Investigative journalist Scott Carney spent two months examining the medical background and practices of Dr. Adeel Khan, the self-described stem cell doctor to the stars, whose clients include Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Chris Hemsworth, and Justin Baldoni.
Khan has repeatedly promoted what he calls Dezawa Muse cells, a patented stem cell product developed by Japanese scientist Mari Dezawa and manufactured by her company, MCI. In podcast appearances, Khan described working “directly with that scientist to get these cells.”
But when Carney brought photos of the vials used in Khan’s treatments to MCI’s chief medical officer, Dominic Duscher, the response said something else.
“This is certainly not a licensed MCI product,” Duscher wrote. “MCI DMC have never been sold or stored in tubes comparable to what the nurse is holding. So we can guarantee that this is not from MCI-related manufacturing pipeline.”
The problem extended directly to the Kardashian treatments. After cross-referencing vials shown in Kim and Khloe Kardashian’s social media posts with MCI’s records, Duscher confirmed the cells were not authentic.
“I know this product,” he told Carney. “It is a discontinued product. It’s not from us. It has never been from MCI.”
When Carney asked what he would say to someone told they had received Dezawa Muse cells, Duscher responded: “I would say that these cells, this product, is not comparable to the original Dezawa Muse cell, the DMC as we call it, because in the way it’s made, it’s produced, it’s manufactured, it’s not in a comparable fashion. So it’s not an original DMC.”
A brown vial shown in a video featuring Khan alongside Garry Lineham, a convicted d**g trafficker turned biohacker, was also presented as Muse stem cells, with Lineham subsequently shown receiving a brownish IV treatment. MCI confirmed the vial bore no resemblance to anything from their lab.
A source working in the regenerative medicine field told Carney the unmarked frozen package may have contained raw umbilical cord blood, the upstream material that Muse stem cells are derived from, rather than the finished certified product. A separate insider confirmed that off-brand packages claiming equivalent efficacy to the official Dezawa product were being sold on the market for just $500, a fraction of the $5,000 cost per certified vial.
Multiple sources also told Carney they suspected Khan was breeding Muse stem cells independently at his Dubai facility. As one source explained: “When you start breeding cells, specifically Muse stem cells, you only get a certain number of generations before they lose their potency and they become more susceptible to tampering.”
MCI further noted that one of the defining characteristics of genuine Dezawa Muse cells is that they do not trigger immune reactions. When Carney informed Duscher that a patient had experienced a severe immune response following treatment, Duscher said: “It’s close to impossible that it is from an original Dezawa Muse cell product.”
