Fact check: Menstrual blood can be used to grow a new heart.

Verdict: mostly true — Trust Score 69/100

The claims regarding the 2025 TEDx talk and specific scientific citations reported by PubMed, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, and The Daily Texan. However, the central claim that menstrual blood can 'grow a new heart' is a scientific exaggeration; while researchers have successfully grown beating heart tissue and organoids from these stem cells, a fully functional transplantable heart remains a future experimental goal rather than a current reality.

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tiktok
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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8s4eVSg/
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June 16, 2026
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Original content reviewed

Platform: TIKTOK Author: @novostimira_t --- Caption/Description --- 📚 Источники 🔹TEDxUTAustin-JiabaoLi"The Secret Superower of Menstrual Blood"(2025) 🔹Stem Cell Research&Therapy(2019) "The multi-functionalroles of menstrual blood-derived srem cells in regenetative medicine" 🔹 ScienceDirect(2025)- "Menstrual blood and endometrial mesenchymal stem/stromal cells: A frontier in regenetative medicine and cancer therapy" 🔹 Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2025)-"Tne sercets of menstrual blood: emerging frontiers froom diagnostic tools to stem cell therapies" 🔹PubMed(PMC5928234)-клиническое исследование МenSCs --- On-Screen Text (OCR) --- МЕНСТРУАЛЬНАЯ КРОВЬ МОЖЕТ ВЫРАСТИТЬ НОВОЕ СЕРДЦЕ Мы не шутим 0.34 nm 3.4 nm 2 nm (b) ---VERIFICATION_SUMMARY--- Platform: TIKTOK Author: @novostimira_t --- Caption/Description --- 📚 Источники 🔹TEDxUTAustin-JiabaoLi"The Secret Superower of Menstrual Blood"(2025) 🔹Stem Cell Research&Therapy(2019) "The multi-functionalroles of menstrual blood-derived srem cells in regenetative medicine" 🔹 ScienceDirect(2025)- "Menstrual blood and endometrial mesenchymal stem/stromal cells: A frontier in regenetative medicine and cancer therapy" 🔹 Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2025)-"Tne sercets of menstrual blood: emerging frontiers froom diagnostic tools to stem cell therapies" 🔹PubMed(PMC5928234)-клиническое исследование МenSCs --- Visible Text/Media --- Text overlay in Russian stating 'Menstrual blood can grow a new heart' and 'We are not joking' alongside scientific measurements like 0.34 nm and 2 nm. --- Claims to Verify --- 1. Menstrual blood can be used to grow a new heart. 2. Jiabao Li presented 'The Secret Superpower of Menstrual Blood' at TEDxUTAustin in 2025. 3. Menstrual blood-derived stem cells (MenSCs) are a frontier in regenerative medicine and cancer therapy. 4. Scientific journals ScienceDirect and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology published research on menstrual blood stem cells in 20

Claims analyzed (4)

  1. misleading: Menstrual blood can be used to grow a new heart.
    While menstrual blood-derived stem cells (MenSCs) have been used to create 'heart-like tissue' and beating 'organoids' in lab settings, growing a fully functional, transplantable human heart is not yet possible. Scientific sources describe this as a future horizon rather than a current clinical reality.
  2. verified: Jiabao Li presented 'The Secret Superpower of Menstrual Blood' at TEDxUTAustin in 2025.
    Jiabao Li, an Assistant Professor at UT Austin, is confirmed to have presented this exact talk at the eighth annual TEDxUTAustin conference on March 1, 2025.
  3. verified: Menstrual blood-derived stem cells (MenSCs) are a frontier in regenerative medicine and cancer therapy.
    Multiple 2025 reviews in high-impact journals like the European Journal of Pharmacology and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology identify MenSCs as a promising, non-invasive source for regenerative medicine and potential cancer treatments.
  4. verified: Scientific journals ScienceDirect and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology published research on menstrual blood stem cells in 2025.
    The specific titles and journals mentioned in the post match peer-reviewed articles published in May and August 2025.

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