Sean Berman explains stem cell banking and therapy for longevity and injury recovery. He covers how to preserve your own cells, what stem cells can treat, and why the legal landscape around these therapies is shifting.
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Formerly you're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. And this is one of my increasingly common episodes where I have people live at my studio in Austin, Texas because it was hard to get them to come to my studio in Victoria, B.C. as often we're going to talk stem cells in this episode. You might have heard some of my episodes about stem cells in the past. I think I've prob more stem cells than most people alive. I've been doing them actively for 10 years as part of my brain recovery, brain enhancement, and overall, I want to live to 180 as a superhuman kind of protocol. And yes, superhuman is the title of my anti aging book. So I'm seen as a leader in longevity circles by some people. By other people, I make them very, very angry when I say I'm going to live longer than they are. Let's race, guys. So today's guests are a leader in the stem cell industry and a banker. Now you might think this is some sort of like venture capitalist scumbag trying to. No, not that kind of banker. This guy has my stem cells on deposit. Well, not like him personally, but like his company does because that would be kind of weird. You know, bone marrow and stuff like that.
Today I'm talking with Sean Berman. He's the director of research and operations for the Cell Sur Network, which is the largest group of doctors working together to advance personal cell therapies for all of us. It's a, it's a really big mission and something that's made a really big difference for me in my own biohacking journey. Stem cells have, have mattered. But it's not just stem cells. There's other personalized things you can do there. Sean was actually a former quarterback and he saw firsthand what happened with football players when they had concussions and how they really didn't have anything they could do about it. He developed a new laboratory method for studying blast induced traumatic brain injuries in rats, which affects soldiers in particular. And he went on and studied in clinical studies that were published that you could treat brain injuries with IV adult adipose derived stem cells. Guys, I've had multiple brain injuries. I had mold toxin induced brain damage. I took a knee to the head while having fun, that had a brain bleed. I've passed out, hit my head on tile. That also caused a very meaningful brain injury. In fact, after one of those, I sent Tim Ferriss a really angry email about something he didn't even do. That I still feel kind of dumb about to this day. So this has affected me. And my brain works better than ever before.
And sure I do neurofeedback and all.
But cells, my own cells and intravenous stem cells were a meaningful part of me putting my brain back together. Sean's also developed IRB approved protocols for investigating how cell therapy could mitigate TBI and PTSD in soldiers. And in 2022, Sean and the Cell Surgical Network team successfully defended your right to use your own cells to cure yourself in federal court against the fda. And they won.
Hey, good to be here with you, Dave. You're also a master's degree in cell biology and have spent years working with stem cells, right? Yeah, I've been.
