Joy Kong, MD, pushes back on Tony Robbins' claims about cytokine storms in stem cell treatments. She says her patients rarely experience them. Most severe reactions come from immune rejection or stress during cell culture, while mild symptoms like fever get mislabeled as cytokine storms.
What Tony Robbins was talking about. You should expect some kind of cytokine storm. That's part of the treatment. I'm sorry, that should not be part of what you expect, because none of my patients coming to my clinic are experiencing cytokine storm. This is generated by tissue rejection, by immune rejection. When you put the cells in the tissue culture and put it into the incubator, there's already stress for these cells. So there could be changes happening already in their genetic expression. So it's not a perfect division that one cell would divide into two identical copies. They actually tend to have a asymmetrical division. And those surface markers, the rejection can cause this severe reaction that people get. Fevers, chills, malaise, sniffling. And that's some people mislabel it, calling it the cytokine storm. I guess cytokine is involved, but it's not exactly what the typical cytokine storm that we're talking about.
