Pig Bladder

[Franky]

This is off topic here, but I thought this was worth a mention here. Did anybody read about pig bladder possibly helping in regrowing body parts on humans. It sounds like science fiction but apparently it has happened. Nobody is saying it will regrow a new leg, but just maybe a finger or two. That would be incredible.

The Associated Press
Article

Excerpts:

Lee Spievack, a hobby-store salesman in Cincinnati, as he regarded his severed right middle finger one evening in August 2005. He had been helping a customer with an engine on a model airplane behind the shop. He knew the motor was risky because it required somebody to turn the prop backwards to make it run the right way.

"I pointed to it," Spievack recalled the other day, "and said, 'You need to get rid of this engine, it's too dangerous.' And I put my finger through the prop." He'd misjudged the distance to the spinning plastic prop. It sliced off his fingertip, leaving just a bit of the nail bed. The missing piece, three-eighths of an inch long, was never found.

An emergency room doctor wrapped up the rest of his finger and sent him to a hand surgeon, who recommended a skin graft to cover what was left of his finger. What was gone, it appeared, was gone forever. If Spievack, now 68, had been a toddler, things might have been different. Up to about age 2, people can consistently regrow fingertips, says Dr. Stephen Badylak, a regeneration expert at the University of Pittsburgh. But that's rare in adults, he said.

Spievack, however, did have a major advantage — a brother, Alan, a former Harvard surgeon who'd founded a company called ACell, that makes an extract of pig bladder for promoting healing and tissue regeneration. It helps horses regrow ligaments, for example, and the federal government has given clearance to market it for use in people. Similar formulations have been used in many people to do things like treat ulcers and other wounds and help make cartilage.

The summer before Lee Spievack's accident, Dr. Alan Spievack had used it on a neighbor who'd cut his fingertip off on a tablesaw. The man's fingertip grew back over four to six weeks, Alan Spievack said. Lee Spievack took his brother's advice to forget about a skin graft and try the pig powder.

Soon a shipment of the stuff arrived and Lee Spievack started applying it every two days. Within four weeks his finger had regained its original length, he says, and in four months "it looked like my normal finger."

Spievack said it's a little hard, as if calloused, and there's a slight scar on the end. The nail continues to grow at twice the speed of his other nails. "All my fingers in this cold weather have cracked except that one," he said. All in all, he said, "I'm quite impressed."

[williamthegreat]

Franky, This goes along with Epigenetics. The DNA in the bladder of the pig is the same DNA, as in the foot. What tells the genes what to do is the Epigeneomes. If the pigs DNA is put on your cut off finger, then it must be your epigeneomes that tells the gene, what to become. If not you would end up with pig knuckles. ..WTG

[linnysue]

Originally Posted by Franky

Spievack said it's a little hard, as if calloused, and there's a slight scar on the end. The nail continues to grow at twice the speed of his other nails. "All my fingers in this cold weather have cracked except that one," he said. All in all, he said, "I'm quite impressed."

Wild. . .maybe I should replace all my winter-cracked fingers with this pig bladder stuff!

[deluded]

Originally Posted by linnysue

Wild. . .maybe I should replace all my winter-cracked fingers with this pig bladder stuff!

Linnysue...I am not altogether sure that my winter cracked hands are really from winter, because I rarely go out, and since this has all begun, my fingers and hands, especially thumbs, are cracked and calloused and peeled, and very painful...I have seen a thousands, probably, of the fibers, disapear into my fingers in a heartbeat...If I attempt to get them with tweezers, they quickly go down into the skin....OR...if I get a hold of just a piece of it with the tweezers and it is still on the tweezers, and I attempt to keep getting the rest of it out of the skin...the very small piece of fiber will jump off of the tweezers and onto the skin in another place, and immediately go down into the skin, as if it knows it needs to be in defense mode...so there are a massive quantities in cracks all over my fingers and my thumbs are especially sore and bleed...if I saturate my hands in Eco-vie, I can usually rub and remove a lot of the fibers from my hands, they are never ending, I could be doing it for hours and hours...but have to just stop...there are always a lot of them in the cracked and bleeding areas,especially.

[beverlybdmd]

Kentucky-- I am going to start another topic just to address this, because I talked about it with someone else--it is pretty common--this fingertip splitting & infection/infestation. Look in Morgellons / Treatments