Young Blood Transfusions, Penile Botox, Salmon Sperm Facials & More – A 3-Day Regenerative Biohack With Dr. Khanh Nguyen

My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life Podcast— I told a few people I was going to do this. They're like, why are you putting a paralytic agent into your penis? So how does this work?

Right. So we inject Botox right into, like, as if we do the P-Shot. So we inject along the shaft into the erectile tissue of the penis. And the P-Shot is using PRP. That's the original platelet-rich plasma. Platelet-rich plasma. The natural growth factor from your own body, and that will send signal to make the tissue healthier, more collagen, more microcirculation. And erection is based pretty much the amount of blood flow into the erectile tissue. Okay. Now, Botox works by relaxing the smooth muscle outside of all the blood vessels. So it's just like open the gate. Okay, blood to flow in. So that's just allow more blood flow into the shaft, right?

Okay, okay.

And therefore, another side benefit is that when not stimulated, like at rest, uh, men also enjoy the size a little bit.

So increase size and girth even if you don't have an erection, right? 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. You guys, I'm here with— your name is like the one I probably am the most prone to butcher of all names that I've tried for like the past decade on my podcast, Khanh Nguyen.

You got it.

I'm very phonetic, so your name looks way different than it sounds. Khanwen. I'm just gonna call you Khan for the podcast. Okay, so first of all, if you're watching right now, all the show notes are going to be at bengreenfieldlife.com/regen. R-E-G-E-N. It has been a crazy last few days, and I'm— I want to hear about your story about how you got into this. But before that, tell me like a brief overview of everything that we've done. It's Friday today. I walked in on Wednesday, and you basically packed a lot into these 3 days.

Right. So we've been preparing for this and this is like a typical package that we offer for our clients. And a lot of them are from out of town. So day 1, what we did was we removed the first liter of your old plasma.

Of my plasma.

Of your plasma. And that is— you are young and healthy, but still, there's still a lot of senescent byproducts, inflammatory products. So we remove 1 liter and we replace with just a liter of IV vitamin just for the whole space.

Like a Myers cocktail kind of thing. So I was mildly functional on Wednesday, right?

And then followed by the full Regen face treatment using young plasma. And also we added exosome, uh, PRP activated with laser, and it's called the V-Cell stem cell therapy. And then to top off, we did the microneedling, uh, using salmon sperm DNA.

Salmon sperm on my face. We will get into this. I will ask, I have questions about putting salmon sperm on your face. Uh, but we'll come back to that. And then, and then, and then you did the thing that, um, I'm sure my wife will be very happy about, but that's also a little bit awkward for some people to talk about. But then we moved to my penis, right?

So we moved to the penis and the same thing, we use the same cocktail of potent regenerative product, young plasma, exosome, B-cell stem cell. Mhm.

With injections. Yes, you guys, it's a thing and it's not as bad as it sounds, but there are needles involved.

Fully numb, right? So it's not Painless, but it's probably 1 to 2 max. So we make sure that people is very comfortable. And on top of that, we added 100 units Botox.

Botox.

Yeah. And it's called a Volcán.

Which we'll also talk about because again, my wife was like, why are you going to get a paralytic toxin injected into your dick? So we did that. And then And then came the super interesting part with young plasma, which I'm still— if you're watching the video, I'm on my last bag, and the bag literally says on the outside of it, I can read this to you, 18 to 25-year-old male donor plasma going into my body right now.

So that, that's part of day 2 and today. So day number 2 was to remove the second liter from you. So for your own plasma. And then we put in 2 liters of this young plasma yesterday.

Mm-hmm.

What else did we do yesterday?

Young frozen plasma. Young frozen plasma. Yeah, and then we did shockwave, which was like a treatment on my joints.

Yep. We did that. And you, how do you feel?

I feel like I've done a lot of stuff, obviously. But I feel really good. I want to explore in a little more detail what these protocols are. Because this is like the future of regenerative medicine. I mean, your place is called Austin Regenerative Therapy, right? Um, because it's what you do. But before that, you are obviously not from here, right? And people have mentioned to me a couple times you have a very interesting story of how you got into all this. So tell me about that.

So just real brief, I'm originally from Vietnam. Okay. My dad was a physician.

Beautiful place, by the way. I —was telling me you did a triathlon there. The food was amazing, the culture, the people. Yeah.

I want to go back. Um, so I always wanted to become a physician and, uh, I ended up having to escape as a boat person with my older sister. So we were 14 and 15 at the time. And it's kind of ignorant and desperate. Because it was very risky and unsafe. But I jump on the boat out of fate. It's a little raft that only fit 20 people. It's supposed to be a big ship and it turned out not to be. Most people turn around in the last minute. When the anchor was pulled, I just jump over. I'm like, I really want to be a doctor and I want to come to America to follow my dreams. So I just jump over. My sister follow and We just floating in the ocean for 7 days, 7 nights. No food, no water. Anytime there's a little wave, you hear people praying. But we made it. To America? We made it to Malaysia.

Okay. I was going to say America on a tiny boat like that would be quite an adventure.

And the ocean was like a swimming pool. Otherwise we would not survive. By the time we hit the, from the river to the ocean, The only container of water just knocked over. So no food, no water. We ended up using my raincoat as a sail. And then we kind of licked this one lemon that my grandma gave me. So we all share, we lick on that one lemon and we just, the condensation from the raincoat, that's how we survived.

