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Exercise as You Age May Boost Your Immune System

If you’re like me, there are days after work that the last thing you want to do is exercise. I’m also not good at morning or lunch workouts, so oftentimes I just slog through it anyway. Now a new study provides yet another reason to suck it up. Turns out exercise may also boost your immune…read more

How Many Times Can You Violate the FDCA in One Marketing E-mail?

I’ve blogged before about the explosion of amniotic and cord vendors illegally claiming live stem cells in their products. It would be easy to look the other way if any of this were verifiably true, but near as I can tell, it’s all incomplete data designed to push product down the throats of gullible physicians.…read more

Who Is the Father of Regenerative Medicine?

An avid blog reader this week sent a link to a press release where a plastic surgeon claimed to be considered “The Father of Regenerative Medicine.” While I’ll show that this is just another case of a doctor writing checks in a press release that his CV can’t cash, it did bring up a great…read more

Biohacker Gets Biohacked?

Ben Greenfield recently made the news as the guy who had his perfectly normal penis injected with his own fat stem cells. He recently followed up on that with having his aching back nerves injected with stem cells on Facebook Live. However, did he really have that done, or was it all a scam? Watch…read more

How to Interpret Flow Cytometry Reports from Amniotic “Stem Cell” Vendors

If you are a regenerative medicine physician, you are likely being bombarded by vendors pushing amniotic and cord tissue products, claiming they contain stem cells. They’re also likely shoving numerous reports under your nose, attempting to prove their claims. If you’re a patient, a doctor who was convinced by one of these reports may have…read more

Blogging from the Caymans, Amazing Results, and Banana Republic Clinics

Once every four months, I travel down to our licensed, Grand Cayman advanced stem cell practice site. Today I saw a patient with amazing results in her hip. I also communicated with a patient who was confused as to how to measure the quality of a stem cell procedure. That launched the mantra above: “What+Where+How.”…read more

A Hip AVN Stem Cell Scam

As you might have noticed, I’ve started a new “Stem Cell Botched” series, the goal of which is to educate patients and physicians about the difference between high-quality, regenerative interventional orthopedics and just bad care with stem cells. So today let’s look at a patient who was diagnosed with hip avascular necrosis (AVN), or osteonecrosis, and…read more

Pay-for-Play Is Alive and Well for Physicians Prescribing Opioids

Most patients have no idea the extent to which pharma and device companies pay to influence their physicians’ beliefs and practices. Sometimes this is all a subtle dance; other times it’s outright and corrupt. