Heart Disease on the Joe Rogan Experience

6 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes · Jan 2018 to Oct 2024 · updated Jul 18, 2026

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  1. The BNP came down in every single case. The ejection fraction, which measures kind of like the efficiency, how much blood your heart's pumping on each stroke, …

    Riordan claims that in clinical trials, a heart-failure biomarker (BNP) decreased and ejection fraction increased in every single patient treated with stem cells.

  2. He put half of them on a low animal diet with very high plants, let half of them eat like Los Angeles people. Eight years later, 50% on the high plant, low fat…

    Kahn claims Dr. Lester Morrison's 1948 Los Angeles study of 100 heart patients found 50% survival at eight years on a low-animal, high-plant diet versus 0% survival on a standard diet, as evidence the diet reverses heart disease.

  3. we're prescribing 221 million prescriptions for statins per year and heart disease is continuing to be the leading cause of death in the United States.

    The guest claims the US prescribes 221 million statin prescriptions per year while heart disease remains the leading cause of death.

  4. Of course, we've got heart disease, which is almost totally preventable as the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 800,000 people per y…

    Casey Means states that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 800,000 people per year, and is almost totally preventable.

  5. there was a study at University of Buffalo where they took, they injected cells IV in a hamster model of heart failure. And then they looked in the heart and t…

    Riordan cites a University of Buffalo hamster study to claim MSC secretions alone (not the cells reaching the heart) reverse heart failure.

  6. And he was 11% ejection fraction. Normal is about 60. And the regular hospital who worked a lot with us with our spinal cord patients and seeing results, seein…

    Riordan recounts an anecdotal case of a patient with 11% ejection fraction being cured by stem cell treatment, implying dramatic heart failure reversal from a single anecdote.