Apple Stem Cell Therapy For Healthy Skin

Heard of apple stem cell technology? It's part of a growing movement toward noninvasive anti-aging procedures. Many swear by the therapy as a way to rejuvinate the skin. So how does it work?

First a bit of history. In 18th-century Switzerland a rare type of apple tree was cultivated. Its apples, called Uttwiler Spätlaube, are known for having a remarkably long shelf-life.

The apples contain highly active stem cells; plant stem cells, like human stem cells, have the ability to regenerate other cells. Scientists extracted the stem cells from the fruit, incorporated 10 percent medical-grade oxygen, and created a therapeutic face cream.

The Huffington Post visited the Renew Anti-Aging Center in New York City to see stem cell therapy in action, and spoke with owner and head aesthetician Carmel O'Neill.

O'Neil explained how as aging skin loses elasticity, apple stem cell therapy can help, essentially, bring it back to life.

It's like aging backwards on the skin. You can turn those skin cells back on, and give life back to the skin ... By the time you reach the age of 30 you have lost 70 percent of the oxygen in your skin. Which is a huge amount of oxygen to lose.

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Comments

[dread locks]

05:13 PM on 03/24/2011

of course the white people got it first

[OverseasVet]

10:07 AM on 03/23/2011

"The Huffington Post visited the Renew Anti-Aging Center in New York City." And here I thought HP only accepted money for scam artists to make a quick buck. I didn't realize it was actively seeking quackery to feed to its readers.

[rosey7]

04:15 PM on 03/20/2011

Good going Carmel, she used to work for Dr. Adrienne Denese and Carmel is an excellent technician. I used to get micro dermabrasion from her. So sorry I don't live in NY any more.

[StThomas]

05:26 AM on 03/19/2011

Shouldn't this article have been published on the first of April?

[mrk65]

11:53 PM on 03/18/2011

So many Americans will believe just about anything. Geez! Wait a minute, is this the Comedy section?

[onionboy]

02:13 PM on 03/18/2011

Apple stem cell therapy is remarkably effective...

for apple trees.

[Cubedweller]

12:51 AM on 03/19/2011

Yeah, how are plant stem cells supposed to do anything for human cells? Do people no longer take biology in high-school? How is it that people keep falling for this garbage?

[reasonnotfaith]

02:58 AM on 03/19/2011

This type of j.u.n.k. is a staple of Huff Post's health section. Apparently they think people with progressive politics don't know how to think critically, which is downright scary. I always thought we progressives were the smart ones.

[onionboy]

03:51 AM on 03/19/2011

They couldn't even pick mouse or bugs or c. elegans (very very small worms). No, they had to pick something in a completely different Kingdom! There's no higher division among living things.