Join the world's leading stem cell expert to reverse aging with cutting-edge longevity medicine and comprehensive lifestyle optimization strategies. Learn more at: drjoykong.com. Explore beyond the popular diet and fitness obsessions, to witness the explosion of a new type of medicine that focuses on root causes and health optimization. Dr. Joy Kong welcomes leading health and medical experts and dispenses crisp and informative episodes to get you up to speed on exciting emerging health practices.Dr. Joy Kong is a triple board-certified physician in the fields of psychiatry, addiction medicine, and anti-aging & regenerative medicine. Growing up in Beijing, China, Dr. Kong was imbued with a more holistic view of the body, and it was such holistic approach that helped save her mother’s life at age 43. She sees the human body as a complex and interconnected web, where every organ impacts every other organ, via countless chemical interactions and energetic exchanges. Dr. Kong brings together her love of science and respect for ancient wisdom in her clinical practice. She incorporates stem cell therapy, peptide therapy, ketamine therapy, and other innovative modalities to address both the body and the mind. She was named Empowered Woman of the Year in 2019 and Stem Cell Doctor of the Decade in 2021. Her candid memoir “Tiger of Beijing,” was named “Book of the Year” in 2020.
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Stem Cells for Joint Pain, Addiction, and a Hair Loss No One Could Treat | #197
Épisode 197
jeudi 27 août 2026 • Durée 59:21
Why do kids almost never get osteoarthritis, despite putting their joints through far more than any adult does? I joined entrepreneur Mike Cormier on his show to unpack that question, along with stem cells for addiction, brain trauma, and hair loss with no clear treatment path.
I explain how mesenchymal stem cells, sourced from fat, bone marrow, or umbilical cord tissue, travel through the bloodstream to support tissue repair and immune function when delivered by IV. Osteoarthritis reflects a decline in the body's regenerative capacity, not simple wear and tear. I cover an animal study showing a 70 to 80% reduction in relapse behavior among alcohol dependent rats treated with stem cells, and an ongoing clinical study using SPECT imaging to evaluate traumatic brain injury. I also detail my personal peptide protocol: BPC-157, Tesamorelin, Ipamorelin, CJC-1295, Epitalon, microdosed GLP-1, and GHK-Cu for skin structure.
Mike traces his hair loss to years of business related stress, describing patches spreading across his scalp and eyebrows and the recovery protocol he built himself: PRP, BPC-157, red light therapy, and microneedling. I share a parallel case from my clinic, where IV stem cells regrew a physician's hair after a service related infection.
It's a wide ranging look at how regenerative medicine adapts to what the body actually needs, whether that's a joint, a damaged brain, or hair that wouldn't grow back.
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.
Stem Cells and Peptides 101: Questions Everyone Actually Asks Me | #196
Épisode 196
jeudi 20 août 2026 • Durée 01:02:32
Two orthopedic surgeons told a 69 year old patient there was no other option left for his knees. He tried something else first, and ten years later he's still walking four miles a day.
Dr. Joy Kong is a triple board certified physician specializing in regenerative and anti-aging medicine, and the founder of Chara Health in Los Angeles. In this live audience Q&A, she explains why she uses non-expanded, umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stem cells instead of autologous or bone marrow sources, how IV delivery interacts with the immune system through the spleen, and why exosome products claiming trillions of particles per dose are not biologically realistic. She walks through real patient outcomes, including a 69 year old who avoided bilateral knee replacement, a patient whose hemoglobin A1C improved after years of failed interventions, and a peripheral neuropathy patient who regained the ability to write after three treatment sessions.
She also gets into the questions people ask most: how many sessions it actually takes to see results, what she's seen go wrong in over 40 treatments on herself, and how to spot inflated claims from clinics that don't test their products the way she does.
If you've ever wondered whether a second opinion is worth chasing down, or what actually happens inside your body after a stem cell infusion, this one covers more ground than most.
Dr. Joy talks about:
00:00 Why some patients feel change in days
05:19 The three pillars of stem cell therapy
08:31 Why the FDA restricts stem cell language
13:31 The five Ps of regenerative medicine
14:23 Why umbilical cord cells beat your own
20:54 Why expanded cells trigger FDA drug rules
22:11 How delivery route decides where cells go
26:53 The peptides in every stem cell protocol
FDA Approval Won't Make Stem Cell Therapy Cheaper | #195
Épisode 195
jeudi 13 août 2026 • Durée 05:09
If you're holding off on stem cell therapy because you're waiting for FDA approval to bring the price down, this is the reality check you need.
