MUSE cells are one of the most exciting breakthroughs in regenerative medicine — and most people have never heard of them.

Hidden inside your own tissue is a rare, elite subpopulation of stem cells that can find injury, eat damaged cells, and become them. Discovered in 2010 by Dr. Marie Dezawa at Tohoku University in Japan, they are now one of the most talked-about developments in regenerative medicine. And for good reason.

Dr. Joy Kong, the Stem Cell Queen, breaks down the science from the ground up: why conventional stem cell sources like bone marrow and fat-derived cells have real limitations, what makes umbilical cord cells a significant upgrade, and why MUSE cells represent something fundamentally different. These cells home into damaged tissue like a guided missile using the S1P pathway, eat the damaged cells, absorb their DNA fragments, and transform into the exact cell type that needs replacing. They carry zero tumor risk, require no donor matching, and get stronger the harsher the environment they're placed in. Dr. Joy also shares her own personal experience using MUSE cells for a chronic hip issue — and the result that surprised even her.

This episode covers the full history of stem cell therapy, the biological mechanisms that make MUSE cells unique, the Goldilocks ratio for optimal treatment, what clinical use looks like today, and why this technology — though newer — carries extraordinary promise for the future of regenerative medicine.

If you are in your 50s or 60s and wondering why your body isn't healing the way it used to, MUSE cell therapy may be the answer.

🧬 Contact Chara Health at 818-356-8232 or email [email protected] to get started.

Dr. Joy talks about:

00:00:53 MUSE Cells: Why Everyone Is Talking About Them

00:03:39 How Your Stem Cells Age With You

00:05:02 Aging Stem Cells and Cancer Detection

00:05:32 Umbilical Cord Cells: Younger Than a Newborn

00:09:52 What MUSE Cells Are and How They Were Found

00:11:04 The S1P Pathway: Precision Homing

00:12:03 How MUSE Cells Eat Damaged Cells and Become Them

00:12:43 Zero Tumor Risk and the Built-In Genetic Brake

00:14:08 Immune Privilege and Zero Rejection

00:15:28 Dr. Joy's Personal MUSE Cell Result

Additional Resources

✨ Learn more about stem cell therapy case studies at the American Academy of Integrated Cell Therapy: https://aaict.org 

✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: https://joykongmd.com/ 

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About Dr. Joy Kong

Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.

Every day starts with the same mind. Most people never stop to ask what shape it's in before the day takes it.

Marc Champagne is a mental fitness strategist, bestselling author of Personal Socrates, and host of the Behind the Human podcast. He spent over a decade interviewing high performers, longevity leaders, and world-class thinkers on the practices that keep their minds clear under pressure. After building a daily journaling practice during his corporate sales career, he founded Keio, a digital product that brought guided journaling to nearly 90 million people in its first two years. His work today bridges longevity and mental performance, with Fortune 500 companies including Google and LinkedIn.

In this episode, Champagne defines mental fitness as anything that trains your mind to work for you instead of against you, and explains why most people running 12 to 14 hour days at high cognitive intensity with zero recovery are experiencing burnout, not stress. He covers the one-minute morning check-in that identifies the fuel source behind stress, the question "what am I pretending not to know" that surfaces what people have been avoiding for years, and why you trust the plan over the mind during downward spirals. Dr. Joy shares her own recovery stack, including infrared sauna, ShiftWave chair, and the day the heat overrode an emotional state she walked in with.

For high performers, health-literate adults navigating chronic stress, and anyone who wants to understand what recovery actually looks like before burnout arrives.

The mind is the thing that executes everything else. It deserves a plan.

Marc talks about:

00:00 What Is Mental Fitness, Really?

01:30 How a 10-Minute Morning Habit Changed Everything

05:00 Build a 90-Day Plan for Your Mind

09:00 Why Most People Quit Their Mental Practices

12:30 Sleep Is the Number One Mental Pillar

15:00 The Key to Stress? Trust the Plan

18:00 How to Identify What's Fueling Your Stress

22:50 One Question to Ask When Your Mind Is Clear

27:00 Why Self-Awareness Can Feel Worse Before Better

32:00 Approach Mental Fitness Like Curiosity, Not Work

Additional Resources:

✨ Follow Marc Champagne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mchampagne/ 

✨ Visit Marc’s website: https://mchampagne.com 

✨ Listen to Behind the Human:  https://open.spotify.com/show/6H3VNU8UiKPxzyM82KXKiT?si=b1a12ec9b8234732 

✨ Get Marc’s book, Personal Socrates: https://baronfig.com/products/personal-socrates?pb=0 

Visit My Clinic: Chara Health

🌐 https://chara-health.com 

📍 9568 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 91311

📲 Call (818) 356-8232 or email [email protected] to make an appointment or go to https://www.joykongmd.com and fill out a contact form.

✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: https://joykongmd.com/ 

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.

Most psychiatric treatments for autism don't address what's actually happening underneath the diagnosis. They subdue. They don't repair.

In this episode, I sit down with Karen Thomas of Naturally Recovering Autism to break down what stem cell therapy can actually do for children on the spectrum.

Children with autism show impaired central nervous system circulation, active neuroinflammation on brain autopsy, and higher rates of autoimmune patterns in their families. Mesenchymal stem cells, MSCs, address all three at once. They stimulate angiogenesis to restore blood flow and oxygen to the brain, suppress pathological immune responses, reduce neuroinflammation, and secrete factors that activate the body's own local stem cells. I share a clinical case of a seven-year-old who went from diaper-bound and non-verbal to verbal, continent, and climbing stairs after a single IV treatment with birth-tissue-derived cells. We also get into why not all MSCs are created equal, why 200 million expanded cells overseas often underperform 20 million original cells, what the FDA's Section 361 actually means, and how I sourced and built the cell product used in my clinic through Chara Biologics.

We close on why no stem cell protocol works in isolation. Diet, detox, nutrient status, and exercise are part of the protocol, not optional add-ons.

If your child is on the spectrum, or you work with families who are, this is the mechanism and sourcing breakdown most parents never get.

Joy talks about:

00:00 What stem cell therapy actually is

05:37 The three mechanisms underlying autism

08:46 How MSCs restore oxygen to the brain

10:54 From non-verbal and diaper-bound to talking and walking stairs

16:25 Why your own bone marrow cells may not be the answer

19:58 Are all MSCs created equal

21:55 FDA Section 361 and what's legal in the US

23:34 Why 200 million expanded cells underperform 20 million original

27:39 Inside the sourcing and 89-question donor screening

43:42 Why diet and detox decide whether stem cells work

Additional Resources

✨ Listen to Naturally Recovering Autism with Karen Thomas: https://naturallyrecoveringautism.com/ 

✨ Karen's free four-stage webinar for parents: https://naturallyrecoveringautism.com/freeworkshop 

Visit My Clinic: 

🌐 Chara Health https://chara-health.com 

📍 9568 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 91311

📲 Call (818) 356-8232 or email [email protected] to make an appointment or go to https://www.joykongmd.com and fill out a contact form.

✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: https://joykongmd.com/ 

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.

What if aging isn't about time, but about the cells your body can no longer replace?

Dr. Joy Kong, triple board-certified physician and founder of Chara Health in Los Angeles, sits down with Luke Storey to break down what regenerative medicine actually does inside the body. Dr. Joy explains how umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells work through five core pathways: anti-inflammatory effects, immune modulation, antifibrotic action, antimicrobial properties, and angiogenesis. She covers mitochondrial transfer, where new cells pass fresh mitochondria into aging cells through a microtubular bridge, and senescent cell clearance, the same process that reversed aging in published mouse studies. Dr. Joy also addresses why minimally manipulated birth tissue cells used in the US can be safer than the cultured, expanded cells used overseas, why "more cells" is not better, and how stem cell therapy supports DNA repair through micro-RNA signaling.

The conversation also covers the cesarean delivery and screening process behind ethical sourcing, the science of micro-chimerism, and why every organ inside the body ages alongside the skin you can see.

Dr. Joy then opens up about her own four-and-a-half-year IV stem cell protocol and the reversal she's measured since 43. The episode closes with a deeper conversation on ketamine therapy, gamma brainwaves, and the philosophical roots of integrative medicine.

Dr. Joy talks about:

00:00 Why we age and why stem cells are the answer

01:03 From Chinese medicine to UCLA psychiatry to regenerative medicine

03:12 Anti-aging philosophy: treating disease before symptoms appear

05:36 How umbilical cord stem cells are collected and screened

11:12 Why your immune system accepts another person's stem cells

13:08 The Y-chromosome study that changes how we think about cell transfer

16:18 Bone marrow vs. fat vs. birth tissue stem cell sources

19:30 How stem cells trigger cancer cell death through Trail ligand

25:00 Anti-inflammatory, immune-modulatory, and anti-fibrotic effects explained

28:28 Killing senescent cells to clear the path for regeneration

30:54 Mitochondria transfer: getting a fresh cellular battery

39:00 Ketamine, gamma waves, and the science of expanded consciousness

Additional Resources:

✨ Get My Famous Skin Cream CharaOmni: https://www.charaomni.com/ 

✨ Subscribe to Luke Storey on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LukeStorey 

Visit My Clinic:

Chara Health 🌐 https://chara-health.com 

📍 9568 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 91311

📲 Call (818) 356-8232 or email [email protected] to make an appointment or go to https://www.joykongmd.com and fill out a contact form.

✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: https://joykongmd.com/ 

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.

He was an elite marathoner running 150 miles a week. A few years later, his SPECT brain scan looked comparable to 80-year-old patients with dementia. He was 22.

Cameron George is the founder of Tru Kava and a member of the Kava Coalition. He has worked with physicians and researchers to modernize kava as a functional beverage category and has spent more than a decade studying plant pharmacology, GABA modulation, and nervous system recovery. In this conversation, Cameron explains the biochemical credit card model of synthetic drug dependency, why acetaldehyde — not ethanol — drives the effects of alcohol, and how traditional kava binds to GABA-A receptors without producing the depletion and tolerance seen with benzodiazepines. He describes how the kavalactone entourage effect enables reverse tolerance, the mechanism that allowed him to taper off benzodiazepines in under two months. Listeners learn the measurable impact of casual alcohol use on HRV and sleep architecture, the difference between real kava and US-market extracts, and the practical applications of kava for stress, focus, sleep, and alcohol-free social life.

Cameron also shares his own collapse: the high-dose Adderall and benzodiazepines that nearly destroyed his nervous system, the years of multiple chemical sensitivity that followed, and the serendipitous phone call from a friend in Vanuatu that changed the trajectory of his recovery.

This conversation is for anyone questioning the role alcohol plays in their performance, anyone who's been handed a prescription without answers, and anyone looking for a credible path back to a regulated nervous system.

Cameron talks about:

00:00 Why alcohol is a metabolic poison and acetaldehyde causes the buzz

09:11 Biochemical credit cards: how synthetic substances drain your neurochemistry

20:40 The Adderall and benzodiazepine prescription that broke his nervous system

22:16 A SPECT brain scan comparable to 80-year-old dementia patients

29:30 Autoimmune collapse, 10 grand mal seizures a day, and reacting to water

31:33 The Vanuatu phone call that introduced him to traditional kava

35:28 How kavalactones modulate GABA-A receptors

37:10 Reverse tolerance: why kava heals the system instead of depleting it

41:46 What hyper-sobriety, focus, and the kava afterglow feel like

44:00 Why kava hepatotoxicity claims were debunked in 2014

46:30 Why traditional preparation beats kava extracts

51:55 The 200 strains of kava and the vision to replace coffee culture

Additional Resources

✨ Follow Cameron George on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cameron.george_/ 

✨ Learn more about Tru Kava: https://trukava.com 

✨ Connect with Cameron George on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-george-0311aa185/ 

✨ Follow Tru Kava on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trukava/ 

Visit My Clinic: Chara Health

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📍 9568 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 91311

📲 Call (818) 356-8232 or email [email protected] to make an appointment or go to https://www.joykongmd.com and fill out a contact form.

✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: https://joykongmd.com/ 

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.

What if the knee replacement your surgeon insists on isn't actually your only option?

A 12-year study followed 30 patients with osteonecrosis in both knees. One knee got replaced, the other got umbilical cord–derived stem cells. By the end, six replacement knees needed revision surgery. Only one stem cell knee ever needed replacement.

Dr. Joy Kong is a triple board-certified physician known as the Stem Cell Queen, and at her Los Angeles clinic Chara Health she treats joint osteoarthritis using birth tissue–derived mesenchymal stem cells from donated umbilical cord and placental tissue from healthy live births. Her dual-angle protocol combines intra-articular injection with intravenous delivery — the outer third of cartilage is fed by blood supply while the inner two-thirds is fed by synovial fluid, so treating both routes produces a synergistic effect single injections cannot match. She walks through the anti-inflammatory phase, the tissue rebuilding phase, the critical four-to-six-week fragility window, and the comparative study showing dramatically lower revision rates for stem cell–treated knees.

If you've been told joint replacement is your only option, this episode may change how you think about what your body can still heal.

Dr. Joy talks about:

00:00 What to expect from stem cell therapy for joint pain

00:27 How umbilical cord stem cells regenerate joints

01:25 Birth tissue vs. fetal cells — clearing the confusion

02:18 Why dual-angle treatment outperforms single injections

03:09 What recovery actually looks like

04:13 The 4–6 week fragility window most patients underestimate

05:27 The 12-year study that changed how I think about knee replacement

Additional Resources

Visit My Clinic: 

Chara Health 🌐 chara-health.com 

📍 9568 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 91311 

📲 Call (818) 356-8232 or email [email protected] to make an appointment or go to joykongmd.com and fill out a contact form.

✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: joykongmd.com 

✨ Follow me on Facebook: facebook.com/stemcelldrjoy 

✨ Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/dr_joy_kong 

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.

She wasn't depressed. She was manic. And her doctor put her on antidepressants anyway.

Alessandra Torresani — actress (Caprica, The Big Bang Theory, American Horror Story) and NAMI ambassador — spent over a decade misdiagnosed before learning she had Bipolar I Disorder. In this episode, she joins me to unpack what that decade cost her, how she got stable, and what she wishes every patient knew before walking into a psychiatrist's office.

Alessandra brings firsthand experience managing Bipolar I Disorder, including more than three years off all psychiatric medication through pregnancy and breastfeeding. Drawing on my 11 years of clinical psychiatry before moving into regenerative medicine, we cover antidepressant-induced mania and its link to suicidal ideation, why bipolar disorder is routinely misdiagnosed as ADHD, and the symptom-tracking method that shortens the path to an accurate diagnosis. Alessandra walks through the non-pharmaceutical tools that kept her stable through pregnancy: transcendental meditation, breathwork, hypnobirthing, menstrual cycle tracking, clean nutrition, and ballet. I share emerging research on stem cell therapy for alcohol addiction, including animal studies showing up to 80% reduction in drinking behavior, along with how GLP-1 medications and NAD IV infusions are being used to reduce cravings and ease opiate withdrawal.

We also get into the overprescription of stimulants like Adderall in young children, and why ruling out lifestyle factors — sleep, nutrition, screen time — should come before a prescription pad.

And Alessandra shares why, despite being told speaking openly about her diagnosis would cost her her career, she refused to stay quiet.

We talk about:

• 00:00 Misdiagnosed with bipolar her whole life

• 03:06 The myth that bipolar equals creativity

• 04:30 Hiding a bipolar diagnosis in Hollywood

• 06:32 Early childhood anxiety and perfectionism at age 5

• 08:00 Why bipolar disorder takes 10–12 years to diagnose

• 15:39 Antidepressant-induced mania and suicidal ideation

• 17:24 Identifying bipolar I disorder in adulthood

• 19:42 Managing bipolar without medication during pregnancy

• 34:26 Tracking symptoms before starting psychiatric medication

• 38:42 Stem cell therapy reduces alcohol cravings in studies

• 40:46 GLP-1s and NAD IV therapy for addiction recovery

• 43:52 NAMI resources for postpartum depression and anxiety

🔗 Additional Resources:

✨ Follow Alessandra on Instagram: instagram.com/alessandratorresani 

✨ Follow Alessandra on TikTok: tiktok.com/@iamalessandratorresani 

✨ Subscribe to Alessandra's YouTube: youtube.com/@Iamalessandratorresani 

✨ Listen to Emotional Support Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emotional-support-with-alessandra-torresani/id1476940278 

Visit My Clinic: 

Chara Health 🌐 chara-health.com 

📍 9568 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 91311 

📲 Call (818) 356-8232 or email [email protected] to make an appointment or go to joykongmd.com and fill out a contact form.

✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: joykongmd.com 

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.

He's not a doctor. He's not a researcher. And his path to becoming one of the most-watched voices in biohacking on YouTube didn't start in a lab or a gym.

Dylan Gemelli, known as the Wellness Revolutionary, spent years rebuilding his life before discovering that the same obsessive drive that once worked against him could be redirected into something extraordinary.

Dylan Gemelli is a self-educated biohacker with over a decade of hands-on experience in peptide therapy, SARMs research, and performance nutrition — a path he built from the ground up after serving time in prison. In this episode, he breaks down the "Glow Stack" — BPC-157, TB-500, GHK-Cu, and KPV — explaining how each compound targets tissue repair, skin regeneration, and inflammation reduction. He covers how to spot counterfeit COAs and white-labeled peptides in today's market, and why chronic stress — specifically elevated cortisol — undermines any optimization protocol you're running.

He also opens up about his complicated history with nutrition and the moment everything finally shifted.

Key Takeaways:

• 00:02:34 Who is Dylan Gemelli?
• 00:05:26 The prison sentence
• 00:07:18 The mom conversation
• 00:18:12 Discovering biohacking
• 00:25:18 Free health habits
• 00:27:14 Electrolytes and sodium-potassium
• 00:27:24 Creatine for everyone
• 00:36:00 SARMs explained
• 00:46:22 The Glow Stack
• 00:50:58 Overcoming fat fear
• 00:57:36 The vagus nerve
• 01:02:00 Mental health drives physical health

🔗 Additional Resources:

✨ Follow Dylan Gemelli on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dylangemelli/ 

✨ Follow Dylan Gemelli on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dylanchristianogemelli/ 

✨ Listen to The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: dylanjamele.com 

✨ Subscribe to Dylan's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DylanGemelliBiohacking 

✨ Follow Dylan Gemelli on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylangemelli/ 

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📍 9568 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 91311

📲 Call (818) 356-8232 or email [email protected] to make an appointment or go to https://www.joykongmd.com and fill out a contact form.

✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: https://joykongmd.com/ 

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.

The rate of autism in the U.S. has gone from 1 in 100 children to 1 in 36 in just 20 years.

I was trained as a psychiatrist. I watched these kids not improve for years. Then I discovered stem cell therapy — and everything changed.

Autism involves neuroinflammation, immune dysregulation, impaired blood flow to the brain, and mitochondrial dysfunction. Stem cells are uniquely positioned to address all of them.

I walk through a 2023 review of 11 clinical studies, 437 patients, and not a single serious adverse event across all trials.

And I share three cases from my own clinic that show what is possible when you stop managing the symptoms and start addressing the biology.

If you are a parent, a caregiver, or a clinician looking for answers beyond the standard toolbox, this episode is for you.

Key Takeaways:

• 00:00 The autism epidemic
• 01:18 Why Dr. Joy left psychiatry
• 02:46 The case that changed everything
• 05:12 Root causes of autism
• 12:52 Mitochondria transfer explained
• 14:22 Case Study 1: 7-year-old girl
• 20:36 Cord cells younger than a newborn
• 22:44 What 11 clinical studies show
• 33:30 Case Study 2: 15-year-old boy
• 39:10 Native vs. expanded cells
• 45:18 Case Study 3: Autism and Crohn's disease
• 48:14 First words in parents' native language

🔗 Additional Resources:

Visit My Clinic

Chara Health 🌐 https://chara-health.com

📍 9568 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 91311

📲 Call (818) 356-8232 or email [email protected] to make an appointment or go to https://www.joykongmd.com and fill out a contact form.

✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: https://joykongmd.com/

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.

What if the medical system wasn't designed to make you better — just to manage you?

A firefighter paramedic and a cardiologist both came to that same conclusion. And both walked away to build something better.

In this episode, I sit down with Sam Tejada — founder of Liqui Vita Wellness Centers and author of How to Win in Modern Wellness — and Dr. Christopher Davis, triple board-certified cardiologist and founder of Reveal Vitality and Longevity Institute. Together they share what they witnessed inside conventional medicine, why they left, and what they're doing instead.

We cover the real drivers of chronic disease, why most doctors are practicing 25 years behind the science, and how tools like IV therapy, peptides, mitochondrial support, and environmental toxin testing are changing lives that conventional medicine had given up on.

We also talk about an ALS patient who completely turned around in one week — and why Sam says the single most important thing you can do for your health is start measuring it.

Key Takeaways:

• 00:00 Introduction: Sam Tejada and Dr. Christopher Davis
• 04:00 90% of 911 calls and the broken system
• 07:00 How Sam discovered functional medicine
• 09:26 From interventional cardiology to integrative medicine
• 14:26 Why his colleagues called him crazy
• 18:00 How IV nutrient therapy changed everything
• 22:32 The origin story of Liqui Vita
• 28:48 Why most IV drips contain a known toxin
• 33:00 Building the American IV Association
• 38:04 NAD therapy: the debate and the side effects
• 45:52 The peptide Dr. Davis uses personally
• 46:26 ALS patient turns around in one week on SS-31
• 51:00 VO2 max: the best predictor of longevity
• 54:05 Stem cells and ejection fraction
• 01:01:50 You can't improve what you don't measure

🔗 Additional Resources:

✨ Learn more about Liqui Vita: https://www.liquivida.com/

✨ Learn more about Reveal Vitality: https://revealvitality.com

Visit My Clinic: 

Chara Health 🌐 https://chara-health.com

📍 9568 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 91311

📲 Call (818) 356-8232 or email [email protected] to make an appointment or go to https://www.joykongmd.com and fill out a contact form.

✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: https://joykongmd.com/

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✨ Follow Sam Tejada on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sammytejada/

✨ Follow Sam Tejada on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samtejada/

✨ Follow Dr. Christopher Davis on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cjdavismd/

✨ Follow Dr. Christopher Davis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherdavismd/

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Dr. Joy Kong is a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert. Her podcast is part of her mission to reduce suffering and elevate happiness. Join us every week for the latest holistic health insights that will help you live a long and pain-free life.