Regenerative medicine
Regenerative medicine is an innovative field of healthcare focused on harnessing the body’s natural ability to heal and regenerate damaged tissues and organs. It involves using stem cells, tissue engineering, growth factors, and other techniques to promote healing and repair in conditions ranging from orthopedic injuries to chronic diseases.
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I live in the highest state in the Union, both in reality and figuratively. Given that Colorado has had legal recreational marijuana sales for more than a decade, I’ve noticed a few trends with cannabis use and patients undergoing regenerative medicine procedures. Now new national guidelines have concluded that cannabis use is very important for…read more
The Regen Med Engineering Flowchart
I was checking out Facebook this morning and this flowchart came up. Not only did I LOL, but since it reminded me of the one we use for advanced RegenMed and since 99% of practicing physicians still haven’t figured this out, if you as a patient or physician understand it, you’re ahead of the game.…read more
Should a Scientific or Medical Standard Be Used for SVF Regulation: A Review of the Bernal Decision
The recent Bernal decision on the use of Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF) by California doctors has thrown the whole cell therapy industry into disarray. In particular, there have been many scientists commenting online or in press releases that the judge got it wrong. So this morning let’s delve into the science behind the decision and…read more
The Alien Abduction Model of DDD: Why Cellular Drug Trial Results Have Been Underwhelming
Let’s say that you’re sleeping one night and get awoken by an alien in your bedroom who takes you back to the mothership for experiments on your low back. That’s pretty much what we’ve been doing with animal degenerative disc disease research for decades. It’s this artificial DDD model that has caused many cell therapy…read more
Can Young Blood Transfusions Make You Younger?
There’s been an experimental result that medical science has known about for a long time that has shaken up our basic understanding of biology. It’s called Heterochronic Parabiosis and it’s basically hooking an old animal up to a younger one. Several existing experiments suggested that this made the old animal younger, but new research questions…read more
Does Testosterone Help Orthobiologic Procedures?
The same patient who asked the question about PRP vs BMC and ligament healing yesterday also asked about whether taking testosterone could help with healing after an orthobiologic procedure. That same prolotherapy physician who launched the last blog had also claimed that there was no doubt that the science showed that testosterone supplementation helped his…read more
Seamonkeys and Oral Stem Cell Pills from New Zealand
I used to love Sea-monkeys as a kid. They would come to life out of a little packet of dehydrated eggs when placed in seawater. An ad this week on Facebook selling oral “live” stem cell pills is claiming that a pill can repair your body using placental stem cells from deer. So is it…read more
CFU-f 101: To Be an Orthobiologics Expert You MUST Learn This
The blind leading the blind is one of my favorite expressions. As one of the founders of this field of interventional orthobiologics, the fact that this statement applies to much of our existing orthobiologics education is concerning to me. Nowhere is this more true than the concept of stem cell dose and CFU-f assays. Hence,…read more
