Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

The Benefits of Using Younger Stem Cells

5 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short segment from a YouTube video by Joy Kong, MD, arguing that younger stem cells promote regeneration primarily by sending instructive signals that teach the body to heal; in diseased or aged tissues these signals restore effective healing. The speaker also states younger cells are less likely to provoke immune reactions and therefore do not need tight matching.

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98% of what we're doing with these cells is to promote this regeneration with these signals. The signals are teaching your body. In a diseased or confused, you know, aging state, your body doesn't know how to heal as well. And these young cells is going to instruct your body and get it to a place where healing is effective. So does it need to be matched well, if you use younger cells? No. What we've seen is that these cells do not promote the kind of immune reaction as older cells.