Joe Rogan - Stem Cell Therapy Cures Autism?

So what other autoimmune diseases do you think could be assisted by this? Well, we do a lot of MS, that's probably our number one indication. We just finished a clinical trial, prospective clinical trial. We submitted for publication. It should be coming out in the next month or so. And statistically, significantly, these patients improved dramatically. And as far as side effect profiles, it was highly minimal. I mean, you feel headaches and a few flu-like symptoms, things like that. How many people? This was with 20 people. And one of the individuals actually clinically is perfect, and all of his lesions went away. And we only did one treatment with these. Typically with MS, it's more refractory than rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis, usually after one treatment, people get a ton of benefit with MS. They usually see after two or three treatments that they really see the most benefit. And we only did one treatment in this trial. But one gentleman had three lesions in his brain. All three lesions completely disappeared. So MS is a big thing. Rheumatoid arthritis is a big thing. And I can tell you, there's stories in the – not stories, but people talking about their responses, and it's pretty incredible. There's one lady that – her husband was a – a PhD physicist. He carried on working just so she could afford – just so she could have insurance to afford the medications, which were around 100 grand a year, for her to get treated for rheumatoid arthritis. And she came down about – it'll be – it's a little over three years ago, November, and she hasn't been on any medication since. She actually started walking around the mall when she was in Panama. And then when she got home, she's completely pain-free, and she's been pain-free for three years. And her husband finally retired because he didn't care about having the insurance to pay for these very expensive drugs that she was taking. So MS, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus. We don't have a lupus protocol. There's a group in China that's published six really good papers on lupus. It's very, very effective in their trials. We haven't done it yet. And then autism, you know, it's not considered an autoimmune disease, but we have a trial – we just completed our autism trial with 33 enrollees with very good results. Many of those kids became not autistic after treatment. So that's confusing to me because you're talking about people that are young, right? Right. So why would it have such a benefit for them? Well, I wrote an article in 2007 about why these cells should be good for autism. And basically, it's the most downloaded article this journal's ever had. Something like 75,000 people have downloaded a scientific journal article, which really doesn't happen very often. But kids – people with autism have inflammatory things going on in their body. A lot of times in the gut, there are – at the end of the small intestine, there are these inflammatory nodules that look a lot like Crohn's disease, and they secrete this inflammation that then goes to the brain and inflames the white matter of the brain. The white matter of the brain swells, decreases the blood flow to the brain. All that's intertwined. And then just a few years ago, there was a study that came out, and this is what allowed us to go forward with our clinical trial. They found that there are these two inflammatory molecules that are MDC-NTARQ, and they perfectly correlate with the severity of symptoms of autism. And so we measured not only those two, but another 30-some biomarkers. We measured – we did quantitative EEGs. We did a lot of standardized scoring with a neurologist that read them before treatment, during treatment, after treatment. So I believe a lot of the problems with autism have stemmed from the inflammatory status, and these cells are definitely anti-inflammatory. Yeah, they've had some benefit with changing the diet and changing the gut biome of kids with autism, and they've made some benefits with that, which they believe is also connected to inflammation. Yeah, absolutely. If your immune system is freaking out every time you eat a piece of bread, and that immune system is throwing out molecules that are swelling your brain and inflaming your brain, then it makes complete sense. And I think in general, the people with autism that do the best are the ones that get that address before they come down. There are some other doctors that do functional medicine. They look at their diet. They look at – see if they have any heavy metals and that sort of thing. And the ones that just slam-dock do the best have been cleaned up before they come down.