In this presentation, the leadership of Cellebration Wellness outlines their organizational structure, their ambitions for clinical research, and the investigational stem cell protocols they currently offer to international patients at their facility in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Quick Takeaway: Cellebration Wellness operates a medical tourism facility in Costa Rica providing unproven, investigational stem cell therapies for conditions ranging from diabetes to anti-aging. While the company discusses applying for future clinical trials in the United States, major global health regulators have not approved stem cell therapy as a standard or proven treatment for these wide-ranging chronic and cosmetic conditions.
- 0:00 - Introduction: Cellebration Wellness and Fintech World Group
- 0:20 - Company Structure: Research Division vs. Wellness Center
- 0:54 - Stem Cell Basics: The Provider's Explanation of Healing Cells
- 2:37 - Clinical Ambitions: Discussing Type 2 Diabetes and FDA Pre-IND Filings
- 3:48 - Scientific Leadership: Dr. Anand Srivastava's Background
- 6:15 - The Costa Rica Experience: Outline of the Four-Day Treatment Protocol
- 7:34 - Future Goals: Franchise Models and Global Expansion
- 9:04 - Athletic Protocols: Pre-Season and Post-Season Treatments
- 10:05 - Cosmetic Applications: Anti-Aging and Skin Therapies
- 10:59 - Facility Introduction: Cellebration Wellness in San Jose, Costa Rica
Dual Operations: Balancing Research Ambitions with Medical Tourism
The presentation outlines the company's two distinct facets: Cellebration Life Sciences, which handles research and clinical trial aspirations, and Cellebration Wellness, a commercial therapy center operating offshore in Costa Rica. By separating these entities, the organization is able to provide treatments internationally that are not currently approved for clinical use in the United States.
While the provider highlights treating over a hundred patients in Costa Rica for various chronic conditions, it is important for patients to differentiate between treatments administered in a commercial wellness setting and therapies that have passed rigorous, phased regulatory clinical trials.
The "Pre-IND" Milestone: Distinguishing Trial Applications from Approvals
A focal point of the presentation is the provider's mention of filing a "Pre-IND number" for a Type 2 Diabetes protocol with the FDA. In the context of medical regulation, patients should understand what this terminology actually means:
- Investigational New Drug (IND) Applications: An IND is a request submitted to the FDA for authorization to administer an investigational drug or biological product to humans during clinical trials.
- Pre-IND Status: Holding a Pre-IND number simply indicates that a sponsor has initiated early communication with the FDA to discuss a proposed clinical trial plan.
- Not a Clinical Endorsement: A Pre-IND number does not mean the FDA has approved the treatment, verified its safety, or confirmed its efficacy. It is purely an administrative step toward beginning formal research.
The "Master Cell" Narrative: Evaluating Broad Treatment Claims
During the video, stem cells are described as the body's "master healing cells," capable of homing in on inflammation or trauma to regenerate tissue and restore function. Based on this premise, the provider suggests their therapies can address an extraordinarily wide spectrum of human disease, including autoimmune disorders, Parkinson's, ALS, Crohn's disease, COPD, Type 2 diabetes, and general aging.
From a clinical perspective, while stem cells do play a vital role in biological healing and are the subject of intense global research, the leap from laboratory observation to systemic human cures is significant. Major scientific bodies note that proposing a single biological intervention to successfully treat distinct conditions—ranging from pancreatic dysfunction in diabetes to neurological decay in ALS—often oversimplifies complex disease mechanics and outpaces current clinical evidence.
"What stem cells are is when anytime any type of trauma happens inside or outside the body... stem cells are made to set an alarm off in the body and go to try to heal the body."
The Four-Day Costa Rica Protocol: What the Provider Proposes
For patients traveling to the San Jose facility, the video details a condensed, multi-day schedule combining cellular infusions with supportive wellness treatments.
Patients undergo a full medical evaluation, vitamin infusions, and hyperbaric chamber sessions designed to prepare the body.