How long were you on that boat between the day and the night? 7 days and a night. Wow. About 20 people? Yeah. Oh my goodness. Was the boat, like you had your raincoat as a sail, but was there a motor or oars or anything? There's no motor. So you're just floating wherever the water's gonna take you plus your raincoat? Right. Wow. Yeah. Any navigator, any person who's actually—

So there was a person who was, I think he was in the military, so he did know a little bit about navigation. Yeah. But nothing, I think we just, the wind. Yeah. And just by chance, just luck, fate.

And you get to Malaysia.

We got to Malaysia and I'm a very good swimmer. So I was the first one spotted land and I'm like, okay, there's no wind. We're just like hanging around. I got impatient. So I'm like, okay, I'm going to jump in. I'm going to swim in. And luckily—

You have to already be a little tired from— Yeah, I didn't know what to do. —flicking a limb through the water and no food.

So people held me back. And then by the time the Red Cross boat came out, dragged us in, and the minute I landed on the shore, we all collapsed. Like we have to hold on to our pants because there's no food. Yeah. The interesting thing is—

Hold on to your pants to keep them up because you lost so much weight.

Right, right. And I remember we just like, I was just drifting off. Dreaming about water. The no food is no issues, but the water. So then we got to the Philippines for, um, so that's for the refugee camp. I stayed there for 6 months learning English, learning, you know, the way of life in America. And then I got to California because my dad served the US Army as a physician. So I got, I got to come to the US.

So how old were you by the time you made it to the US?

By the time I got here, I was 15. So I started as a sophomore in high school. Wow. Yeah. Oh my goodness.

Okay, so you get here, you're 15, you start as a sophomore in high school, and then you somehow get into medical school?

So I, I studied, I worked really hard. I even listened to heavy metal music at night so that I can really understand the language. And I joined the swim team.

You learned English through heavy metal music at night?

Yeah, because I feel like if you can— That sounds so great for sleep. If you understand heavy metal music, then—

Then you can understand anything. If you can understand men screaming at the top of their lungs with very loud, high-pitched guitars in the background, Okay. I see the logic.

That was very tough. So I got through high school, got a scholarship to USC, and then ultimately went to medical school. Wow. And so dreams do come true. And since then I felt like my whole life there's a purpose and there's like a second chance. So every day I'm just grateful. And really make the best out of it. And I feel lucky that I just, I just know that's, that's my mission in life. Health, healthcare, taking care of people.

Where did regenerative therapy come into the scene?

Yeah. So I was a critical care hospitalist doctor for many years. And the last 5 years I was doing night shift at a hot hospital. So I pretty much in charge of the hospital. And of course, things happen at night. Where's this hotel? It's in Texas. Okay. And from many nights of not sleeping, I got burned out, got diagnosed with Graves' disease. And then the last—

Is that like a thyroid?

It's an autoimmune condition where my body attacked my own thyroid gland. And And then one early morning driving home from my shift, I kind of fell asleep. Oops. And then luckily there's no one. You're obviously not driving a Tesla. I was driving my Tesla.

Oh really? Yeah. Yes. It didn't quite kick in the way it was supposed to?

It didn't have that, uh, uh, auto.

Early Tesla. Right. Okay.

Right. And so that was the wake-up call. So I'm like, okay, I need to really take a break. Take care of my health and learning about thyroid disease, autoimmune disease. I went to see an endocrinologist specialist and didn't really get to the right, the right answer, the right treatment. And so I started to get into looking around, researching to how to really help myself. So that's how it started. And then I just never stopped. I kind of started to retrain and get more training in the dark side and started out—

You just call it the dark side?

Yeah, because I used to believe my dad was trained as a physician in the French system. So in Vietnam, all the Western medicine, that's That's the way to go.

Right. Traditional allopathic medicine.

So that was my mentality. And so I used to just, you know, just roll my eyes when people say holistic or anything like that.

Holistic, alternative, woo-woo. Alternative, woo-woo. And yet now the regenerative medicine that you practice might still fit into that category, but this is like the hot topic. You know, all the Bryan Johnsons and the Dave Aspreys and the to even a lot of big Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs and billionaires, like they're getting into this stuff. So all of a sudden you find yourself at a pretty important nexus.

Right. And it just, it just by chance. And again, everything I do is still based on the science behind it, but Either you wait long enough for a certain therapy to be the gold standard, to be approved, or you just look at the research, at the mechanism behind it. And also, the test that I use for myself is that if it makes sense, if it's safe enough for me and my family, then it's good enough. And I'll use, typically I try—

You're not just going around putting Botox into people's dicks. Right. Yeah, exactly. Which we'll get to, By the way, but, um, I, I think some of the things that you previewed as we were opening up the podcast are very interesting. I would say probably like, and I don't know if you agree with me, the biggest thing we've done since I've been here has been this plasma exchange. And this, this is something that many people might kind of sort of be familiar with if they saw back to a guy like Bryan Johnson, his documentary Don't Die, the idea that he was using, I think, his sons young, healthy donor plasma. Uh, this is not from my son, by the way. I couldn't talk him into it. Um, didn't run it by him, actually. Didn't think of that. But, uh, this whole idea of fresh, young, frozen plasma, right? I believe, if I recall, the original research was triggered by rejuvenation of a young mouse when they received the plasma from an old mouse, and vice versa, by the way. The young mouse became older when it got the plasma. The old mouse. So tell me about this plasma exchange.

Yeah. So, I mean, we've been, we've been fascinated with like how to stay young and live forever since the beginning of time. And there's always been a fascination with blood. We just kind of knew that there's some, something magical about our blood. And then it turned out to be through that breakthrough study, I think in the '50s, the parabiosis study where they suture the separation of the—

This was the rodent model study with the two mice connected together.

Right. And it's proven the old mouse, when getting the transfusion from the young blood, from the young mouse, become physically younger and also improve cognition. Able to run around the maze, even the coat get shiny.

Yeah, I believe it's a decreased inflammatory markers. I don't know if they tested telomeres, but a general youthfulness effect. Right. Of the Young Plasma. That's correct.

And it's, we believe that it's from this perfect complex mixture of all the components of plasma. There's like over 10,000 of different protein, the fibrinogen, different fraction of albumin, immunoglobulin, and then there's 5,000+ of different kind of peptides. As you, you know a lot about peptides, including the LL-37 and the growth differentiating factor, all the growth factors. There's this is fascinating, per cc of young plasma that you're getting, there's 1.84 billion exosomes. So these are— Oh, wow. Yes. These are like the messenger, tiny vesicles that really send messages and communicate to distant cells with like the instruction of what to do.

A lot of people, I think, think plasma, young plasma exchange is the same something like blood exchange, but plasma is not the same as blood, right?

Right. So, in whole blood, there's a mixture of things, platelet, hemoglobin, white cell count. So, when we separate, like the machine that we put you through, it will separate out the plasma and then return your blood back to you. Yeah.

So, the machine I was connected to, the people will see in the video that will go along with this podcast. Again, you go to bengreenfieldlife.com/reject. To see some other videos and photos, but that was pulling blood out of my body via a needle in my arm, and that blood was then somehow having the plasma removed from it and then going back into me. Right. Okay.

So it's like a few cycles. I think we have like about 4 or 5 cycles. Each cycle, it will take your blood through the machine and the centrifuge, separate out the plasma, and that pour into the collection bowl. And then your blood get returned back to you.

And with the plasma, my old plasma, before I talk about the new plasma that goes into me, do you do anything with that old plasma? Is there any use for it? Trash can. Trash can. So that's just like the old stuff.

We're getting rid of that. Right. Yeah. Right. And so it's just known that with age-related just the aging process and then environmental toxicity, medication, the whole mixture. You're healthy, but still, that's still kind of like the—

Right. Maybe an 83-year-old would want my 43-year-old plasma. Right, right. But then I'm assuming, and I'm sure a billion people are wondering this, like, with this plasma I'm getting put into my body, you don't just take plasma willy-nilly off the street from some random donor and put it into somebody's body.

Where does this— Come on. Right. So, this particular, so in general, plasma transfusion has been around for a long time, actually since the '20s, like after World War I. Oh, that far. Yeah. Wow. They used to treat soldier with shock, like in the battlefield. Okay. And so they like, oh, there's like, there's something very important and that really help with the body healing process. And that in the '40s, I think 1939 is when the FDA approved using plasma transfusion for various condition, autoimmune condition, bleeding disorder, people in shock. So like in my field, critical care, we use that. People with autoimmune disease, we remove that because there's autoantibodies in that. So it's been around for a long time. So the safety of plasma transfusion is well established.

If I had autoimmune disease and I had a bunch of antibodies that were attacking my own tissue, like you had Graves' disease, for example, if you were to do plasma exchange and remove those, do you just not have autoimmune disease anymore? Or is this something that you have to kind of keep doing on a regular basis if you were doing it for something like that?

So I think that's one of the way to like go after the root cause. So if you have autoimmune disease, you have these antibodies for some reason, they over, they lose control and they attack your own bodies. It kind of makes sense to remove that. But then a lot of time we use a combination of modalities. So that's to remove. And sometimes we put in young plasma with the right message, exosome stem cell.

And does somebody just like not have autoimmune issues anymore after that?

You know, I, so sometimes you do that and then with autoimmune condition, it's something that is not completely understood, but it's something that under stress, your body can kind of flare up again. And so that's why sometimes people, as needed, they will have another round of removal.

Well, I think you were telling me off air earlier that you had like some billionaire or something who just felt incredible afterwards and they wanted to do it again. So people will actually do something like a therapeutic plasma exchange more than once in their lifetime.

Right. Theoretically. Right. And you can do it every 6 months, every year. And the volume is also something that is flexible. Sometimes people do like a media exchange, meaning remove 1 liter and then put in 1 liter. What you had was the full protocol. Almost the full protocol. Right. So you had 2 liters removed. So from whole blood, To answer your question from earlier, about 52-55% of whole blood is plasma. Okay. So you have about 5 liters and then we remove 2. So a lot, quite a bit. Yeah. And then we replace with 3 liters of young plasma.

Yeah. Okay. So back to the young plasma. Can I close this? Yeah, it's perfect. Back to the young plasma. Where does it come from? How do you know it's like—

So in general, the young plasma is collected and is mixed blood type, sex. So that's in the hospital. For this, we've gone like even more careful. So these are pre-qualified college students, age 18 to 25. And they have to be pre-qualified. And once the plasma is collected, that will get put aside for culture and make sure everything is clear before that gets approved to be used by providers like us.

