Life happens.
Our skin is the perfect story teller of that fact.
As a kid you learn to explore, to run, lift and climb.
You scrape your knee, throw some dirt on it and keep going.
As a teenager you join a sports team, get in fights with your siblings, and try to see just how invincible you really are.
Maybe your situation is much more serious like an automobile accident, injuries in a line of duty, or even in a natural disaster.
We carry these scars with us as a badge of life and we’ll continue to grow older and accumulate more of them as time goes on.
Healing these scars is something that comes natural to your skin.
Unfortunately it doesn’t do it in the most efficient way.
When an organ is damaged, our bodies try to heal it in the quickest manner possible to prevent fluid loss.
In this healing process, a scar is born. (Yes we made that pun, we’re doctors not comedians!)
When our bodies heal using scar tissue the skin loses some of its elasticity and grows back in a much more rigid way.
In more serious cases, this can even impair some organ function.
Some are recommended or prescribed creams to improve the appearance of scarring.
Some might scour the internet, looking for alternative treatments to rid themselves of them.
In reality, the secret to healing has been in your body all along.
Rather than recommending creams and salves, or more serious methods like skin grafts we prefer to tell our patients to heal themselves like a baby would.
Well, like a fetus would I suppose..
Let me explain.
The human fetus has an uncanny ability to regenerate tissue while in the womb.
This is especially evident in cases such as fetal heart surgery.
“Surgeons can use microscopes to go into the uterus, form a cut in the chest wall of the fetus, and repair the cardiac defect.” Notes George Murphy M.D.
“Because the surgeries are done prenatally, the babies are born without a scar.”
Compare this to babies who have similar operations performed after birth, and their bodies have a more difficult time recovering.
Inevitably, they’re left with a scar after the surgery.
So, how do we make the switch?
The switch from our body using fibrous scar tissue to heal itself to a regenerative approach using stem cells.
It’s not something we do naturally anymore after birth.
Our bodies get a bit lazy and say “good enough” when the job isn’t quite finished yet.
Where does RegenCore come in?
RegenCore focuses on healing the underlying effects of these injuries.
The aches, pains, and muscular strain.
Our focus is to heal the body from the inside out so we can having you living life like a kid again. (Or at least pretty close!)
Click here if you’re interested in what our Stem Cell Therapy can do for you.