The core therapies are administered. The provider emphasizes that all cells are sourced from their own laboratory rather than being transported by patients or unverified third parties.
Additional vitamin infusions and hyperbaric sessions are provided, followed by an exit consultation to verify immediate patient stability before travel.
The content discussed in this video and article is strictly educational and does not constitute medical advice or a treatment recommendation. The stem cell therapies described for diabetes, neurological conditions, autoimmune diseases, and anti-aging are investigational, and clinical outcomes are not guaranteed. Patients should always consult a qualified healthcare provider before pursuing unproven or experimental medical treatments abroad.
| Claimed Application | Evidence Strength | What Evidence Shows |
|---|---|---|
| Treatment or Reversal of Type 2 Diabetes | Experimental | While preclinical and early-phase clinical trials are exploring cellular therapies for diabetes, it is not an approved standard of care, and long-term efficacy remains unestablished outside of controlled trials. |
| Therapies for Neurological Diseases (ALS, Parkinson's) | Investigational | No stem cell therapies are currently approved by major regulatory bodies for the treatment of ALS or Parkinson's disease. Existing evidence is largely anecdotal or restricted to early-stage safety studies. |
| Systemic Anti-Aging and Longevity Benefits | Unproven | Major medical organizations explicitly warn against commercial anti-aging stem cell treatments due to a lack of verified clinical data demonstrating effectiveness and unknown long-term risks. |
Documented Risks: Unregulated or investigational stem cell infusions carry risks including adverse immune reactions, infections at the injection site, unproven clinical efficacy, severe financial loss, and in rare cases, unintended cellular proliferation (tumor formation).
Established Alternatives: Patients with Type 2 diabetes, autoimmune conditions, and neurological disorders should maintain evidence-based pharmacological management, lifestyle interventions, and specialized care guided by a board-certified physician.
Candidacy Considerations: Patients with established chronic or degenerative diseases are generally advised to exhaust standard-of-care options before considering experimental medical tourism. Participation in formal, regulated clinical trials is the scientifically preferred route for accessing unproven therapies.
- What specific type of stem cells (e.g., autologous, allogeneic, mesenchymal) are used in this protocol, and exactly how are they processed?
- Can you provide published, peer-reviewed clinical data proving the efficacy of this specific 4-day protocol for my exact diagnosis?
- What emergency medical protocols and critical care resources exist at the Costa Rica facility if an adverse immune reaction occurs during an infusion?
- Has this exact laboratory and facility in San Jose been inspected or accredited by international or Costa Rican regulatory health bodies?
- If the treatment is still in the "Pre-IND" phase in the US, what objective safety data guarantees it is ready for commercial patient use abroad?
Frequently Asked Questions
When evaluating presentations on experimental cellular medicine, understanding the regulatory and practical boundaries is critical for safe decision-making.
Is the Cellebration Wellness Type 2 diabetes protocol FDA-approved?
No. The provider mentions holding a "Pre-IND number," which means they have communicated with the FDA to discuss a future clinical trial design. It does not represent an approval to market or provide the treatment as a proven medical cure in the United States.
Why is this specific 4-day stem cell treatment offered in Costa Rica?
Many organizations operating in the field of experimental regenerative medicine establish treatment centers in jurisdictions where regulatory frameworks permit the commercial administration of cellular therapies that have not yet completed the rigorous multi-phase clinical trial requirements of the US FDA or the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Are the anti-aging stem cell treatments described standard medical protocols?
No. Major medical societies and regulatory agencies do not recognize systemic stem cell infusions as an established or verified anti-aging intervention. While some patients report subjective improvements in energy or skin appearance, there is no standardized clinical consensus confirming these treatments safely reverse cellular aging.
Understand Your Treatment Options Before Making a Decision
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0:06 Welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us without further ado. It's my pleasure to introduce Sydney Armani, Chairman and CEO of Fintech World Group, and Timothy Kopatich, CEO of Cellebration Life Sciences Incorporated.
