In this MedPage Today interview, Leigh Turner, PhD, a professor of health policy and bioethics at the University of California Irvine, unpacks the growing influence of stem cell clinics and the blurred line between medicine and marketing. He explains how athletes like NFL quarterback Kirk Cousins and the nation's top health official, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are promoting unproven interventions .

Following is a transcript of the video:

Kirk Cousins: Most people just go to the Caribbean for a vacation, but we were there for a completely different reason.

Newscaster 1: Netflix has dropped its latest version of "Quarterback," and Kirk Cousins is ...

Newscaster 2: ... Kirk Cousins flew to Antigua to get a stem cell treatment on his Achilles ...

Newscaster 3: ... as the

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