So pre-qualified, they're testing for like viruses, pathogens, bacteria. I'm assuming they look at like Lyme, mold, things like that also.

Right. So they, the typical full panel for like if you would get blood transfusion.

Same type of criteria that you would follow before this is going to go back into somebody else's body. These kids get paid, like, is it something that they're addicted?

I think they get like a gift certificate. Okay.

Yeah. All right. Yeah. You know, you hear sometimes about how some people will get like heart transplant and take on the characteristics of the person whose organ they received. Like, in the back of my mind, I wonder, gosh, like, I've gotten 10 liters of some 18 to 25 year old, possibly multiple 18 to 25 year old young men's plasma in me? Am I going to just suddenly like have a craving for Doritos or like a certain song all of a sudden that I never liked before?

So I, you know, the typical thing that I've heard, the feedback from patients I've worked on is, is as you experience even that night, just a surge of energy and a sense of wellness. And then the mental clarity, that's like the The most profound thing.

Yeah, I left your office last night, mild histaminergic reaction, which you said was normal. So a little bit of rash, a little hives, a little bit itching that went away by 5. I played 2 hours of pickleball, came back to my hotel room, had dinner, and was like up till about midnight reading before I was finally like, okay, I need to get to sleep. So I literally took an antihistamine to go to sleep. So I was functional today, but energy levels just off the charts. And that was after 2 liters of young plasma, and then another liter went in today, right? So I might just have to go, I don't know, just dance the night away or something. But huge amount of energy. But then beyond just energy, you mentioned lower inflammation, removal of antibodies, antibodies, uh, exosomes. So you're probably seeing more stem— so more your own stem cell signaling, right?

And the interesting The other part is that based on research, when you get the infusion of young plasma into your body, the donated young plasma, it doesn't get old. It's the opposite. It kind of influences, and it influences that, it's called chronokines, which is kind of like the messenger for time, and it sends a signal to the rest of the body to kind of like reset the aging clock and its effect kind of systemic.

Do people notice a difference? I mean, I know we'll get to the facial and stuff that you do, but do people notice like hair, skin, nails, anything like that just from the plasma, not the other stuff?

Yeah. So from, as I shared with you earlier, that particular patient in his 70s, high stress, very successful, high stress and not taking care of his health. And he's walked in kind of like older than his age, slumped over and just tired. And after the procedure that weekend, I got a phone call. And then as I shared with you, he's like, "You just need to know." Yeah. "I've been up since 5 in the morning. I've been through multiple business conversation and my brain is on fire." He felt like I felt last night.

Yeah. Right. So when it comes to the things that this pulls out of your body, is there any effect on like cholesterol or lipids or anything like that, or other, other parameters people might be concerned about? Like if somebody, you know, people go in and do like ozone treatments for their blood for mold or Lyme or mycotoxins. Is there anything this is pulling out? Yes. Beyond just like the rejuvenation of the young plasma, anything in the old plasma that gets removed?

Yeah. So, you know, so what's in plasma in general? There's salt, there's mineral, there's cholesterol, lipid, protein, hormones, exosomes. So you do get that. And one of the concerns that we have to be careful is the clotting factors, which is part of the protein. And so that's why like people with clotting disorder, or if you aren't Let them know that we have to be careful.

Because you're removing clotting factors, unless you would risk excess bleeding potentially. Right. Right. Okay. Right.

And, and so when you remove plasma, you have the option of replacing that with IV fluid. We can do that with albumin, which have more oncotic pressure. So it just holds space better. And then your body will reproduce more. It's fascinating. So just by removing plasma alone, definitely has, uh, it's kind of diluting, uh, effect and it's helpful.

So you could theoretically remove plasma and then just like get an IV and then you eventually rebuild your own plasma, or you could remove plasma and do a full young donor exchange.

Right. Which would take the benefit to the next level. Right. So now you have the influence, all the signaling from the complicated mixture of the plasma from young donors. And it's shown that as we age, your plasma composition kind of changes as well. Just like, just like as we age, our hormones last, all the age-related process. Yeah. And so that's, uh, when we replace with young plasma, you benefit tremendously from, from that youth cocktail. And it's kind of like a complex, perfect combination of all the signaling agent, the exosome from young blood, which influence the epigenetic expression of the recipient. Genes. So that's really, really cool. Yeah. That's super interesting.

I know you did like a TrueAge genetic analysis.

Right. So yeah. Thank you for reminding me. Yes. So right now this is part of the Golden Gift study. So we, that's like anecdotal report. When people get young plasma, they feel more energy, faster repair recovery, but that's never been a study. So, the Golden Gift Study, it started in 2022, and I'm part of the co-investigator. And now, we look at, before the test, we check for, and you did have that, a full panel of blood work, including inflammatory markers. And then, we did the biological age to check for the methylation age. And also like all the age for the separate organs. And then we did a whole bunch of other tests to check for the brain, for the balance, physical performance.

And for the 6 months post-procedure, we have the option if people participate in the study, which is optional, then we repeat You will follow up after the young plasma exchange to see how that affected epigenetics, longevity markers, blood markers, etc. So you're actually getting hard data. It's called the Golden Gift Study.

