When you receive the Seal you begin to care more for your health. And now you have some new options. Stem cells have just been used successfully in regrowing breasts damaged by removing cancerous lumps.
Many women get breast cancer, and many of them have cancerous lumps that can be removed. But many of them elect not to remove those lumps but remove the whole breast. Why? Cosmetics. If the whole breast is removed they can have an implant put in and the two breasts will still look the same. But if some lumps are removed from one breast, most often the two breasts are left looking quite different.
One breast will be natural, and the other breast will be a different size and often a different shape. This is the result of a "lumpectomy," and ugly word for a procedure that leaves women feeling ugly.
Or the women with just some cancerous lumps can elect to have a mastectomy where their whole breast is removed and they get an implant. Since the implant looks like the other breast, many women go with the mastectomy.
That may all be changing soon. A new procedure recently tested in Japan takes fat from a woman's stomach or thighs and uses it to rebuild the tissue of the breast, using stem cells.
Now these stem cells are not embryonic stem cells, but created from the fat taken from the woman by liposuction. The stem cells come from half of the fat taken from her. The other half of the fat is mixed with the stem cells. So it is living tissue with some stem cells added as "starter culture" and can grow into healthy breast tissue, since the breasts are composed largely of fat.
Of course doctors (and already some patients) anticipate this process with excitement for its cosmetic possibilities. Fat can be taken away from where a patient does not want it and put where she needs it in one operation.
The ethics of cosmetic surgery are often dubious. God created you. He created your natural beauty. You do not need to change your natural beauty. It is beautiful the way you were made. But in cases like those of breast cancer survivors, cosmetics is not so doubtful ethically. A woman has every right to want to replace the diseased tissue in her breast with healthy tissue from elsewhere on her body.
And God wants that too. God wants to put that woman and her beauty He created back together. He did not cause her disease. He is the Healer, not the spreader of disease. Healing is what Jesus came to do. Many doctors are expecting uses for such procedures far beyond the "necessary" restoration of natural beauty after disease. They can be developed into the restoration of beauty after the effects of aging also.
But aging also happens naturally and happens to everyone--it is not the result of disease. If you do not eat the right foods and you smoke, among other health risks, you will age unnaturally. So there are ways to combat unwanted aging effects without reconstructive surgery. If you are recovering from disease, God wants you to be able to recover your beauty too.
But if you are aging then your beauty naturally changes (as long as you do not do the unhealthy things that will "age" you unnaturally) and to fight aging with stem cells is not natural recovery, but artificial. Everyone ages at least a little. When you are sealed you will begin to take care of your health more. The most power you have over your health is your diet after quitting bad habits. God will show you how to eat when you receive the Seal.
