Stem Cell News, page-499

...and ironically Mexico's medical industry is seeing a mass influx of "stem cell tourism" as sports/media influencers on social media encourage a swath of US sports stars, in UFC and surfing particularly, to head to Mexico for untrialled stem cell treatments

Whilst listed companies like CYP struggle for decades to get product to market amidst onerous and expensive, but proper, regulatory pathways, private medical companies in Mexico and the like, rake in big dollars from poorly regulated and untrialled treatments:

https://theconversation.com/stem-cell-therapies-why-theyre-expensive-unproven-and-often-dangerous-206548

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/105448

For every sport star influencer like big wave surfer Shane Dorian featured as a success in some crappy publication with no morals:

https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/surfer-shane-dorian-stem-cell

There will be some sad tale you don't hear about quite so readily (his mate dying at the same "institute"):

https://beachgrit.com/2023/10/shane-dorian-medical-tragedy/

These guys literally have been featured in a host of publications that wouldn't know a DFU from a DUI:



https://cellularperformanceinstitute.com/

Whilst CYP's bona-fide phase III Sydney Uni trial struggled for years for recruitment.