Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1066 - Mel Gibson & Dr. Neil Riordan
Uploaded: 2018-01-18T01:31:31.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1066 - Mel Gibson & Dr. Neil Riordan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-01-18. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1066 - Mel Gibson & Dr. Neil Riordan

three two one and we're live gentlemen dr neil reardon am i saying that right
yes sir and mel
gibson how are you sir hey how you doing uh welcome aboard folks first of all
um thanks
for coming here really appreciate it very nice to meet you no it's cool to be
here nice to meet you
too so this uh you wanted to come in and talk about stem cells yeah so what is
what's your
experience been and what's what is uh what's this calling that you have here
well i was uh initially
it was for my dad who was you know he was 92 and uh not and he was doing all
the old man stuff you
know his hip was killing him and he was like uh he had he had multiple problems
i mean i won't get
into the whole litany of uh complaints but hey you know your engine starts
wearing out you got to
replace the carburetor and a few other things i took him to the mayo clinic
great place if i ever get
into serious trouble that's where i'm going and uh they were fantastic there
but they were able to say
oh you got to leave me here he'll be dead in 48 hours i'm like oh so they they
clocked every problem
that he had everything from you know the prostate to the to the hip to the
kidneys to the heart to the
you know the whole deal and um he uh um you know they they stabilized him they
said okay we'll do this
and we'll do this and they did some you know orthodox medical procedures all
allowed in this country
and uh they were great but uh you know i still had reservations about him
getting a hip replacement
because he was old and of course just the recovery from a traumatic surgery at
that age is like it's a
big deal and uh i thought oh what can i do my brother says why don't you look
into these adult stem
cells i'm like yeah you know i've heard things about this you know you grow uh
you grow a spare mouth
on your head you end up with an extra asshole or something but i was like okay
we'll look into it
so we did and of course a buddy of mine who was a who was a mayo doc he said
stay away from those
witch doctors down in panama he said it's like uh leprosy and banana boats and
three-legged dogs you
know i'm like can we call him and so uh so brad and i got on the phone to neil
and who else was it
yeah it's a dr pos our medical yeah it was the two of these guys and um so they're
talking highfalutin
terms medical all being medicos you know they sort of they know what a mesenchymal
stem cell or
mesenchymal how do you say it mesenchymal yeah mesenchymal you know and uh you
know cytokine
mesenchymal cytokines you know out of sight out of kind as far as i'm concerned
but it's like
they uh they give us the wristwatch show over the phone for about an hour and
the doctor's asking
him questions that i can't even think of so when we hang up i said now you know
translate what does
all that mean he was like he translated a few things he says you know it sounds
kind of interesting
pretty good you know and from being a naysayer he said let's call him back and
i think we called you
right back and we spent another hour on the phone and uh well to his credit uh
brad brad asked for
a bunch of literature and i sent him maybe 30 articles and most physicians
wouldn't even look at
it but it was all relevant to what hutt had and uh you know for the heart heart
problems and kidney
problems and and orthopedic problems and he read all the articles and he read
he read the upside the
downside and and and then then we had a to his credit then we had a a very
educated uh talk after
conversation yeah and which he and he was he was really you know by this time
informed and he he
just said to me well you know he's 92 he says what the hell are you got to lose
and i said no nothing
let's go so i'm up for it we asked him is he up for it he goes hell yeah
because he's you know they took
him into the hospital he was 92 and they said what medications are you on he
said i'm not on any and
they said you're 92 years old how do you account for not being on any
medications is this because i
stay away from doctors and hospitals and you know and he didn't have any
problems he started to have
have a rough trip well uh we took him down there and he got uh i think it was
like a double dose in the
hip so where did you have to go this is not legal in america is that what's
going on yeah uh right now
there's clinical trials going on in the u.s but it's not broadly available and
in panama they passed
the law in 2004 which allowed us allowed doctors actually to go down there to
be able to treat people
with using adult stem cells so the bill was actually designed to uh to prohibit
the use of embryonic stem
cells and in this at the in the same law they said it's okay to use adult stem
cells including those from
umbilical cord basically from ethical sources and so um in panama they they
gave us we have a license
from the ministry of health to manufacture and use those cells in addition to
doing clinical trials
there so it's it's one place on the planet where you can get uh really high
quality umbilical cord
the this type of cell there are two major kind of stem cells we only work with
one kind the mesenchymal
or we just call it msc it's a lot easier and um so anyway that's that's that's
that's how
i think we were actually we actually owned apartments in the same building in
panama never met each other
and we met we met through uh his brother finding us on the internet and there
you go and then they
brought him down to get treatment we were quite hesitant to to take him you
know because the last
thing you want is mel did mel gibson's dad to drop dead in your clinic and he
wasn't in great shape
you know so he wasn't in good shape at all but uh you know as i recall when he
got there he was in a
wheelchair and really wasn't talking a lot and things like that and yeah having
a pretty rough time and
