Ben Greenfield, a fitness biohacker who once injected stem cells into his penis so as to make it bigger, has once again injected stem cells and posted a video of himself doing it. This time though, Greenfield did not inject stem cells for the sake of genital enhancement – but rather, as it appears, he did it as a protest in defiance of a recent US federal court ruling against ‘US Stem Cell’ Clinic. Greenfield insists the injection is merely a coincidence. But the timing and his actions – given his history, show coincidences don’t exist in the world of fitness hyper-marketing.

On June 3rd, after a lawsuit by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) against US Stem Cell, a federal judge ruled in favor of the FDA, granting it a permanent injunction against US Stem Cell, thereby stopping US Stem Cell – as per its treatment’s procedure, from extracting stem cells from its patients’ adipose fat tissue so as to re-inject the stem cells into the same patients in order to treat a wide range of issues.

Prior to the ruling, US Stem Cell’s chief science officer Dr. Kristin Comella – known for injecting stem cells into her vagina – which she claims enhanced her orgasms and stopped her from peeing her pants during physical exertion, had vowed she would win the case. Comella argued a person’s own stem cells cannot be classified as a drug, and proceedings for such a classification were machinations by pharmaceutical corporations so as to hide how easy it is to extract and use stem cells:

“Your fat has five hundred times as many stem cells as your bone marrow and is easy to get!” proclaimed Comella prior to her court date, “Pharma wants to hide this from you and is using the FDA to squash my twenty years of work in this field and classify your stem cells as a drug!”

In a campaign she dubbed the “My Cells, My Choice” campaign, Dr. Comella – among whose stem cell treatment patients includes Republican strategist Roger Stone, went on to claim that Michael Cohen, President Trump’s disgraced former lawyer, was paid by multinational pharmaceutical company Norvatis so as to get the FDA to stop her stem cell treatment which was cheaper than treatments offered by Norvatis:

“Michael Cohen was paid $1.2 million by Novartis to get the FDA to stop my stem cell treatment which costs 50 times less than the Novartis treatment!”

Dr. Comella finished off her rant against Novartis with a promise to defeat both Big Pharma and the FDA in court: “Big Pharma will lose big money when I win my case! Michael Cohen and the corrupt FDA will be exposed!”

But as it turns out, things did not go as Comella had prophesied, and after the federal court ruling, US Stem Cell issued a somber statement announcing the end of their stem cell treatment:

“We’re disappointed with the court’s ruling to discontinue adipose stem cell treatments in the US. While we believe there is substantial evidence to prove the efficacy of this protocol, we must immediately comply with the court as we review the decision. US Stem Cell Inc and US Stem Cell Clinic will continue to operate business as usual, but will no longer offer the adipose/SVF procedure.”

But it seems that Ben Greenfield – who is also Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s wellness guide, did not get this memo. In the video he posted on social media on June 8th, five days after the court ruling, Greenfield says he will be injecting stem cells that US Stem Cell had extracted from him and preserved for him; with the explanatory text for of his video stating, “In the video below, you can see me demonstrating how I inject mesenchymal stem cells extracted from my own adipose tissue by the US Stem Cell Clinic.”

The 39 year old self-titled ‘anti-aging consultant’ then opens the package from US Stem Cell explaining, “These are my stem cells, that I harvested from adipose tissue when I was 35 years old, so that I could inject the young me into the old me.”

While repeatedly uttering disclaimers that he is not a medical doctor, Greenfield fumbles through setting up his self-injection while wearing no gloves, at one point explaining that he is using sterile water (which would technically destroy the stem cells due to osmotic pressure), before finally injecting his right arm through an IV Push.

Given that Greenfield’s video is a how-to of injecting your own stem cells, it is basically pointing to a loophole that people who have had their stem cells extracted by US Stem Cell Clinic can exploit to continue getting stem cell treatment, DESPITE the federal court ruling. With the catch being that they do the injections themselves. As Greenfield says in the video, he injects himself with stem cells once a year or every six months; but this time, following the federal court ruling, he shows everyone how to inject stem cells; albeit destroyed and useless stem cells.

Nonetheless, to fully confirm Greenfield’s intentions, we asked him, given the timing, if his self-injection was a form of protest to the federal court ruling; but Greenfield insisted that it was, “Total coincidence!”

Total coincidence or not, defiant protest or not; Greenfield, who has been dubbed by many in Fitness Science as the “king of placebo” and the “most prominent scholar of broscience,” is also infamous for touting the health benefits of literally eating ants, massaging his rectum with glass rods, and consuming alchemical concoctions such as “hydrogen-infused water” and “activated almonds.” So at least the chances of his loophole advice being taken seriously outside his cult following, are slim.

Finally, breaking character and losing his cartoonish Elizabeth Holmes-type “deep” voice, Greenfield finished off his how-to video by gleefully shrieking in his true high-pitched voice: “And that! Is how! You inject your own stem cells!”