The True Story of Adeel Khan

0:00 This is a deal con, the stem cell doctor to the stars.

0:04 Kim and Khloe Kardashian had stem cells done with me in Mexico.

0:07 All the headlines are saying that these are illegal in the US.

0:10 This is not quite true.

0:11 Here he is with Gary Lineham,

0:13 a convicted felon who was sentenced to 4 years in jail for drug

0:15 trafficking and upon release reinvented himself

0:18 as a biohacker under the brand Human Garage.

0:21 In this video, they're talking about Khan's signature stem cell treatment.

0:26 Like for me, they're expensive to just purchase from the manufacturer.

0:28 Right.

0:28 So, these are the Mar of the Zaiwa Mu cells,

0:31 which is from the Japanese scientist who discovered

0:33 them in the company that owns the patent.

0:34 And so, we work directly with that scientist to get these cells,

0:37 but they are pricey.

0:38 That brown vial, which looks to me like a horse suppository,

0:41 is what Khan really identifies as stem cells,

0:44 which means that it's some sort of variation of the brew

0:48 that almost killed the functional medicine doctor Mark Hyman.

0:51 Cuz I almost died.

0:53 Not only that, but when I showed the picture to the company

0:56 that invented the specific type of stem cells that Khan promotes,

1:00 they were unequivocal.

1:02 If Khan was calling these Mu stem cells, then they were counterfeits.

1:06 Writing, This is certainly not a licensed MCI product.

1:10 MCI DMC have never been sold or stored

1:13 in tubes comparable to what the nurse is holding.

1:15 And wait, it gets worse because it doesn't stop at defrauding random biohackers.

1:20 I cross-referenced the claims about the vials

1:23 in Kim and Khloe Kardashian's social media posts,

1:25 and astoundingly, even the cells they received were counterfeits.

1:30 I know this product.

1:31 It is a discontinued product.

1:33 It's not from us.

1:34 It has never been from MCI.

1:36 In other words, a smoking gun for fraud.

1:39 Over the last 2 months,

1:40 I've dug into the background of the world's most visible stem cell huckster.

1:45 According to the records I've uncovered,

1:46 he started out as a sports medicine doctor who

1:49 worked his way up selling weight loss drugs on online

1:52 portals through advising on quote science-based supplements on bodybuilding

1:56 websites to running fly-by-night stem cell clinics on four continents,

2:02 and he's making a lot of people sick.

2:04 For this report, I've spoken with patients who barely survived his treatments.

2:08 Whereas I was, you know, in, you know, in the in the gurney or, you know,

2:13 being wheeled in, I had a chance to speak to him.

2:16 On the fly, right before I went in for the procedure, he changed the protocol.

2:21 I've come through podcasts of wellness influencers who spilled the tea.

2:25 So, I called Dr.

2:26 Khan.

2:26 I'm like, "Hey, I don't Something's wrong with Katrina.

2:29 She doesn't sound right." And he's like, "Yeah,

2:31 well, it's kind of normal, this and that.

2:32 There's an immune response 24 to 48 hours." So,

2:34 I said, "Yeah, I don't think so." I said,

2:36 "She's going sepsis." And, I can't make this up,

2:39 even in court records in the legal case between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.

2:44 And I just wasn't sure what the results would be because, like everyone else,

2:48 you see this stuff on social media,

2:49 and you're just not sure what's real and what's not.

2:52 He said he got stem cells in Cabo,

2:54 so that's probably why he has an infection now.

2:57 We're going to inject stem cells in there to calm down the inflammation.

3:00 You got a janky-ass procedure from a strange-ass doctor in Mexico.

3:04 You get what you paid for.

3:06 All the evidence points in the same direction.

3:08 Something is rotten at the stem cell clinic to the stars.

3:12 Or to put it another way,

3:13 if three celebrities got serious infections at his clinic,

3:17 how many ordinary people had similar outcomes,

3:20 but their stories never reached the light of day?

3:23 This is the third video in a series on regenerative medicine,

3:26 an area of science that claims to be on the verge of reversing

3:30 just about any human ailment

3:32 with a straightforward injection of stem cell ambrosia.

3:36 It's about the lengths that people will go

3:38 to to pursue miracle treatments and the hucksters

3:41 and charlatans who are more than willing

3:43 to take advantage of the unregulated market.

3:46 In my first video, Why are the wellness elite getting sepsis,

3:49 I showed how Mark Hyman covered up the fact that he almost

3:53 died from an infection after he got an injection at Khan's clinic.

3:57 In the second video, I examined the case of Jordan Peterson,

4:01 who almost died after trying a series of unapproved medical treatments

4:05 from biohacking hucksters and shady doctors on at least three continents.

4:09 Now, if you're the kind of person who likes to consume things in order,

4:12 you might want to go check those out first.

4:15 Then again, maybe you just want to go to the heart of the stem cell grift,

4:19 in which case, you're in the right place.

4:21 In this video, you'll discover who Adiel Khan really is,

4:24 whether he's allowed to practice medicine at all,

4:27 and the troubling pattern of sepsis that follows his treatments.

4:31 Then, just when you think it is all making sense,

4:34 I'm going to open up the inquiry into the entire field of stem cell

4:38 medicine when I expose a whole black market of fake and counterfeit stem cells.

4:44 That underground economy allows shady clinics to sell

4:46 counterfeit stem cells for tens of thousand

4:49 dollars a pop in a business that more

4:52 resembles old-school organized crime than cutting-edge medicine.

4:56 But before we get to that, we have to ask, who is Adiel Khan?

5:06 [music]

5:08 On the advice of my lawyer Sid Rao,

5:10 and in the face of multiple legal threats that have already landed on my desk,

5:14 it's important to start off this report with an obligatory

5:17 disclaimer that I actually had in the first video,

5:19 too, and I've pretty much stolen word for word from the great Coffeezilla.

5:24 Thanks, Coffee.

5:25 Everything I say on this channel and in this video

5:28 series specifically is my opinion based on my own investigative work.

5:32 Now, references to scams or fraud, counterfeits or lies,

5:35 and related terms should not be taken

5:38 as definitive findings of fact or legal conclusions.

5:42 I've used publicly available information, on and off-the-record interviews,

5:46 and independent analysis to draw strongly opinionated conclusions.

5:51 Even so, there is a sharp distinction between the facts

5:53 and evidence presented and the opinions drawn based on such material.

5:58 No statement can or should be interpreted as a categorical declaration that any

6:03 person has violated civil or criminal law unless a court has so ruled.

6:08 I encourage viewers to examine my materials and reach their own conclusions.

6:12 Furthermore, in the event of any substantial factual errors,

6:15 it is my policy to issue corrections,

6:17 which you can find in the pinned comment below and in the description.

6:21 With that out of the way,

6:22 you can tell a lot about someone simply by the company that they keep.

6:26 And Adiel Khan isn't only comfortable carrying on with former drug traffickers,

6:31 but also a who's who of biohackers.

6:34 Hey guys, [music] I'm here in Mexico with Dr.

6:38 Adiel Khan.

6:38 So, Chris, we treated your shoulder in February in Mexico.

6:42 Celebrities like the Kardashians,

6:44 Why didn't Kim and Khloe Kardashian come [music] to us for stem cell treatment?

6:47 And even Chris Hemsworth, and of course, whatever Tony Robbins is.

6:52 Yeah, some people say to me, "Why Dr.

6:53 Khan?" And I'd say, "Well, Okay,

6:55 I have to cut in here for a second because this guy,

6:57 Tony Robbins, has just been appointed by Dr.

7:01 Oz underneath RFK Jr.

