Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

Plants That Help Your Body Make MORE Stem Cells?

25 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Joy Kong discusses a stem cell product made from five plants and how researchers tested whether each one triggers stem cell release from bone marrow. The studies used a crossover design: participants got either the product or placebo, then a blood draw 2-3 hours later measured stem cells by flow cytometry, with the opposite treatment a week later to account for daily variation.

Questions this video answers

Five.

Crossover, placebo-controlled, double-blind studies.

Baseline (after resting ~1 hour) and a second sample 2–3 hours after dosing.

Flow cytometry.

Participants return one week later at the same time/day and receive the alternate intervention.

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How many plants did you end up putting in your formula of the initial stem regen product?
So there are five plants that are aimed at triggering the release of stem cells from the bone marrow. So each one of them is studied separately using crossover placebo controlled double blind studies. So a patient comes in the morning or participant, I should say rest for an hour, we take a blood sample, then we give them placebo or a product we want to test and then two, three hours later we take another blood sample and then we count the number of stem cells in these blood samples using flow cytometry and the person comes a week later in the exact same time day, same circumstances and then we give them whichever the person did not get the week before and we do the exact same process and we use the placebo to establish the circadian cycle of that person with regard to their stem cells and then we can see what's the difference that the plant is doing in terms of releasing stem cells.