The Surprising Science Of Injecting Young Blood, Salmon Sperm & Stem Cells Into Your Face (And Other Places) With Dr. Khanh Nguyen

My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of The Boundless Life Podcast, Young Plasma Exchange is removing the old plasma, but the step beyond that is instead of replacing with albumin or a normal saline, we replace with young plasma.

Yeah.

Welcome to The Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond.

Welcome to a field trip episode. I'm here at Austin Regenerative Therapy, and you may recognize that name from a previous podcast I did with Dr. Wen. This is kind of like the place where you go for aesthetic, anti-aging, and sexual rejuvenation protocols. And I've got Wen in the hot seat once again to talk about young plasma exchange versus replacement, uh, the P-Shot, the O-Shot, Botox, V-Cells, uh, and something called the Neo7 peptide protocol. Plenty in this juicy episode. So the show notes are going to be at bengreenfieldlife.com/austinplasma. Let's go talk to Dr. Nguyen. All right, so here we are in Austin again, round 2. Um, and if you're listening and you didn't hear round 1, um, basically I am here at Awesome Regenerative Therapy with Dr. Nguyen, and, um, I'm doing my second round of young plasma along with some other goodies that we'll talk about. So this is kind of like the hub of like aesthetic and sexual rejuvenation along with anti-aging treatments. Um, and you guys are awesome. Like, you've taken such great care of me and my wife this week, and I want to take a deep geeky dive into some of these things that you do because, um, people have seen it on Instagram and they've heard me talking about it. But, um, let's just jump in with this. Okay. Uh, the, the plasma thing. So people hear about, uh, um, what's it called? YPE, a young plasma exchange, right? And there's a lot of places you can do— I've done it. My wife's literally doing it right now here while we're talking. She's in the other room doing a plasma exchange. But I did young plasma replacement. Right. What is the difference?

Right. So actually, the plasma exchange is TPE. So it's therapeutic plasma exchange. Okay. So most people talk about that and it's more widely available. Yeah. And that is a procedure. It's kind of like cleaning your blood.

Like oil change.

Right. Where You're going to be hooked up in a machine.

Okay.

And then we'll remove the plasma part of your blood. It's like getting rid of—

It's like a blood drawing arm and pulling out the blood.

Right. And then replace with albumin or saline. So that's therapeutic plasma exchange. Right. Young plasma exchange is that, meaning removing the old plasma, but The step beyond that is instead of replacing with albumin or normal saline, we replace with young plasma.

With actual human plasma.

Plasma from young donors, age 18 to 25. That's kind of the peak performance for human.

Okay, so the therapeutic plasma exchange, when you're putting albumin back in, some people might not even kind of understand what that is. So what is plasma? Right. In terms of the difference between that and just like blood. Right. And then as a follow-up to that, what is albumin?

Right. So in whole blood that's circulating throughout body, it has red blood cells to carry oxygen. And then we have white cell count for infection. And then there's platelets for clotting and bleeding issues. And then the rest, which is a little bit over 50% of whole blood, is this gold liquid called plasma. Okay. And in that is a combination of protein, hormone, cytokines, and it's just loaded with the exosomes that we're going to talk about later.

Okay, the exosomes.

Yeah.

These are like the signaling molecules that help all your cells communicate.

Right.

Is that different than extracellular vesicles?

So that's not the same.

Yes. Okay. Yeah. Because the big— I was looking at a big study on the plane on the way down here, and it was like multi-organ rejuvenation. And this was rodent models because there's not a lot of good, like, big long-term human clinical studies on young plasma replacement for humans.

Right.

But it was basically head-to-head compared against about just about any longevity-enhancing mechanism out there or treatment out there. It was like head and shoulders for every single organ, like the mitochondria and the brain and muscle tissue. And bone. One of the most effective things that I'd seen in the literature. Yeah, and bone. So this, the plasma that you're putting in, way different than albumin. Even though albumin is good, like if you're looking for like an oil change for the body, the plasma replacement, you're putting just basically the entire soup of biologics back into the body.