Golden Gift Study. It's got it.

Plasma is golden. Yep. Now I know this.

Um, and it's only in Texas, and it started, okay, in 2022.

Okay, got it. Two things I have besides this not talked about before on the podcast. Salmon sperm and Botox. You know, I think a lot of people are already aware of the idea of microneedling and facials, you know, getting exosomes or platelet-rich plasma in your face. And when you told me about the salmon sperm, this was a totally new thing for me. I thought you were joking, but it sounds like you weren't actually joking.

Right. And you actually agree. And we apply that on your skin. Tell me about this.

Like, where are you getting salmon sperm?

Yeah. So this is like from aquarium. Aquarium porn action going on.

In the back room in the office somewhere over there? Or what?

Just tell me the story. It's actually the salmon sperm DNA purification. And, uh, chat about it.

Who would have thought of this? Like putting salmon sperm? They're Korean, so. Yeah, I guess there's a lot of aesthetic techniques that come from Korea.

That's kind of like the capital of aesthetic. Okay. People really care about skin and how you look. And yes, so it's, and that is the known glass skin procedure where I don't know if you like, you go to Korea, everyone's walking around with this perfect skin.

And because they're all using someone's sperm?

No, because they really, they really all about nice skin. So they have like the latest tricks and technology and therapies. But salmon sperm is, you know, one of the latest. And of course I tried that on my face first.

And I was just, I was just like— You have to guinea pig that on yourself first.

And by the way, I gave myself the O-Shot to check it out too. So I had a mirror and gave myself the O-Shot.

Is the O-Shot like Botox in the clitoris instead of the penis?

So the O-Shot is like the P-Shot.

Okay, let's, let's come back. Let's go back to Botox here a little bit. I want to finish this salmon sperm thing. Right. So, so they somehow isolate the DNA from the sperm of the salmon.

And then it has like the ability to again regenerate more collagen. And you just apply that topically after you do like a little bit of the microneedling to create tiny channels and then we just let it absorb. What do people notice? Glass skin. So your skin is just glowy and refined, like the little lines and wrinkles, the age spots and such.

How often do people do this?

So you can do that every 3 months, every month if you want to. Most of my patients, I recommend that once a year you should just hit your hair, your skin, and your penis and vagina.

This isn't gonna make a dent in like the world's population of salmon. Is there like, do I have to trade off longevity and beauty for not getting a filet of Ora King salmon anymore at a restaurant? Or is it sustainable?

Yeah, you know, I have to look more into that. Yeah.

Well, I don't know. Obviously, males have a pretty infinite amount of sperm-based DNA. Females have a limited amount of eggs. So, I doubt that we would run out of male salmon sperm, but I don't know. This is interesting. You put it on my penis too?

No, no, no, no. Okay. No, we didn't.

All right. So, you don't use it there. You do— For the skin. But, you do Botox. And again, like I mentioned earlier, I told a few people I was going to do this. They're like, why are you putting a paralytic agent into your penis? So how does this work? Right.

So we inject Botox right into, like, as if we do the P-Shot. For Botox, it does— Some people might not know what you mean when you say P-Shot. Yeah. So P-Shot stands for the priapus shot. Okay. And it's the sex of It's the god of sex. And so it's Priapus.

Same as Priapasm, the very uncomfortable 5 to 8 hour erection that sends some people to the hospital.

That Priapasm, Priapus. Right, right, right. And so we inject along the shaft into the erectile tissue of the penis. And the P-Shot is using PRP. That's the original platelet-rich plasma. Platelet-rich plasma. The natural growth factor from your own body. And that will send signal to make the tissue healthier, more collagen, more microcirculation. And erection is based pretty much the amount of blood flow into the erectile tissue.

Okay.

Now, Botox works by relaxing the smooth muscle outside of all the blood vessels. So, it's just like open the gate. Okay. Blood to flow in.

So, it's not directly vasodilatory like something like, you know, the shockwave therapy that people do with that wand, which you also did, by the way. Thanks to the numbing lotion that I got, which made it a lot more comfortable. And, it's not something like Viagra, which would also cause vasodilation. And it's not even something like PRP, which would help to grow new blood vessels. This is literally almost— think of it like a bicep that's contracting and thus restricting blood flow with too long of a contraction or something like that. So it's relaxing to allow for better vasculature.

It does relax the smooth muscle. Okay, so it's kind of— okay, open the blood vessel.

But wouldn't— but if it relaxes it, you'd think that you wouldn't be able to get an erection.

It's blood flow. Okay. So, that just allows more blood flow into the shaft. Right. Okay. Okay. And therefore, another side benefit is that when not stimulated, like at rest, men also enjoy the size a little bit bigger.

So, increase size and girth even if you don't have an erection.

Right. It's just from like more relaxed and more blood flow.

Now, you've been saying muscle. I guess many of us are taught in biology that the penis is a gland, not a muscle.

So, how does that work? The smooth muscle outside the blood vessel in the penis. Okay. All right.

Got it. So, we have muscles in our— even though the penis is a gland, there are muscles in the penis. And, that's what the most function is.

And, it's tiny. It's a rich network of microcirculation.

Okay. So, obviously, if you had erectile dysfunction or what's the disease? Peyronie's disease. What is that again?

