Stem cells taken from belly fat may be able to boost cardiac function after a heart attack, preliminary research suggests. In a study conducted on 14 people who had a heart attack, fat-derived stem cells reduced the amount of damaged heart tissue, increased blood flow in the heart, and improved the heart's pumping ability when compared with a placebo. It's not the first time heart attack patients have been treated with stem cells, only that previous studies used bone marrow stem cells. The advantage of fat-derived cells is the ease with which you can get them. You don't get enough stem cells from bone marrow, so you have to culture them in a lab, a process that can take six to eight weeks.

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