Mixture of biologics. Yeah. And the beauty of that is just like a perfect combination and it's coming from young donors. So, you know, so that kind of addressed the kind of like program age-related decline. And then from that study, when you put in young plasma, you get the signal to tell the body, hey, start acting young again.

Yeah, yeah. Which I experienced. So that's why I'm here again. Like, the last time I did it, people asked me, like, what's the most effective intervention you've ever done as far as across the board feeling better? Like, sexually, aesthetically, from a performance and recovery standpoint. And it was this. Like, that's why I'm back, honestly. Right. So the albumin, though, what is that?

Yeah, so albumin is just— it's just protein. And we do that to create like that oncotic pressure so that that will stay in the circulation longer. So you're not going to feel depleted and waiting for your body to make your own plasma.

Right. So if you weren't getting— because I mean, a big part of it is just like the price, right? It gets more expensive to get plasma, actual human plasma versus albumin. But if you were giving old plasma, you could still put albumin back in to replace some of what you've taken out.

Right. Yeah. So it's just the whole space.

If I take old plasma out, what kind of stuff is in it? Like, what am I actually pulling out that would be bad?

Right. So there's a mixture of senescent cells or zombie cells byproducts. There's age-related inflammatory, and there's environmental toxicity, the microplastic. The autoantibodies, so it's all kind of germ. And the sicker you are, the dirtier your plasma. And so, you know, from my experience, when I treat patients, when I provide this for people with chronic condition, when they're really tired, they're really sick, they can feel a big difference versus, you know, people that's doing it for longevity optimization. They feel more energized. They have faster recovery, better libido, better looking skin. But it's different when you have like chronic condition and you're just really tired and you can't function. It's a huge difference.

Is it true that in the US, the state that we're in, Texas, is the only state you can do this?

As of now, yes.

Okay. Are they like pushing for legalization of it in other states?

Do you know? They're working on that part, but it's so— I don't know. And young plasma is only available in Texas. And with the protocol we do, it's a combination of removing plasma and infusing with young plasma. And there's only this place and maybe another clinic.

This place being like your clinic? Yeah.

Because other places they do either TPE with albumin, or they can remove a little bit of blood and then infuse with that.

This is the same protocol if people watch like Bryan Johnson's documentary, Don't Die. This is what he did, right?

Exactly. Yeah.

Okay. So the, I guess, like the big devil's advocate question, because this is another question I get besides like, what's the difference between an exchange and a replacement? Is, well, how do you know that this is like, good plasma or how do you know that your body's not going to reject it? So what's your response to something like that?

Yeah. So the, the treatment of the practice of plasma infusion has been around for over 100 years. The safety profile is proven. Right. And for example, in 2019, there's like over 2 million plasma infusions and there's one preventable death.

You're talking about humans, right?

Yeah. And from 2020 to 2021, there's zero death. And every day there's like over 6,000 units of plasma being infused or transfused. The difference here is we use young plasma And that is even have a stricter qualification. They screen and it's—

Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you, I feel like.

Blood type, sex, sex match, and it's younger donor and they get screened. They have to be qualified.

Do you know what kind of stuff they're screening for?

So it's the typical for blood-related product. So all kind of viral, bacterial infections.

Yeah.

Okay.

Consumable. Yeah, it's kind of interesting. Like, it arrives in like a cooler and you guys got to take it out and thaw it. 1 liter is 5 bags, right?

Right.

So I got, I think, 15 bags.

Yeah, this time you do 10.

I did 10 bags. Last time I did 15 bags. So I got 2 liters this time, 3 liters last time.

Something—

this might sound like a dumb question, but I had 1 liter of plasma, like old plasma taken out, but then 2 liters put back in. How come that doesn't just like overload the body with too much? Like, wouldn't you take out as much as you replace, or does it matter?

Yeah. So when you have like a healthy heart and kidney, your body can handle and kind of, you know, adjust. And there's— we do remove— like, I wouldn't give you like 3 or 5 liters. Yeah, at one time, and you would go into volume overload. Yeah, but that amount, it turned out to be okay.