7:03 to advise on reforming and reshaping American healthcare policy.

7:08 And this is really, really crazy because he has no idea what he's doing.

7:12 He has no medical background, and Why do we let the clowns drive the car?

7:25 [sighs] In the regrettable world of our collective social media Sharknado,

7:30 credibility often rests on popularity and whatever

7:33 the algorithm wants to throw in our direction.

7:36 The constant celebrity endorsements of Khan's clinic lends him an air

7:40 of trustworthiness that makes it easy to overlook his actual credentials.

7:45 But it doesn't take long to see that Khan's medical background is wanting.

7:49 According to his LinkedIn profile,

7:51 he graduated from medical school at the University of Ottawa

7:53 in 2015 and finished his residency in sports medicine 2 years later.

7:57 Now, one of his first jobs was slinging online weight loss solutions while

8:02 also freelancing at a clinic where he provided spinal shots for pain management.

8:06 Then, he moonlit as the chief medical officer for a company

8:09 that uses shockwaves to help relieve erectile dysfunction called onmen.ca.

8:16 Incidentally, when I tried to go to that website just now,

8:18 it actually redirects to a porn site.

8:21 Anyway, he also took a role formulating supplements

8:24 for weightlifters at a company called HD Muscle.

8:28 Now, I know what you're thinking.

8:29 Supplements, erectile dysfunction, pain shots.

8:32 This sounds like exactly the resume you would expect to coincide

8:35 with someone on the forefront of a scientific and medical revolution.

8:39 Someone who heightens the already high standards we

8:41 hold to people in the field of regenerative medicine.

8:44 A man there are no requirements in the field of regenerative medicine.

8:49 Oh, uh yeah, okay.

8:51 But surely something as cutting-edge as stem

8:53 cell therapy requires some advanced training, right?

8:55 Yeah, no, it's just a marketing term.

8:58 But he has a medical license.

9:00 Yeah, excuse me.

9:01 Excuse me.

9:02 No.

9:02 Yeah, thank you.

9:03 Uh no, you can go a little further.

9:05 Here we go.

9:05 According to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ontario,

9:10 he let his registration expire last year,

9:12 meaning that he is not able to practice

9:14 medicine there despite owning a clinic in Toronto.

9:17 His LinkedIn profile says the Ontario

9:20 Medical Association certified him in sports medicine,

9:23 except when we checked it out,

9:25 it turned out that they don't even issue sports medicine certifications.

9:29 Not only that, but the College of Family Physicians of Canada

9:33 told us over email that they never issued him a certificate.

9:38 Sure, but maybe these are just like administrative errors.

9:41 I mean, he's a licensed doctor, right?

9:43 Yeah, that's not really clear.

9:46 He doesn't come up on any US databases,

9:48 and we couldn't access the databases in Abu Dhabi and Mexico.

9:52 All right, but he's qualified to play a doctor on TV.

9:55 Mm, [clears throat] maybe on Tik Tok.

9:59 Okay, so licensed or not, it's clear that Adil Khan is brilliant at marketing.

10:04 After he worked his way up

10:05 through supplement slinging and erectile dysfunction clinics,

10:08 he was ready to make the leap over to selling

10:11 the dream of regenerative medicine and stem cell solutions.

10:14 He branded his practice Etern A Health

10:16 before he had any brick and mortar offices.

10:19 In order to see patients who found him on Instagram though,

10:22 he had to book office spaces at existing

10:24 clinics and appeared at wellness events around

10:26 the world treating patients and then moving

10:28 on to the next location after a few days.

10:31 One patient, who I'm going to keep anonymous,

10:34 told me that he traveled to Khan's clinic in 2023 after a seizure

10:39 left him with a painful condition which caused part of his spine to degenerate.

10:43 After a friend sent him Adil Khan's Instagram profile,

10:46 he raised money for a stem cell injection on GoFundMe.

10:49 Khan demanded half the $16,000 fee upfront and my source

10:54 sent him a check and then a ticket to Cabo.

10:57 Incidentally, the price he paid in 2023 was pretty

11:00 cheap compared to what it would become a year later.

11:04 In this leaked email,

11:05 Etern A Health quoted another patient $115,865 for a series of stem

11:12 cell injections but generously offered a 15% discount and no refunds.

11:18 Anyway, now he was excited to get

11:20 this state-of-the-art treatment but the clinic,

11:22 well, it didn't look like what he expected.

11:25 This was a picture that he took from the outside.

11:28 But he'd come this far.

11:30 He put his reservations aside and went in for prep.

11:33 And though they had been very keen to take his money,

11:37 when he actually met Khan before the procedure,

11:39 it wasn't clear to my source at all that Khan was even familiar with his case.

11:46 I remember as I was, you know, in, you know, in the in the gurney or, you know,

11:51 being wheeled in, I had a chance to speak to him.

11:54 And I reiterated because the communication was so poor prior to the procedure

11:59 that L5 S1 is where I got the surgery but due to the, you know,

12:04 I didn't hear back from you in the past little while,

12:06 I wanted to confirm that this is what we're

12:09 we're doing or this is where the pain is.

12:11 And he goes, "Oh, yeah." And on the fly

12:14 right before I went in for the procedure, he changed the protocol.

12:18 Instead of injecting the L5 S1 area uh he went ahead

12:23 and injected directly in the cauda equina region where my nerve damage was.

12:29 That's right.

12:30 Khan appeared confused about what he was supposed to do and then decided

12:34 on the fly to inject the entirely wrong region of his patient's spine.

12:39 Khan predicted that his patient would be on the next flight

12:42 home and said that he had an 80% chance of full recovery.

12:46 But my source said that the procedure only made his condition worse.

12:50 And it was very painful and basically it worsened my situation.

12:54 It was already pretty bad.

12:55 Uh but I didn't think it could get worse but it I mean, it did.

13:00 While the patient would ultimately have to spend a month bedridden

13:04 in Cabo before he felt well enough to get on a plane,

13:07 Khan was already long gone the next day.

13:10 Here is what Khan posted on Instagram just

13:13 a few hours after that procedure was done.

13:16 Just finished our last day here in Los Cabos.

13:19 I'll be going to Miami this weekend and doing

13:22 some work there and hopefully getting this clinic finalized so

13:25 we can start getting this uh project going and hopefully

13:29 it'll be done by the end of this year.

13:31 And I I'll be in Europe most likely in October and then

13:37 we're going to be doing a trip to New York City

13:39 in October as well and then we'll be in Dubai and Egypt

13:42 in November and then we will be in Los Cabos again in December.

13:48 So, a lot of people are asking where I'm going

13:50 to be and what type of treatments they can get.

13:52 So, check out our website eterna.health for updates as well.

13:56 Unable to reach Khan for any sort of follow-up,

13:58 my source said he had to find a local doctor

14:01 to prescribe him antibiotics and those antibiotics probably saved his life.

14:06 And this seemed to be a pattern for Khan's early years as a stem cell supplier.

14:12 Always on the move and always one step ahead of anyone

14:15 who would be able to hold them to account for complications.

14:18 But his social media fame was only growing.

14:21 Soon, famous people started falling into his orbit.

14:25 Here he is describing how he soon started attracting

14:27 interest from some of the wealthiest men in the world.

14:31 I went to The first time I went

14:32 to Dubai was to treat this man named Mohamed Alabbar.

14:36 He's the owner of the Burj Khalifa and Emaar Properties.

14:38 So, he's he owns the sixth tallest buildings in the world and he's,

14:42 you know, the the wealthiest man in Dubai uh business-wise.

14:44 Shortly after that treatment,

14:47 Khan opened up his first full-time stem cell clinic based out of Dubai.

