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Flip or Flop Star’s Stem Cell Treatment

I love the show Flip or Flop. That’s the one where the young couple fixes up homes. He’s the ultimate pragmatist numbers guy, and she’s the creative designer who always wants to spend more than they can afford. So I was dumbfounded when Tarek El Moussa, the male costar, reported yesterday on Instagram that he…read more

FDA Moves in Court to Close Two Stem Cell Clinic Chains Previously ID’d as “Bad Actors”

In a move that took few by surprise, the FDA has filed a pair of requests for permanent injunctions against US Stem Cell in Florida and Cell Surgical Network in California. Hopefully, this is the beginning of the end for the out-of-control, stem cell wild west, but we still have a nation of chiropractic clinic scams…read more

Educated by Sales Reps…

How do doctors get educated once they leave medical school? You would be surprised to learn the answer. Most people would say medical conferences and courses. In fact, in my experience, many physicians get a good chunk of their continuing medical education via sales reps. That, of course, is like the fox that guards the…read more

A Patient from Our Rotator Cuff Stem Cell Injection RCT

We’ve been slowly recruiting for a randomized controlled trial for the last few years that compares rotator cuff tears treated with a precise injection of high-dose bone marrow concentrate (HD-BMC) with physical therapy. This morning I’d like to update everyone on where the Rotator Cuff Stem Cell Injection RCT study stands and show a before…read more

Is Fake Sugar Really the Magic Answer? There Is No Free Lunch…

You may not know this, but the origin of the phrase “there is no free lunch” comes from the turn of the twentieth century when many bars were owned by breweries. They would offer the new immigrant poor a free lunch filled with salty stuff guaranteed to make them thirsty. Artificial sweeteners are a bit…read more

Transparency in Regenerative Medicine: Is Severe Degenerative Disc Disease a Rare Side Effect of BMC Injection?

Way back when, in 2005, I was the first physician on earth to inject bone marrow concentrate into a degenerated disc. Thirteen years later, there are at least a hundred clinics around the country who use this technique, and many report good results in the right type of patients. However, at Regenexx, we have always been…read more

Does Weight Loss Help Knee Pain and Arthritis?

I often hear from patients that when they lose weight, their joints feel better. While this makes common sense, does losing weight also get rid of structural arthritis? Meaning, do the bone lesions and cartilage issues also resolve? A new study set out to answer that important question. Knee Arthritis and Obesity Knee arthritis involves…read more

Alzheimer’s Disease Remedied in a Human Cell Study: Is a Cure on the Horizon?

Dementia has always been near and dear to my heart, since my Dad had a rare form called diffuse Lewy body. I saw my mother hang in there until the bitter end, and watching him deteriorate was awful. So when research gets published that shows that science could one day cure this problem, I pay…read more