Okay, so Dr. Nguyen, we had a podcast where you told your incredible story of like getting on a boat and escaping Vietnam and coming over here and, uh, at some point getting into medical school. Like, if you guys are listening, you got to listen to the first story with Dr. Nguyen's background. I'm going to link to that if you go to bengreenfieldlife.com/austinplasma. BenGreenfieldLife.com/austinplasma. And again, we're at Austin Regenerative Therapy. And so the plasma is kind of— it seems like kind of like the flagship, like most expensive, fanciest protocol you can do. But in the spirit of really, really good medical tourism, I did some other things while I was just like here laying around getting the plasma, doing the treatment. So we were here 3 days, my wife and I. And we'll go talk to my wife here in a little bit in this podcast and get her take on some sexual rejuvenation stuff you do for females and what her perspective is. But beyond the plasma replacement, another thing that we did was lasers and music and something called V-Cells. So what is that protocol?

So that is V-Cell therapy, and it stands for very small embryonic-like stem cells. So these are the most primitive stem cells that the bone marrow in our body is still making, and they circulate throughout the body. However, they are not active, and scientists figure that they just made so that under stressful situation, they will become activated to, to help out. Okay. And now with that understanding, Dr. Todd Overkides, he discovered there's a way to activate these cells by using that particular laser. So we collect your blood, separate out the inactive B cells.

Is that just like with a centrifuge?

Yeah, but it's a special kind of centrifuge. And then they get turned on, on the tube with the special laser. Therapy. Yeah. And then we infuse back in the body and then guide it with the laser because it, it shown on the test tube, the cells are attracted to the laser. And that's why we went through like different area of the brain, the thymus, the—

Yeah, I sat in this chair for like 20, 25 minutes. They took— so you took my blood out the first day I was here. You spun it, you concentrated these B cells. You then use a laser, which I'm assuming stress them, right? So they're activated. And then when you— and then the nurse, one nurse was pushing them into my body just like a push IV. And the other nurse was putting the laser over specific organ regions. So the laser, is that almost like drawing in like a homing beacon? Right.

General area. Because they're attracted to that. And so it's very intentional. For example, if people with type 1 diabetes, it will shining the laser in the pancreas. Pancreas, yeah. Right? And then for men who's still trying to be, you know, for fertility issues, that's when we shine to the testicles.

Yeah.

Right? Or ovaries.

Do you ever get any pushback that it seems like woo-woo to be able to, like, use a laser to draw stem cells to an area? Or has Dr. Todd or anybody else done studies on this or?

Yeah. So, so Dr. Yes. So A, you know, I explain to patient clearly before we do anything. And it's, you know, it's never any pressure to do anything that they don't clearly understand or believe in. And there are studies to show that VSEL™ IV therapy can reduce biological age by up to 3 years. And the other thing that I like about V-cell is that they're really, really tiny. And so they can travel throughout the body, including the lip ring area. So they can go into the brain because they're like 2 to 4 microns.

Yeah. Yeah. It was not, I will admit, the most pleasant treatment that I've ever had in my life. But you guys injected stuff into my face. Right. Was that V-cells?

So what you had done was a very strategic combination of different regenerative modalities. So we started out with laser, with energy-based. You had the subablative laser treatment. Yeah. And that is pretty much to create a controlled thermal energy injury to the skin. And that turns on the repair and regenerative mechanism. So that by itself is a great therapy.

So it's a laser. What was the name of that laser?

Neuroderm? It's called NuvaDerm.

NuvaDerm.

Okay. Yeah.

And it has the supplement. I was like, are they burning flesh off? It's not that bad. But it kind of made like a sizzling sound as it was going over my face. It was like a mild, like a prickly sensation. And so that's like causing mild skin damage.

It's a controlled thermal injury.

Yeah.

Okay. And it also has the ability to do ablative, meaning it also targets the top, the epidermis, and the dermis. What you had done was sub-ablative. Okay. Because we didn't want downtime.

Right. And that's what the podcast and stuff this week is, right?

And it's real effective as well. You just have to do more. Okay. So that is kind of like to start this, the cascade of regenerating and repairing. And then on top of that, we inject and we apply a concoction of regenerative biologics. Okay. The young plasma, V-Cell, exosome. And they really together, they play well. They enhance the effect.

