Short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video by Joy Kong, MD discussing adverse immune reactions associated with expanded stem cell therapies. The speaker contrasts expanded (cultured) adult stem cells — which they suggest can provoke cytokine storms, fevers, chills, rejection and inflammatory signals — with unexpanded, unmanipulated cells used at their clinic, which they report have not caused such reactions.
Tony Robbins talked about it, how he had a cytokine storm and he thinks that's normal for stem cell therapy. Well, if you use stem cells that have been expanded, that could be a common occurrence. But at our clinic, using cells that are completely unexpanded and unmanipulated, I have never seen cytokine storm and I don't see fevers and chills. So I think this probably illustrates what can happen when you use an adult source cells, when they are more differentiated, growing more of its own characteristics, and then also when you start to expand them, that further changes cells and that further promotes the possibility of rejection and inflammatory signals.
