Here is what it's all about: The Uttwiler Spätlauber apple tree in Switzerland may not mean anything to you, and until several years ago, it didn't mean much to anyone else, either. The fruit it bore was tart - too tart to eat. And, as in a fairy tale whose heroine is lonely and much neglected - ugly on the outside, though beautiful underneath - no one came to pick these apples. As years went by, the trees started to dwindle until there were only three left. But even as the trees were dying out, the apples were hanging on. Once picked, an apple lasted months longer than its shriveled cousins. This is indeed the reason the variety was first cultivated in the mid-eighteenth century: its excellent storage ability. If the tree's bark or unpicked fruit's skin was punctured, it would heal itself like human skin.

Scientists have discovered a unique Swiss apple called Uttwiler Spätlauber that is blowing the doors wide open in anti-aging science to make you look years younger... by harnessing the power of stem cells within your own body.

Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body. In addition, in many tissues they serve as a sort of internal repair system, dividing essentially without limit to replenish other cells as long as the person or animal is still alive.

Given their unique regenerative abilities, stem cells offer new potentials for treating diseases such as diabetes, and heart disease. Just imagine being able to clone your own skin, creating brand-new cells that are undamaged by age, sun or pollution. It would be the Holy Grail of skincare, the answer that every woman over the age of 30 has been looking for. That day may be closer than you think.

What was keeping these apples alive?, What was the secret to such prolonged youth?

And, naturally, how quickly could this miracle ingredient be harnessed to stop the aging process - in people?

Scientists discovered that the key to the apple's longevity lay chiefly in its unusually resilient stem cells. Stem cells in plants function much as they do in people: Their job is to maintain and repair tissue. Adult stem cells in human skin have a limited life span, and as we age and as we expose ourselves to inevitable environmental assaults - like UV light, i.e., sunshine - they decrease in number, as does their ability to regenerate tissue. The result is the familiar loss of skin elasticity and radiance, and finally wrinkles.

Welcome to the apple. New technology made it possible to replicate the cells of the nearly extinct Uttwiler Spätlauber in the lab. In clinical tests, the apple's stem cells appeared to be protecting the human stem cells. Like a youth tonic, they were nourishing and stimulating them, defending them from UV radiation (like a natural SPF booster), even delaying their aging and death.

And so, this fairly tale has a happy ending. Today, the endangered Uttwiler Spätlauber trees (there are now seven) are protected by the European environmental group ProSpecieRara. The apples themselves are so revered, in 2008, the Swiss government put them on a postage stamp. Maybe someday we'll even eat them. Imagine what that could do for you.

LifeCell has scored clinical potency of the Uttwiler Spätlauber stem cell to rejuvenate your skin and "youth activate" it.