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Are Stem Cells the Unlock to Regenerative Medicine? | Dr Joy Kong
Mon, 5 May 2025
Join our community of fearless leaders in search of unreasonable outcomes... Want to become a FEARLESS entrepreneur and leader? Go here: https://books.ryanhanley.com Watch on YouTube: https://link.ryanhanley.com/youtube Master of the Close - Learn how to scale your sales process, fast: https://link.ryanhanley.com/masteroftheclose Dr Joy Kong Website: https://joykongmd.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_joy_kong/ In this episode, Ryan Hanley sits down with Dr. Joy Kong, A board-certified physician, regenerative medicine expert, and president of Chara Health (formerly Uplyft Longevity Center) in Los Angeles. Dr. Kong specializes in cutting-edge therapies including stem cell therapy, ketamine therapy, and a wide range of holistic modalities aimed at enhancing the body's innate regenerative power. Together, they dive deep into the truth about regenerative medicine, demystify stem cells, explore the root cause of aging and chronic disease, inflammation, and discuss how therapies like peptides, NAD, and light treatments can optimize performance and longevity. Dr. Kong also shares remarkable real-world outcomes from her clinic, including cases of vision restoration and liver disease reversal. As the founder of the American Academy of Integrative Cell Therapy, Dr. Kong is passionate about educating both physicians and the public on the science and safety of stem cell medicine. She strongly advocates for high-quality clinical research and is the lead investigator in an ongoing traumatic brain injury (TBI) study. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Check Out Our Sponsors OpusClip: #1 AI video clipping and editing tool: https://link.ryanhanley.com/opus Riverside: HD Podcast & Video Software | Free Recording & Editing: https://link.ryanhanley.com/riverside Shortform - The World's Best Book Summaries: https://link.ryanhanley.com/shortform Taplio • Grow Your Personal Brand On LinkedIn: https://link.ryanhanley.com/taplio Kit: Email-First Operating System for Creators (formerly ConvertKit): https://link.ryanhanley.com/kit
Chapter 1: What is regenerative medicine?
I was, it took me every ounce of energy I had to get to the gym, terrible workouts, really bad moods, whatever. And so we did a little bit of testosterone stuff and kind of got that straightened out and figured out what that was. And some of that may have been stress related, but one of the things that she put me on was samoriline.
And and then that got me kind of researching more and learning more about what peptides can do. And so just with the time we have remaining, I'd love for you to finish a little bit, maybe just just tell a little bit about how peptides work and if they work in conjunction with stem cells and how we should be considering these things.
Yeah, peptides is really nature's way of getting things done. In our body, we have over 300,000 different kinds of peptides. I mean, there literally is a sea of peptides that's doing the work. Um, so we've only discovered, I think about 70,000 of them, uh, no, about, about seven, no 7,000 of them. And, um, and we are only using maybe around a hundred or so. So, but it's still an expanding field.
There's new things coming out, um, new discoveries, um, The beauty about peptides is that they're so specific. You can target specific organs, specific functions, because it's like all these keys are floating around in your body and they're all searching for the lock.
And so if you can replenish the keys, because a lot of times as we age, we may have lost certain keys and all of a sudden you can't unlock functions or you have a really short supply of it. You just can't get enough of the job done. So now we can replenish it. Now we can unlock that function. That function can be immune function. So you can target by enhancing your thyroid function.
I mean, thymus. So like the T-alpha-1, the thymus beta-4, also called TB500, you can...
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Chapter 5: What are the differences between regenerative and conventional medicine?
So from that first cell, whatever that's in that blueprint in the DNA in that first cell, somehow it is capable of directing the forming of this miraculous being, this complex little universe that can walk and talk and think and interact with each other. So that type of intelligence is really what we're trying to tap into in stem cell therapy.
So from that one cell, you can form other stem cells all the way until they become cells of a particular tissue. Let's say your heart, your heart has heart muscle cells, but before it becomes a heart muscle,
cell it was a heart muscle stem cell so that is called the end tissue stem cell that's the the last step of a stem cell before it loses its stem cell status and become a working cell so the cell goes through puberty kind of exactly yeah i like that yeah so anywhere along the line the Those cells are a stem cell until you become a tissue-specific cell.
So we can intercept as doctors anywhere before that, and we can put the cells in the body, and they have tremendous potentials. First of all, they secrete a lot of growth factors, and they send a lot of signals. So these exosomes are little packets that's one of the main ways that the stem cells are sending out signals.
So the cells are potent in triggering, um, uh, actions in neighboring cells in the system. And they also have the capabilities to divide usually asymmetrically because they would divide into one copy of itself and another copy that's more specialized. So now we've got a, you know, more capabilities, but less potential to become everything. So they, you get narrower, uh,
And then you get deeper into your function. But really, stem cell is anywhere along the line. And there are different aspects or different categories depending on what you're trying to utilize. There's embryonic stem cells, which are very early cells. that we don't really use in this country for treatments because it's hard to control. They are a little wild.
They can become tissues of any kind and oftentimes can form tumor. So even though they can become anything, but there's a potential risk. And then there are cells and organ cells. Let's say you wanted to grow neurons and then you can grow a
neuron you know particular progenitor cells for the neuron but that is more difficult because they're very small in number sometimes you may have to induce other cells to become these cells and now at least at this point fda says now if you're trying to induce any cell to do anything or you're trying to grow them to large numbers you are making a drug
So whether or not I agree with it is a whole other question, but that is what the FDA says. Now you've changed the cells. Now you need to conduct clinical study. This is one reason that things are slowed down. You can't just go ahead and try to trigger some cells to become this new group of cells, new type of cells to tailor your treatments and then, or grow them into large numbers.
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