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The Regenexx-C Procedure 11 Years Down the Road

Blog readers, as you know, these days I tend to only blog on those results that surprise me. I see patients every day that are doing great who have compelling stories about how they avoided big surgeries, but there’s so much to cover on the blog that unless something really sticks out, it doesn’t make…read more

Stem Cell Therapy Results for Knees

The Internet is filled with crazy claims about stem cell therapy results for knees. Hence, please read this BEFORE you or a loved one pull the trigger on this type of treatment. Why? There is a high risk of being scammed. What are Different Stem Cell Therapy Types? Before we get into stem cell therapy…read more

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine: Fool Me Once…

Way back in 2004, a plurality of California voters approved a multi-billion dollar bond issue to support embryonic stem cell research. Now the cupboards are bare and the reasons why CIRM didn’t work are emblematic of what’s wrong with letting bench scientists control regenerative medicine adoption. Let me explain. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine…read more

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Can You help Rheumatoid Arthritis by Stimulating Nerves?

The idea that nerve problems and arthritis go hand in hand has been evolving in the research literature for the last decade or more. However, this is not something you often hear about as a patient with arthritis. Now a new study sheds some interesting light on how nerve stimulation may one day help rheumatoid…read more

A Regulators Guide to Taking Down the Stem Cell Wild West

I often write about the “Stem Cell Wild West”, which is made up of clinics with little expertise who usually purchase off the shelf, dead birth tissue products, claim that these contain millions of stem cells in aggressive “buy now and save” seminars, and then charge the elderly way too much for way too little.…read more

Is All That Hand Washing Causing Osteoporosis?

We’ve all been told to wash our hands. As a doctor, I have to do it many more times a day than the average person. However, what if the soap we use has agents in it that are making us sick? Today we’ll review one called Triclosan. What is Triclosan? The Food and Drug Administration…read more

A New Way Clinic Stem Cell Review

I get contacted all the time with interesting stuff and this morning I woke up to a flyer from an acupuncture clinic in Portland, Oregon called “A New Way Clinic”. I’d like to review the accuracy of what was claimed in seminars about the “stem cell” procedures being offered and the flyer. So let’s dig…read more