Stem cell enhancement therapy

StemEnhance™ from StemTech Health Sciences Inc.:

StemEnhance™ is a breakthrough, all-natural, botanical extract that supports wellness by helping your body maintain healthy stem cell physiology. It is the very first product on the market in the exciting and promising new phytoceutical product category known as "stem cell enhancers". U.S. Patent #6814961 for this propietary product has been granted to StemTech HealthSciences Inc. of Klamath Lake, Oregon, USA, and a second patent is pending.

Several clinical studies have been conducted on this stem cell enhancer product, in addition to some in-vitro trials.

StemEnhance™ is not a drug, and is not intended to "treat" or "cure" any disease. It is a natural food supplement derived from a tiny natural freshwater aquatic plant that simply supports your body's own ability to heal itself. This unique plant, a cyanophtya whose scientific name is Aphanizomenon Flos-Aquae or AFA, can be harvested in only one place - the mineral-rich waters of Klamath Lake, 1400 feet above sea level in the Cascade Mountains in the state of Oregon, USA.

Upper Lake Klamath is one of the cleanest lakes in the USA, yet the deep layer of sediment at the bottom is extremely rich in minerals because for centuries it has been fed by many mountain streams washing down from the volcanic mountains which surround it. The area enjoys about 300 days of sunshine per year, which provides an ideal growing environment for this remarkable fast-growing and highly nutritious plant.

Aphanizomenon Flos-Aquae has never been successfully cultivated commercially, so this tiny, free-floating, underwater plant must be harvested in the wild from the waters of upper Klamath Lake at the peak of the summer growing season. AFA is a highly unusual single-celled organism that has a very high chlorophyll content (about 7 percent by weight) and is extrememly rich in Beta Carotene (Vitamin A precursor). The chlorophyll gives it a very dark green color, thus AFA is known as a blue-green algae.

Yet, unlike all other plant organisms, AFA does not have a cell wall made of undigestible cellulose - which makes the nutrients in AFA more "bio-available" than the nutrients in all other types of algae. Overall, the human body will absorb approximately 95 percent of the nutrients in this algae "super food".

Dame Edna Everage...

...is retiring:

Barry Humphries announces that the current tour will be Dame Edna Everage’s last. Barry is 78 and must be amazingly fit to have coped with the rigours of touring. He is, he says, “feeling a little senior”. I shall miss Edna personally, for I knew her long before her fame. Barry developed the character in the Sixties, trying out her outrageous kind of humour on Late Night Line-Up, the chat show on which I was a presenter. In those days, Edna was a frumpy fusspot clutching a drab handbag and wearing glum clothes. Slowly, Barry grew more outrageous and pushed the humour ever further. Now he is to hang up his spectacles. He speaks of “moving on”. I recognise the sense that time is getting short to do all the other things we want to do before we go. The message as you hit your seventies is: don’t hang around, do it now, before it’s too late. Enjoy whatever comes next, Barry.

The real Bohemians

Or Czechs as they are now known.

Andy, this is what you were thinking of: Smetana's "The Moldau" (the Czech river) from "Ma Vlad", ("My country").

Smetana was Dvorak's teacher.

From Dvorak's 9th symphony, "From the New World". The 4th movement (allegro ma non troppo). ("Fast but not too fast").

Dvorak lived in the US from 1891 to 1895. He also composed his cello concerto (to which we listened tonight) here.