So, Peyronie's is scarring and is actually most commonly is due to trauma related to sex. Okay. But any kind of trauma and it causes scarring and then the shaft curves and that A, it can be very painful, but B, that would make penetration ineffective. Yeah. Okay. And that can be debilitating.. And we use the P-Shot to address that along with ED. Okay. With the addition of additional treatment around the scar tissue. Yeah. Yeah.

But then the Botox with the PRP plus the shockwave treatment, that all kicks in pretty fast. I mean, I was telling you and, you know, obviously you guys hear this stuff all the time, so I'm not embarrassed talking about this stuff in your clinic that I was I was literally like, I was getting dressed for pickleball last night and I just got a random erection just getting ready for pickleball, which I wasn't that excited about. I mean, I'm excited to play pickleball, but not that excited to play pickleball. So yeah, it kicks in super fast.

Right, right. And it's just like Botox, right? And the important things to realize is that ED, even mild, is an early sign of maybe cardiovascular complications. So I always screen for that. You know, we can treat locally, but okay, what's your lipid profile look like? You have high blood pressure and a risk factor, and then that's an opportunity to do screening for stroke and heart attack because it's kind of like the same process. So ED is kind of like angina for the heart or TIA or mini stroke.

We've mentioned it a few times, at least I have, the shockwave thing. Even though I've done a podcast on that before, quick reminder for people. Many people may not have heard that.

Yeah, so I love to combine different modalities. So, shockwave by itself is a lone-standing therapy for many things, including ED and joint, tendon, ligament. The way it works is that it's based on the energy from sound wave to create tiny injuries in the treatment area. And then the body would recognize that as an injury, like, oh, there's a cut or there's an injury. Let's turn on the cascade of repair and regenerate and let's go to work. And so I combine, as you experience before joint injection and before ED treatment, before the P-Shot, I do the shockwave to kind of like prime the tissue to to regenerate. Yeah, I love stacking.

Just, yeah, I did a story years ago on Gainswave therapy. Both my wife and I have done it a few times. Yeah, the shockwave therapy. Yeah. And, um, back to my wife, the same idea of Botox, uh, PRP, and the P-Shot applies to what you call the O-Shot, or the orgasm shot. That's what, that's what the O stands for, orgasm.

Orgasm shot. And same principle, same idea. And we inject for women, either we collect PRP or other biologics, and then we— the area is numb, obviously. And then we're going to inject around the G-spot area and also right into the clitoris. Okay. And that will create healthier tissue, more lubricated, and improve in sensation and tightness.

When you say around the G-spot area, are you going externally or are you going internally? Internally. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. And do you do like lips or anything like that with the O-Shot?

Yes. So it's called the Wings Lift. Okay. So that's where I— so the O-Shot is a functional procedure where you improve sexual function. The Wings Lift is just for aesthetic, but I love it because it's instant result and it's natural.

And is the Wings Lift using Botox or?

We use, I use a mixture of PRP and filler. Okay. Sometimes, sometimes, but it is a very thin mixture of that. And then we inject on the, on the lips. Right, right.

So it's like a facelift for the vagina.

And it's instant and it's create that useful volume and it actually makes the tissue healthier. Interesting. It's, it's, it's very natural, very quick, and you see the result. Yeah.

Do you, where do you learn about this stuff? Do you guys have like special secret Batman cave conferences that regenerative medicine docs go to to hear what's coming down the pipeline? Because some of this stuff, I'm kind of connected to the industry, but a lot of this is new to So Dr.

Charles Runels is the inventor of the P-Shot and then O-Shot, the Vampire Facelift, the Wingslift, and the Breastlift. So I got trained under him and I got certified. And it's actually a very active group that we just keep up with all the latest research and communication. For example, I had a very severe case of Peyronie's from a young patient and I added different peptides and great results. So, we share that with the community.

So, Charles Runoff, is his name? Runoff. Runoff. Does he have like a blog or website or do podcasts, stuff like that?

Yes. He's very well known.

What about some of these conferences? Like American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, A4M, RADFest is the one I hear about. Do you go to these places?

I do. I presented at RADFest and I do participate in A4M. Actually, I got certified for my anti-aging there at A4M. And I also am very active with the SSRP, which is is the organization for peptide therapy.

Now you have some kind of a weird peptide thing you were telling me about. Oh yeah. Different than what I've heard of before.

Neo something. Right. So that is, so the peptides that we all know is kind of like off the shelf, naked peptides. Yeah, BPC-157. And they are very effective. Yeah. They're very effective, very safe. But—

If you get them from the right source.

That's very important. It's very important. And then knowing the sequence and when to use what is crucial. But then the next level is the personalized tailored peptide. And this is from Neo7 Bioscience. For this, I actually collect your blood and urine, and then that will get sent to the company to get analyzed using a machine learning platform. And it's fascinating because they really, have like an extensive analysis of your blood sample and urine sample. And then, the machine will kind of point out all the faulty pathways and then have the ranking to design the peptides to actually counteract and fix those abnormalities. Give me an example. For example, there's like 8 hormones of aging that they are targeting the mitochondria health, microbiome, the DNA stability, and so forth. And then everyone's different. For example, my patient with ALS, the report, it just all lit up all the pathway that neural related pathway is all abnormal. And, you know, like just normal aging, then you're going to see like telomere length attrition or inflammation or DNA instability. So just depending on the severity, they will create the peptide just for that individual. So NF-1. And it's a program that they would, once they have the design, they will send that off to a compound pharmacy to create the peptides. And that would last about 6 to 9 months.

