Tommy Rhee: the conversation

Mornings in the Lab · Interview transcript

Sophia: Okay, we are back. Welcome back to Mornings in the Lab, everybody. I'm Sophia Grant, and we are rolling right into Center Stage — and this one, I have been waiting for. We are bringing in Dr. Tommy Rhee. Dr. Tommy, welcome to the Lab. video clip: Up next on Center Stage — Dr. Tommy Rhee, the chiropractor who may have just changed regenerative medicine forever. What if the breakthrough that professional athletes have been paying fifteen thousand dollars for could fit in the palm of your hand and cost a fraction of the price? For years, stem cell therapy has been the gold standard in sports medicine and recovery — but it's been locked behind a wall of needles, clinical settings, and price tags that put it out of reach for most people. Dr. Tommy Rhee is a sports chiropractor, military veteran, and former Team Chiropractor for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He's also the founder and CEO of RheeGen — the world's first transdermal regenerative therapy cream, a patent-pending formula that delivers the regenerative power of stem cell-derived bioactive biomolecules directly through the skin. No injections. No clinic. No forty-five hundred dollar bill. Dr. Rhee developed RheeGen after his NFL players told him they couldn't do stem cell injections during the season — so he found another way. What he created may be up to ninety-five percent more cost-effective than traditional injectables and produce comparable results in just thirty days of daily application. He's a published author, a pioneer of multiple firsts in Tampa Bay, and now he's here to explain the science, the story, and why the injection industry should probably be paying attention. This is The Cream Cure — The Cream That Could Bankrupt The Injection Industry. Center Stage. Let's go. Sophia: Dr. Tommy, I've been looking forward to this conversation. I feel like every time I talk to somebody in the regenerative medicine space there's another layer, another evolution of where the science is going. But what you have done — creating a topical cream that delivers what injections deliver — that feels different. That feels like a genuine disruption. So I want to get into all of it. The science, the story of how it came to be, what it actually does inside the body. But first — for people who are just meeting you — military background, chiropractor, Buccaneers team doc, now a biotech founder — give us the version that connects all of those dots. Tommy: Yeah, absolutely. So you know, I started with the military, which taught me discipline. It taught me how to think under pressure, how to perform when the conditions are not perfect. And that mindset followed me into chiropractic school, followed me to UCLA working with their athletes, and ultimately followed me to Tampa Bay working with the Bucs. And what I kept seeing — whether it was an active duty service member or a defensive lineman — was that the body has an incredible ability to heal itself when you give it the right inputs. The question I kept asking was: how do we accelerate that? How do we make that more accessible? Regenerative medicine was always the answer in my mind, but the delivery system was broken. And that's ultimately what led me to create RheeGen. Sophia: The delivery system was broken — I love that framing. And we are going to unpack exactly what you mean by that because it is the heart of the whole story. Everybody stay with us. Dr. Tommy Rhee, Center Stage, right here on Mornings in the Lab.