Rhonda Patrick· PhD
So, what we tried to do is convince people who currently collect cord blood and store that, or other people to, "Yes, hey, don't only store cord blood. Store the whole placenta. Don't throw it out."
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So, what we tried to do is convince people who currently collect cord blood and store that, or other people to, "Yes, hey, don't only store cord blood. Store the whole placenta. Don't throw it out."
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And that is if you get a company who says, "Well, we don't only wanna, you know, store cord blood or your dental stem cells. We also wanna store placentas because we've got enough people who are interested in doing that," whoop, it will take off, okay?
Because there are two options here, either you were born and you keep your placenta somehow for later use when you're 80 years old, you know, or whatever, or you have enough placenta stored in placenta banks that you just go there and find one that will fit you.
Will it be commercially available? Yes. When? I don't know. I hope next year. But it'll probably be made a couple of years from now.
And I think ultimately, it will come to the fact that at least part of, maybe all of the cord blood banks, as an example, will say, "Okay. We can store your cord blood. We can also store your placenta. Do you want that, yes or no?"