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Are Vitamins better than Statins for Heart Attack Prevention?

Nice article in Huff Post on how a new large study showed that high dose multi-vitamins helped reduce heart attack risk better than statin drugs. Regrettably, the study appears to have been done by researchers who seem to have ignored the sub-analysis. The paper brings up a bigger media attack led by university researchers on…read more

How Chronic Joint Inflammation is Causing Bad Stem Cell Mediated Cartilage Repair

An interesting paper illustrates how chronic joint inflammation can lead to problems with cartilage. In a normal joint your local stem cells constantly replace damaged cartilage by differentiating into more cartilage cells. In a chronically inflamed joint, this normal repair cycle is bad because of the chemicals associated with chronic inflammation. The article is very dense,…read more

Seeing Patients in Our Groundbreaking Shoulder Rotator Cuff Stem Cell Trial

I examined a patient yesterday in clinic for our shoulder rotator cuff stem cell trial. She was randomized to wait three months and has been engaged in home exercises for her full thickness rotator cuff tear. Since she still has issues with returning to full activity, she’s been cleared to get the actual stem cell…read more

Does Eating More Protein Build Bigger Muscles?

Protein drink manufacturers and coaches for eons have recommended eating more protein to weight lifters and athletes. However, making bigger muscles is a complex dance of biochemical reactions, so can we be sure that just throwing more protein into the mix will actually end up in making more muscle? In addition, as we age, muscles…read more

Warning: Statins Block Positive Effects of Exercise by Hurting Muscle Cell Health

I’ve been a big critic of statins, big pharma’s wonder drug, supported by loads of scrubbed and polished Pharma sponsored research. This past few months, the concept that you should take statins because you have high “bad cholesterol” was turned on it’s head when two major heart groups threw out the decades old high cholesterol…read more

While Sleep Apnea is Bad for You, Is it Good for Your Bone Stem Cells?

Sleep apnea caused by snoring is bad news. This means that you stop breathing while you sleep, dropping your oxygen levels and essentially starving your brain and body of their much needed O2. It’s been shown to be associated with everything from weight gain to diabetes to heart attacks to strokes. However, is it good…read more

More Crazy Stem Cell Clinic Press Releases for the New Year…

This week I saw yet another crazy press release. I usually see these from some university claiming a stem cell first that isn’t close to a first. Yet now they also seem to be coming from doctors who are claiming firsts that are no where near firsts. This one was from an Orthopedic Sports doctor…read more

Top 40 Regenexx Blogs of 2013

Every year I like to pick out the best blogs of the year. Why 40?  Just because there used to be a “Top 40”  pop song list (maybe there still is?).  Some of these blogs were fun to write, others revealed some new piece of critical information lost in the media shuffle, and some marked our progress in…read more