14:51 And I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume

14:54 that this was in part funded by an investment by Alabbar himself.

14:59 That clip I showed you, it it's from a podcast by Shawn Stevenson.

15:03 Uh the podcast is called Model Health Show.

15:06 And if I'm correctly decoding the interconnected web of manosphere podcasts,

15:10 then Stevenson is also the host of the Mind

15:13 Pump Show where Khan has also been a guest.

15:16 And this is where it gets crazy because one

15:18 of the two other co-hosts over there is Adam Schafer,

15:23 whose own stem cell journey with Khan sounds a lot

15:26 like what happened to Mark Hyman from my first episode.

15:30 Here he is talking about how his wife almost

15:33 died from sepsis after she got a treatment from Khan.

15:37 So, she went out there to do um I wouldn't say a routine but a a pretty,

15:41 you know, somewhat basic stem cell uh treatment, right?

15:45 So, she was doing it for her ovaries for fertility.

15:48 And um you know, flew flew in the the top surgeon

15:52 in the world from Dubai to come do it so she's in good hands.

15:54 She's with Dr.

15:55 Khan and all them and so the best of the best is taking care of her.

15:59 Schafer bought into the social media hype around Khan that he helped create.

16:04 He was under the impression that he had sent his wife

16:06 to one of the most reputable stem cell doctors in the world.

16:09 After all, Khan had been on his show.

16:12 What better recommendation is there than that?

16:15 So, I called Dr.

16:16 Khan and I'm like, "Hey, I don't Something's wrong with Katrina.

16:18 She doesn't sound right." And he's like, "Yeah,

16:21 well, it's kind of normal this and that.

16:22 There's an immune response 24 to 48 hours." I said,

16:24 "Yeah, I don't think so." I said, "I want a nurse with her." I said, "So,

16:28 whatever it costs, whatever it take, get a nurse over with her.

16:31 I want someone staying by her side

16:33 and at least measuring and checking her vitals

16:35 until we can get her home to me or whatever." And he said, "Okay, no problem.

16:38 We can get that done." So, they sent a nurse over there.

16:40 Just like with other cases that I've documented,

16:42 Khan did not seem concerned about his patients getting

16:45 sicker after treatment and more or less shrugged it off.

16:50 Schafer again.

16:50 I have some of the most brilliant doctors that are friends

16:52 of ours now at the like being able to text them.

16:55 And so I'm like texting everybody like sitting them loud

16:57 like explain to me what's going on this and that.

17:00 And they're going, "She's going sepsis." Oh.

17:03 So, and for the audience to understand,

17:04 that's like when bacteria gets into your bloodstream

17:06 and that's like life or death.

17:07 Oh, that's a that's a 100% medical emergency.

17:10 Over the course of that episode,

17:11 Schafer explains that the doctors in Mexico were eventually able to stabilize

17:15 his wife enough that they could hop a flight back to the United

17:18 States and they thought she was okay but then she relapsed

17:21 again and was treated at a state-of-the-art

17:23 hospital before she eventually recovered.

17:27 Scariest week of my life, hands down.

17:30 Now, interestingly, Schafer never connected the dots that his own

17:33 wife's complications could have possibly been the result of malpractice.

17:38 I reached out to the Mind Pump team for comment but they never responded.

17:43 In fact, Khan is still welcome in the Mind Pump media ecosystem.

17:47 My guess here is that they're either

17:49 unaware of exactly how many cases are coming out of his clinic or so overwhelmed

17:53 with confirmation bias and the chance that treatments

17:56 that they have recommended on their channel

17:57 could be hurting members of their audience

18:00 that follow their advice that they choose

18:02 to ignore the evidence right in front of them,

18:05 even when it gets the people who are closest to them sick.

18:10 The same might also be true for the actor and director Justin Baldoni.

18:14 Now, before I began reporting on this piece,

18:16 I had never actually heard of Baldoni before

18:18 but apparently he's a bit of a heartthrob

18:20 and had recently gotten into litigation with Blake

18:22 Lively and people are passionate about that story.

18:25 I mean, he also sued the New York Times for defamation.

18:28 Regardless of all of that, he's a well-known

18:31 connoisseur of regenerative medicine because of chronic back pain.

18:35 Here he is in 2020 in Colombia getting a stem cell injection while singing

18:40 charmingly into his phone to his child and then posting it on social media.

18:45 I love you.

18:47 Abu Dhabish you land of fact.

18:48 Abu Dhabish you land of fact.

18:50 Oh, I feel it.

18:51 So, right after he got that injection,

18:53 he gushed in his social media post about how he could feel

18:56 the new life energy from the stem cells entering into his body.

19:00 There's a powerful energy in these stem cells, [music] man.

19:03 This is new life.

19:04 He felt like he was on the road to recovery but apparently it didn't stick.

19:09 He was still, just a few years later,

19:11 looking for some way to fix his degenerated discs.

19:15 So, a couple of years later,

19:16 he took to social media to find a new doctor and ended up on Khan's doorstep.

19:21 So, about 9 months ago, I reached [music] out to Dr.

19:23 Khan who is at the forefront of stem cell technology.

19:26 I have some damage to the cartilage [music] and meniscus in both knees.

19:29 He injected both my knees with stem cell.

19:31 He also gave me an injection into my shoulder

19:32 because I had some arthritis in my shoulder.

19:34 And I just wasn't sure what the results would be because like everyone else,

19:37 you see this stuff on social media and you're just not sure what's real [music]

19:41 and what's not.

19:42 That joint is arthritic and it's inflamed.

19:45 So, we're going to inject stem cells in there

19:47 to calm down the inflammation and to prevent

19:49 the arthritis from getting worse and obviously

19:51 repair some of the damage that's been done.

19:53 We also combine them with peptides which enhance everything.

19:55 Making sure we're putting in the right spot is also a big deal.

19:58 On August 28th, 2024, Khan's clinic put out a press release

20:02 that they were officially treating Baldoni's back.

20:06 And you're going to be shocked by this.

20:08 I know.

20:09 It wasn't long until Baldoni was in the hospital recovering from an infection.

20:13 Now again, I have no interest in celebrity infighting

20:17 and I know people have strong emotions about it.

20:20 But the discovery published in the court

20:22 case actually revealed interesting chatter about the infection.

20:26 One document states and I'll quote,

20:28 "Rather than truthfully acknowledge why the entire cast refused

20:31 to promote the film with the director or launching an investigation,

20:34 Abel Baldoni and Heath brainstormed possible cover stories including

20:39 a recent hospitalization to treat an infection from spinal stem cell

20:43 treatment in Mexico." And that stem cell infection comes up

20:46 again in the text messages between his crisis PR team.

20:49 Stephanie Jones.

20:51 He said he got stem cells in Cabo,

20:52 so that's probably why he has an infection now.

20:55 Jesus.

20:56 Jennifer Abel.

20:57 Yep.

20:58 Stephanie Jones.

20:59 Idiot.

21:00 Jennifer Abel.

21:01 You don't get stem cells in Mexico.

21:03 Stephanie Jones.

21:04 Who goes to Mexico for this?

21:06 Jennifer Abel.

21:07 And then agrees to post about it so that he gets it for free.

21:11 Matthew Mitchell.

21:12 When it's free for him, we know that.

21:14 He does the sketchiest[ __] to his body

21:16 and says that his outside reaction is due to stress.

21:20 No, baby boy.

21:21 It's because you got a janky ass procedure from a strange ass doctor in Mexico.

21:26 You get what you paid for.

21:27 Obviously, he's no longer working with that PR team.

21:30 However, the point they raise is quite important.

