Archive for February 2013

More on Stem Cell Therapy

By | Published Friday, February 22, 2013

from “I look terrific!”

 by Barbara C. Gonzalez  | Updated April 30, 2011 - 12:00am
“When I see a white wall, I cannot help but remember how I was after my stroke. A stroke is a strange thing. It has no formula. Nobody can tell you how you will feel when you have a stroke. It all depends on how serious it is, which part of your brain gets blocked. Mine was a light stroke, I guess, though it certainly took me a long time to recover. I had it in September 2003. It’s only now (2011) that I can say with conviction that I am really well. Seven years of slow recovery and one year when things dropped quite quickly into place. That year I have to credit to StemEnhance.
What is the significance of the white wall? Before my stroke if you saw me staring blankly at a wall, you could be sure I was thinking or imagining what things I could do and when. You could tell my brain was active. After my stroke my mind was as blank as the wall. It held nothing. No memories. No ideas. No thoughts. No pictures. Nothing.
My neurologist told me that my stroke, which was in my right brain, had blocked my emotions.    They would return in time, she said. One measure, I guessed, would be tears, if I could cry again, because I had stopped crying. From September 2003 to December 2009, six years, I remember crying only once – in October 2009 when I had to bring my mother to the hospital and did not know what would happen next. Her behavior then set my nerves on edge and when I found a nurse who would stay with her in the hospital I went home and sobbed alone for a whole hour. The emotion there was desperation. Two months later she died. I have not to this day cried over that. 
But when I hugged my daughter Sarri and her son Julian good-bye, tears just flowed and I could not breathe. Seventy percent of me felt miserable but thirty percent was elated. I knew I was well, really over my stroke. I am finally normal now. When I look back I must marvel at StemEnhance that really did it for me.
StemEnhance is not a miracle pill. If you are normal when you start taking it, don’t expect anything to happen instantly. You take it and in a few days you realize you are feeling better, maybe lighter in spirit, you have more energy.   If you are a recovering stroke victim soon things begin to clear. Your memory for example. My memory is much clearer now.   I can remember what happened on November 15, 1957 and what I was wearing then. Before I began to take StemEnhance I could not remember that much of the past with so much clarity. Of course, I still have to spend a few minutes trying to remember what I did last night for two reasons. One, age, it nibbles at your short-term memory. Two, most likely I did not do anything exciting last night so why should I remember what TV show I watched and how sleepy it made me?
But StemEnhance has turned me into a real believer. It has made me lose girth. My body is slimmer now than it used to be. Remember, I put on 30 pounds in 2001 when I stopped smoking (after 40 years of regular smoking). I think I would breathe and the air would turn into fat. Of those 30 pounds I have lost 20 very slowly. But now – I went to a birthday party of a friend and his wife said I looked terrific. Everyone I see tells me I look terrific. You see, StemEnhance turned me on to stem cells. One day I walked into a Korean cosmetic shop and was attracted to a display of light blue bottles. They were labeled Stem Cell. So I bought and have been using them ever since. I’m on my second bottle of night cream so maybe I’m on my fourth month. Maybe that’s why people tell me I look terrific.
So what can I say? Experience has taught me to be a stem cell advocate. StemEnhance is not made from embryos or whatever controversial thing stem cell therapy began with. It is made from algae as is the Korean cosmetic. It comes from some marine source. Both products are not cheap. StemEnhance costs me P3,250 per bottle and the Stem Cell Skin Care Products are at P900 more or less each. But they really work for me.
Joe Magsaysay, an old friend who now sells StemEnhance, speaks of the miracles he has seen in his wife Lily, who was laid up by a serious stroke for many years. He says because of it Lily can now see better, has more energy, can sit up on her own. He is very happy with the product. So there you have an example of a serious stroke victim showing signs of recovery after many years and me. I was recovering very slowly from a slight stroke then I took StemEnhance and in one year I look terrific. 
I think stem cell products are expensive but worth it. It is not as expensive as the chemical drugs. It is a natural capsule and so it comes with all the requirements of the Food and Drug Administration. No therapeutic value, it says on the label, but my experience tells me it has tremendous therapeutic value. I think the Food and Drug Administrations, both here and in the USA, have to review their rules and determinants and look at natural drugs with different eyes. They work.”
I and many acquaintances have experienced similar pleasant experience with StemEnhance - although I personally have only been taking one capsule a day for almost 3 months now.
 It seems it does not really help everyone uniformly; one friend doctor told me it did no effect on him one way or other. Another doctor-distributor who was helped by Stemenhance for many years expired after age 80. Another loyalist and distributor for many years succumbed to Stage 4 Bone Cancer painlessly and peacefully at age 72. A prominent 88-year-old priest also swears by it.
I hope to be able to also say,”I look terrific.”Anyone interested can call 0917-8247904 or email me.
Tancio

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TRAVAILS OF A FRUSTRATED LANDOWNER

