Joy Kong, MD outlines five signs your body may need stem cells: persistent aches, swelling, fatigue, hair loss, and brain fog. She traces these to chronic inflammation, poor blood flow, mitochondrial dysfunction, and the body's failure to regenerate or resolve inflammation on its own.
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The five signs that your body may need stem cells 1. Aches and pains. So aches and pains is really a sign of inflammation. When body is stuck in an inflammatory state, that's when the aches and pains are not going away. It could be caused by many things. Second sign, swelling. That really again is a sign of inflammation. Cells, different signaling molecules and fluid, everything is coming together and trying to do something in that area. A lot of times there's not enough element to help inflammation to calm down. The third sign is fatigue. You should be full of energy. So if you are fatigued, one, maybe your body doesn't have healthy mitochondria or maybe your cells are just not functioning. Maybe there's toxicity. There could be all kinds of reasons. But the bottom line is your cells are not functioning at optimum level. The fourth sign is hair loss. One, it could be that you have lack of blood flow to your scalp, lack of nutrient delivery. It could also be an autoimmune issue that your body is attacking itself and it's just not regenerating right. Everything's deteriorating. It's not forming new cells, helping the hair follicle cells to develop. So you can't regenerate. So you lose hair and you don't regenerate. The last sign I'm going to talk about is brain fog. Some people can't think straight. There's a lack of mental clarity. Some may say, oh, just me getting older. Again, you shouldn't getting brain fog. It could be a sign of neuroinflammation, so that just inflammation in your nervous system tissue. So that's neuroinflammation. Again, it could be lack of blood flow. So if you don't have good blood flow, how are you going to have enough nutrients and oxygen to help you in your thinking, in your mental activities?