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Orthopedics 2.0-Managing Knee Instability Before Stem cells

Is it possible to help a severely arthritic knee with just a knee acl tear surgery alternative? Our philosophy is always to look at all aspects of what’s wrong with a knee. If you’ve read our practice’s e-book, Orthopedics 2.0, you know that we’re big believers in fixing instability before putting stem cells in a knee. This instability may…read more

Gastric Bypass turns off the “Fat Switch” on Fat Stem Cells

This past week or two we’ve been exploring things patients can do to make their stem cells better. We’ve discussed that common plastics found in food containers and liners can flip a switch on stem cells causing them to turn into fat instead of more helpful things like bone, cartilage, or muscle. We’ve also gone…read more

Are your Food and Water Containers Forcing your Stem Cells to Turn to Fat?

 Water containers and stem cells are words we would not expect to find together, but truth being stranger than fiction, America has an obesity epidemic and it may be due to chemicals messing with our stem cells. As someone who struggled with weight as a kid, lost it in adolescence, and then regained a bunch…read more

AAOS: Numbing Medicine in Knee Shots Toxic to Cartilage

The AAOS just issued a warning about common local anesthetics which can cause severe side effects. About time. In 2007 we conducted a critical experiment in our advanced stem cell lab. Since we wanted to numb up joints before we injected stem cells (as this made it more comfortable for patients) we tested the two…read more

Is using someone else’s Young Stem Cells better than using your own Old Stem Cells?

Are another person’s young stem cells better than your own?  Could you use them to get around the fact that your old stem cells may not be as good? Much of the stem cell pharma industry is focused on using donor stem cells from young patients and growing these to massive numbers in bio reactors.…read more

When Stem Cells Fail…

For transparency, as promised yesterday, I decided to blog on a case treated with the Regenexx-C stem cell that didn’t respond. I also want to give fair play to the concept that a stem cell procedure ins’t magic and sometimes doesn’t help. In this case, the patient was treated 2 years ago and this report…read more

Helping a Patient from Qatar Avoid Knee Replacement with Stem Cells

Can using stem cells help you avoid knee replacement? In the next two blog posts, I’d like to highlight two patients. Even though our Regenexx-C stem cell data for knees shows that we get about 2-3 patients with significant patient improvement per one treatment failure, I will highlight one success and one failure. My goal…read more

Bone Marrow Stem Cells can Replace the “Batteries” of Injured Cells

We are constantly learning more and more about how stem cells work.  You may have never heard the word “mitochondria”. These are the little power plants found in every cell. They convert chemicals into energy that allows the cell to function. A paper published this month in Nature Medicine may completely change the way physicians…read more