Dr. Joy Kong, a triple board certified physician and stem cell specialist at Chara Health, breaks down what FDA approved stem cell products actually cost. Cord blood transplants like Omidacel and AlloCord run $450,000 to $1.2 million. Ryoncil, used for pediatric graft versus host disease, totals $1.55 million. By comparison, current stem cell therapy provided as a legal tissue transplant, the same model used in organ transplants, costs $7,000 to $25,000 per infusion.
Dr. Joy explains why that gap exists, and what it means if you're counting on insurance to make this treatment affordable.
✨ Learn more about how to live a long and pain-free life: https://joykongmd.com/
The Real Cause of Sugar Cravings, and the Compound That Stops Them | #194
Épisode 194
jeudi 6 août 2026 • Durée 54:29
Why does eating sugar sometimes leave you more exhausted than before you ate it? Metabolic health researcher Chris Mearns sits down to explain the science behind fructose, cellular energy, and the compound that changed his own relationship with cravings.
Chris Mearns is a metabolic health researcher and founder of LIV3 Health, focused on how fructose metabolism affects cellular energy production. He explains how the enzyme fructokinase converts dietary fructose into uric acid, degrading ATP and shifting cells into a defensive, energy-conserving state linked to fatigue, fat storage, and chronic cravings. The conversation covers how this same mechanism connects to gout, a disease historically limited to those with access to sugar and alcohol, and why calorie restriction or GLP-1 medications often fail to address the underlying signal. Chris also discusses luteolin, a flavonoid identified as a fructokinase inhibitor, the personal experiment that led him to develop it into a supplement called Sugar Shield, and emerging research linking fructokinase inhibition to cognitive decline prevention.
The conversation also covers why fruit affects the body differently than refined sugar, and what a realistic timeline looks like once the underlying signal is actually addressed.
It's a practical look at why willpower alone rarely fixes chronic cravings, and what the research says might work instead.
13:03 Bears, torpor, and ancient fructose survival
This AI Urine Test Detects 50 Diseases and Reads What Genetic Tests Miss | #193
Épisode 194
jeudi 30 juillet 2026 • Durée 38:11
What if a single urine sample could screen for 50 diseases before you ever felt sick? Dejan Nenov, co-founder of AI diagnostics company Luventix, joins Dr. Joy Kong to explain how.
Dejan Nenov has spent nearly a decade navigating FDA processes and clinical trials, and also founded Panaton, a healthcare IT company connecting hospitals, labs, and clinics across the US. Luventix uses machine learning to analyze 38,250 raw chemical data points in a single urine sample, identifying disease patterns without isolating a specific biomarker first. Its ongoing IRB-approved study covers roughly 1,250 patients across colorectal cancer, Crohn's, celiac disease, and SIBO. The same model can predict which patients will respond to a given treatment, a tool called companion diagnostics, and could eventually screen for dozens to hundreds of conditions from one low-cost sample. Dejan and Dr. Joy also cover the regulatory pathway for AI diagnostics, including the FDA's Lab Developed Test framework, and how genetics and metabolomics offer two different, complementary pictures of health.
The conversation also covers a personal case: a close friend's daughter whose rare condition took years and specialists across ten states to diagnose, and why Dejan believes AI could have caught it sooner.
Dr. Joy and Dejan close with what a fully AI-run hospital already looks like in China, and Dejan's vision for an at-home test, like a pregnancy test, that catches disease three to eighteen months before symptoms start.
Dejan talks about:
00:00 How a dog's nose inspired Luventix
03:58 A dog's nose as a gas chromatograph
04:22 Training AI to classify disease
05:25 The 450-patient GI cancer trial
06:54 Urine reflects the body's metabolic state
08:07 Skipping biomarkers, reading raw data patterns
11:00 38,250 data points per urine sample
NAD and Sermorelin for Mental Clarity, Recovery, and Anti-Aging | #192
Épisode 192
jeudi 23 juillet 2026 • Durée 43:08
Anti-aging protocols usually come from a doctor's office. This one comes from a self-made entrepreneur who swears by weekly NAD and Sermorelin injections instead.
