FDA warns vs new stem cell product

MANILA, PhilippinesStem cells in a bottle? Too good to be true.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned the public not to be taken in by the claims about Inner Power Stem Cells Booster, a purported stem cell product being sold and promoted online.

In an advisory dated May 29, FDA acting Director General Kenneth Go said the bottled product being marketed on a classified ads website, http://www.olx.ph, was not registered with the FDA either as a drug or a food supplement or human cells, tissues and cellular and tissue-based product (HCT/P).

Go also said the online ad carried deceitful health and therapeutic claims not supported by scientific or clinical studies.

According to the ad, seaweeds are the primary ingredient of the product combined with root crops, fruits, vegetables, legumes, honey and fructoligosaccharides (food for good bacteria).

The prebiotic mixture had been fermented and had produced a byproduct in the form of a jam, the ad said.

The ad further claimed that once taken, the product helped in stem cell production by the process of mitosis that would aid in platelet, red and white blood cells production.

Sea turtles

The ad also claimed that the product was formulated by a herbalist, Salvador Duco, who supposedly studied and observed the lifecycle of sea turtles.

From his study, Duco supposedly discovered that sea turtles could live up to 500 years because of the nutrients in the food they ate.

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