By | Published Saturday, February 9, 2013




I was born to a middle-class family that owned dispersed tenanted tracks of land planted to palay in Bulacan. Before I could even know what it meant to be called “señorito”, martial law and land reform had set in that left to the family only non-productive patches of rice land in different isolated areas. In an effort to fend off the expected bad effects of land reform, I involved myself in the corporatized integrated farm operations of haciendas in Nueva Ecija that provided year-round irrigation, farming implements and inputs to farmers, while providing post-harvest and modern processing facilities, such as drying, milling, packaging and marketing and distribution of branded packaged quality whole-grain rice. This effort also eventually failed partly because of the refusal of tenants to become salaried employees of the corporation. They preferred to become landowners themselves.
With the savings I was able to generate as an employee in Metro Manila, I was able to own a residential lot that I paid for over ten (10) years. In time I also lost this lot to “informal settlers” that invaded Metro Manila from failed farms, ironically after helping out in the ouster of the dictatorship.
Now we have come full-circle. Fast forward to the emergence of the new Asian Tiger as President P-Noy attempts to lift the masses from poverty.
In his column, DEMAND AND SUPPLY,  Boo Chanco aptly writes: 
“UP economist Noel de Dios has a good idea on how to get more inclusive growth: get big business deeply involved in the fight against poverty. Since the bulk of our poverty stricken population are in the rural areas, get big business involved in agriculture.
Noel, in a recent Business World column, argues his point: “A leap in productivity and incomes among today’s poor can come only by linking them with those who already possess exceptional access to knowledge and resources. If one speaks of agriculture, for example, this cannot be done without inducing major corporate businesses – those already inserted in national and global value-chains – to enter agriculture in a big way and include the poor in their plans.”
Indeed, all the Corporate Social Responsibility activities of the large corporations are only self serving feel good press releases unless the outcome makes dramatic transformations in the lives of those at the bottom of the pyramid. As Noel puts it, “only large infusions of capital, technology, and market intelligence from the private sector can transform the conditions of the
poor today.”
But Noel knows things are always easier said than done specially in this country. Thus, he points out that “for all this to occur, difficult questions must first be answered: What policies and regulations hinder the entry of private capital and technology in agriculture? (Here one must wonder what hinders conglomerates like Metro Pacific, San Miguel, SM, and Ayala from becoming more involved in commercial agriculture rather than in malls, condos, airlines, and toll ways.)
“What feasible production and trading arrangements in agriculture can reduce transactions costs and yield scale-economies for major companies? How can massive corporate entry into agriculture be facilitated without undermining the spirit and reversing the gains of a completed agrarian reform?
“What organizational preparations are needed to build trust between small holders and large corporate ventures? What facilitative role should local and national governments play? None of these questions admits of an easy or quick answer, although each of them is urgent. The answers required are not only intellectual but also political.”
Among the major conglomerates, only San Miguel has experience in working with farmers as part of their supply chain. But even with San Miguel, they had big problems in the case of the Sumilao farmers in Bukidnon. Church and some influential lay leaders took San Miguel through the wringer and accused the conglomerate of using its clout to dispossess farmers of their land.
What San Miguel had was a plan to integrate the farmers with their supply chain. San Miguel will buy their produce and thus give them a ready and steady market. Some of their children will also have employment opportunities in the on-site processing facilities of San Miguel. But San Miguel was demonized.
In the end some compromise agreement was reached. But the drama of farmers walking all the way from Bukidnon to Manila damaged the corporate reputation of San Miguel. It probably discouraged similar forays of other conglomerates into agriculture, which almost always necessarily means getting into problems with land reform.
Indeed, we may have to reconsider our concept of land reform. We have failed to use it as a means to uplift our farmers out of poverty for many decades now. But we still insist on this same tired concept anyway.
Economist Noel de Dios observes that we are forcing the farmer to be an entrepreneur under our current land reform concept and I guess we should know by now that such assumption is simply faulty. Says Noel: “a major reason that interventions in behalf of the poor have been small in scale and limited in scope: the poor are improperly and indiscriminately shoe-horned into the unrealistic role of entrepreneurs…
“From this misconception flow the many well-meaning but ultimately feckless small credit schemes for ‘livelihood projects’ such as the ineluctable sari-sari stores, jeepney and tricycle purchases, food-stalls, and precarious small-scale subsistence agriculture.”
 Noel continues: “No doubt, individual success stories can always be told. But to think that the poor can systematically lift themselves up en masse by such means is a pipe dream.”
I suppose this is where leadership from Malacanang comes in. Will P-Noy be bold enough to break out from proven past failures to try new approaches towards inclusive economic growth?
I realize doing something on land reform is politically tricky for P-Noy given the Luisita problem. But there should be enough Filipinos willing to go with a bold plan that offers a greater promise for success than the approach we are now taking.
We missed some past opportunities to improve efficiency in the agricultural sector because it is just too bloody (sometimes literally so) to deal with land reform issues. We have one other deadline we need to take note of and that is 2015 when Asean becomes one big market. By then, we simply have to be competitive in agriculture, or be eaten up by our Asean neighbors.
We just have to be constantly innovative in our approaches to fight poverty. Dump old concepts that didn’t work. Try new ones. We may fail with some new approaches too but we may also succeed with some. We will never know unless we try. Trying is what P-Noy should be all about. I hope he is up to it.”
As my grandson would say: “Go ahead, try it. This is a new world, genius . . .”

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