Prevention Through Earlier Fathering of Babies Will Be Much More Powerful Than Stem Cell Therapies For Disorders

The gene mutations that cause ALS, known as Lou Gehrig's disease cannot easily be fixed by stem cells. Researcher recently found a soluable toxic factor, not yet identified, that appears to be leaching out of disease causing astrocytes,selectively killing off any motor neurons in the area. "The cells that surround the neurons don't sit back and do nothing," Przedborski said in a telephone interview. "You have to take into account the overall situation. There's a neighborhood effect-good guy in a bad neighborhood has a greater chance to turn bad." So it would make no sense to go to the trouble of replacing dead or dying neurons in the nervous system of an ALS patient without first cleaning up the neighborhood. "If you take those healthy stem cells to try to repair the diseased system, you are going to implant those nice cells into diseased environment and they may not survive very well," Przedborski said. SF Chronicle article by Carl Hall April 16, 2007 "How Stem Cell Findings Help Study Disease"

Why the digression to stem cell research? The way to stop ALS is the father your babies before the sperm making cells develop more mutations then you were born with.
FATHERING BABIES BY THE VERY EARLY 30s and CRYOBANKNG SPERM IN YOUR MID 20s WILL DO MUCH MORE THAN STEM CELL RESEARCH FOR ALZHEIMER'S, CANCER, AUTISM, DIABETES, ETC. ETC. ETC.

MUTATIONS ARE VERY OFTEN CAUSED BY ADVANCED PATERNAL AGE AND MUTATIONS IN THE SPERM MAKING CELLS --THE PATERNAL GERM LINE

Mutations in superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1) cause a form of the fatal paralytic disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

ALS is an adult-onset motor neuron disease that can be induced by dominantly inherited mutations in the gene encoding the enzyme SOD1 (refs. 1,2). Mice that are transgenic for the human SOD1 mutations recapitulate the paralytic phenotype...

Nature Neuroscience (15 Apr 2007) Article