A short spoken excerpt from a YouTube video by Joy Kong, MD warning about potential side effects and invasiveness of autologous stem cell therapy. The speaker notes that harvesting (liposuction or bone drilling) is invasive and argues that activating a patient’s own stem cells depletes their finite supply because most activated cells die after acting (speaker estimates ~95–98% loss).
One thing I think is not discussed at all is, well, potential side effect, not to mention the invasiveness of the autologous method, either liposuction or drilling into a bone. It takes away your stem cells, right? It does deplete your own stem cell supply in a sense because once you activate and awaken those cells and you put it back into the body, they do have a finite lifespan. Just like the allogeneic source I put in your body. Most of them will fight your battles and die. Most of them don't survive and stay with you for life. Probably 95, 98% will be gone. Same with yours. Even though it's from you, you think it's going to stay with you. No. You just activated them. You woke them up right out of hibernation. Now they go to battle for you and then they will die. Now you have less stem cell supply, so that's something to keep in mind.
