The History of Cell Therapy

Modern day Live Cell Therapy owes its success to the pioneering work of Prof. Paul Niehans, who in 1931 was credited for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of the technique of organ extraction and Cell Therapy.

Dr. Niehans, then a young Swiss surgeon was working with colleagues who were experimenting with the implantation of animal glands into patients with malfunctioning organs. One of Niehans’ first discoveries was that cells derived from the organs of foetal sheep could be injected into the human body without triggering the natural defence mechanism that acts to reject foreign protein.

AN ACCIDENT THAT PAVED THE WAY FOR THE

FUTURE

Back in 1931, Dr. Niehans was summoned to an emergency operation where he was requested to perform a transplant for an elderly woman whose parathyroid glands were accidentally removed during a thyroid surgery. The patient was in critical condition and in a race against time, Niehans sought instead to inject the woman with a steer’s parathyroid cells suspended in a saline solution, crudely prepared at the scene. The woman’s condition quickly stabilised and continued to improve. In fact, she went on to live another 30 years.

This experience paved the way to future discoveries and progress in the field of cellular therapy. Professor Niehans went on to apply his discoveries in Cellular Therapy to treat over 50,000 patients, some of whom included personalities like Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President of France Charles De Gaulle, American President Dwight Eisenhower and the famous Comedian Charlie Chaplin. Pope Pius XII was so pleased with the treatment that he inducted Dr. Niehans, the founder of Live Cell Therapy into the Papal Academy Of Science, making him the successor to he late Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin.

With this success, European physicians slowly began to accept Niehans’ work with cell therapy. Cellular therapy has today become an accepted regenerative technique in Europe.

THE WISDOM OF

THE ANCIENTS…

Queen Cleopatra, the Egyptian pharaohs, the Pyramids...Yes, Cell therapy can be traced to real ancient times! Egyptian hieroglyphists, as far back as 1600 B.C, had recommended the injection of animal organs to improve human vitality.

It was recorded that physicians first started to transplant tissues about 2,000 years ago.

Paracelsus, the great Swiss philosopher and physician of the Middle Ages, believed that the most effective way to rebuild or revitalize degenerating organs and aging tissues was to use healthy living cells of similar tissue types.

In the late 19th century, French Nobel laureate Dr.Alexis Carrel discovered the potentially immortal nature of cells by keeping alive fragments of a chicken heart 25 years after the fowl had died. He performed this by combining cellular material from different hearts into one cell culture.

At the end of the 19th century, Paris physiologist C.E. Brown-Sequard recognised the potency of cellular therapy by injecting himself with an extract made from the testicles of a young bull.

CELERGEN… a very REASSURING element for my SEX life ..particularly at my age

Aaron Younger 39
Australia

My Wounds have HEALED a lot FASTER and with Minimal Scaring...

Michael Strahan 54
Australia

Celergen is indeed a FANTASTIC product!

Andrew Neo 40
Singapore