Medicine should improve people’s health. Yet, Western medicine focuses on symptoms, often disregarding how our bodies function as a system. Over the years, there is an emerging trend of leveraging functional medicine to tackle this very problem by using a more holistic approach. Did you know that the approach of functional medicine is not new? In fact, Chinese medicine works similarly. Functional medicine is not only about integrating these two medicinal disciplines, but it’s also creating a new standard for healthcare. Stem cell therapy is found to be effective for so ...
Medicine should improve people’s health. Yet, Western medicine focuses on symptoms, often disregarding how our bodies function as a system. Over the years, there is an emerging trend of leveraging functional medicine to tackle this very problem by using a more holistic approach. Did you know that the approach of functional medicine is not new? In fact, Chinese medicine works similarly.
Functional medicine is not only about integrating these two medicinal disciplines, but it’s also creating a new standard for healthcare. Stem cell therapy is found to be effective for so many conditions, from autoimmune diseases to neurological problems. With increasing research on the treatment, stem cell therapy continues to show potential positive results for more health conditions. It also has powerful anti-ageing properties.
In this episode, stem cell therapy pioneer Dr Joy Kong joins us to share her experience in the medical industry and why she focused on stem cell therapy. She shares its numerous benefits and how people can use it based on their conditions. Our health functions as an overall system. It’s no longer enough to depend on the Western approach of treating symptoms — we need to get to the root problems.
If you want to learn more about fighting ageing and diseases through stem cell therapy, then this episode is for you!
Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: - Discover what stem cell therapy is and how it can treat various conditions.
- Understand the importance of treating root problems rather than symptoms.
- Learn how to leverage stem cell therapy depending on your goals.
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Episode Highlights [02:53] Dr Joy’s Background - Dr Joy moved from China to the US at 20 years old. She wrote a book detailing her 3-year journey of getting into the US and adapting to the culture.
- Growing up in a Chinese family, Dr Joy was used to both Western and Chinese medicine.
- Chinese medicine looks at the human body as a system and complex web. This is what Western medicine lacks.
- When trying to integrate Chinese and Western medicine together, Dr Joy ran into the problem of different languages.
- Then, she discovered the emerging field of functional and anti-ageing medicine, which also treats the body as a system.
[09:44] Healthcare as We Know It Needs to Change - Despite having the biggest spending per capita on healthcare, America remains rampant with obesity and chronic diseases.
- Over time, people began accepting Chinese medicine practices like acupuncture.
- It’s the same thing with stem cell therapy. Its benefits are now more widely understood.
[13:51] What Is Stem Cell Therapy? - All our tissues contain stem cells, and it’s only until they form organs that they create specialised cells.
- The gold standard used in stem cell therapy is mesenchymal stem cells because of its more general function.
- Mesenchymal stem cells modulate the environment they’re in. Listen to the full episode to hear Dr Joy’s explanation of how these stem cells create a coordinating effect.
- Stem cell therapy can produce incredible results and transform people’s lives.
[20:42] Are All Mesenchymal Stem Cells Equal? - Dr Joy uses birth tissue-derived stem cells from healthy births.
- In her research, she found that birth tissue-derived stem cells are better than those derived from bone marrow and fat.
- Birth tissue-derived stem cells are more potent because they’re primitive, active, have more anti-inflammatory capabilities, and can shift your immune system.
- All embryonic and adult stem cells have the potential to cause tumour formation and promote existing cancer.
- However, birth tissue-derived stem cells don’t have this potential and can also detect cancer.
[28:17] How to Use Stem Cell Therapy - Utilising stem cell therapy depends on your goals. For example, if you’re an athlete who injured your ligaments or tendon, the therapy involves a direct injection on the injury.
- Older adults with chronic inflammatory conditions will need a systemic approach to regenerate the whole body.
- Dr Joy uses both IV injections and direct injections to the knee for patients with osteoarthritis.
- The therapy is so potent that it can help change the internal environment of your body.
- Inflammation can actually make stem cells work better. You don’t need to wait to get your inflammation levels down before getting the therapy.
[35:09] Benefits of Stem Cell Therapy - Dr Joy observed that stem cell therapy can help people with various kinds of systemic conditions.
- Even if you inject the stem cells in one area, they will eventually get into the bloodstream and become systemic.
- For patients with a significant illness, Dr Joy recommends getting at least 2-3 sessions.
