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The Blind Leading the Blind and Chiro “Stem Cell” Clinics

I get asked from time to time to review files of patients who believe they may have been harmed by stem cell clinics. In all of this work, I see an alarming trend occurring. Alternative medicine clinics that are ill-equipped to deal with complications making mistakes that produce bad outcomes. Let’s dig in. Getting Involved…read more

Do Repeat Bone Marrow Aspiration Procedures Deplete The Marrow?

One of the things we do at Regenexx is research to improve the field. Sometimes it’s a big clinical study and sometimes it’s looking at the small things that may make a difference in the efficacy of the procedures we offer. Today we’ll investigate whether multiple bone marrow aspiration procedures deplete the bone marrow of…read more

Is Marc Harris, ND the Smartest Living Human?

The world’s youngest Ph.D. listed in the Guinness World Book of Records was a German 13-year-old in the early 1800s. However, as you know, in the stem cell wild west, as I often say, “you just can’t make this stuff up”. So now we have a naturopath who injects fake stem cells into the necks…read more

Those Opposed to COVID Vaccination Have a Causation Problem

One of the rationales now being given by many on the Internet is that since lots of complications and other things are being reported in an FDA vaccine adverse event reporting system, that this means that the two existing COVID vaccines are unsafe. To understand why that’s just noise, let’s learn a little about how…read more

Your Ligaments Respond to Force!

All of your ligaments are alive. What I mean by that is that they respond to forces because they have living cells. Let’s dig in. Ligaments Are the Duct Tape that Hold Your Bones Together The ligaments hold bones together like pieces of duct tape. They stabilize your joints as they get toward their maximum…read more

Can We Help Older Athletes with Back Pain?

We’ve treated many older athletes through the years. How do they do? Today I’ll cover one with chronic low back pain and a zeal to return to his Olympic level roots. Let’s dig in. Tom’s History Tom is a high-level 63-year-old male endurance athlete who had back pain radiating into the bilateral lower extremities since…read more

Does Exercise Create New Immune Cells in Your Bones?

The more we learn about the body, the stranger and more glorious it gets. Today we’ll explore your bone marrow and how that intersects with a newly discovered process that ties exercise to your immune system. Let’s dig in. What’s in Your Bone? What Does the Marrow Do? Many people likely understand the concept that…read more

Vaccine Reduces Coronavirus Transmission, Duh….

The single biggest public health reason why advanced societies vaccinate is that it reduces disease transmission. This has been the case with every modern vaccine since Smallpox and Polio. Now a new Israeli study shows that the Coronavirus vaccine also reduces disease transmission. My first response when reading these studies this morning was a resounding…read more