Kenneth Cheek asked:




 ”I’d like to place an order..how about a liver, a heart valve….and two kidneys.”  There may come a time in the very near future when Doctors sound more like auto mechanics as they order spare parts..or sorry organs from the factory. I know, sounds crazy right? Well believe it or not right now there are factories all over the world who don’t make parts for Toyota or Honda..but parts for people.

Now everyone has heard the story of a guy who went to the hotel with a lady and woke up in a bath tub full of ice with a kidney missing, and for good reason, these organs are the most in demand organ and in the recent past have sold for prices as high as 25,000-85,000 dollars. In the U.S. the waiting list for a kidney transplant is over 100.000 people! and around 18 people may die each day awaiting an organ transplant, not to mention that 2 people die every minute from organ failure. The bad news is that even when you do have a proper donor your body may reject the long awaited and expensive gift you have just received. To get your body to accept an organ from another human they put you on powerful immune suppressing drugs that are horrible for your body…but is..of course necessary if that body wishes to carry on for years to come and not become the possible donor itself. However breakthroughs in health science may soon change all of this. Its already possible to grow organs and arteries but the science for all body parts have not been completely perfected for human use just yet, but the process is advancing at..well cellular reproductive speed.

The new age of organs is upon us. No longer will we need donors or organs from someone who kicked the bucket. Soon we will just custom order a new spleen or kidney and wait for about two months or so while its created. The best part is it is made from our own cells instead of some one who our body is unfamiliar with so there is no rejection and no need for harsh immune suppressant chemicals and our body can heal and get back to functioning at optimum efficiency thus giving us maximum quality in our lives. Its done many ways and one is actually where organs are printed out of a printer. Imagine an ink-jet printer but instead of spraying out streams of different colored ink it uses human cells and a type of gel that is then printed on to a special material into a 3D model of whatever organ or artery they need and there you have it. Another is to build cells around a scaffold which is biodegradable. Its then implanted and once its in, the scaffold breaks down and your body just has to finish the healing process. This has already been done with bladders, but soon other organs will follow. They have completely built a rat hear, and next they will go to pigs which are closer to humans and then finally us. I’ve heard it will be a pig/human hybrid heart which will be used in humans. It doesn’t end there however, bone marrow, kidneys, liver and the pancreas are next. A pancreas would actually cure many of the millions of people with diabetes and they will no longer have to do the poking and monitoring of their blood sugar as this will be handled on auto pilot as it is with people without diabetes.

This technology as well as many others to come will save many live and dramatically improve our lives as human beings. Another benefit is that it will allow scientists to grow organs for study so they can create new treatments and cures, better understand how our body and the parts it is made of work and improve medical science at an even faster rate. They are already using this to study effects of the human immune system and this is only the beginning.

Anti-aging Doctor