Nothing is broken. You'd like to keep it that way.
IV stem cell therapy at Celva is an infusion of living umbilical-cord mesenchymal stem cells, from a screened donor, into a vein in your arm. It takes about 2 hours on site at Hospital Angeles, Tijuana, 25 to 30 minutes from San Diego, and you are home the same day.
The infusion is the same for everyone. What we plan around it depends on why you came.
Rest doesn't recharge you the way it once did, and you'd rather act now than wait for something to go wrong.
Visits planned around your life, alongside good sleep and movement. Your 6-month review decides what happens next.
The aches hang around longer and the bounce-back between hard efforts takes more out of you. Nothing is wrong, exactly.
Visits timed around your training. Your 6-month review decides what happens next.
A surgery, a serious illness, or a long stretch that knocked you flat. The physician team reads your history first and stays in step with your own doctors.
Planned by the physician team around your recovery.
A vitamin drip delivers nutrients. This delivers living cells: mesenchymal stem cells (cells that signal the rest of the body to calm inflammation and support repair), washed and counted before they reach you, dosed by your weight. See why we use more than one cell type
Umbilical-cord cells, with bone-marrow cells added in some cases, over about 45 minutes.
Most cells stay in the lungs for hours. Much of their signaling to the immune system happens there.
From there they're drawn to inflammation and tissue under strain, following the chemical signals that tissue gives off.
They release growth factors and tiny protein packets (extracellular vesicles) designed to calm the immune response and support the body's own repair.
Chronic low-grade inflammation rises with age; researchers call it inflammaging. Calming the immune system without suppressing it is the part of this most relevant to staying well.
About 2 hours in the hospital, morning or afternoon. No anesthesia and no procedure room: you're awake, and you can read, or work if your inbox insists.
A 15-minute call with a patient coordinator about your history and goals, then the physician team reviews. If you track markers such as CRP (inflammation), ApoB and HbA1c (metabolic health), sleep or HRV, bring them, spreadsheet and all. They become the baseline you compare against.
A short check-in: registration, vitals, consent and a briefing. You meet the attending physician, then an infusion nurse places the IV in a private suite. About 20 minutes.
Your dose is washed, counted and checked for viability first. A nurse runs it for about 45 minutes with your vitals watched throughout, and the attending physician supervises. Most people feel nothing beyond mild warmth.
Monitored rest and fluids. The attending physician signs your discharge, and a Celva driver takes you home the same day.
Walking and light activity the same day and the next. Workouts wait 7 to 10 days.
A check-in on your 3-month follow-up call, by phone or video: how you feel, what you can do, and any markers you track. The 6-month review decides what happens next.
No therapy does. This is support for inflammation, recovery and resilience.
Where it helps, it changes the environment a condition sits in. That matters, and it isn't a cure.
How long it lasts varies from person to person. Anyone calling regenerative results permanent is selling, not informing.
If another physician manages a condition of yours, this works alongside that care, and we share records with them.
What people describe after an infusion. Not everyone follows this curve, and if yours looks different, we tell you.
Mild warmth, sometimes a brief flush.
For some, mild tiredness, a slight fever the evening after, and vivid sleep. A fever that lasts more than 24 hours is a reason to call.
Some patients report more energy in the first 2 weeks. Others notice sleep and recovery first: fewer small aches, less heaviness after training.
The response peaks around 12 to 16 weeks. If you track markers on your own, pass them to the medical team to compare against your baseline.
The 6-month review decides what happens next: keep going, space visits further apart, or stop. Nothing is re-booked automatically.
Elsewhere at Celva: spine and joint pain, complex conditions, and the Learn library.
A patient coordinator gathers your history for the physician team, and nothing is scheduled until they've reviewed it and you've decided. If it isn't doing anything for you by the 6-month review, we say so, and no next infusion is booked.