A former Neurosurgeon shares how regenerative medicine is changing the future of wellness.
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In this episode of Mission Matters, Adam Torres sits down with Dr. Jeff Gross, the “Stem Cell Whisperer” and founder of ReCELLebrate, to explore the science and potential of stem cells, exosomes, and regenerative medicine in transforming patient care.
About ReCELLebrate
ReCELLebrate strives to contribute to pushing the standard of care forward by tapping into the body’s innate regenerative capabilities, and harnessing own natural biology to promote healing, vitality, and longevity. By integrating advanced regenerative medicine, stem cell and exosome-based therapies, and personalized wellness and biohacking strategies, ReCELLebrate aim to transform individualized and caring healthcare into a proactive, patient-centered journey of success with less reliance on pharmaceuticals and surgeries. Their commitment is to empower individuals to reclaim their health, foster healthy longevity, and embrace a life of enhanced well-being.
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to mission matters.com and click on Be Our Guest to Apply. All right, so today I am in Los Angeles, California and I’m at the Health Span Summit 2025, put on by Elias and his team.
Oh my gosh, so many people here. Been a blast. They’re having panels, speakers, anything you can think of, longevity, it is here. And my next guest, Dr. Jeff Gross. Jeff, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me. Alright, so what brought you out to the conference today? Well, uh, I’m in the regenerative medicine space.
I’m a recovering neurosurgeon usage, a lot of spine surgery. But in trying not to do surgery for people mm-hmm. Unless they absolutely have to have it, I tap back into the beauty and magic of, of a natural treatment, which is through stem cells and their signaling partners. Mm. Called exosomes. And we do a lot of joint and spine and IV wellness and things like that.
Now, I’m always curious, was this a, was this when you, uh, go, whether you’re going way back in time, or was it current, when did you wanna add this type of component to your practice? Well, I have an undergraduate background in this, but then you get whisked off to med school’s. What I, yeah. Yeah. You don’t get to have that enjoyment.
Okay. That, that you had. So there was that nerd side of me that, that always had it in the back of my mind. Mm-hmm. But you know, you hear more about it over the decades and patients started saying, Hey, I don’t want surgery. And I say, great. ’cause I really didn’t want to offer it to you unless we had to. And they’d say, Hey, well what about stem cells?
You know what? I’m tired of going to those old spine surgery meetings and neurosurgery meetings. Let me start going to the stem cell meeting. So I started reeducating, retraining, and boom, boom. This is all I do now. Wow. How did that transition take place for you? Was it like, was there like an aha moment?
Yeah. Was it like gradual, like, ta take me back? Yeah. I mean, I, I went to one of these stem cell conferences and so much had changed in the few decades since undergraduate school and. And I, I saw so much that was being done in Europe and in Asia, and we were just like, what? Like what were some of the like, well, the stem cell approaches for cartilage regeneration.
Mm-hmm. And joint repair, saving people from needing a joint replacement or spine. And so things that maybe way back when, when you were in school, you’re thinking of like, it was kind of fringe. It’s like now it’s actually happening and it’s happening often. Yeah. It’s been happening for decades. Yeah. In Europe and in Asia.
We’re just late. Hmm. We’re just late to it. And so, as you were so, so continue on the story. So you’re, you’re, you’re going to these conferences, you’re gonna, these talks and you’re like, and, and obviously the message is seeping into you, like, what happens next? There’s so much science that, that I hadn’t tapped back into.
And I said, okay, I’m gonna, I wanna add this as a tool, so what’s the best thing I can use? What’s the best way to apply it? What are all the best practices? And I put those together. So I’m gonna plant my flag and start doing this as part of what I offer. Mm. And in short order. It became all I do. Wow.
Because there’s a, there’s a need for it. And people don’t want to have surgery unless they have to. So we’re trying to give them an, an option, an alternative, so that during this early reeducation, yeah, it just snapped. How does the medical community overall, like, I’m always curious when somebody goes and does something slightly different, like people know what you’re doing, but like, how does that, like, how does that sit?
Like how are you received with that? Uh, it’s mixed, you know? Mm-hmm. It is tough. There’s, there’s a lot of Kool-Aid being consumed in the sick care system. It’s tricky, isn’t it? It’s tricky and some colleagues are like, oh, tell me about that. It’s very interesting, and some colleagues are like, oh, you’re off the script.
You’re not following the cookbook, like you’re right. It can be, it can be, I don’t wanna put words in your mouth, but it can be polarizing, would you say? Or? I think it is polarizing. Yeah, I thought so. Yeah. So we, we, we try to make these new things available to people. I think I’m, in one way we protect patients is to give them options and alternatives that are less invasive and.
Have fewer side effects than drugs and surgeries. Yeah, I’m a fan because what, what happens, what I, what I think happens is there’s individuals like yourself who are highly educated in a very, very highly specialized field, and it almost gives people permission to be able to explore when they can say, if Jeff is his decided to spend his time on this.