So these would not be peptides that are named, that you can read about. They're synthesizing their own short chains of amino acids to go to the areas that blood and urine testing have identified need them. Right.. And then I'm assuming somebody needs to go through a doctor to do something like this, right? And what's it called again? Neo— Neo7 Bioscience. Neo7 Bioscience. Okay. And you just come in, you do the test, and then are these like injectable peptides that you get? Yes.

So you're gonna get 120 vials and then you're gonna keep them in the freezer. Yeah. And, and then typically it's going to be twice a week injection. And then in between, just depending on individual, we also add IV or nasal net or sub-q. And we have the option of using exosome for better delivery as well. So we have different options. And then on top of that, we sometimes use the augmented peptide, like the peptide that you know, but they augmented to, to help out with with its stacking. Yeah. So a lot of time we use SS31, Clothal. Those are the common things. And then we use sometimes Ribolysine. Yeah. Just depend on what we want to address.

Yeah. Yeah. So is there anything based on how much you're getting around seeing the whole field of regenerative therapy coming down the pipeline that you've got your eye on that you might add to the clinic or that you're excited about or that you think shows a lot of future promise?

So I'm, you know, I'm always on the lookout for the latest, you know, with enough understanding and science-based. And right now, honestly, the Neo7 Bioscience and Young Plasma Therapy. It's kind of like, yeah, as far as now, that's kind of like the cutting edge. Gene therapy, hopefully, just we're on the verge of—

I've done gene— I did follistatin gene therapy and had incredible results for muscle gain. Yeah, it's not legal in the US yet, but the idea of being able to turn on or turn off certain genetic pathways, you know, in this case, follistatin for muscle gain, Klotho for cognition. I think they're working on one for luteinizing hormone, for natural testosterone enhancement. That's a cool field. I plan on at some point doing a dedicated podcast just devoted to gene therapy. I did it with Dr. Adil Khan down in Cabo. But yeah, still kind of few and far between and hard to come by.

Right. Yeah. Here. And I'm hopeful that, you know, we just paving the way and then waiting for that hockey stick effect. And with like quantum physics and machine learning, things just gonna happen fast. So I keep on telling people, my sons included, just stay safe, just hang around.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Hang around long enough, you might be that person who lives to 150. Is it easier from a legislation standpoint in Texas to practice like this? It seems like there's a lot of clinics like this in Texas.

So, for young plasma, it's only in Texas as of now. Okay. And, I'm part of the Golden Gift study. I'm a co-investigator.

Oh, so you can only do young plasma in Texas like in the U.S.? Yes. Right. I didn't know that. Right. Because there are places I know of like in California, for example, that advertise that they do TPN. Right.

TP in general is removing plasma. And then when you exchange, you exchange, you replace with albumin. Typically TPE means that.

Oh, okay. So you're replacing with albumin, not with full young donor plasma, which you could only do in the state of Texas. As of now. Interesting.

Right. Okay.

So hopefully it'll be. I think a lot of people, I'm glad we cleared that up. A lot of people think this is the same as therapeutic plasma exchange.

It's kind of under the same umbrella, but it's more specific. To what you exchange with. So, young plasma exchange is removing old plasma and replace it with, or exchange it with young plasma.

I'm assuming it would be prudent. We haven't talked about this, so I might as well ask you while we're recording that after I've done a protocol like this, like for example, I've been careful not to drink alcohol the past few days, to get good sleep, to take care of my body, you know, going outside and grounding and earthing and doing all the healthy things, I'm assuming kind of like a stem cell treatment, the more I can do to be really healthy after this, including maybe even avoiding alcohol, things like that.

That would be good. Avoiding alcohol. As far as medication, you can go back. Yeah. But even just if you want the benefit to sustain longer and to make the best out of it, again, it's like the whole, whole person approach, you know, eat healthy. It's boring but important.

Control your management. Go to bed at a decent time, which I have to do now because you gave me a red light therapy thing that I have to wear around my penis. So I've been putting, getting into bed 20 minutes early so I can wrap that thing around. And yeah, that's a first for me doing red light. So that's a pretty good stack, right?

Yeah. The shockwave, the injection, the Botox, red light therapy. We did a lot.

Yeah, I feel incredible. Yeah, yeah. Despite being up to like 1 AM last night bouncing off the walls, I feel incredible. Yeah. So the name of your clinic is Austin Regenerative Therapy. You got it. I'll link to all that. If, if you're watching or listening to this, go to bengreenfieldlife.com/regen. I assume if people wanted to try something like this, they can just call and you screen them. And I know you had to like my blood type, and there's some other things that you need to do leading up so you get the right type of plasma. And then bengreenfieldlife.com/regen though, and then people can call you and schedule if they want to do something like this themselves. Yes. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, I tried it. So far it feels pretty good. And yes, the Botox did not paralyze me, so I'm happy about that. I'll fly home tomorrow to see my wife. Hopefully she's happy too. Ka, thank you so much.

Yeah, thank you so much. I'm excited. I love what I do, and It's great to have a chance to share.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I think a lot of people—

I can't wait to hear you talk. —gonna be interested in doing this. So, yeah. So, check her out, folks. BenGreenfieldLife.com/Regen. I'm at Austin Regenerative Therapy. Thanks for watching.