But you have, you don't just like, do the laser and like smear that on the face that you're actually injecting those underneath the skin into the face.

Right. It's, it's intentional. And I want to target different layers of the skin, including the top as well.

How is that different than Botox?

So Botox works by paralyzing the smooth muscle, right? So it's just great for wrinkles. And then we talk about the how it works for Botox, but for the skin, It's known for relaxing the muscle so that you don't have wrinkles. Okay. Which is great. But the— what you had done is actually signal your body to reverse the aging of your skin by sending signals for the fibroblasts to make more collagen and more elastin, more microcirculation. Right. So it's really making your skin younger. Yeah. And to target all the age-related collagen loss, damage, less microcirculation, and therefore less nutrients to the skin. And therefore you have the age spots, the lines and the wrinkles and the sagging.

Does it help with like spots under the eyes, bags, things like that?

The laser is amazing for age spot, right? And but around the eyes, it just make you look tired, right? And, and I find that this is the best treatment by injecting and microneedling with all the biologic because it just naturally created, improved the collagen around that area without Most people would do filler, which, you know, it's just kind of not natural. And in time, they kind of shift it.

And like, the filler like kind of drops from gravity. Yeah, I've heard that. What would happen if you did that same mix of biologics—V-cells, exosomes, and plasma—into the scalp? Can you do that for hair?

Yes. So we do the same mixture using the same principle on the scalp, and that stimulates more hair follicle, more circulation, more nutrient delivery to the scalp.

Yeah, the nurse was saying my beard might grow longer. Yeah. Because you get it on the face. We didn't do it on the head.

Because you have a full head of hair.

I have too much hair already. Right. I don't want to do the Don King protocol. Right. Okay, so we did all of that. We did the Youngtox.

Oh, and then we did the salmon sperm as well. Oh. Which is the— Yeah. I want that. Yeah. Which— is another, another great thing to add to it. And so that is the DNA from salmon sperm. And it turned out it has 95% compatibility with human skin. It's kind of interesting. And it's another very effective way to signal the fibroblasts to make collagen. Yeah. And elastin. Yeah. So the combination leading to glowy skin, more hydrated, and it targets all the fine lines on the sagging and even deeper wrinkles. You inject that?

I thought that just like goes in the face, like you smear it on the face. Yeah. So that wasn't in the needles that they injected under the skin? Right. Okay. And is that actually like from actual salmon sperm?

And they purify DNA from salmon sperm. Yeah. Okay, good.

Yeah, I only want the purest sperm on my face. So the whole field of longevity medicine seems pretty shifted right now towards an interest in peptides. And I've actually done a lot of podcasts about peptides. I don't think it's any secret that I'm a huge fan of some of these injectable peptides, oral peptides, nasal sprays, et cetera. And in our last podcast, you kind of hinted that you guys have this peptide protocol, and then we actually started into the process of doing it on this trip. Like, you drew my blood for this special peptide thing that I hadn't heard of before, besides briefly on our last show.

Tell me about the peptide thing that you do. Yeah. So first of all, like, the peptide that we all know, those are off-the-shelf peptides, and they're very effective. I love them. I use all of them.

Yeah, we're talking like the BPC-157 and thymosin, TB-500, and the stuff a lot of people have kind of heard of.

Exactly. And they work great. But this is to the next level because those, we know the specific action and we give the same peptide for everyone. Right. Neo7 Bioscience. Neo7, like Neo, the number 7. This is truly precision-based personalized peptide, and it's based on the analysis of your blood and your urine. And they look at your genomic, your proteomic, your biomarkers, your immune system. So like exactly what's going on in your body. Okay. Analyze that, and then they will rank all the faulty pathway by priorities, and then they design the peptide just for you to specifically fix those abnormal pathways.

So when you say they design peptides specifically for me, are these like peptides we all already know about and talk about, and they combine them all together, or they synthesize it?

They— a new peptide? Yeah, they make The peptides, just another one just for you to specifically— So these are made for your immune system, for your genetic, for your epigenetic, like whatever is going on in you up until now. And then they will fix that.

