
A Healthy Point of View Podcast w/ Sam Tejada
Bank Your Cells Today, Rebuild Your Body Tomorrow? The Future of Regenerative Medicine | Dr. Drew Taylor | Ep. 174
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About this episode
What if one of the most accessible sources of your own regenerative biology has been hiding in your hair follicles? In this episode of A Healthy Point of View, Sam Tejada sits down with Dr. Drew Taylor, a biomedical engineer and regenerative medicine researcher, to explore an emerging approach to personalized regenerative medicine: collecting and banking cells from hair follicles. Dr. Taylor explains how hair follicles contain mesenchymal stem cells and discusses his work using these cells to produce a personalized secretome containing signaling molecules such as growth factors, peptides, matrix molecules, and exosomes. He breaks down how this approach differs from donor-derived…