ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Dr. Jeff Wiegers is a double board-certified anesthesiologist and fellowship-trained interventional pain physician. He did his residency and fellowship at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, where he was chief resident.
He is also chief medical officer of MuseCell Innovations, a stem cell company, and he remains on staff at Cedars-Sinai.
The first time we met was on my workout buddy’s show, where I was firing questions at him between pushups. This is the full conversation.
We get into what regenerative medicine actually is (working with the body to heal itself instead of managing symptoms), why the best athletes in the world are using it and how a small injury turns into a big one. We talk about the supplement rabbit hole, peptides and how to tell a real need from hype, why he would take sunlight, movement, and common sense over any biohack, and what it means to redefine aging instead of writing yourself off.
If your labs are normal and you still don’t feel like yourself, this is your episode.
Follow Dr. Jeff on Instagram @jeffwiegers and find his clinic at bioresetmedical.com. This is part one. He’s coming back.
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Chapters
(00:00) Meet Dr. Jeff Wiegers
(00:35) Questions Between Pushups
(01:14) What Is Regenerative Medicine
(01:48) Anesthesiologist, Pain Doctor, Sports Medicine
(02:42) Heal the Body, Don’t Cover It Up
(03:11) Root Cause, Not Band-Aids
(03:57) Athletes, Longevity, Complex Illness
(06:02) The Sherlock Holmes Game
(07:04) How Ultrasound Changed Injections
(08:38) Small Injury, Then the Big One
(09:48) Why Pro Athletes Go Regenerative
(10:19) Kobe Went to Germany
(11:32) Stem Cells and Clinics Abroad
(12:19) A Word From TMRW
(13:26) Terrain: What You Walk In With
(14:13) Aging Is a Drop in Efficiency
(15:45) My Labs Are Normal but I Feel Off
(17:40) A Routine Blood Panel Is Crude
(18:16) Fatigue as an Early Sign
(19:11) Mitochondria and Cellular Health
(19:56) What Actually Makes a Difference
(20:51) Protein Isn’t the Whole Answer
(22:07) The B1 Rabbit Hole
(23:40) Algorithms Put Us in Silos
(24:16) It’s Always Candida
(24:46) Bringing Research to Your Doctor
(25:28) Low-Dose Cialis for Blood Flow
(27:40) Preventative, Not Reactive
(28:57) Instructing Your Doctor
(29:34) Defending Doctors
(30:40) What Should Everyone Be Doing
(31:34) A Million Kelseys vs a Million Jeffs
(32:03) The Fasting Study and the Cat
(33:16) Sunlight, Movement, and Killer Whales
(34:06) What Works for Me May Not Work for You
(34:53) Hyperbaric, Hypoxia, and Cell Gym
(35:50) Hormesis: Stress That Makes You Stronger
(37:01) The UFC and Recovery Facilities
(37:31) Recovery, Not Performance Enhancement
(38:53) Prove Safety, Then Play Ball
(40:10) Testing on Million-Dollar Athletes
(41:01) AlphaFold, AI, and New Medicine
(42:11) Everything New Was Questioned Once
(42:59) The Operating Theater
(43:53) Probiotics, NAD, and the Shill Accusation
(44:59) Clinic Quality vs Black Market Peptides
(46:27) Where to Start With Peptides
(47:19) Your AI Isn’t Selling You Peptides
(48:40) Match the Peptide to a Real Need
(50:06) Fresh Out of Training
(50:58) Trust Issues With Everything Medical
(51:19) AI in Medicine Is Mostly Upside
(52:09) What Feeling Good Feels Like
(53:10) Round Two Is Coming
(54:14) The Gut Health Black Box
(55:25) Young at 67, Old at 24
(55:49) I Don’t Wanna Be a Biohacker
(56:16) Dial It In
(56:51) Where to Find Dr. Jeff
(57:23) MuseCell Innovations
(57:47) Farewell
