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- What stem cell therapy actually is (autologous vs allogenic vs MSC vs exosomes — these are not the same thing).
- The patient archetypes where it's genuinely useful.
- The regulatory mess — US vs Panama/Mexico/Cayman/EU.
- Source quality — the part the marketing doesn't talk about.
- Why terrain matters more than the cells — what we sequence first.
- The economics — and the patient profile that pays for the wrong reason.
- When we'd recommend it (rare, specific, sequenced) and when we won't (most cases).
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