21:33 One reason that Khan works with celebrities is so that he can put out press

21:37 releases that use their names which ultimately

21:40 brings in more ordinary patients into his practice.

21:43 It's all top of the funnel lead generation.

21:45 It's why so many celebrities who have had him on their podcasts

21:50 also show up in his various videos getting stem cell treatments.

21:54 Hey guys, I'm here in Mexico with Dr.

21:57 [music] Adiel Khan.

21:58 I'm about to do VEGF gene therapy.

22:01 I mean, I think we can assume that a lot

22:03 of this is done quid pro quo with no actual money exchanged.

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23:36 Uh let's get back to the video.

23:37 While I was the first person to report publicly how Mark

23:40 Hyman got sepsis from treatments he received from Khan's Aterna Health clinic,

23:45 basically all of the top influencers

23:47 and longevity scientists already knew what had happened.

23:51 They just decided to keep it secret.

23:53 For instance, who do you think Andrew Huberman is talking about in this clip

23:56 from last month in a conversation he was having with Gwyneth Paltrow?

24:00 And there's a very public-facing physician who paralyzed himself

24:02 with a stem cell injection into his spine recently.

24:05 Don't get stem cells injected into the discs,

24:07 I was told, because the discs can't receive stem cells.

24:10 Oh, boy.

24:11 But he went to a clinic, he was paralyzed at I don't understand

24:14 the point of keeping all of this under wraps.

24:16 If all of these health influencers knew

24:18 about the dangers and potentially deadly outcomes,

24:21 they could have put their energy into actually warning

24:24 their audiences about this clinic which was a known danger.

24:28 I mean, it's kind of stunning that three of Khan's celebrity

24:33 clients actually came down with serious

24:36 bacterial infections that led to hospitalizations.

24:39 I mean, if Khan can't step up his safety

24:42 protocols for people with immense power and fame,

24:46 then I shudder to think what his complication rate

24:48 is with ordinary people who just come to his clinic.

24:51 This is of course a question that is almost impossible to answer.

24:56 Khan moves across international borders

24:58 with ease and no regulatory authority has the logistical ability to keep track

25:03 of the complications that originate in his clinics.

25:06 The only people who actually know what is going on inside Aterna Health

25:11 are the employees who received the complaints and very few of them are talking.

25:17 I mean, I know because I asked.

25:20 This is a very similar problem that I ran across while reporting

25:24 my book The Red Market on the trail of the world's organ brokers,

25:26 bone thieves, blood farmers,

25:28 and child traffickers where I quite literally traveled all across

25:32 the planet tracking criminal actors who bought and sold human body parts.

25:36 Now, organ traffickers benefit from the ability to split their crimes

25:40 across national borders and easily run circles around law enforcement.

25:45 I called it the red market because unlike traditional black and white markets,

25:49 moving biological materials raises additional

25:52 ethical questions about where human-derived

25:55 materials come from and where they end up in clinical treatments.

25:59 Now, at the end of the book, I suggested that the only way to break apart

26:04 red markets is to introduce radical transparency into all

26:09 legal human tissue pipelines because the criminals are almost

26:13 always able to hide behind a facade of medical privacy.

26:17 For instance, if you want to know if

26:19 the kidney you received from a transplant is legal,

26:22 then it would be nice to be able to legally track it down to its source.

26:27 Instead, they say, "Oh, no,

26:29 we can't do that because it harms patient privacy." And thereby often

26:33 giving the cover story to actual criminals who are stealing human body parts.

26:39 Stem cells are of course also human-derived materials.

26:44 They often come from the umbilical cords of newly born children.

26:48 And if they're being sourced criminally,

26:50 then there are potential victims at the beginning

26:52 and the end of that supply chain.

26:54 So, let's get into that part.

26:56 Well, it seems that Khan's clinic has a high rate of complications,

27:00 at least if you happen to be a celebrity.

27:02 We don't quite know how those complications originate.

27:06 I mean, as I see it, there are three potential vectors that explain

27:10 how things got so far off the rails.

27:13 The first is that Khan,

27:15 maybe he has just no idea how to properly sterilize his operating room.

27:20 I'm For instance, in this clip of a stem cell procedure that he

27:23 was performing on a 77-year-old fitness

27:25 influencer with the handle Train with Joan,

27:28 you can see him grinding a needle into her bone.

27:31 See, now I'm anchored.

27:32 I'm just going slowly into the bone.

27:36 One commenter who described themselves as an RN saw this photo and then asked

27:42 why there was no protective bib around

27:44 the injection site saying that it's not sterile.

27:47 That could be true in some cases and I've asked various

27:51 doctors if a bib is really required and I've gotten conflicting answers.

27:55 Some say yes and some say no.

27:58 But it could be an indication that he failed

28:02 to do other sterilization procedures too like preparing the area

28:06 with an Others have mused that perhaps non-sterile water

28:10 that they used to clean their various equipment was used.

28:15 And there is no way of course to be sure, but my gut the heart of my hearts,

28:21 I actually don't think that this is where the bacteria is getting in.

28:25 Sterilization is very well taught across the world and I'm I'm just going to go

28:30 out on a limb and think that that he I he hopefully got this part right.

28:34 It's very basic.

28:35 Which means that the second possibility is that there is

28:38 a problem in the way that Khan actually stores his stem cells.

28:43 And I've spoken with four different doctors who handle stem cells regularly

28:47 and they all agree that storage is much trickier than you might expect.

28:51 To paraphrase one doctor who asked me not to use his name,

28:55 the stem cells were probably stored in a liquid

28:57 nitrogen tank and we tell everybody all

29:00 the time you can't store cryovials in the liquid

29:04 nitrogen phase of a liquid nitrogen tank.

29:07 It has to be stored in the gas space because they leak.

29:11 The liquid nitrogen can get in and they are almost always contaminated by E.

29:16 coli or some other bacteria.

29:19 Now, I had no clue that there was a real difference

29:22 between the liquid in the liquid nitrogen and the gas above,

29:26 so that's not like immediately intuitive at least to me a non-doctor.

29:30 Considering Khan's habit though of constant traveling,

29:33 there are lots of potential opportunities for storage procedures

29:37 to fail to meet up to the highest safety standards,

29:41 especially if he's actually traveling with those stem cells.

29:44 Even a small error can create

29:45 an environment that allows bacterial proliferation.

29:48 And who knows?

29:49 Maybe he's got a frozen package of stem

29:51 cells in his carry-on or checked luggage.

29:53 And this is not going to shock you one bit.

29:56 A former employee at a Turna Health said

29:58 that this is pretty much exactly what he did,

30:01 sending this photo of his process to me to back up the claim.

30:05 Transporting stem cells in a cooler and a frozen

30:08 pack with him on flights between Mexico and Canada.

30:11 And then, if he hadn't used them all up,

30:13 repackaging them again and taking the same shipment with him to Dubai.

30:18 Now, for cells that need to be stored

30:20 at a consistent -80° this all but guarantees spoilage.

30:26 And even with all of that going on, there is

30:28 still a third way that his cell lines could transmit bacteria.

30:32 Maybe the stem cells he is actually using

30:35 don't come from legitimate sources in the first place.

30:39 In fact, it's an issue that he

30:40 often talks about on his various podcast appearances.

30:42 Here he is with Gary Lineham, aka the Human Garage,

30:46 about how his success is built upon the superiority of his product.

30:51 Most people know about it because of, you know,

30:53 the Kardashians and Chris Hemsworth.

30:54 Like they I treated them and they talked about it publicly,

30:56 so that reached hundreds of millions of people.

30:59 But the problem is the margins on using

31:01 new cells is much lower cuz they're expensive.

