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Low Vitamin K and Knee Arthritis

There’s been a bevy of information this past few years on how nutritional supplements like vitamin D impact knee arthritis. However, less has been published on vitamin K. Now a large study shows that low vitamin K is associated with more knee arthritis progression. What the heck is vitamin K? It’s a group of fat…read more

My Son’s ER Visit and Obamacare…

This morning at 5 a.m. my 11 year had a bad case of croup and had trouble breathing that wouldn’t respond to all of the traditional home remedies, so we took a visit to the local ER. That trip, as experienced through the eyes of a physician who became a healthcare consumer shows why Obamacare will…read more

Knee MCL Surgery Healing without the Surgery!l

Knee MCL injuries are tough. They take forever to heal and the big ones (grade 3) are usually operated. What if a precise injection of stem cells, using a unique protocol could offer knee MCL surgery healing without the surgery? The MCL is a ligament that acts like a piece of strong duct tape on…read more

Loneliness and Physical Pain…Connected?

Pain is your body’s way of telling you that something is not right; whether it be injury, organ failure, infection, a chronic condition, a degenerative condition or any of the many conditions discussed in this Blog daily. But could there be a causative connection between loneliness and physical pain? Medical science is still very much in…read more

Knee Stem Cell Treatment in Tulsa, Oklahoma & Dallas, Texas

One of the marks of a good procedure in medicine is that it can be taught to others and it still works. All too often, surprisingly, this fails to happen. In Oklahoma, a recent news story highlighted the Regenexx stem cell procedure used to treat knee arthritis. The ability for a procedure to still work…read more

Your Mother Has Your Stem Cells in Her Brain…

Your mother has your stem cells in her brain?  The connection between mother and child can be intense. Now a research team searching for the cause of Alzheimer’s disease may have upped the ante on that calculus by finding cells from children in the brains of mothers. In addition, more of the cells were associated with…read more

Shoulder Surgery Stem Cell Therapy? 2nd Study Again Shows Better Outcomes

There’s allot of interest lately in shoulder surgery stem cell therapy. Bone marrow stem cells have had a nice run in rotator cuff tear surgery recently. First, European bone marrow concentrate pioneer Phillipe Hernigou releases a large case series on injecting bone marrow stem cells into rotator cuff tears after surgery, demonstrating a halving of…read more

Guna “Cytokines” for Stem Cells: Round 2…

Several weeks ago I blogged on a trend racing through the stem cell community-doctors using GUNA “cytokines” to help stem cell procedures. I found serious scientific issues with the concept and I promised that our lab would do it’s own homework on the topic. The results are in and they’re not pretty. First, as I…read more