Health experts have warned social media users not to fall for online adverts shared widely in the Philippines and other parts of Asia that promote a "pill containing live stem cells" they claim "can help cure any disease". While scientists have been studying how stem cell therapies could treat various diseases, live stem cells are neither administered through pills nor ingested through such treatments. The Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said the promoted product "Purtier Placenta" is a food supplement with "no approved therapeutic claims".

"Purtier Placenta is live Stem Cell that helps regenerate and restore our body cells, and help cure any illness in our body," claims a Facebook post by a Philippines-based user on November 5, 2022.

The lengthy post purportedly includes photos of the "Purtier Placenta" pills.

"Product is made in a capsule form, it has live stem cells inside," the post adds. It lists conditions that the pill can supposedly help cure, including diabetes; various types of cancer; and Alzheimer's disease.

Stem cells are primitive cells that, as they grow, differentiate into the various specialised cells that make up the different organs such as the brain and the heart.

Scientists hope to create stem cells in the lab and nudge them to grow into these differentiated cells, thus replenishing organs damaged by disease or accident.

A similar Facebook post here touts the same product as "oral live stem cell therapy". It claims the pill is "FDA...

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