Stem cell pills claiming to make customers \"feel and look at least seven years younger\" can be bought through Filipino websites for just 9,000 pesos (US$200).<\/p>\n
Carrion-Norton, 66, a member of the Philippine Olympic Committee and a former undersecretary for medical tourism, credits her vitality to adult stem cell therapy. <\/p>\n
The day I got the therapy I went to a dinner party and everyone told me: Cynthia, youre blooming!, Carrion-Norton told AFP. <\/p>\n
The procedure involves harvesting the patients stem cells from their own fat and injecting them into their blood, which she likened to being injected with intravenous fluid in the arm. <\/p>\n
In a country where many elite are obsessed with anti-ageing, wealthy Filipinos are shelling out between US$12,500 and US$18,000 per session of stem cell therapy in the belief it will improve their overall health and make them look younger. <\/p>\n
Rich businessmen and public officials mostly male are the most eager customers, according to Florencio Lucero, a doctor in Manila who said he started performing adult stem cell therapy in 2006. <\/p>\n
They do it because they want to work longer, Lucero told AFP. <\/p>\n
And then they tell their wives or girlfriends. <\/p>\n
Lucero said Filipinos had been receiving anti-ageing stem cell treatment since the 1970s, often flying abroad to do so. <\/p>\n
Thai medical entrepreneur Bobby Kittichaiwong says he has a lucrative business catering to the Filipino elite, who pay US$20,000 to visit his Villa Medica clinic in Germany for a more controversial form of stem cell therapy. <\/p>\n
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