Joy Kong, MD explains why stem cell therapy results vary so much between patients. You might not feel your stomach improve, but your body could be getting better in other ways. That gap between what you notice and what's actually happening is why some people think the treatment failed.
For one thing, that there's no guarantee of results. Sometimes patient may come in, let's say I have stomach issues. But that particular thing, you may not notice enough benefit from that one thing, but doesn't mean the cells are not going all around your body, promoting repair in all these other tissues, because it's not infrequent. Actually happens quite a bit. We look at all the things that's going on in the body, what patients have been having difficulties with, having issues with in all these different areas of. So a lot of times when we go back a month or two after the treatment, we ask the patient, are you still experiencing this? What about this? What about this? And the patient will be like, no, I don't have that. I don't have that. But when you ask them, do you think stem cells have helped you? They said, no, I don't think so. Because whatever they were focusing on, that one thing may not have improved to a point that they can see, and so they think stem cell therapy doesn't work.