Mara Dorne is a self-made entrepreneur who built her sales organization from scratch after losing everything in the 2008 financial crisis, eventually becoming the second person in her company's history to surpass a billion dollars in career sales. She describes the realization that turned her first year in sales from six months of no income into six figures, her approach to leading over 1,500 agents through servant leadership, and her biohacking routine, which includes weekly NAD injections for mental clarity, Sermorelin paired with resistance training, glutathione, microneedling, and cryotherapy. She also discusses treating anxiety as a functional trait rather than a limitation, and her view that actively working against aging is a legitimate choice, not vanity.
She and Dr. Joy Kong, the Stem Cell Queen, also get into diversifying a male-dominated industry and staying steady when gossip and criticism show up.
It's a conversation about resilience, biology, and refusing to accept defaults, in your bank account, your industry, or your own aging.
✨ Check out my stem cell skincare line, CharaOmni: https://www.charaomni.com/
Mara talks about:
00:44 Self-made millionaire and BILF Pod host
01:12 From $92K a year to $1B in sales
04:02 Losing everything in the 2008 crash
08:28 The self-accountability moment that changed everything
11:12 Building a team, banned from LA Fitness
19:42 Why work-life balance is a myth
26:12 Anxiety as a lifelong superpower
30:26 Her non-negotiable 4:30am gym routine
From Being Beaten as a Child to Becoming the Stem Cell Queen | #191
Épisode 191
jeudi 16 juillet 2026 • Durée 35:06
At six years old, I was beaten for refusing to say I was wrong. I did not know it then, but that moment would shape almost everything that came after, including the woman who would eventually found Chara Health.
I am a triple board-certified physician, founder of Chara Health, and an expert in stem cell therapy, regenerative medicine, and anti-aging treatment. This episode marks the first time I share my personal history on my own podcast: childhood abuse in China, a decade practicing psychiatry before shifting to anti-aging medicine, the ego collapse I experienced in medical school, and my decision to leave China in the early 1990s with no money, no connections, and a rejected visa. I also describe my mother's multiple myeloma diagnosis at age 43, a prognosis of only a few years, and a 32-year remission she achieved through Chinese medicine and daily aerobics after leaving chemotherapy. The episode closes with my reflection on what I believe humanity most needs to heal from.
This is a more personal side of my story than I usually share here, including how I found faith after growing up an atheist in Communist China, and the identity I had to let go of in order to become who I am today.
If any part of my story helps you see your own a little differently, then sharing it was worth it.
I talk about:
00:00 The Beating That Built Me
05:00 Why My Success Felt Empty
08:00 Med School Shattered My Ego
11:00 Discovering My True Purpose
13:00 I Said There's No God
18:00 My Memoir, Tiger Of Beijing
23:00 Mom Called Me Social Garbage
27:00 I Married The Process
30:00 My Mother Survived Cancer Naturally
32:00 What We Need Healing From
GLP-1s Are Making Women Gain the Weight Right Back. Here's What Actually Works | #190
Épisode 190
jeudi 9 juillet 2026 • Durée 45:50
A parasite cleanse gone wrong once left Elizabeth Aylor bleeding seventeen times a day, and it took her thirty years to build the gut healing framework she now teaches thousands of women. The holistic nutritionist, GAPS practitioner, and functional diagnostic nutrition specialist joins me to break down why so many gut protocols make people sicker instead of better.
Elizabeth Aylor is a holistic nutritionist, GAPS practitioner, and certified functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner who has worked with over 3,000 women on chronic gut issues. She explains why generic probiotics and greens powders can worsen SIBO and histamine issues, and why she relies on GI-MAP stool testing and full thyroid panels instead of guessing. She describes how biofilms shield parasites, yeast, and bacteria like H. pylori and Klebsiella from treatment, and why aggressive kill protocols without addressing nutrition and the nervous system can cause serious harm. She also covers why elimination diets like carnivore and low FODMAP should not extend past six to eight weeks, why GLP-1 medications often lead to weight regain without strength training and proper nutrition, and how she uses DUTCH testing to address insulin resistance and perimenopausal weight loss resistance.
Elizabeth also shares her own thirty-year health history, from childhood eczema and asthma to an eating disorder that dropped her to ninety pounds, and the extreme fruitarian and carnivore diets that nearly destroyed her gut before she built her own ninety-day recovery protocol.