So how many peptides are we talking about? Do you know how many they combine together?

So it's kind of like a combination that is coming 120 vials. Oh. And that— and then you keep that and that is like a year-long program.

So these like get shipped to my house and do they— do I inject a certain thing on a certain day or how does it work?

Yeah, so the protocol is you inject twice a week. Okay. And then we start out low and see how you respond and then we ramp up. And typically, even within the first few weeks, people see a change in various things, energy level, you know, cognitive function. And this is used initially for people with stage 4 cancer. And then now they keep on improving, and we are using this for different kind of autoimmune condition. Cancer, neurodegenerative condition is big. And then for like, for somebody like you, for resilience and longevity. Yeah. For optimization.

So the way that it works is someone would like come in here, I'm assuming this is one that is legal outside of Texas. Like you could, I'm assuming there's like certain practitioners around the US that would have this, it's called a Neo 7 protocol.

Neo 7, right. And so we have to apply for It's under a study protocol, so I'm a participant in that. Okay, so that's what you can like legally do as a barista. And then we, you know, monitor and we track, you know, so it's very science-based.

So you get your blood drawn, that gets sent off to the lab, and then they customize the peptide protocol. And then if someone does this, do the peptides just like show up at your house every month?

Yeah, yeah. So actually the whole protocol is really fascinating. It's pretty advanced, pretty complicated. Complicated. So we collect blood and for people with— for you is resilience, you don't have anything going on, so we just collect blood. But other people with chronic condition, we collect blood and urine. Okay. So that first thing that will get shipped to a specialized lab and then they have this platform to look at your, you know, your your whole exome signal and your RNA, your immune system, your biomarker, your HLA typing. So they look at all that and then they send that to Neo7 and they have this very advanced platform, which is a combination of augmented human intelligence combined with this— it's called precision-based immuno-molecular augmentation. And they just analyze and combine, and then they will map out the faulty pathway, and then they rank that. And then they would then design the peptide based on the priorities, like which one is the the worst and then it was just going down. And for Resilient, for what we collect the blood for you, they will look at the 8 different hallmarks of aging and they rank that. And so, you know, like for example, for you, you're very healthy, you're very fit, but I'm sure you're gonna have some kind of subclinical inflammation. Yeah, absolutely. Right? You're gonna have some kind of mitochondrial mitochondrial dysfunction. So, you know, whatever it is that is going on with you, they'll identify that and then prioritize. And then on the report, it's really, it's really, it's eye-opening. It's like a map of what's going on in your body. You're gonna see like, okay, on the information, how bad it is, how high is it, right? Yeah. It gets ranked. And then they, from there, Then they design the protocol for peptides, and then after that, that will be shipped to the compound pharmacy for them to make.

Okay, so they help that. Yeah. Just because a lot of people struggle with this, I'm curious, when it comes to something like long COVID or like the chronic inflammatory condition, is this something that could be effective for someone with that?

So this is something that they added It's kind of like a test by itself as an option, or like for you, we did the add-on option to also look at SpyX protein. Okay. And look at the, you know, the side effect, and then they can design the peptide to fix that. So it's pretty cool.

Interesting. So that would be like maybe like an anti-inflammatory peptide, or is it like binding and removing, or do you know?

Yeah. So it just depends on what— because the effect is different for everyone. Yeah. And that will show up. And that's why it's really personalized. Yeah. You know, because like not everyone gets affected the same way. And so whatever is going to show up for you, that's going to be addressed.

Yeah. And the whole time we're doing all these protocols, we're big fans of stacking. You're a big fan of stacking. Yeah. You're running like red light. I'm inhaling hydrogen. You have the NanoVi device for reactive oxygen species signaling. You have a PMF mat running underneath me. I even brought my little electrical muscle stimulation pads and they stim the legs. And we'll include plenty of photos and videos in this podcast as well so you can see what some of this stuff looks like. And then in the spirit of stacking, at one point when I was hooked up to my plasma, you guys had me wear a special skirt and you did the sexual rejuve stuff. Yep. I definitely want to get the female perspective on that. So we'll go talk to my wife. I was again doing the plasma exchange. But now I stay on my own. Yeah. But tell me about what you guys do for sexual rejuvenation, because I think you guys are pretty well known for like the sexual and the aesthetics part of things.