31:03 Like for me they're expensive to just purchase from the manufacturer.

31:06 So these are the what are called the Dazawa Muse cells,

31:09 which is from the Japanese scientist who discovered

31:11 them and the company that owns the patent.

31:12 And that name, it is really important.

31:14 Mari Dazawa was Muse stem cells are

31:16 the current Cadillac of the stem cell industry.

31:19 Now, I did an interview last week with Matt Cablein, a longevity scientist,

31:22 talking about how they might be

31:25 the breakthrough that everyone has been looking for.

31:28 Muse stands for multi-lineage

31:30 differentiating stress-enduring mesenchymal stem cells.

31:33 So that's where the Muse comes from.

31:34 It's a breakthrough from a biological perspective cuz

31:36 this was this was kind of the first

31:37 indication that mesenchymal stem cells are actually

31:40 a whole bunch of different types of stem cells.

31:42 And you could get these very specific

31:43 Muse stem cells from this this mixed population.

31:47 And they have interesting properties.

31:48 I pressed Cablein here on whether

31:50 those properties really matched the marketing hype.

31:53 So to answer your question, promising but very, very early.

31:57 And again, my intuition is this will be sort of a step breakthrough,

32:01 but it's not again going to get us to the point

32:03 where everybody's getting stem cell therapies to get younger.

32:06 Like it's not going to have that large of an effect.

32:09 But I do think that that that these Muse

32:11 stem cells will have specific indications where

32:15 probably 10 years from now you'll start to see

32:17 them be routinely used in in different clinics.

32:20 So essentially, they're still experimental, but potentially promising.

32:24 Even so, as Khan notes, there is a limitation to using them.

32:28 We work directly with a scientist to get these cells, but they are pricey.

32:32 And so your margins aren't going to be as high as using the old stem cells,

32:35 which are way cheaper.

32:36 So people, unfortunately for them, they're just like, "We're making good money.

32:39 We don't care, you know?" Which is to say that a doctor could save money if they

32:42 didn't want to pay the full freight of $5,000

32:46 per officially certified vial of Dazawa stem cells.

32:50 And and and then a lot of consumers just don't know.

32:52 They don't They're just going in.

32:53 They're thinking they're getting stem cells are

32:55 going to make their body younger cuz

32:56 the doctor's telling them that, but it's it's all Unfortunately, it's all a lie.

33:00 That's right.

33:00 Adeel Khan, who if you think about it,

33:03 whose name sounds a lot like Ideal Khan, said it.

33:07 Unfortunately, it's all a lie.

33:08 Khan is indicating that he is in fact aware

33:10 of the enormous black market for counterfeit stem cells.

33:13 After all, if the open market is generally unregulated,

33:17 and if you don't actually need any special

33:19 certifications to call yourself a stem cell specialist,

33:22 and the customers don't really know the difference anyway,

33:25 then why couldn't you just sell the idea of miracle-inducing stem

33:30 cells and then just put whatever you want into the patient?

33:34 Most people, they would never know.

33:36 And I'm really talking about anybody here because even Kim

33:39 and Khloe Kardashian didn't get what they thought they were getting.

33:43 According to Kim's post on August 8th, 2025,

33:47 Khan injected both she and her sister with Dazawa Muse cells.

33:52 The description even included that little trademark sign.

33:55 But the package, well, looked weird.

33:57 And you can see here that it specifically mentioned Muse cells.

34:01 So I called up Dominic Duscher, the chief medical officer at MCI,

34:05 who makes the cells, to ask him about it.

34:07 That is basically an MCI product that has

34:09 been in the market I think 2024 to five.

34:15 But it's not available anymore.

34:16 It's discontinued.

34:17 And it's not from us.

34:17 It has never been from MCI.

34:20 So this is this is not You would say this is not Dazawa stem cells.

34:25 No.

34:25 If someone was said that these were Dazawa Muse stem cells,

34:28 you would say what to them?

34:31 I would say that these cells this product is in uh

34:37 is not comparable to the the original Dazawa Muse cell,

34:40 the DMC as we call it, because it's uh in the way it's made,

34:45 it's produced, it's manufactured, it's not in a comparable fashion.

34:48 So it's not it's not an original DMC.

34:51 In the day and a half it took us to get to the bottom of the issue,

34:54 word got back to Khan that I'd zeroed in on his fraudulent claims,

34:59 likely through his Regenexx manufacturer.

35:01 And Khan's reaction was to immediately alter his original post,

35:05 removing the picture he'd included

35:07 of the official Dazawa products from the carousel.

35:10 But luckily, in a previous phone call, I'd preserved the original.

35:15 Here's my best guess at what happened.

35:16 Regenexx had an earlier version of Muse cells stuck on ice at their lab.

35:20 And for some reason, Khan did not have access to official Dazawa cells on hand.

35:26 So he substituted the old cells for the new

35:28 ones because he didn't think anyone would notice.

35:31 Alternately, maybe it was because he could lower the cost this way because

35:34 it's likely that the Kardashians weren't

35:36 paying full freight for their treatments anyway.

35:40 I guess the other possibility is that this lab, Regenexx,

35:43 is actually has a whole counterfeit run of cells

35:46 that it can sell on the cheap to other people.

35:48 I I really don't know.

35:50 While the Kardashians didn't have any side effects, at least that I know about,

35:54 I did speak to another famous actress who also

35:58 got Dazawa stem cells the day before the Kardashians,

36:02 also in Mexico, who told me that she had been suffering

36:05 from an intense immune reaction from that treatment for like the last 9 months.

36:10 Here's Dominic when I asked him about why that might be.

36:13 They know that it's not a Dazawa Muse cell product and Dazawa Muse cells

36:16 are characterized uh one of their main

36:21 features is to not cause any immune reactions.

36:24 Mhm.

36:25 So if if I hear that a person has had a severe immune reaction,

36:29 it's it's it's close to impossible that it

36:31 is from an original Dazawa Muse cell product.

36:33 Which is to say that Khan appears

36:34 to be capitalizing on people's ignorance about stem cells,

36:37 and that ignorance has the potential to lead to pretty serious consequences.

36:43 And we've gotten this far.

36:44 Is there any shock that Mr.

36:45 Garage has no idea what stem cells look like?

36:48 Now, in the reel that Khan posted to his Instagram,

36:51 you can see Lineham and Khan admiring this frozen vial of, well, what exactly?

36:58 I mean, it looks like something between a horse

36:59 suppository and the worst popsicle you ever tasted.

37:02 And the message on the screen suggests that they are in fact stem cells.

37:07 And later in the video,

37:09 Khan talks about how important official Dazawa cells are.

37:13 Lineham is shown then right afterwards getting a decidedly brownish IV.

37:18 Now, I think any reasonable observer would assume that the brown

37:22 popsicle is somehow related to the treatment they are both promoting.

37:26 So I reached out to Mari Dazawa's company in Japan

37:30 to see if these look like something that her lab would produce.

37:33 Her chief medical officer, Dominic Duscher, wrote back almost immediately.

37:37 It was in an email, but here is an appropriately Germanic-sounding voiceover.

37:41 This is certainly not a licensed MCI product.

37:44 Our Dazawa Muse cell products are sold

37:47 by the labs in have clear labeling/counterfeit protection.

37:56 in tubes comparable to what the nurse is holding.

37:59 So we can guarantee that this is not from MCI-related manufacturing pipeline.

38:03 Which means that if Khan told Lineham that these were Dazawa cells,

38:07 then they were counterfeits.

38:10 The unmarked frozen package could be almost literally anything.

