Ozzy Osbourne Undergoes Risky Medical Procedure

Ozzy Osbourne doesn’t ride the crazy train when it comes to his health.

The iconic heavy metal singer, who turned 75 in December, has struggled with mobility issues as well as the early symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Fox News reports that Osbourne will be undergoing a “risky” stem cell therapy in an attempt by doctors to help him get on in his golden years. The news was broken by Ozzy on the latest episode of his satellite radio show.

“The thing is, you have it, and you go, ‘I don’t feel that great,’ but I don’t know what it would be like if I didn’t have it,” Osbourne said, adding his previous treatment was just three months ago “after having some stem cells put in me.”

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During Covid, Osbourne underwent his first stem cell therapy, his daughter Kelly Osbourne revealed. She said her father just wants “to be a part of the world again.” He is still planning to perform two final shows in his English hometown at a future date.

“Seeing, after one treatment of stem cell, what has happened and the progress that he’s made is mind-blowing,” she added.

Stem cell therapies vary widely, but most are based on reverting older cells in the body back to youthful, more malleable versions of themselves which can differentiate to play different roles. Injuries throughout the body, from the brain to the knee, have been treated with these less-invasive treatments which have increasingly passed scrutiny with the FDA, though full-fledged approval has been granted to just those treating certain blood cancers and the immune system. The most recent approval came in 2023 when the agency approved a cord blood-based cell therapy to treat infections that sometimes occur after other stem cell therapies.

“We routinely use cellular therapies, including stem cells, to treat cancers of the blood and bone marrow,” Dr. Mikkael Sekeres, chief of the division of hematology of Sylvester Cancer Center at the University of Miami, told Fox News Digital. “The theory is, we can give high doses of chemotherapy to people who have these cancers to eliminate the cancer, but those therapies may have such a high dose that we could wipe out the healthy cells in the bone marrow,” he said. Use of stem cells in this way has saved tens of thousands of lives.”

Even if the “Crazy Train” singer sees tremendous benefits from the procedures, that doesn’t mean his Parkinson’s ailment will be cured by a “silver bullet,” according to Dr. Michael S. Okun, a Florida-based medical advisor to the Parkinson’s Foundation.

“Though there have been many advances in stem cell technology, the realization that Parkinson’s is a disease of more than just dopamine underscores the importance of multidisciplinary treatment,” Okun, who is also the executive director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at the University of Florida in Gainesville told Fox News Digital. “Folks interested in Parkinson’s stem cell therapy should be cautious if ever offered a treatment,” Okun said, adding that most patients are not charged because they must take part in a research trial. “There is a large market for ‘stem cell tourism,’ in which people may be charged large sums of money, and in some cases irreversible side effects may follow a transplant.”