Could we treat spinal cord injuries with asparagus? | Andrew Pelling
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2020
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Take a mind-blowing trip to the lab as TED Senior Fellow Andrew Pelling shares his research on how we could use fruits, vegetables and plants to regenerate damaged human tissues -- and develop a potentially groundbreaking way to repair complex spinal cord injuries with asparagus.
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43 years post injury still believe my nervous system will be restored to high level of function. HOPE = effort. Thanks DOC
Amazing science! My buddy has an "unrepairable" spinal injury, so this gives me hope that he can be fixed. Keep up the great work Doc! 👍
It’s not eating it. It’s using it as soft tissue as replacement in the spinal cord.
as a spinal cord injury club card holder.. this is very cool.. how I yearn for the day to remove all these titanium rods from my spine.
Good luck
+1 to that, although I'd happily add a dozen more to regain use of my right arm.
Club card holder????
Take care!!
🙏
I’d love to check back in 5-10 years to see if this guy and his lab are truly saving peoples’ mobility and self-sufficient lifestyles. That’s a really cool idea I just hope it ends up working.
This would be amazing for so many people suffering with spinal cord injuries!
Okay robot
Nominate your team for the Nobel prize if this works
Hot Damn! I´ll be an Titanium asparagus cyborg.
:)) same
This is quite fascinating. As someone who has a spinal tumour removed over a decade ago and who still suffers with mild lower left body paralysis, these kind of breakthrough ideas will one day, hopefully, provide real opportunities to allow the body to naturally reconnect motor functions to the brain. It may be too late for me but in a time when "experts" and "science" has been attacked by the forces of ignorance worldwide, thank goodness that behind the scenes, in labs across the planet, people like Andrew and thousands of others continue to work to improve the lives of future generations.
OUTSTANDING!!! Especially the last part. Your heart wrenching self doubt is apparent, appreciated and I resonate. In the overall scheme of things the mouse/mice souls - with the help of their spirit guides - volunteered for this & willingly brought themselves into your humane sphere of influence in exchange for their rapid advancement. They are soul mates of all involved. Do not fret my friend - all is well and good. History will thank you as I do now.
Thank God for people like this fine gentleman and his colleagues.
I have a son who’s been fully wheel chair bound since birth and I truly hope this tech can help him and others in the future .
Absolutely amazing, Andrew it's scientist like you willing to crawl out on that limb to help humanity. Wishing you great success and all that comes with it. Thanks for sharing
Wonderful development - well done to you and your team - this has the potential to be truly life changing. Keep us up dated and good fortune in your work
Amazing! May God bless you with your work and life. What your doing is going to change lives.
Could this be the breakthrough we are searching for ? I certainly hope so, as this could be the light at the end of a dark tunnel for so many sufferers !
Phenomenal!!! Beyond anything!!! Keep up the great work Dr. who 😊
What an awesome discovery! Sometimes it the oddest things that we can use to heal, regenerate and make our lives better quality!
Congrats on your success. Thanks for being a good human
absolutely incredible
Super interesting topic
This sounds insane
Insanely awesome that is.
@watch Earthlings documentary Yes! Exactly! I totally agree!
@ismail Cem Eroglu well it depends on your definition of sane
@ismail Cem Eroglu yes it is treu but i think that they think where crazy for not being scientists see its based on perception of it like some wise person said scientists are adults who didint lose there childlike curiosity if this is misquoted im sorry
This is really amazing
This would be so amazing!
Amazing!! I hope it could be real using in medical field in future and give the new life chaning for the people who suffer from the spiral cord.
You're definitely genius mad scientist!👏👏👍 Brilliant! Hope it works!
This can Be A Great discovery in Future. Yes We Might Come back To simple Solution for Complex Problems. Thats Magnificent!
Oh my god. You are amazing Doc.
Human ingenuity is almost.... unbelievable. This is truly incredible science.
Great job Sir!
