Joy Kong, MD, argues stem cell therapy offers a real alternative to drug-focused medicine. She points out that IVIG, a widely used treatment, still has unknown mechanisms, and says the mainstream medical system is too anchored to big-pharma practices.
I always say that stem cell therapy is bringing the joy back to medicine instead of throwing drugs at people, which is how I've been trained at ucla. I love ucla. But you know, it's still very conservative because entire medical system is very conservative. It's based on prior tradition and is based on the big pharma drug model. And it still makes me laugh when I look at different drugs, even common ones, you know, like say IVIG infusions and these immunoglobulins. When I look up on the mechanism of action, it still says unknown. So there's so much of what we're using in modern medicine that we are accepting as incredible life saving medicine that we think this is gold standard and we don't even know how it works.
