For all the doubters and skeptics of this approach you should read this month's Life Extension Magazine 12/10 and their discussion of using mesenchymal cells to treat arthritis. This isn't fringe science. It's mainstream. The various forms of stem cell therapies waiting to explode, especially the use of autologous stem cells (from your own body) are immense. I believe Dr. Runel's theories are sound. It's the cutting edge of science -- and a lot more sensible than wearing a stretcher for hours a day.
The biggest obstacle standing in the way of many advancements and life saving therapies is, as usual, our government - which seeks through the FDA to clamp controls on everything and everyone. And to what avail? Listen to the television commercials for major pharma and you'll hear the legally required lists of lethal side effects for practically any of the touted, approved drugs. Let someone make a far-fetched case for the possible involvement of a supplement or an herb in some negative outcome -- and the FDA will snatch that product off the market instantly -- and without constitutional authority, I might add. They were not originally charted as a police organization, but an advisory one. But like all government agencies they indulge in mission creep -- to the detriment and even the death of millions. Terminal cancer patients are denied therapies they might benefit from. Why? is it to save lives? No, it's to preserve and extend the power of the FDA. Your life, your health, the size and function of your penis, are merely collateral damage in their obsessive extension of agency power. Set the imagination and creativity of intelligent men and women free -- and you will see most of the so-called big problems, like energy, climate change, etc. disappear. That is not the goal of government, however. They need and want to perpetuate problems to empower and enrich themselves, ObamaCare being the prime example of the totalitarian shackling of medical innovation.
I found this site and Dr. Runel's information by searching stem cells and penis, whereupon I came upon this forum. My reasoning in setting the search criteria was similar to what Dr. Runels described as his own thinking in coming up with this therapy. Why would you assume that an MD, who you'd allow to administer to you an IV or injection of vaccine, for example, would not be applying the same medical standards to the practice of his own innovational therapy? One poster commented on how many things could go wrong. That's true, if you were to attempt this sort of thing at home in less than sterile conditions or with improperly measured or treated injectables. But why would one voice such exaggerated caution when the man involved is an MD. Would you imagine that Dr. Rundel is any less competent than some urologist doing Penis Enlargement surgeries? We know that's a traumatic, sometime dangerous procedure. And the results are less than satisfactory. Whereas Dr. Rundel's therapy does not alter the basic morphology of the penis, but merely enhances what you have -- and with the safest injectable possible, your own blood platelets.
The answer to my earlier "why" is that people follow the phony authority of the media, the government, and the common practices they're familiar with. That's really not the American way, guys. We're supposed to be pioneers, revolutionaries, individualists.
I noted on the Dr.'s post that his heroes range from Jesus to DaVinci to Franklin and Walt Whitman. Let me assure you, these were men of courageous creativity and originality, Jesus being of course in a category by himself. We should follow them, not the manipulators who rule our world today, stifling the human spirit wherever they can.
I do not know Dr. Runels, nor have I ever communicated with him (though I intend to). But I think his work is to be applauded and encouraged. I think if the skeptics look into the whole subject of stem cell therapy they'll come away with enthusiasm for the future, rather than doubt. As I said, the chief impediment to near term availability of many medical miracles is the intrusion of the regulators. I may make a trip to the Gulf coast myself one day, as Runel's sounds like a credible man of medicine and an honest one at that.