Joy Kong, MD explains why the US leads in stem cell research, but also covers the real obstacles providers face: Google, Instagram, and Facebook restrict how they advertise, and many fear FDA or medical board retaliation for promoting these treatments.
We have the most amount of research far ahead of any other country. The next to the US Is China conducting stem cell research. But we are still the leader. And as far as the number of providers, it's blowing up. It's just funny because we're all kind of not quite out in the open in the sense that we're advertising that we do stem cell therapy because guess what, certain entities won't let you advertise. Google, Instagram, Facebook, they basically said, oh, we don't approve. We think that this is part of miracle cure category, that. Never mind. These are not medical professionals. They haven't read all the research from around the world, but they're making medical decisions. They say, oh, these are miracle cures, so we can't let you advertise. So basically, doctors cannot advertise, so no one knows who's doing what. And then some doctors are scared of being targeted by the FDA or medical board and then they just won't mention it on their website.
