Dr. Joy Kong reviews Tony Robbins' chapter on stem cell therapy and corrects a key claim: mesenchymal stem cells are only 0.1% to 0.01% of umbilical cord blood. MSCs are better sourced from cord tissue or amniotic membrane instead.
Joy Kong, MD.
February 23, 2024.
Between 0.1% and 0.01%.
Hi, I'm Dr. Joy Kong, and I'd like to continue my review of Tony Robbins book Life Force. So in one of the chapters about stem cell therapy, there was talk of mesenchymal stem cells from umbilical cord blood, and that's a little bit incorrect because the umbilical cord blood has so few mesenchymal stem cells. What you can do is extract those mesenchymal stem cells, expand them. But if you really look at the number of are mesenchymal stem cells in the cord blood, it's between 0.1 to 0.01%. So very, very small fraction, very similar to the bone marrow. So I want to give people that, you know, perspective that if you're looking for mesenchymal stem cells, you really need to look into the umbilical cord tissue or the amniotic membrane. So if you want more information on this, I have a longer video about the subject on YouTube, and maybe you can find it. And thank you so much.