Right. So I— my background is critical care medicine and internal medicine. So I'm big on internally how to like, what's wrong, what's the root cause, and then how to fix it and how to make people healthy, even aesthetically. You know, we work from the inside out. But at the same time, I'm a big fan of sexual optimization and aesthetic, meaning like, you know, you're healthy, but to look as good and as young as you feel, why not? And I'm a big fan of that. So, and I have a lot of fun doing that. The body is just like a huge, massive network of like all these systems and it's all interconnected. And so I'm a big believer in stacking hormone supplement, off-the-shelf peptides, and personalized peptide if people can afford. But in terms of the sexual optimization, you know, I address the, of course, the hormone issues, any medical issues, any psychological issues, any medication. Just to be thorough. But the P-Shot in itself is so fun and it's really effective. P-Shot is the man— Is the man shot. It's the Priapus Shot. And the O-Shot is the orgasm shot. Okay. So, and that is really effective. 85% or more men report improvement and very satisfied and come back. And what are you injecting into the man? Right, so we use PRP as the base, and— but we have options. PRP is platelet-rich plasma from your own blood, but we have the option of doing young plasma with the added bonus of all the useful factors, including tons of those exosomes. That turn on the mitochondria energy production. And we can use exosome as well. And then another favorite of mine is adding Botox. So we talk about Botox for the skin, but for sexual—

A lot of people will be thinking like, why the heck would you inject like a paralytic toxin into the penis?

Right. And you had it done before and you can see the effect. So in this case, Botox acts to relax the smooth muscle covering all the blood vessels going to the penis. And meaning you vasodilate the blood vessel, there's more blood coming.

Right. There's just more room for blood to get in because the smooth muscle is relaxed.

Right. Okay. Right. And therefore stronger erection, long, longer lasting. And it also The Botox also migrates to the ganglion and it somehow enhances sensitivity.

To his ganglion, you mean like the nerve?

The nerve ganglion. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah.

Once the numbing cream wears off, you're numbed for this protocol. Right. Just for guys who are interested or their significant others who are interested in how this goes down, you're actually injecting the shaft, right? We inject the shaft.

Multiple position and also at the glans.

Okay.

Okay. On penis. And, you know, you numb. So it's not a painful procedure. Yeah. From 1 to 10, maybe a 1 max.

It's just weird pressure. My wife was in there watching. She's like, your feet are twitching. I'm like, oh, it's because I'm like anticipating that it's going to hurt and then it doesn't. Right. But yeah, it is a weird sensation. I don't like to watch it, honestly, because it looks like it would really hurt and it doesn't at all. Right. Surprisingly. Yeah.

But we forgot because we also, before we did the injection, we did the shockwave. So again, combination. That's like energy shockwave to create multiple tiny injury to turn on repair.

Breaks up the old blood vessels. Yeah.

Yeah. And so, combination.

For the woman, I mean, we'll get my wife's perspective on this as well, but you're injecting inside at the G-spot.

Around the G-spot, um, and also right into the clitoris. And of course, you know, yeah, uh, you being numb, right?

Right. Yeah, the numbing cream is a must.

And for women, um, same thing. By injecting all the biologics, you make the tissue healthier, so there's more lubrication. It's like a tighter sensation. And more sensitivity. And so talking about women and men, but for women, like 18 to 40-year-old, 35% of women have like sexual dysfunction. And then that just go up with age. And for postmenopausal women, it's high. It's like up to 85% of women.