I’m not as smart as Jeff. I’m not, I’m saying that I don’t, in this field, I don’t know, so I don’t know about this stuff, but if you’re dedicating your life and your practice to this, there’s something to it. Yeah, look, listen, the, the surgeries I’m trying not to do. 50 years ago, someone had to try that first.
Right there, someone was pushing the envelope. So hopefully we’re seeing as people pushing the envelope for the benefit of our patients. So talk about your, your company. So re celebrate, right? So we’re celebrating the renewal of your cells and, uh, re celebrate is our clinic, but we also have some growing products in the exosome space.
We have a nutraceutical based on plant derived exosomes from curated organic Italian fruits that are known to have anti-aging properties. We have preclinical studies showing improvement in the age related cell markers, like sir two in one genes. Lowering the reactive oxygen species, which is cellular stress.
And, uh, we’re working on a clinical study. Currently we’re working on a skin product, but really what we do is treat patients. I, I second opinions, consults, helping people try to avoid joint and spine surgeries, and finding new and more natural ways, holistic ways to address problems that they just couldn’t get, uh, success with in the.
Traditional sick care system. What, what, what, how do you choose, I should say, how do you choose what types of products you’re gonna make and you’re gonna put your weight behind and your name behind? Well, we, we’ve developed this nutraceutical, for example, because I’m in this, uh, stem cell derived exosome space.
I’m one of the few people who sort of the, you know, in, in that space during my research, I, I figured out that plants make exosomes too, and those. Exosomes from plants are the way those plants naturally deliver their nutrients. They’re what we call phytonutrients. Mm-hmm. So things like revera, cetin things you might buy a supplement for off the shelf.
Yeah. But instead of getting it processed and and broken out of the delivery vehicle, nature made mm-hmm. We are now able through a special lab to extract those exosomes from the plants so we can get a much better delivery of those nutrients. Mm-hmm. What are you following right now? Like in terms of trends or otherwise, like with your background, your knowledge?
Yeah. Obviously you’re creating products, you’re obviously helping your patients, but like what excites you right now? So the, the cutting edge things in, in the regenerative medicine and, you know, alternative health and wellness space mm-hmm. Are peptides. Peptides and peptides. Okay. Yeah. Uh, I’ve done at least one interview today on peptides.
Yeah. We, we gotta hear a lot more of it. Everyone’s we’re, they’re incredible augmentative Yeah. Natural ways of doing things. We have now subsets of exosomes from natural killer cells. We have subsets of exosomes from other types of stem cells like neural brain and and nervous system stem cells, and we have muse cells, MUSE, that is a subset of stem cells that seem to have even additional potency.
Hmm. Man, I’m excited. Good. I love it. It’s, it’s a, well, I’m just saying it’s a good time for us to be alive, in my opinion. Yeah. Like with what’s happening, how fast it’s happening. I mean, every, any good time is a good time to be alive, but, but, uh, just think the experimentation side of like, or I should even just say the medic, the breakthroughs that have happened.
Yeah. Like peptides, all these other things that are happening. They’re happening fast. There’s, there’s a lot happening. And there if you have an appetite for it. Mm. It’s available to you. Mm. It’s available to you. You’re probably not gonna hear about this in, in your regular health insurance doctor’s office.
Yeah. You’re just not, yeah. You have to come out to a conference like this or call us up at We celebrate or, uh, or, uh, one of our colleagues around the nation. We are, we are doing this. You don’t see much advertisement because we’re not allowed to advertise. You may know that Google and Facebook. Will not allow stem cells, exosomes, peptides, anything.
Very interesting how that, how that works, right? Yeah. Mm-hmm. I, I don’t know. I’m not gonna comment on that. When we love you Facebook and everybody else that’s gonna push this out for us, but like, very interesting how that works and people don’t understand what that even means. Right. So, you know, most people see the advertisements from the international clinics.
Mm-hmm. But you can get the treatments here in the us. Hmm. Amazing. Yeah. Well, Jeff, um, last thing I’ll ask you to do, look into the camera. If people wanna follow up, they wanna learn more, how can they connect? Check us out at re celebrate. That’s R-E-C-E-L-L. E-B-R-A-T-E. I think we’ve cornered the internet on that word since we made it up.
So, uh, re celebrate.com at Instagram, at re celebrate Facebook, LinkedIn. You’ll find us fantastic for everybody at home watching. Just so you know. We’ll definitely put some links in the show notes, so you can just click on the links and head right on over. And speaking of the audience, if this is your first time with Mission Matters and you haven’t done it yet, hit that subscribe or follow button.
This is a daily show. Each and every day, we’re bringing you new content, new ideas, and hopefully new inspiration to help you along the way in your journey as well. So again, hit that subscribe or follow button. And Jeff, man, appreciate you. So good to meet you. Thank you.