This is very exciting research! Thank you for following your intuition. Many ideas that seem silly at first turn out to be major breakthroughs and there will always be failures and naysayers on the road to success. Having been close to various quadriplegics since a young age I can appreciate what an incredible impact this has the potential to make on people's lives. I had rodent pets growing up. Some are lucky and some are snake chow. Yes the necessary method of testing is sad, but a honorable sacrifice, like noble warrior rats fighting for a cause. If this becomes a standard medical procedure, I imagine it would end up being practiced in veterinary medicine as well.
Extremely exciting discovery!
This is astronomical. I am completely lost for words. This is incredible. My mind was blown by the war, but when you showed the rat being able to move their legs, my mind exploded. This is such incredible, innovative work. I am so excited tk see where it goes.
Joke of the day:
Doctor, Doctor, I keep hearing a ringing in my ears.
*Where else did you expect to hear it?*
Doctor, Doctor, I keep hearing agonising squealing and kittens getting their legs ripped off, in my ears.
Well that's because we've trained ourselves to be OK with testing on animals, as long as we tell everyone how emotionally difficult it was.
@@NeonVisual Do you have a better alternative to advance human knowledge? Would you rather do it to people who got life in prison?
@@florin793 better yet, making people volunteer. I agree with you. I hate the thought of using animals but what can we do? We can't advance without performing experiments and trials and animals are our best alternative at this time. We do NOT need another Tuskegee on our hands.
Awesome! Hope it's actually a useful treatment.
Amazing. I hope this discovery proves to have outstanding uses for medical field in the future.
Its really Mindblowing!!!!!!!
Just amazing !!!!
Home run for Asparagus.. best of luck dude ❤️🙏🔥
this guy is awesome
Let's start the clock, then. Good work, sir!
I have very bad spinal cord injuries and I can't wait for this, where could I sign up?🙋
Freaking amazing...
Thank you for believing in this possible revolutionary treatment and not giving up. This inovative treatment could be the answer for so many people.
TED finds stuff that gives me hope for humanity.
So much negative in the world, we need science more than ever right now.
No we need more God
Wow this amazing can you see if it helps old injuries too
You're into something. Keep going.😇
My son is 45 and a quad from surfing accident 23 years ago. When and where are the trials and how do I sign him up?
Science... It's just amazing!
Amazing! I’m in!!🙋🏽♀️
Any updates on these trials?
Food looks like the organ that they help. Walnuts (good for the brain) look like brains, ginger (good for digestion) like intestates, and asparagus like a spine.
TED luv 💖
This is great news.
Genius PERIOD.
All the best
Can I sign up for your first clinical trial?
I love the fact that you are innovating for a serious problem the rats was a good first step. When you can make it work with animals like monkeys that have a much closer DNA comparison to a human then I would start the trials. I think again that this was awesome how you are tackling an very necessary problem and I wish you nothing but success in helping the world
A researcher at the University of Florida, Gainesville, over 45 years ago, was doing spinal cord regeneration research using different chemicals applied daily to the severance area of the spinal cord. Some of the rats moved as if their cord had never been severed. Others never regained function - again based on the chemical used. Why this research was never applied to humans is an astounding dereliction to help humans and animals. (I had read about this researcher in a local newspaper where I lived. I called him to ask if I could visit his lab, which he graciously welcomed the visit. I had a friend who was a quadriplegic, becoming paralyzed at 14 yrs old. I had so wished his paralysis could have been reversed before he died while in his 40’s, suicide.)
Can you tell me where are you from?
This is incredible and I really hope it work but, my god, it’s hard to see the reality of the testing phase for such an experiment. Deliberately paralysing another life form is brutal.
As a T6-T7 complete paraplegic this brings me such great hope and wonders for the future. The biggest hope I have is that I could at least feel again. And as my fellow titanium spine brothers have mentioned get these damn things removed 😂
I remember seeing something like this before, it was about how scientists made a meat leaf. Anyone know what it's called? (The video)
Wow.
Greetings from Indonesia 🇮🇩✌️
For this I posted you on Twitter and Face Book. ☺🙂😎
Interesting ....
“No”
*TED talk ends.*
Gonna need a lot of them to stitch together.
