Conversations Unplugged
with Corey Pilling
Podiatrist Corey Pilling first began using STEMREGEN after seeing family members struggle with health issues that conventional approaches had not resolved. Soon, he started introducing it to patients dealing with difficult wounds, nerve problems, poor circulation, and surgical recovery in the lower legs. Corey says he began seeing wounds heal more quickly, fewer post-surgical complications, and patients returning to function sooner than he expected. In this conversation with STEMREGEN Founder and Chief Science Officer Christian Drapeau, Corey shares what he has observed in his clinic and how his work with regenerative health became deeply personal when he faced two major cardiovascular events of his own.
Corey Pilling
What surprised Corey most was that the changes his patients reported were not always limited to the problem he was trying to address. Some described greater energy, sharper thinking, improved balance, and a return to activities they had not been able to do for years. He recalls patients moving from wheelchairs to walking, relying less on walkers or canes, and in some cases feeling enough improvement in their feet and lower legs to begin driving again. These are Corey’s clinical observations rather than controlled study results, but they changed the way he began counseling patients: even when the goal was focused on the feet or lower legs, they might notice changes elsewhere.
Then Corey became the patient. In his 50s, a routine health evaluation revealed an aortic aneurysm that required surgery within weeks. He says he used all three STEMREGEN products during his recovery and reached his recovery milestones ahead of the timeline he had been given. At his six-week follow-up, Corey says his physicians found that he had healed sufficiently to return to normal activity, a process he had expected could take three months or longer. Several months later, however, he experienced another major event: a heart attack that sent him back into recovery.
Corey says the follow-up from that heart attack brought another unexpected result. Although initial testing suggested mild-to-moderate cardiac damage, he reports that a later stress test, EKG, and ultrasound showed no apparent deficit or sign of lasting damage, with his heart functioning normally. He is careful to describe this as his personal experience, not proof of what caused the outcome. Christian sees an opportunity to investigate it further, suggesting that Corey’s case and clinical records could potentially be documented alongside their heart research. For Corey, after nearly two years of watching patients navigate recovery, his own experience has made the question of how the body repairs itself more personal than ever.