Does childbirth affect that? Like the nerves and—

Yes, childbirth affect that. Okay. Pelvic floor issue. Issues will affect that. You know, for women, it's relationship, stress, body image, all of that is just— Yeah. —whole bunch of stuff. So, you know, I address everything before we do the O-Shot, right? Okay. We have to fix the hormones and look at the medication, treat any metabolic, any, you know, medical issues like uncontrolled diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, medication, all of that. Hormone replacement is key for men and women. But then when you do all of that and then you do the injection, that's when you see the huge benefit. And it's just really fun for me to, to see people start to really enjoy sex. And, and it's healthy for confidence, for relationship, but it's just for your health. Yeah. So it's really, you know, it just sounded very kind of vain or—

Yeah, it's hard to describe. Like, I've done protocols like this and yeah, it's just like there is more pleasure because the nerve endings seem a lot more sensitized. As a man, you're bigger, you have better blood flow, you last longer. Right. And so, yeah, it's, it's Pretty interesting to actually— I mean, that's one of those things where, yeah, you can go out and test drive it and see how it actually works. Before we go talk with my wife and get her perspective, another question that I get from people for both the protocol that we just talked about, the sexual rejuvenation stuff, and then also the plasma, how often should or do people do this?

Yeah, so I really encourage people to be more proactive and think of this like a health maintenance. You know, do your skin and the P-Shot or O-Shot at least once a year if possible.

Okay, so the sexual stuff yearly.

What about the plasma? Or more, you know, depending on how severe you are, how unhealthy you are. Yeah. But at least like for healthy people, once a year would be great. You can do, you know, every 9 months, 6 months. Okay. 'cause it doesn't hurt. In term of Young Plasma, if you have chronic issues, neurodegenerative condition, we're more aggressive. So we do it like even repeat in 6 months. For healthy people, 9 months, a year, or longer.

So if you were just in this for like the longevity game and want to renew plasma, you could do like an annual basis.

Yeah. Right. And again, I love the combination. And actually, I'm not sure if I share with you, but since your last visit, now there's a thing, it's called the Ben Greenfield Protocol. Oh, it's on your website? People call and say, I want a Ben Greenfield Protocol. So that's like the Young Plasma exchange, the B-cell stem cell, the skin, the P-Shot.

Yeah. And you guys do the full meal deal. You can like fly into Austin. You've got— we're staying at a house of a friend, but Normally, like, you put people up in the hotel, you send a car to the airport, you pick— so basically you have the whole thing as almost like a medical vacation for people, right?

And because, you know, it— they do spend a long day here because we try to stack and do as much as possible, like 6, 7 hours a day.

Yeah, yeah. And we got a lot in over those 3 days, right?

Yeah. Um, and then I'm very excited. I share with you a little bit, I'm adding the TMS and the The transcranial magnetic stim? Yes. For the brain? For the brain and the brain mapping with that.

That's a qEEG, right? Right. So you're able to test electrical activity in the brain. Right. Or brain waves.

And then that would guide the TMS treatment. So it's like a better way of doing that. And then that qEEG allow us to track Like, we do it before and then after TMS treatment to see the improvement.

And TMS, would that be primarily used for, like, dementia and Alzheimer's prevention?

So it's FDA-approved for depression, but now we use it beyond that for cognitive enhancement, for autism, for anxiety, you know, sort of—

Yeah, Tim Ferriss has talked a lot about TMS, I believe for depression. Yeah. I've never really done it, but is that like—

is it like a helmet that you wear, or is it kind of like a big coil magnetic, you know, place guided by, you know, what's going on with your brain?

Okay. So is someone like holding this device?

No, it just— it kind of has an arm. Okay. We need to position it.

Just position it up near the head. And how long does the treatment take?

Usually it's 15 minutes, 30 minutes. Yeah.

Yeah. And people need— people can't like do this at their house, right? They need to do it at a clinic.

No, this is something that you have to do in-house. Yeah. The neurofeedback system is something that there is a remote device you can do at home.

Yeah, I've done remote neurofeedback before. Yeah. Yeah. You put like the electrodes on your head and it maps your brain.

It works. It's very cool. Yeah. So the combination, I'm really excited.

