The Founder’s Messsage

In 2003, we were told by Wall Street that we would need $50-$100 million and 7 to 10 years to get our revolutionary stem cell product to market. At the age of 69, I didn’t know if I had 7 to 10 productive years left and certainly couldn’t raise $50,000,000. Three million was my limit.

The young management team had a different solution: avoid the senseless religious scientific political slugfest in the USA; and, more importantly, embrace a relationship of health care that puts the patient first. Consequently, TheraVitae opened in a country where they do NOT call cells coming from your own body “drugs.” Rather than losing 7-10 years, the company started to slowly treat heart patients in 2005, just fifteen months after coming to an agreement with the first cardiologist.

Thailand was the perfect choice: medical facilities as good or better than USA facilities (according to 85% of our patients); doctors more caring (according to 90% of our patients); nurses more responsive and far more available (according to 100% of our patients), and costs that are less than half those charged by hospitals and doctors in America.

What this tiny company has done is prove THAT IT CAN BE DONE! The facts are that heart patients DON’T have to die. After turning around the lives of well over 250 people, their own cardiologists are now willing to tell the truth.

150 of the first 200 American and Australian patients said “No, not ME doctor; tell the next guy to go to a hospice!” and came to Thailand and got lucky. Yes, three out of four get better, while the less fortunate one-fourth suffer no-gain, no-harm, no foul. About 35 of those patients have given up their right to medical privacy, to help you as they were helped before you!

The choice for heart patients is not easy, but it is clear. Ask yourself if you are getting any better, or not. When your cardiologist says there is nothing more he can do for you, your choice is to:

1. listen to the “expert”, go home and wait for that slow, painful death while not having the energy to walk around the block; or,
2. find out if our world-class doctors think your OWN stem cells can help you get halfway back to a normal life. If they say “Yes,” then your chances are approximately 75% that you will improve. Higher if you follow the rules that all heart patients should follow anyway.

You don’t have to take my word for it. We have about thirty five English-speaking unpaid Patient Volunteers who want to “give something back” by explaining to you what they know worked for them. Click on “Meet our patients” at the top of the column on the left and decide which one (or ten) you would like to chat with.

Your body is programmed to heal itself. We just accumulate, grow and educate enough of your cells so that they can succeed in that purpose.

Don Margolis
Founder, TheraVitae
April, 2007