Could you imagine if Ted Talks had a video with this title but the answer was just "no"? Game changer
seems plants are usefull to fix a lot of problems
WHAT?!? ... I mean WHAT?!? Asparagus?!? That dull sound you hear is my lower jaw hitting my desk. 😱😵
So many researchers are trying to find a solution using nano tubes or other complicated stuff and then it is asparagus that saves the day?!? WOW! This is the reason why I love these TED videos. There are so many insanely smart people on this planet and with the TED videos you can invite them into your home and listen to what they have to say. (But it still makes me wonder why our planet is in such a desasterous condition when there are obviously more than enough engenious people who could make it a much better place...)
Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Please do clinical trials for us we wanna walk again please release treatment soon waiting this year
Wow
Ppl thinking outside of the box!
Before you laugh at this guy, have you ever seen a rabbit in a wheel chair? I rest my case!
Who is laughing at him?? Also his hypothesized solution has nothing to do with eating asparagus 🙏🙏 Wishing him loads of luck..
@@frankjackal calm down Oliver
Years ago, when I was in rehab at the spinal center, an African nurse told me that healing for our bodies comes from the Earth. This was in October of 1992.
cool
I guess the ends justify the means, hey Dr Moreau?
I actually cant believe that in 5 years most of these stuff coould actually come true and we will be much better
I keep staring at his hair lol I just want fix it.
Why do I imagine a frantic epidural with a giant piece of asparagus being held by 2 or 3 surgeons?
I would guess more neurons would reconnect after removing the scaffold material. try it!
This type of scaffolding just degenerates, that the point........
This has to be the most clickbaitable video title TED has ever done thats not actually clickbait
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this guy definitely feels bad about the lab rat experiments haha
Yes we can.
Forget 2 years down the road, sign me up TODAY !
the assertion at the end makea sense if the findings and innovations are shared freely with the world, covering time/salaries and expenses. however the logic falls apart when these innovations and discoveries end up at big corporations under patents and so cost restrictive that only those very well off can access them or they notably impact healthcare costs for all, meanwhile generating exorbitant profit for the companies. i hope that’s not what happens here.
I believe in biomimicry and find it fascinating that plant tissue survives in the human body. This is very interesting and promising. Furthermore, applying these experiments to rats is traditionally acceptable because a rats neurological system is very similar to a humans..and most SCI experiments are first conducted on rats...got it. But, my understanding is that it is very rare that spinal cords actually are severed in SCIs, so I am puzzled as to how this would be practically applied to humans. Would love additional information about this company and their FDA approvals....
Ps - husband is C6 quad
Why unpublished
Maybe 100 generations from now, we can film Veggietales with live talent
Hey Buddy,
It is really an impressive idea of yours, but won't the asparagus be facing immune response by the surrounding cells?
He said that they sterilise, remove all dna and render the “scaffold” of plant tissue inert. They then inject the “scaffold” with human tissue for the organ (spinal cord) which I took to mean a sample from the eventual recipient.
The immune response would probably be low, what will it recognise? The human cells of the host inside the guest “scaffold”?
@@Infiniti25 👍 thanks 😀
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i’m down for anything. 15 and paralyzed sucks
I know you have to experiment on animals, I get that, but it still breaks my heart. I hope you retire them and adopt them at some point and take good care of them...
Is a little rough, However would it be better if it was your kid sister?
@@theangryquad3127 well if she volunteers and gets paid well ... maybe? I am no sure whats the right way, I am not judging, it just feels wrong XD
@@neogery Oh no it is wrong! But everything is relative to an alternative and the alternative is human subjects! I'm just making it personal.
Having been involved in SCI research for 6 yrs I would be hard pressed to give a yay or nay to this procedure if it was proven within a 80% success rate........
@@theangryquad3127 torturing animals is sick
@@ferruccio4531 I agree! What about the "Tuskegee" experiments, would that have been better on animals or are you OK with the human subjects?
Omg those poor rats
Sign me up!
Fuckin' A Right!
@@theangryquad3127 I subscribed to your channel. Pretty cool stuff!
Can asparagus repair nerve pain?
Woe first ✌️
Want a medal
pls make us immortal by replacing our injuries with plant cells
FUND THIS NOW!