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Professional Snowboarder Taylor Gold Reveals His Regenexx Stem Cell Treatment

We have treated many pro and college athletes through the years, but often they don’t want to talk about their treatment. Taylor Gold is an Olympic snowboarder who has been dogged by injuries and ineffective surgeries for years. This week he reported to his local newspaper his very personal story of recovery using the advanced…read more

Naturopaths and Regenerative Medicine: The Utah Example

One of the more interesting phenomena in the wild west of regenerative medicine is the fact that there are many alternative-health practitioners in this space. Why? There is a razor-thin argument that their practice acts allow the injection of “natural” substances. Utah has one of the more bizarre practice acts out there which when combined…read more

Do I Need Neck Surgery? Probably Not…

A common question I hear day in and day out is, “Do I need neck surgery?” As a physician, my answer to that question has steadily changed over the years. A few years ago, when I saw nerves on the patient’s neck MRI that were severely compressed, my answer was always, “Yes.” However, now the…read more

One Way to Improve Brain Function May Be Nuts

We already know that nuts are good for you. However, can they help your brain? As we all get older, the noggin gets a little less sharp. So let’s review. What We Already Know About Good Health and Nut Consumption Walnuts make the rounds on this blog occasionally and for good reason: they are truly one…read more

Are Eggs Really Bad for Us…Again?

Eggs are nature’s power food. They have gobs of protein and macronutrients. However, they have also been at the “heart” of the great twentieth-century cholesterol scam. Despite recent research showing no connections between eating eggs and heart disease risk, new research just added a little more sizzle to this frying pan of controversy. Let me…read more

Why We Throw Away Trillions of Exosomes Each Month…

I’ve just returned from our licensed Cayman Island advanced-practice site, where we can culture expand to get many more stem cells. At the Cayman site, it’s likely that trillions or hundreds of trillions of exosomes are produced each month by the cells in culture. However, we throw them all away. Why? Let’s explore that and in…read more

Goodbye from Grand Cayman Again!

It’s time to leave Grand Cayman again! I’ve been down here at our advanced stem cell practice site for the past two weeks and it’s now time to head back to the mountains of Colorado. So what have I been up to for the past 14 days? Culture-Expanded Mesenchymal Stem Cells To learn more about what…read more

Can Your Number of Push-Ups Predict Your Risk of Heart Disease?

How many push-ups can you do? Does it really matter? A new study shows that it might. What Is Cardiovascular Disease? Cardiovascular disease (CVD) includes many diseases of the heart and coronary vessels. When you see the term “cardiovascular disease,” or “CVD,” however, it typically means heart disease caused by a build-up of plaque on…read more