and then uh so we after getting medical clearance for him to actually fly down
there and mel film down
there privately uh then we we did some ivs on him first in the clinic and then
to do the hip we need
to do that you said did some ivs what do you mean so we give the umbilical cord
these are these are
uh isolated from the the basically the the meat of the umbilical cord uh they're
isolated and they're
grown in our laboratory which is you know iso 9001 and and very high quality
and certified by the
ministry of health um the they're grown in the laboratory and they're certified
to be you know free
of everything and any kind of infectious disease and and uh yeah i went into
the clean rooms and they
make you put on like hats and gloves and you know you feel like all frankensteined
out and you walk into
these cold rooms and you're watching cells divide under the microscope it's
kind of miraculous really
to look at this stuff so intravenous stem cells right intravenous that's
correct and what what's the
benefit of intravenous stem cells like what does that do well the good thing is
that this this kind
of stem cell the mesenchymal stem cell they're found throughout your body and
they're the normally what
they do is they they modulate your immune system they decrease inflammation and
they stimulate regeneration so and the
the good thing about them is they tend to home to areas where there is
inflammation so intravenously
they do a lot of things uh and but they can home to areas of inflammation and
uh and they they really
reduce inflammation in the body because they up regulate part of your immune
system that that controls the
inflammatory process which i can talk more about later but um in his case you
know his kidneys were in
trouble his heart was in trouble and the cells they they don't unlike what we
used to think in the early
days they don't become anything these kind of this kind of stem cell does not
come become anything in
your body but it homes to areas of that need repair and it secretes things that
stimulates the repair
and decrease the inflammation and helps out with the immune system so most the
vast majority of what we
treat are autoimmune diseases and in in huts case we gave him ib so that that
he could basically have
these things on board secreting the the secreting the cytokines and the and the
growth factors that are
normally secreted and when you're 92 and you have multi-organ failure you're
basically running on fumes
and so you put these day zero young healthy cells and they secrete these things
that kind of restarts
everything yeah and so what was his response to this iv treatment wow i you
know i i could i can wax
lyrical about that he's almost 100 years old and uh from pretty bad shape it
was like bee stings it was
like he got a new lease of life like he got a big dose locally in the hip which
uh fixed all his inflammation
and pain and he started walking again and his kidneys were good and his heart
he had a prolapse valves
in there and they healed and uh his um cognitive powers improved his eyesight
improved whoa you know
and other stuff improved that i he would hate me to talk about
but he had two nurses that reported to me and it was like holy mackerel wow
using it as a towel rack
you know well dan bilzerian was telling me about intravenous stem cells and so
was boss rootin you
know boss rootin the former ufc heavyweight champion yeah he went down and got
some he's had some pretty
significant neck injuries and neck fusions and he said he got intravenous stem
cells the way he described
it's like with his dutch accents like it was like i had lightning coming out of
my fingers like
did he go to you yeah did he yeah yeah he said it was phenomenal i mean he said
it's one of the most
incredible experiences he's ever had the the the feeling of a regeneration of
energy yeah i reached
out to him uh by email and he and just to see if it would be okay for me to
talk about him on here and
he said yeah absolutely and you know uh his his cholesterol dropped uh all his
numbers you know the
basically numbers associated with aging all got better um and and like he said
he felt this tremendous
energy for some period why is this not legal here well uh it it's considered to
be a new drug by the fda
and that's the number one reason there are uh four countries so far that have
approved msc products
there's canada and new zealand were the first to go to canada and get this done
well not for
only only for certain conditions so in canada new zealand they approved bone
marrow mscs which are
in my mind are not as good as umbilical cord and i explain why um and and then
south korea has
approved umbilical cord for knee osteoarthritis only so the cells have to be
injected into the knee
and then japan just recently approved the same product that it it's used to
treat a very serious
acute graph acute graft versus host disease in children after they've had a
bone marrow transplant
now are there peer-reviewed studies or anything that shows the efficacy of this
intravenous use of these
stem cells yeah there there are hundreds there are hundreds in my book msc
which is you know you don't
want to read it unless you want to go to sleep unless you're looking for
something you know it's just it
really is purely a research tool um we have 800 references and we reference
every clinical trial
that's ever been done with mscs and human beings and there are 800 of them well
i've had some uh great
results with stem cells dr roddy mcgee in las vegas uh shot a bunch into my
shoulder i was at the door
of surgery i was like my shoulder's in pain all the time i can't do a lot every
time i do something i have to ice it
down for a day and now i have full function i mean it's crazy i mean i was
literally i mean it still
clicks i've got some weird in there and there's probably some stuff floating
around in there but
as far as like the function of my shoulder and the the pain it's it's like 100
i could do basically
everything right right yeah yeah i was 57 58 years old and this is like what
four or five years ago
and both my shoulders torn labrums arthritis bone spurs like rotator cuff
issues and i went down and i got
10 milli