38:14 I tried to find out from one source I

38:16 spoke with who works in the regenerative medicine field,

38:19 and he says that maybe it was frozen umbilical cord blood,

38:23 the upstream raw material that Muse stem cells ultimately come from.

38:28 One person who should know for sure though would be Gary Lineham himself.

38:32 After all, he was the one getting the treatment.

38:35 And I wrote to Lineham and someone named Barb Wengeng

38:39 Wengero Barb Wengrenyuk Barb Wengeng

38:44 I'm probably mispronouncing that wrote back.

38:46 "We invite you to reach out to the company with your questions and inquire

38:50 about the liquid contained in the vial." Which is a really just crazy response.

38:56 You would think that Lineham would have at least some idea

39:00 about what he was getting injected with and posting on these reels.

39:05 I mean, but then again, maybe he just didn't care.

39:07 His channel is predictably a bastion

39:10 of health misinformation and conspiracy theories that seems

39:13 to go hand in hand with his own criminal record for drug trafficking.

39:17 Now, I should probably do a video specifically on him

39:19 at some point because he is a whole thing.

39:22 Let me know down in the comments.

39:24 Anyway, of course, I did reach out to Khan's clinic several times.

39:28 And I will go over their responses at the end of this video.

39:32 First though, I want to note that since I dropped my first video,

39:36 I got several messages from Khan's patients who

39:39 were skeptical of the provenance of his injections.

39:43 One doctor, and we're just going to call him Dr.

39:45 Eric, took his father to the Khan's clinic in Dubai.

39:49 This was the email that he wrote me.

39:51 "During the consult, Dr.

39:52 Khan assured me that they use Muse cells that were manufactured

39:55 under the process developed by Professor Dezawa and licensed by her company.

40:00 When I got my father there for treatment,

40:02 we asked to see the certificate of analysis, and after asking a few times,

40:07 he produced a document that certainly did not look like an authentic C of A.

40:14 The vial containing Muse cells also had

40:16 no stickers verifying it was authentic Muse cells.

40:20 Between that and some rumors we heard around Khan's lack of follow-up care,

40:24 it made us abandon the treatment." I have

40:27 to give this guy credit where it's due.

40:28 Most people would not have the nerve to turn away from a treatment

40:30 that they flew across the world to get at the last second like Dr.

40:35 Eric did.

40:36 Heck, most people would not even know

40:38 that they could check for a certificate of authenticity.

40:41 If the counterfeit hypothesis holds,

40:43 then Khan might buy some official Dezawa Muse cells through official channels,

40:48 but also keep a supply of cheaper alternatives on hand

40:52 in case he runs out of the good stuff.

40:55 Which brings us to the broader black market for stem cells.

40:59 And this part really blew my mind because there

41:01 are a lot of shady actors in this business.

41:04 In August 2024, John, and I'm going to mess his name up,

41:09 Kololo Soren, pled guilty to charges of manufacturing,

41:13 distributing so-called stem cell products under the brand name Regen,

41:17 which led to 11 patients being hospitalized for E.

41:21 coli in Florida, Texas, and Arizona.

41:24 Now, according to the press release by the DOJ,

41:27 this defendant recklessly put people's lives in danger

41:31 giving false hope to patients with serious illness.

41:34 But just as that operation wound down, other stem cell charlatans popped up.

41:38 For example, the FDA wrote a letter to Bibin Russell,

41:42 who operates a stem cell supply company called Platinum Biologics,

41:46 which among other things,

41:47 this letter stated that this letter is to advise you that your products

41:51 are unapproved new drugs in violation of section 505A of the Federal Food,

41:56 Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

41:58 And look, there have been no criminal charges filed in that case so far.

42:01 But if you look at the Instagram presence of their team,

42:04 you're going to see Bibin and the other founders posing

42:07 like they are extras in an Andrew Tate reality show,

42:10 bragging about their expensive sports cars, flying in private jets,

42:14 while also posting how much they care about quality control.

42:17 Now, hilariously, in those videos,

42:20 they also complain about how much they had to spend

42:22 on new testing equipment after the FDA started looking into them.

42:26 No, in this in this industry, most biologics companies hide behind the curtain.

42:29 They hide behind reports, they hide behind language,

42:31 they hide behind trust they haven't earned.

42:33 And doctors are left like Dorothy,

42:35 told to follow the yellow brick road to outcomes

42:37 without ever knowing who's actually pulling these levers.

42:39 That's not transparency, that's theater.

42:41 So, we made a different choice.

42:43 We invested in in-house testing equipment.

42:45 It was expensive, it was uncomfortable, but it was necessary.

42:48 That's a lot of transparency marketing speak.

42:52 But I have to ask you, would you trust this man with your life?

42:57 But we can do better than just

42:58 pointing to a very scammy-looking internet presence

43:02 and actually look at lab reports that they sent out to clients in 2025

43:07 that were supposed to certify the sterility

43:09 of their supply chain because they raise serious doubts about what is going

43:14 into their cells and how they're actually testing them.

43:17 This, for instance, is an example of a stem

43:21 cell sterility report sent out in 2025,

43:24 but the test clearly shows that they were performed in 2020.

43:30 To state the obvious here, stem cells are not meant to stay on ice for 5 years,

43:34 and it's entirely more likely that they're using this certificate

43:37 for a newer batch that they're just sending out to clients.

43:40 It is noteworthy that the {quote} ordering professional section

43:45 clearly looks like a bad Photoshop cut and paste job.

43:50 But thanks to the power of citizen journalism,

43:52 I actually posted this original document in my YouTube comment section,

43:56 and I asked one of you to see if there were

43:59 layers of the document that might reveal what the original said.

44:02 And lo and behold, look at this.

44:04 The original document showed that this company,

44:07 Comprehensive Biologics in Gulf Breeze, Florida,

44:10 was the person who actually had the original certificate,

44:13 and they've since been shut down.

44:15 Now, I looked that company up and learned that the owner

44:17 of Comprehensive Biologics once worked at a company called Regenerative Labs,

44:22 which is a company that also Bibin Russell later joined a year later.

44:27 When I looked up the lab that issued the report,

44:29 the customer service rep told me that Platinum Biologics

44:32 and Comprehensive Biologics shared the same customer account, which is V2091.

44:40 And this is the sort of bureaucratic error that I

44:42 came across repeatedly while tracking down organ trafficking networks.

44:46 Hospitals and traffickers were more than happy

44:48 to forge medical documents so that regulators

44:50 and curious investigators would just trust

44:52 the {quote} face validity of the paperwork.

44:56 I mean, even bad attempts at forgery were often enough to get past regulators.

45:01 And just when I thought that this part of the story was over,

45:03 in a surprise twist,

45:04 Bibin Russell actually called me after I released this original version

45:09 of this piece on Substack because doctors were sharing clips of my piece around.

45:14 Uh Bibin Russell of Platinum Biologics.

45:18 That's right?

45:19 Yep.

45:19 Yep.

45:19 Yeah.

45:20 Yep, that's me.

45:21 How are you doing?

45:22 I'm doing good.

45:23 I'm doing good.

45:24 Um How'd you get my number?

45:25 I uh I just pulled it.

45:26 I work in commercial real estate,

45:27 so we have softwares we pull addresses, cell phones, everything else.

45:31 According to Russell, he told me that the document was indeed forged,

45:35 but that it had been forged

45:36 by his competitors to sully his company's reputation.

45:40 manufactured, I call it competition paraphernalia,

45:43 which I already put a company on notice

45:45 for, and I can send you this the cease and desist

45:48 out of Florida to an It's not for me

45:50 to decide whether Platinum Biologics is a criminal enterprise or not.

45:53 That determination would have to be left to a court.

