive the Seal you will begin to take care of your health. But if you have a heart attack today the damage is considered done. Fortunately stem cells are now being successfully used to repair that damage to the heart.
Researchers at the Imperial College of London have been able to keep beating heart cells alive for 7 months and also construct what they call a scaffold which is "biocompatible" and will not be rejected by living heart tissue.
They have been able to use the scaffold to create a patch for heart tissue damaged after a heart attack. What happens is called an infarct, where blood coagulates and living tissue of the heart dies (in necrosis.)
This happens when a thrombus or an embolus restricts the natural circulation of the blood in the heart. A thrombus is a blood clot which gets lodged in one place in the blood vessels and an embolus is a blood clot that circulates around.
So these blood clots cause the blood to coagulate and no fresh blood with oxygen reaches the heart muscle to keep it alive. And the heart, the pump of that blood breaks down, threatening the life of the whole body.
Now embryonic stem cells are being used to put a patch on the area of the heart scarred by the infarct. This will replace the tissue that has died with new living tissue, rebuilding the heart to its original vitality.
Often in an infarct the scar tissue will become weak and bulge out of the heart, causing problems. The stem cells can be "programmed" to have enough elasticity to solve the problem of bulging scar tissue.
One of the bigger challenges with developing this life-extending procedure is getting the cells to act just like healthy heart cells. Otherwise abnormal heart rhythms could be caused and the patient is no more healthy after the heart attack.
Studies need to be done on animals. And the question here is: will these new cells of the patch be rejected by the scarred heart they are grafted onto? Acceptance by the heart is crucial--otherwise the procedure will not work.
Of course there was until quite recently an ethical issue with using stem cells. But stem cells have been made into heart cells from "reprogrammed" cells from other tissue, without using embryonic stem cells and sacrificing a life.
This is a victory for life. Now stem cells are being developed into all kinds of treatments that can improve the lives of patients with all kinds of ailments and not take a life for that purpose.
Life begins at conception even though it is not fully developed yet. Embryos are fully alive and the embryo is spiritually alive since God planned the Life of His chosen people from before He created the earth.
Killing an embryo (and the multiple embryos that would need to be killed) just to benefit a more mature person's health is akin to ancient practices of sacrificing people to please the "gods."
When you are sealed you will find that you are one of God's chosen people. God thought and felt affectionately about this millennial generation from long before 2000 years ago. He thought about you from before the creation of the world.
When you are sealed God will write His own Name upon you. He will choose you, just as He wanted to do from before history as you understand it. And now you do not have to kill any other chosen people to be healed from disease when you receive the Seal.
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