0:20 Basically, we have two facets of our company. We have Cellebration Life Sciences, which you said is the research arm of our company. And then we have Cellebration Wellness, which is the therapy and treatment side of our company.
0:32 So basically, what we have done in the last year is we've opened, operated, and fully licensed our stem cell—and I like to call it a wellness center—because it's not a clinic, it's a wellness center. And basically what we've done is we've treated over 100 patients in Costa Rica and have gotten very good results.
0:54 To kind of go over Stem Cell 101 for people watching or anyone that's not familiar with stem cells: basically, let's start at the beginning. What is a stem cell? A stem cell, let's say you cut your finger, a stem cell is the master healing cell of the body.
1:03 So what stem cells are is when anytime any type of trauma happens inside or outside the body, skin, neural, any type of autoimmune issue, stem cells are made to set an alarm off in the body and go to try to heal the body.
1:17 So what Cellebration Life Sciences is doing through our research is we're showing how to harness and take the cells out of the laboratory and into the therapy process so that we can take stem cells of the human body and we can get them back into the human body after we do a 9 to 10 step process. And then it heals the body and heals the issues that people are having.
1:41 So we're ecstatic at what we've done in Costa Rica, and anyone that's been to Costa Rica knows Costa Rica is a beautiful, safe, amazing environment. I mean, they've got beaches there, they've got both oceans, the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean, they've got volcanoes, a lot of yoga, a lot of healing activities. So we welcome anyone that's watching to contact us, to come down, whether you have an ailment or whether you'd want to do an investment with us.
2:05 Like Sydney said, you know, we don't give medical advice. Consult with your physician, anyone that's going to get a stem cell therapy. We work in tandem with a lot of doctors both in the United States and internationally. We have medical directors on our staff that talk to doctors, but again, we want you to run it by your doctor because there's a lot of things that we can help and a lot of things that we can treat, but there's things that we can't.
2:37 At Cellebration Life Sciences, we did file a 506(c), okay, so we're raising $20 million at a dollar a share. And what that is is it's going to do two things for our company. One is we're taking some of our data, some of what are called protocols.
2:52 So we have a Type 2 diabetes clinical protocol that we are going to take through the FDA clinical trial process, okay. We filed that already, we have what's called a Pre-IND number. And that's what a lot of people are doing in the space and in the industry. What's happening is you're taking a lot of the data you're getting on treating patients, and then you're taking it through FDA clinical trials and then you're showing its efficacy and that it works.
3:25 There's been companies in the Type 1 diabetic space that got into a Phase 1 clinical trial and they did very well with their data, similar to what we hope to show because we've already done a clinical study in the country of India. And this company showed what they could do with a Type 1 diabetes clinical trial, and they actually sold the company for about a billion dollars.
3:48 So our Chief Science Officer in both Cellebration Life Sciences and in Cellebration Wellness, his name is Dr. Anand Srivastava. Dr. Anand is broadly known as one of the godfathers of the modern stem cell industry. He's been in this for over 25 years. He was one of the first people to show that you could use stem cells to do things like help with neurological disorders, with autoimmune issues, with skin issues.
4:18 And he showed that to the world back in like 2005, 2007. Since that time, what he's done in about 2009, he took that from the laboratory out to the therapy side. So we've been treating people for the last 12 to 15 years for the ailments that I told you about.
4:28 He's renownedly known as one of the godfathers in the industry, generally a very good person, that's why I got involved in this company. He wanted to take this to the masses because he saw that it can help people.
4:50 A lot of people call us and they say, you know, I'm dealing with let's say neuropathy of the skin, or psoriasis, okay. They like to come and try our therapies before they have to go to a further state of therapy.
5:06 What the scientific studies have shown is stem cells, especially your own stem cells, can cause no adverse reaction within the body, okay. So what we've shown therapy-wise in our Wellness Center in Costa Rica is basically minor improvement, medium improvement, major improvement of our patients. And it's really hard to determine how anybody's body is going to react.