45:56 What I can say is that Russell is emphatic that his credentials

46:00 in regenerative medicine depend mostly on his outsider status in the industry.

46:05 He was just pissed I was a dropout doing well, more or less.

46:08 I'm 34 with no college degree, and a ninth grade dropout.

46:10 How do you think I got here?

46:11 Like I said, I'm a ninth grade dropout[ __] even I know that.

46:14 I guess I'll leave that determination up to you.

46:17 Either it's a sign of entrepreneurial success or a complete

46:21 failure to enforce standards across the stem cell industry.

46:25 Whatever the case, without getting into specific suppliers or distributors,

46:29 an insider at one regenerative medicine clinic that I spoke with was happy

46:32 to tell me that the going rate for an off-brand Muse stem cell package,

46:37 one that claims to have the same efficacy

46:39 of the official Dezawa brand, is just $500.

46:43 That's 1/10 of what the official lab sells it

46:46 for, which brings me to the largest problem of all.

46:50 Stem cells are an experimental therapy that people seek out

46:54 after they have tried usually every other modality out there.

46:57 Despite the marketing, the reality is that stem cell science is still in its

47:01 early days with very few human clinical trials that show robust results.

47:06 It could be that in the future,

47:08 stem cell products like the Muse cells really will be breakthroughs.

47:12 But we have to remember that the history of the pharmaceutical business

47:15 is littered with the corpses of promising drugs that never went anywhere.

47:20 In an ideal world, people will

47:22 know that experimental treatments are inherently risky.

47:26 And when they seek them out,

47:27 they knowingly take that risk before they start treatment.

47:30 It's what physicians call informed consent, and you can do this ethically.

47:34 But the risks get magnified when prospective patients are also in the dark

47:39 as to whether they're even getting a genuine treatment in the first place.

47:44 The broader situation is so concerning

47:46 that I can't honestly recommend that anyone,

47:49 anywhere, put their trust into regenerative medicine at all.

47:53 I can't suggest that you should even consider getting

47:56 stem cells because we simply don't have the regulatory

47:59 infrastructure in place to ensure that the treatment

48:02 you ask for is the one that you get.

48:06 This is the problem with black markets.

48:07 It's like on-brand Louis Vuitton handbags and off-brand ones.

48:11 Except, if you get the off-brand one, you really have no idea where it was made.

48:15 Maybe it was mixed in a cement mixer for all you know.

48:20 I'm certain though that some clinics, well, they do them right.

48:24 There are clinics out there that don't cut corners,

48:27 and their doctors really believe in the treatments,

48:29 and they do their best to give you a sterile

48:31 environment with the best possible stem cells out there.

48:34 The problem is, I just don't know how

48:36 a patient would identify such a clinic from the outside.

48:42 And this is even more troubling because Adiel

48:45 Khan has announced a partnership with a chain of health clinics across the state

48:50 of Florida with a company called Reliv Health.

48:54 I know a lot of people have been asking about Florida.

48:56 We are hoping to be up and running by May.

48:59 I know there's been so many delays.

49:00 It's just because the USA made Muse cells have been difficult to make,

49:06 and we cannot import them in, and they have to be made in the US,

49:09 and this is the first time this is happening, so as soon as that's ready,

49:13 which should be hopefully in the next month or two,

49:15 then we're going to launch a clinic.

49:17 He's able to do this because Florida

49:18 recently introduced a new regulatory standard that made

49:21 it easier to try experimental treatments so

49:23 long as patients waive liability for unexpected outcomes.

49:27 And my main question though is how he

49:29 intends to get over the shortage of stem cells.

49:31 What procedures are in place to stop complications from going?

49:34 And is Khan even licensed to practice medicine in the United States?

49:39 I couldn't find any evidence at all of that.

49:43 Maybe Khan would be willing to show me his certificates.

50:03 [sighs] All right, it's been 3 months of like hard reporting and I just

50:11 want to recap over a couple things because there's several things that I

50:17 haven't told you yet and and the reason for that is like you

50:21 know what in the course of talking to probably about 20 different people.

50:28 About 10 of my sources were off the record or on background,

50:32 which means that I can't tell you exactly who they were.

50:35 Sometimes I can't even mention that the interview even existed.

50:40 But I talked to a lot of people and in my main official reporting,

50:45 you can verify every source against the public record.

50:49 I've usually included links to where things came from.

50:51 I've shown you emails or I've [snorts] showed blurred out

50:54 faces of people who agreed to go on that way.

50:57 The information I'm going to tell you here, you just sort of got to trust me

51:00 that I had these conversations with real people.

51:04 I feel like it's really important to tell you why

51:09 I came to some conclusions because not everything necessarily is going

51:13 to be apparent to you when watching the video on why

51:16 I feel so strongly about for instance Mark Hyman getting sick.

51:20 I had that confirmed by five different people before I made my case on how,

51:25 you know, his podcasts didn't quite line

51:29 up with what the the record actually was.

51:32 Now the other thing is is like within a deal Khan's business.

51:37 One thing that came up in two different interviews from two different

51:40 sources was the name of the bacteria that infected Mark Hyman's body.

51:46 Now you would think that with a with a septic infection you

51:49 would get something like any coli bacteria or a streptococcus which lives,

51:53 you know, on the skin sort of out there in general.

51:55 But in fact it wasn't that.

51:57 It was this gram-negative bacteria that it was called Ralston I believe.

52:02 I'll I'll put a how it's spelled down below.

52:05 And this bacteria is really interesting

52:07 cuz it's endemic basically only to Mexico,

52:10 which means that the contamination which entered

52:12 in to Mark Hyman's spine eventually came through either like

52:17 contaminated tap water or perhaps upstream from the development

52:23 of these muse or otherwise stem cells that were,

52:26 you know, created in maybe counterfeit labs around Mexico.

52:29 We don't know for sure, but the interesting thing is that this is a very

52:33 weird bacteria and two different sources confirmed that for me.

52:37 Now another story told to me about the contamination was that a nurse

52:41 and I was told that it was actually Kimball Musk's you know,

52:45 registered nurse who was actually sort of moonlighting at A Turn A Health

52:48 in Mexico saw a Mexican nurse or doctor tampering directly with the batches

52:56 of stem cells that were in sort of cryofreeze siphoning them off probably

53:00 to maybe sell them elsewhere on the black market or do something with them.

53:05 And when one of my sources said

53:07 that they confronted Adeel Khan about that, he said,

53:10 "Oh yeah, well I know about it.

53:11 I'll I'll take care of it." And this was crazy.

53:13 Rather than replacing the batch that had been opened and sort of like you know,

53:17 monkeyed with by some random person,

53:20 the Adeel Khan actually just used it on other people other

53:24 patients the next day possibly introducing more contamination and this is

53:28 one of the reasons why one of my sources left

53:32 the employment at A Turn A Health and and and you know, started their own thing.

53:38 And then multiple sources from different people

53:41 in the industry said they had suspected

53:43 that Adeel Khan was breeding muse stem cells on his own in his own facilities.

53:48 And and one of the things they said is

53:49 that when you start breeding cells specifically muse stem cells,

53:53 you only get a certain number of generations before they

53:56 lose their potency and they become more susceptible to tampering.

54:00 Obviously if you're pulling cells out and putting them

54:02 back in, there's just more opportunity to introduce problems.

54:05 And they said that this was happening at his Dubai lab which actually coheres

54:09 with that weird vial that we saw

54:11 that they were purportedly saying were muse stem cells.

54:14 And there's one more thing.

54:16 In 2023 or 2024, one source told me that 10

54:22 patients went to A Turn A Health for brain problems.

