In a picture taken on Oct. 27, 2013, Cynthia Carrion-Norton gestures as she speaks during an interview at her home in Manila. Carrion-Norton flits high-heeled around the Philippine capital with energy levels belying her years, thankful for a controversial treatment she highly recommends to fellow sixty-somethings. AFP PHOTO\/JAY DIRECTO <\/p>\n
MANILA, PhilippinesCynthia Carrion-Norton flits high-heeled around Metro Manila with energy levels belying her years, thankful for a controversial treatment she highly recommends to fellow 60-somethings. <\/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! she told Agence France-Presse (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 the elite are obsessed with anti-aging, wealthy Filipinos are shelling out between $12,500 (about P540,000) and $18,000 (about P780,000) per session of stem cell therapy in the belief it will improve their overall health and make them look younger. <\/p>\n
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Rich businessmen and public officialsmostly maleare 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. And then they tell their wives or girlfriends. <\/p>\n
Lucero said Filipinos had been receiving anti-aging stem cell treatment since the 1970s, often flying abroad to do so. <\/p>\n
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