Yeah. Cool. Should we go talk to Jessa? Yeah, see what she's doing. All right, here we go. And before we transition over to Jessa, again, all the show notes, you can go to bengreenfieldlife.com/austinplasma, just like it sounds. Um, and there's— we have some great— we had a videographer here the whole time, so we got some videos and photos of this stuff you guys can see. Don't worry, we blurred out the crotch shots. Um, yeah, let's go, let's go talk to Jessa. Yeah, it's so much fun. All right, here we go. Go. So babe, we were just talking about all of the the soup of treatments that we did this week. And then a lot. I know you did some different things. You're doing the plasma exchange right now. So blood coming out and then this is going to pull out old plasma. Then you get the albumin back in. But we're all adults here, so we can talk about this. You also did the sexual rejuve stuff. Yes. What was that process like? Like getting all the injections and stuff? I mean, it was downstairs.

I think it was pretty gentle because everything's numb. They do a good job of numbing. I had the O-shot before with no numbing, which was pretty painful. Right. It's brief but painful. But this was a lot more pleasant in that regard. And I mean, you feel pressure, but you don't— it's not painful. Yeah. So if you're afraid of that being painful, it's really not that bad, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to say there's zero discomfort, but there is very valuable.

Yeah.

What do you think about the, the facial stuff?

Oh, but we also did the wing lift that Ben Greenfield knows about.

Wing lift, great name. Uh, what is, what's involved with the wing lift?

Uh, the wing lift is, well, it's got hyaluronic acid, right?

And then we inject the YoungGlasma and PRP. And so that one is just strictly for look, but it's instant and it's, yeah, you know, create a fuller appearance. Right. Of the labia. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You can hop in while we're doing this. Yeah. Everybody knows we're at a medical facility. Yeah. Okay. So the wing lifts is— sorry, I didn't know this.

So the G-spot is to improve sexual function.

That's the one that's an actual injection into the spongy tissue of the G-spot. Yes.

So you go inside. Okay, Torres. So that would lead to healthier tissue, leading to more lubrication, tighter feeling, less painful with sexual intercourse and better sensitivity. Yeah. The Wings Lift is just for look. And— but it's one of my favorite because it's instant, it's natural.

It's just, you know, that's just like an aesthetic protocol that would be almost like a facelift for— Right. For the lady parts, basically.

Yeah, right. Yeah. And I just have like a bunch of women that just really love that. Yeah, because it's instant. But then most people are like, oh, I never look. And then they—

that's what I said. I was like, I honestly haven't compared, so I wouldn't know. Yeah, I didn't know. Right, right.

So, but so I explained to people that's just strictly for look. Yeah, yeah. And you know, you got to start doing like couples packages. And yeah, actually we do. Oh, you do? But sometimes we'll see you know, the husband or the wife and then— Yeah, yeah. They'll kind of double make it fair, do couples packages. Yeah, right, right. It makes sense.

Yeah. I do think the wing lifts, like the residual, like I don't want to say pain, but like soreness. Soreness. Yep. That's definitely longer than the O-Shot. The O-Shot, I don't feel it at all.

Right. That's true.

Yes. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Well, thank you for giving us your perspective. All right. I think a lot of women want to hear from you versus me because I don't have a G-spot. I don't, I don't get a wing lift either.

But with the O-Shot, I want to share like my personal experience. And this is one of the things that I really love, the added benefit. O-Shot is great for better sexual function, but it's amazing for urinary incontinence. Yeah. So like if you have birth, you know, childbirth, it's annoying. Like when you sneeze or you laugh and you leak, it's no fun. And the first time I had it done and I sneezed and nothing happened, it's like, yeah, that's like the best thing. Yeah. So it's one of my favorite pussy.

Good. Just in case you sneeze in the future. Cool.

I think when I work out.

It's just me. When you— Yeah. Hey! So, so Bengreenfieldlife.com/austinplasma.

Check out the show notes. I'll link to this stuff if you want to come on down to Austin region, check this stuff out for yourself. The entire staff here is super friendly. You guys even order in, like, seed oil-free food while we're here and feed us well. And you're really well taken care of down here. So we love what we do. Check it out. Leave your questions, your comments, your feedback in the show notes. I read them all. I'd love to hear what you guys think. And thank you for joining for this special episode with Dr. Nguyen at Austin Regen. Thank you.

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