54:27 They wanted stem cells injected into their brain.

54:30 And out of the 10 people who went to see Adeel Khan who

54:35 had this this injection and he personally injected you know, brain stem cells.

54:40 Out of those 10 10 of them were hospitalized and several

54:45 had debilitating strokes that what they will never recover from.

54:50 In another instance a person had kidney failure and they'll

54:52 go on dialysis for the rest of their life.

54:54 The other patient that I do have direct knowledge of was referred to the same

54:58 south of the border clinic by a doctor who's a long time friend of mine.

55:02 My doctor friend told me that the infection destroyed his patient's kidneys

55:06 and this guy is going to be on kidney dialysis the rest of his life.

55:11 I do not have direct contact with the alleged

55:13 other 20 or so infections from that same clinic.

55:17 That part is hearsay but only once removed.

55:20 So, you know, the truth will come to light.

55:22 Now these medical records, of course, I was not able to independently verify.

55:26 This is just the the the thing that I heard

55:28 from somebody who I do know was definitely connected with Adeel Khan.

55:33 But these are the stories that are out there with Honestly,

55:36 these should concern everyone because these should be looked at by the police

55:40 not by an investigative journalist who has no subpoena powers,

55:44 no ability to, you know, examine these medical records.

55:47 These are things that should be looked at by the police in Mexico.

55:52 These by the regulatory authorities

55:54 and and anyone working with Adeel Khan elsewhere.

55:57 And I think they're very very concerning.

55:59 Although, you know, again we're going to put

56:00 this caveat that these are sources that told me this stuff on background and off

56:05 the record that you cannot independently verify, which is,

56:09 you know, as an investigative journalist,

56:12 I wish more people had the courage to step up

56:15 because when I once I started putting out these reports,

56:18 everyone wanted to talk to me.

56:20 I mean I got so many emails from so many different people,

56:23 but not a lot of people had the courage to do the right thing.

56:27 I think courage is a really really important part of being an honest

56:32 citizen because the people if you if you know something that happened

56:37 at one of these clinics of some sort of malpractice that is

56:40 literally putting people in like dire shape and maybe getting them killed,

56:45 I think you have a duty to come out and do something

56:48 and not just save your own hide and pretend it didn't happen.

56:53 But that's just me.

56:56 Okay, well, there's just one more thing to say in this video

57:00 and that's what happened when I actually talked to Adeel Khan.

57:03 So let's get into that bit.

57:07 Now as I mentioned earlier, I did reach out to Khan and A Turn

57:10 A Health multiple times over the course of reporting this series.

57:13 Now at first Khan agreed to an interview,

57:15 but after several weeks of gaslighting me,

57:18 I decided that it probably wasn't going to happen.

57:20 So I asked him directly over email about complications

57:23 that I'd been investigating with Mark Hyman and Jordan Peterson.

57:26 Now I'm guessing that by that time they knew what I was researching.

57:31 Rather than respond directly, they eventually put me over to their legal team,

57:34 a lawyer named David Mikael who has offices in Colorado and Puerto Rico.

57:39 In one email he wrote, "We are not able to provide specifics about patients,

57:44 but I can unequivocally state that Dr.

57:46 Khan has not ever performed spinal

57:48 stem cell injection treatments for these patients.

57:51 I am concerned about the veracity of your sources for this information,

57:55 but at this time we do deny the allegations." I was quite

58:00 confused by that statement because how can you unequivocally state that Adeel

58:04 Khan has not ever performed spinal cell injections when both Khan

58:09 and Hyman posted Instagram videos stating that is exactly what they did.

58:15 So Mark Hyman has severe spinal canal stenosis, severe facet arthritis.

58:20 We had to use a combination of our engineered

58:22 muse stem cells and also muse exosomes.

58:25 We injected them epidurally using catheters.

58:27 We also injected them into the facet joints.

58:30 I mean it seemed like he was unequivocally

58:33 lying to me in the face of direct evidence.

58:35 And I wrote him as much and he wrote back just a few minutes later.

58:39 "First of all, Mr.

58:40 Carney, we owe you no obligation to respond or comment,

58:44 but have provided you the courtesy of a response.

58:47 Second, the PR you are referring to does not concede that Dr.

58:50 Khan personally did stem cell injections on either patient.

58:54 The pronoun used by Dr.

58:56 Khan was not in the first person." All right,

59:00 now when a lawyer decides that the best defense against

59:02 misrepresentations is to start picking apart pronouns and sentence structure,

59:07 you know that something is amiss.

59:09 He is likely suggesting that the shot that got Mark Hyman sick

59:13 was performed at A Turn A Health but not specifically by Khan himself.

59:19 Which seems to me at least immaterial when Khan is the founder and the face

59:24 and the CEO of A Turn A Health

59:26 and is ultimately responsible for what happens at his company.

59:29 This sort of lawyerly obfuscation made me think that it

59:33 was probably not worth talking to Khan's team again.

59:37 I don't like being lied to.

59:38 I don't like being led astray.

59:41 However, since I am sure that Khan is going to watch this video,

59:45 I would be glad to extend a deal Khan an invitation to come on my show

59:50 and chat directly with me about the things that I've brought up in this series.

59:54 I mean, maybe this was all a misunderstanding.

59:58 Dr.

59:58 Khan, I'll be standing by.

1:00:01 Until then, that's my report on the dark

1:00:04 side of the stem cell clinic to the stars.

1:00:13 Thank you so much for coming along on the series

1:00:15 about the pitfalls and promises of regenerative medicine.

1:00:17 I learned a lot while researching this, and I'm thinking that I might

1:00:22 do an even deeper dive into the black market for stem cells because it

1:00:25 I sort of only brushed the surface and it reminds me of all

1:00:28 that time that I spent investigating organ

1:00:30 markets back at the beginning of my career.

1:00:32 Let me know if that's something you want to see more of down in the comments,

1:00:36 or maybe I should just look at Mr.

1:00:38 Human Garage because there's a lot there.

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1:00:52 And you can find a link to all that stuff down

1:00:54 in the the show notes and the description and the the pinned comments.

1:00:58 Now, I have been absolutely overwhelmed with the response

1:01:02 to these videos over the last few weeks.

1:01:04 Now, I knew that this investigation was going

1:01:06 to spiral out of control right after I started.

1:01:09 At first, I only wanted to dip my toes into talking about Hyman's sepsis case,

1:01:13 and then all of a sudden,

1:01:14 it blossomed into a full-blown investigation with sources

1:01:18 on three continents and an ever-expanding number of victims.

1:01:21 And I guess this is just what happens.

1:01:24 Once you start pulling on the strings of a story,

1:01:26 you never know how much is going to shake loose, which is a long way of saying

1:01:30 that I really couldn't done this without your help.

1:01:34 The tips that came in made something

1:01:36 that was unreasonably large a lot more manageable,

1:01:40 and I have actually just so much more material

1:01:42 that I didn't even put in to this story.

1:01:45 Thanks to all of you who helped me out along the way,

1:01:48 the confidential tips, the links to social media,

1:01:50 and even a clutch voiceover by Thomas Langnickel Pieres,

1:01:55 who lent me a great German accent to a rather boring email.

1:01:59 This is certainly not a licensed MCI product.

1:02:03 This has been a whole lot of fun for me

1:02:04 to work on, and now I'm excited to clear my mind,

1:02:07 and maybe I'm just going to take a much-needed break.

1:02:12 Either that, or maybe I'll jump right into the next project,

1:02:15 which right now could be me chasing tornadoes across the state of Colorado.

1:02:24 Here we go.

1:02:25 Stay tuned.

1:02:26 This is going to be intense.

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