5:52 Sydney is a consultant of our company, and I think that part of that is because of the amazing results you had in doing your stem cell therapies.
6:03 Everyone out there, Sydney came to us with very severe psoriasis, and he had gone to dermatologists in the United States, he went to someone in Costa Rica, and for whatever reason did not get the results you were looking for. And so, to walk people through a little bit of what a stem cell therapy is, basically it's about a 4-day journey with us in Costa Rica.
6:25 So day one, we do medical examinations. We do a full one, I found out that I have some other things over the basic. We do a full medical examination, you get vitamin infusion, you get hyperbaric chamber sessions. Days two and three are when you do get the stem cells. Then day four we do more vitamins, hyperbaric chamber, and then day five is when we do your exit interview and make sure that everything that we did is good.
6:51 There's a lot of people that are researching stem cells, there's a lot of people that are practicing stem cells now. One thing that you should always know is it should always be backed by science. So at Cellebration Life Sciences and Cellebration Wellness, we have the highest level of science, we have the highest level of professionals that do our therapies.
7:12 If you're going to go get a stem cell therapy, always make sure when you're doing this that they have a laboratory on site. You don't want people transporting cells or you don't know where they're coming from. Everything that we do, every patient that we treat, always gets their stem cells from our laboratory, which is very important.
7:34 The vision for our company is to do two things. One is to take the data that we already have and take it through, like I told you, the clinical trial phases. The second thing what we'd like to do is we're putting together a franchise model to build more therapy wellness centers around the world.
8:01 We're in talks right now with a group in Japan which we signed a contract with, we are looking at countries like Spain, Morocco, actually North Africa, and some other parts of Asia. Because stem cell science as a whole is generally all over the world, you know, the United States does some stem cells but you can't take the science to the level that we can offshore, that's why we're there.
8:23 We've seen very good results and very good therapies for things like Type 2 diabetes, Crohn's disease, COPD, psoriasis of the skin, even things like neural elements that would be ALS, Parkinson's.
8:38 We are probably one of the only cellular therapy companies out there in the sports industry that has a pre-season, during season, and post-season protocol. We have a contract with the NFL Players Congress, the Retired Players Congress.
9:05 For athletes out there, what we're doing is we're doing a pre-season protocol so they get their bodies ready to go compete. We're doing an in-season protocol so that if there's any ailments or anything that happens during the season they can get therapies for that. And then the most important of it is the post-season therapies. So once people get done, NFL players, soccer players, hockey players, once they get done, they can get therapies from us afterwards because it's all about healing the body and regenerating the body.
9:38 One great example is we had a person come down with neuropathy and she got treated and felt her foot for the first time in a couple of years, three days after she got her therapy. She called me a couple weeks later and said, you know my neuropathy is still doing very good but my eyes have gotten a little better. My vision is a little better, I don't need reading glasses early in the morning.
10:05 A lot of people do beauty therapies for the skin, okay. Stem cells are wonderful for skin therapies. So we can do, obviously with dermatology assisted, we can do laser stem cells put onto the face, skin, things like that. So a lot of people that want to look for beauty therapies and look younger, that's the path you want to go.
10:25 Also anti-aging, I think the future of this industry will be anti-aging because everybody wants to live longer, and what we're harnessing and what people in the industry are seeing is we can slow down the aging process with stem cells.
10:50 There's a famous motivational speaker who said he thinks he's going to live to 150 years with the stem cells. He wrote a book on it, yeah. Thank you everyone, have a wonderful day.
11:00 Hello, my name is Tim Kopatich and I'm the CEO of Cellebration Wellness, a stem cell healing center located in San Jose, Costa Rica. Today I wanted to talk to you about some of the services that we offer that can help you down your path to a healthier life. We offer healing organic therapies for orthopedic issues, autoimmune issues, neural issues, skin conditions, and beauty treatments.
11:24 Today we're offering you a free consultation to see if these healing therapies will work for you. Please contact me directly so we can discuss this, and we look forward to seeing you in beautiful Costa Rica soon. Thank you.
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