Dr. Joy Kong on the Power of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Well, welcome Dr. Kong.

Erica and I are really happy to have you on the show today and to pick your brain on many, many things.

But before we get into all of that, can you share with our audience a little bit about you and your personal background and how it's sort of led you into the world of regenerative medicine?

Yeah, I think it's definitely very relevant.

I think a big piece is the fact that I grew up in China.

So I spent my first 20 years in Beijing, China.

That's the book Tiger of Beijing.

I think my earliest kind of understanding about a whole culture, This array of ways of looking at the body.

So it's not just one way, which is the Western medicine way, which I love because I've always been a science nerd.

But what I saw when I was 13 years old was we were about to lose my mom because she was 43 years old.

She had multiple myeloma.

Everybody thought she was going to die within a few years.

And she was hospitalized for six months.

And she did all the Western treatments.

She was in the best condition.

tumor hospital in China, in Beijing.

And she was there for six months, but she saw her, you know, other patients, fellow patients come in, walk in and then carried out dead.

Um, she went through six rounds of chemotherapy, wasn't getting better.

So she decided to just leave, um, take the matter into her own hands, went to a Chinese medicine doctor and and was given this concoction of herbs so all she did was drinking the herbs morning and night and then did aerobics every morning and then within six months her all her markers were completely normal she went back to work and lived for another 32 incredible years so that was my this this first example of different ways of looking at the body and how we may be able to help the body heal.

And there's no one way that dominates.

That's the absolute truth.

So I've always known that Chinese medicine can be very powerful.

And of course, we use it every day in all kinds of ailments and they do work.

So when I came to the U.S. and wanting to study medicine, I always remember that there's a whole other way of looking at the body.

You know, don't forget.