Okay. Ben Greenfield is here. Here we are. So, this is day 1 of the 3-day session of Yung Plastic Exchange. So, we're gonna remove 1 liter of plasma and just replace with a liter of IV fluid.

Oh, I thought you were going to replace it with like a liter of like liquid hot magma or something cool like that so I could be an Avenger.

If you have that, I would.

I want some Wolverine claws while we're doing this too. Actually— Always ready for the needle, bro.

He's looking right at it. And you didn't feel much, right? No. Yep. Okie dokie. So now the machine started, and you can see this is going to take his blood through the machine, and it's going to separate out the plasma, and then it's going to be collected in this bottle right here. We're gonna show it to you, Ben, and then we put in the second, uh, IV line for some IV fluid. Your plasma is looking good.

I gotta call my wife to show her what this plasma looks like. Let's see, let's see if she's here so we can show her.

Pick up the phone.

Busy taking care of the goats.

Not so fun.

Yeah, they're pretty cute. Oh my God, we had, we had to take them into the sauna right after this cuz they were super cold, so they hung out in the sauna for a few hours. Oh my God, it's so cute. Yeah, I think I, I mentioned on my Antike forum, but even though my body's pretty good. The only two orthopedic issues I have is I have— I'm sure they're related to each other. I have some left toe pain and some left knee pain.

So we'll do that. Today we're going to do the face and the penis. Okay.

Tomorrow we're going to do the joint injection. Okay. After the infusion. Do the face and penis first. Those besides the brain are the two most important parts of my body. So yeah. Yep.

Great. Yep. All right. So this is the Regen facelift. We use young plasma, V-Cell stem cell exosome, and the salmon roe to top it off.

Yeah, this isn't the type of thing that, uh, us men up in Idaho are known for doing.

Are you gonna set the trend? I guess so.

Like, we almost try to make ourselves uglier.

Really?

No, you look hard to kill. But I'm doing this.

You doing okay?

Oh yeah, I'm fine. No worse than like a baby bumblebee sting.

Barely feel it. That's the goal. I'm hitting your hairline even though you have a full head of hair. Almost done. So this kind of feel like a massage than the microneedling. Okay. So it's not that— You did it!

Oh my gosh, that was easy.

All right, time for day 2.

Day 2 at Austin Regenerative Medicine. Yesterday I got my face injected, I got my penis injected, and today back to Longevity, young plasma infusion, and we'll see what other tricks they have up their sleeve and what they have in store. Yo, yo, what's up?

Okay, so today is day number 2. Yeah. Um, yesterday we did the first liter of removal of your old plasma. It didn't look bad, actually. Good. But you did feel good afterwards and was able to play pickleball.

Got a couple hours of pickleball in.

Yeah. And we also did the whole high-end face treatment. Yeah. And then you did some red light treatment on the penis.

Yep. Did the red light on the penis last night. And awesome. I mean, it felt— didn't hurt or anything.

Yeah. So today we're going to remove the second liter. Okay. So after we remove the second liter today, we're going to put in 2 liters.

Oh, good. So I don't leave today. Exactly.

So you're going to feel surge of, of surgical energy.

And then there's like another— is there another liter goes in tomorrow? Tomorrow. Oh, wow.

So that's the full— amazing. That's— I'm giving you like the full protocol. Yeah. And it seems like the, the more volume people get, the better benefit.

Okay, yeah, cool. Totally not opposed to hitting a little Shockwave on this guy if we want to.

Yeah, yeah, sweet. Yep, so that's the plan. Okay, so we almost done with day 2. Uh, we're down to the last, last 2 of 10 bags of plasma. Yeah, and then tomorrow we gotta do another. Yep. How are you feeling?

I feel good. Yeah, and then we hit the shoulder a little bit.

Yep, little shockwave on the shoulder. One more to go, the last, the third liter. And then we're going to do the joint injection. Amazing. With young plasma. Hi! So last day, day 3. So did you play pickleball yesterday?

Yeah, I actually had like too much energy. I was up till like almost 1 AM and just like bouncing off walls. Yeah. Um, not getting good, but just like too much energy. Yeah. And, um, yeah, I left Sharon for like 2 hours to pickleball. I was— it was weird. I was like itching, like my body was just getting used to everything. So until like maybe 5, when I think you're like 3, right? I was like itching and I had some hives, and those went away. Yeah. By the time I was like playing last night, those were away. And then I left pickleball and I was just like, dude, like I need to like go clubbing or something, like dance.

Yeah, people like stay up until like 2 or then get up early.

Instead, just went home and, or took back to my hotel, and I read a whole bunch and got some work done. Eventually I fell asleep. That's awesome.

Yeah, and the skin?

Yeah, awesome. Shoulders are a little bit— yeah, you fixed it yesterday and then I just rested it.

Yeah, and it did work. But the infusion definitely would help. Yeah, cool.

I like that shockwave. Works just fine.

Yeah, yeah, cool. Awesome. So let's, let's go in here.

Yo yo, it was good. Yelmo's stuff. Yeah, between that and all the other stuff, I'm feeling I feel like a new man. Thank you so much. Cool. Thank you. Thanks for having me. This is an incredible place and incredible experience. So thanks. So see you next time.

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