Why the body raises a temperature, what it is trying to say, and what we lose when we switch the message off.
Join SOMA co-founder Eka Darville and Bennett Sippel, Patient Journey Coordinator, as they walk through inflammation as a signaling system, fever as an active immune process, and why a temperature spike after stem cell therapy is a sign of engagement rather than a setback.
A free 60-minute session on reading symptoms as signals, followed by a live Q&A for all your stem cell questions. Can’t make it live? Register to receive the recording.
Presenters Eka Darville (Co-Founder) Bennett Sippel (Patient Journey Coordinator)
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Co-Founder
A 20-year acting career, and then in 2022 his son Mana was diagnosed with primary intracranial sarcoma, one of the rarest and most aggressive brain cancers known. The search for Mana's care introduced Eka to regenerative medicine specialists around the world. He came out of that loss with one conclusion: the treatments that could change lives stay invisible to the families who need them. SOMA is what Mana's life made necessary.
Patient Journey Coordinator
The first person every SOMA patient speaks with at depth. Bennett holds the thread between the family making the decision and the clinical team running the protocol, which is why he hosts the Q&A. He already knows the questions.
Medical Director & Co-Founder
A physician and health regulator, Dr. Tagle helped establish Mexico's progressive framework for safe patient access to stem cell therapies. Today, he advises international governments, trains laboratory teams globally, and sets the clinical standard at SOMA.
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Swelling, heat, aching, fatigue, a rising temperature. The instinct is to treat the symptom as the problem and reach for whatever makes it stop.
But inflammation is how the body reports what is happening inside it. It flags where tissue is damaged, brings immune cells to the site, and holds the response open until the work is finished. Shut it down by reflex and the report goes with it. Inflammation is information.
Fever is the clearest case. A raised temperature is the body at work: slowing the replication of many pathogens, speeding immune cells toward where they are needed, helping clear damaged tissue. Bringing the number down leaves whatever put it there untouched. The question worth asking is what triggered this, not how do I make it stop.
On September 16, Eka builds the argument from first principles. No prior knowledge assumed.
Five ideas, built in order. Then the floor opens.
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Inflammation is the body's communication system, not a malfunction. When we suppress it by reflex, we mute the message instead of reading it.
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A fever is an active, purposeful process: the immune system raising temperature to fight pathogens and clear damaged tissue more efficiently. Eka and Bennett cover why that is a sign of a system working, not one breaking.
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Outside rare extremes, suppressing a fever leaves the reason for it untouched. It silences the alarm. The better question is what triggered this, not how do I make it stop.
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Patients often spike a fever after stem cell therapy. We'll explain why that reads as an active immune response engaging with the new cellular material, rather than as a complication.
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The real work of regenerative medicine is asking why the body is signaling in the first place, and addressing that root cause, rather than reaching for the fastest way to move a number on a thermometer.
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The second half of the session is unscripted. Submit your questions during registration or on the call and we'll answer them live.
The session covers what inflammation is for, how a fever works mechanically, what a temperature spike after stem cell therapy indicates, and how first-principles thinking changes the question you ask about a symptom. It is written for people who want the mechanism underneath the protocols explained properly, from the beginning.
The session does not give a treatment recommendation for any specific condition, and nothing on the call is instruction for managing a fever at home. High or persistent temperatures, fevers in infants and older adults, and fevers alongside other serious symptoms belong with your own clinician. Candidacy for a SOMA protocol is a conversation with our medical team after a full clinical review, not something anyone can responsibly settle on a group call.
SOMA makes no promise of a permanent resolution. The protocol is designed to reduce disease activity, support tissue repair, and reduce reliance on long-term immunosuppression. Eka says so on the call, and we say it here too.
Yes. Eka presents live and answers questions in real time alongside Bennett. Nothing is pre-recorded.
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No. The session explains what a fever is for and why the reflex to suppress one deserves a second look. It is an explanation of mechanism, not instruction for what to do at home. How a fever gets managed, and when it needs attention, is a decision for you and your clinician.
No. The session is built as a 101. It starts at the beginning and assumes nothing.
No. It is an educational session with an unscripted Q&A. Questions about cost and candidacy get answered if they are asked. The session exists to explain a mechanism.
No, and we say so plainly. Under U.S. law the regulatory pathway does not exist for stem cells classified as biologics. SOMA operates under Mexico's regulated framework and all providers hold a COFEPRIS Regenerative Medicine License. Separately, one MSC therapy for Crohn's fistulas is approved by the European Medicines Agency, which Eka covers on the call.
No. Free to attend, free to watch the recording.
Wednesday, September 16, 12:00 PM PT / 2:00 PM CT / 3:00 PM ET. Free, 60 minutes, and the back half is open floor.
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