If you've ever done everything right and still can't fix your gut or lose the weight, this conversation walks through what most protocols miss, and what actually works instead.
Elizabeth talks about:
4:00 Childhood Eczema, Asthma, and Anxiety
6:00 Eating Disorder and Fruitarian Dieting
9:00 150 Colonics, a Parasite Diagnosis
10:00 Her Own 90-Day Gut Protocol
12:00 Mold Toxicity, Thyroid Misdiagnosis
18:00 Why Probiotics and Greens Powders Backfire
The Real Risks and Costs of IV Stem Cell Therapy, From 10 Years in the Field | #189
Épisode 189
jeudi 2 juillet 2026 • Durée 24:10
Stem cell clinics around the world are charging anywhere from $3,000 to $50,000 for a single IV treatment, and the price tag tells you almost nothing about whether it actually works.
Dr. Joy Kong, a triple board-certified physician and founder of Chara Health and the American Academy of Integrative Cell Therapy, breaks down the regulatory and clinical reality behind IV stem cell therapy. She covers FDA homologous-use rules, the narrow scope of current FDA approval for pediatric graft-versus-host disease, and why most clinical use is legal off-label practice. She explains the difference between mesenchymal stem cells and other cell lineages, why dead or non-viable cells can still deliver benefits through exosomes and growth factors, and the contamination risks tied to improper handling, including a real FDA recall linked to E. coli infections. She also outlines documented rejuvenation effects in patients, including improvements in hair, skin, energy, and libido, and a notable animal study in which stem cell treatment reversed aging markers in brain and muscle tissue.
Known in the field as the Stem Cell Queen, she also tackles the questions patients are afraid to ask: why doctors are often skeptical even when evidence exists, what separates a budget clinic from a fully regulated one, and how price actually correlates, or doesn't, with safety.
If you've ever wondered whether stem cell therapy is worth the cost, or whether your doctor's hesitation is really about the science, this episode lays out exactly where the evidence stands today.
Dr. Joy talks about:
01:49 Stem cell therapy's shift to mainstream longevity medicine
02:29 The longevity boom and today's biohacking tools
03:46 The different types of stem cells and what they do
05:03 What's FDA approved in stem cell therapy
06:58 Why doctors dismiss the stem cell evidence
07:49 Anti-inflammatory effects of IV mesenchymal stem cells
Stem Cell Therapy: The Cost, the Results, and What Modern Medicine Misses | #188
Épisode 188
jeudi 25 juin 2026 • Durée 42:34
Stem cell therapy is producing patient outcomes that conventional medicine does not yet have a clean framework for, and the gap between what is possible and what most clinicians can explain keeps getting wider.
Dr. Joy Kong is a triple board-certified physician specializing in regenerative medicine, anti-aging, and longevity, and the founder of Chara Health in Los Angeles. She explains how mesenchymal stem cells from umbilical cord tissue are used to treat autoimmune conditions, musculoskeletal injuries, neurological disorders, end-stage organ failure, and chronic pain. She walks through delivery methods including IV infusion, direct injection, laser-attracted cell targeting, and intranasal exosomes that cross the blood-brain barrier. She covers cost ranges of $8,500 to $18,000 per IV treatment, frequency protocols ranging from every two months for biohackers to once a year for preventative use, and animal study data showing 30 percent lifespan extension along with reversal of senescent cell markers. She also discusses patient cases including reversal of late-stage cirrhosis after a single low-dose IV and chronic pain reduction of over 90 percent.
Adam Ficsor is the host of the Longevity World Cup, a new sport where athletes compete to reverse their biological age. He asks the questions most clinicians will not give a straight answer to, from cell sourcing to pricing to what to expect from a real treatment protocol.
Some of the cases Dr. Joy shares are ones she has been thinking about for years. They raise a bigger question about how much of what conventional medicine treats as terminal is actually a limit of the tools we have been using.
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.
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.
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.
13:22 Metabolomics plus genetics, a fuller picture
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.
32:36 Why she calls herself a biohacker
34:10 Peptides, microneedling, and cold therapy
35:20 NAD, glutathione, and semaglutide injections
40:36 Legacy, stagnation, and refusing to slow down
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.
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.
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.
08:49 Reversed aging in animal studies
13:04 The real cost of IV stem cell therapy
13:56 Contamination, dead cells, and rejection risks
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.
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.
