Conversations Unplugged
with Josh Holland
At nearly 45, trainer and health coach Josh Holland noticed something changing: the workouts, injuries, and physical stress he once bounced back from simply took longer to recover from. Then he began taking STEMREGEN. Today, he says it’s something he uses every day, along with many of his clients, and when his body needs additional recovery support, he adjusts how much he takes before returning to his normal routine. In this conversation with STEMREGEN Founder and Chief Science Officer Christian Drapeau, Josh shares what he has experienced firsthand and asks Christian to explain the bigger idea behind supporting the body’s repair system.
Josh Holland
For Josh, recovery is where the difference has been most noticeable. “It’s something that I truthfully take every single day,” he tells Christian, explaining that he increases his intake when he feels he needs more recovery support. Christian connects that experience to the role stem cells play in the body’s natural response to injury. Whether the stress is visible on the outside or occurring internally after physical activity, his focus is on the same underlying process: making more of the body’s own stem cells available to participate in repair.
That leads into a broader conversation about how STEMREGEN’s approach has evolved. Christian explains that the original challenge was getting more stem cells into circulation and helping create the conditions for them to reach areas calling for repair. The next question is what happens at the tissue itself. His goal is to build a more complete approach around the regenerative process, supporting the inflammatory signals coming from tissue, the movement of stem cells from the bloodstream into that tissue, and the cellular processes involved as those cells multiply during repair.
For Christian, the larger idea is that the body has a repair system working every day, not only when an obvious injury occurs. Just as people have come to understand the importance of supporting immune or mitochondrial function, he believes stem cell function will become an increasingly important part of the conversation around health and longevity. That idea resonates with Josh, whose own interest began with a simple observation: recovery was changing as he got older. Their conversation expands that observation into a much bigger question about what becomes possible when we intentionally support the repair machinery the body already has.