- Meanwhile, Dr Joy recommends a session every 3-6 months to address anti-ageing concerns.
[38:53] Getting to Where She Is - Dr Joy got into medicine because she wanted to make a difference in people’s lives.
- She worked in psychiatry before, and while the medicine helped patients, they did not address root causes.
- Stem cells are currently the most holistic treatment available. It’s not injecting molecules — it’s injecting intelligence.
- She loves learning different disciplines, and she realised how all the organs have common themes.
[43:11] Functional Medicine Will Become the Standard - Functional medicine will someday become the standard approach in medicine because it addresses root causes and not just symptoms.
- It’s a grassroots movement because it’s people and patients who will advocate for it, rather than doctors.
- More people are realising that conventional medicine is no longer enough.
[45:40] Emerging Research in Stem Cell Therapy - There’s now more research on stem cell therapy. Currently, most of it focuses on autoimmune diseases.
- There’s also research on diabetes, neurological conditions, stroke, injuries, inflammatory diseases, autism, and addiction, among others.
- In addition, it can increase lifespan by about 30% and regenerate your brain, eyes, and more.
- Listen to the full episode to hear more about stem cell research!
[50:38] What Happens as We Age? - We run out of stem cells as we age because of inflammation. We also keep using them throughout life.
- Thus, it’s not recommended to keep activating your own stem cells.
- When we’re born, one in 10,000 cells is a mesenchymal stem cell. By our 40s, this drops to one in 400,000, then one in 2 million by our 80s.
- Stem cells are the engine for regeneration.
- Stem cell therapy is becoming more accessible worldwide.
[54:41] Should We Bank Our Children’s Cells? - Dr Joy shares that it is useful to bank your own child’s cells. But using other people’s cells is also okay.
- When we put stem cells into our bodies, they will be activated and eventually die off.
- If you’re trying to bank your child’s cells for your own use, the tissue bank may not release it for you.
- Stem cell therapy is going to advance so that you probably don’t even need to bank your child’s cells.
7 Powerful Quotes ‘There's no prejudice. It just all about, “Okay, for this, this Chinese medicine work much better. And for this problem, okay, let's do this Western medicine. That works much better than the Chinese medicine.”’
‘The Western medicine doesn't yet have a system to understand how you put all these relationships together. That's where it's lacking. And that's where I wanted to borrow some of the wisdom from Eastern medicine, where you can look at the body from a system point of view.’
‘I think hope is really important. There's so many conditions where traditional doctors just said, “There's no more we can do.” And then they come to do stem cells, and they get incredible results. So we are transforming people's lives.’
‘The younger stem cells from birth tissue have much better capability of detecting that cancer, so it can tell the cancer to die.’
‘There has been evidence that high inflammation actually make the stem cell work better. Basically, the inflammation of the body sends signals, so they make the cells more active. It's a double edged sword.’
‘No, I'm not the boss. I'm just really driven and really want to understand. I think it's intellectual curiosity and it’s passion because I went into medicine to really make a difference for people's lives.’
‘I call stem cells the engine for regeneration, and everything else we're doing, like the hyperbaric, like the nutritional therapy, light therapy, all these things are the fuel. Eventually, it fills the body, but it also fills the engine. The engine needs all these important factors, but you still need the engine. If you don't have that engine, you're not going anywhere.’
About Dr Joy Dr Joy Kong is a triple-board certified physician for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, American Board of Addiction Medicine, and American Board of Anti-aging and Regenerative Medicine. She founded Chara Biologics to provide the best regenerative medicine in the country. She also founded the American Academy of Integrative Cell Therapy to provide physician education and training in regenerative medicine. Joy is also the founder and medical director of Uplyft Longevity Center, which aims to use cutting-edge therapies to help people suffering from chronic and degenerative conditions, as well as optimise people’s health.
Joy embraces practising medicine in a holistic, comprehensive, and personalised manner by treating the root causes of illnesses, not just the symptoms. She is passionate about regenerative medicine and has lectured internationally on stem cell treatment and has worked with various cell laboratories in the US.
Joy also wrote her memoir, Tiger of Beijing, detailing her 3-year journey of coming to the United States at the age of 20. The book won the 2020 Book of the Year by IAOTP.
Want to learn more about stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine? Check out Uplyft Center and Chara Biologics.
You can also connect with Joy on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
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