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Sick Blood Does Not Heal Wounds

Why Platelets from Sick Patients Are Less Effective

Think about this. If we draw tissue in this case platelets from a sick patient it could be said by extension that we are drawing sick platelets and expecting them to behave like strong platelets.
What do I mean by that. A sick patient a person with diabetes poor metabolism they may not have good energy production. They may not have good nutrition. They may not have good protein synthesis within all of their cells including the human immune system and their platelets.
Their platelets may be poor in the enzymes that we are looking for.

Why I Prefer Amnion from Healthy Births

By contrast an amniotic tissue that comes from a new mother who is completely healthy and its function is simply to make a baby grow you can have confidence that the power and number of growth factors in that tissue is going to be far superior.
Usually I will never opt for platelets when I can have amnion or I will never opt for platelets when I can have exosomes from the umbilicus of live births because they are young healthy active and plentiful in the area of enzymes and messenger RNA.

PRP Has Its Place but Not Always

Now there are times when the finances get involved because these allografts these donated tissues the exosomes the stem cells the amnion those are the donated tissues. They can be quite expensive and sometimes we have no alternative but to use platelet rich plasma.
However as far as I am concerned platelet rich plasma is yesterday's technology. Still commonly used but not nearly as effective as some of these others that I have mentioned.

Written by Dr. John Marzano

Board-certified podiatric surgeon with 35+ years of experience in wound care