Released on = January 4, 2007, 2:52 am

Press Release Author = Jon Whyte

Industry = Biotech

Press Release Summary = Told there was no hope for him an Australain man took charge of his own health with remarkable results.

Press Release Body =
Jon Whyte

BANGKOK, Thailand, January 4 2007 - Peter Irwin from Surfers Paradise in Australia
looks the picture of health. He and his Thai partner are in Bangkok for a check-up
and a holiday - a time to relax and for his pregnant partner to visit family. He
sounds both positive and optimistic as he recounts his dramatic story.

"After a twenty year history of admissions to ICU wards I was finally advised that
at 55 years of age I had Dilated Cardiomyopathy with some Ischaemic Heart Disease. I
was given a fifty to sixty percent chance of lasting ten years, he recounts. "Then
my condition became far worse. Two years ago, after an Angiogram that had to be
stopped due to severe chest pain, I was told there was nothing more that could be
done for me. The odds lowered to a fifty percent chance of living two years. The
cardiologist, almost as an aside, mentioned that my only hope lay in stem cell
therapy but he knew little about it. I contacted St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney who
were doing a clinical experimental group, but I fell outside their entry criteria as
they were only treating arterial diseases."

Rather than accept his future Peter took action and did an Internet search for any
help he could find. He discovered a Thai -Israeli company called Theravitae who were
treating end-stage cardiac patients in Bangkok with startling levels of success and
contacted them. "I emailed and also spoke with their staff, who were endlessly
patient of my many questions. I also spoke with several local Australian
cardiologists who were mainly negative but who knew little about stem cell therapy
for the failing heart, but what did I have to lose? So I went ahead and on October
4, 2005 I had some 250cc of my blood withdrawn which was flown to the laboratory.
Five days later I had the blood, now mightily enriched with millions more stem
cells, injected by catheter into my damaged and struggling heart. This simple and
safe procedure took place at the Bangkok Heart Hospital."

"I was very impressed with the hospital staff and facilities and the very high level
of professionalism they all displayed. For three months nothing much seemed to be
happening, but an MRI at four months showed my Ejection Fraction (a measure of the
heart's pumping efficiency) had risen 11 percent. By six months I was feeling much
better and I have continued to improve. My whole life has changed and despite having
to cope with many personal problems my attitude and outlook are very positive. I now
have a purpose for living which I had lost due to my health problems, so I am very
thankful," he said.

Not content with simply having stem cell therapy Peter also made changes to his
diet, lifestyle and attitude to gain the maximum benefits from his medical
treatment. He's now a vegetarian, 20kg lighter and looking forward to becoming a
parent again. He believes that all these factors, combining with his VesCell stem
cell therapy's work in repairing his heart, have given him a new lease on life.

"I'm deeply in love and have been given a second chance at life. Who could ask for
more?" he said. "I've just had a complete medical check-up and all my vital
statistics have improved markedly. But for me the greatest improvement has been that
I can enjoy a far better quality of life and I have high expectations of a very
positive future," he added. "If you are beyond hope of treatment because of heart
disease all is not lost. Almost every day research is being published that shows
just how many seriously ill heart patients can be returned to a life they thought
they had lost."

(Jon Whyte is a freelance journalist living and working in Bangkok. He writes mainly
about travel and health and is also a copywriter and editor. He can be contacted at
jaibangkok@gmail.com.)

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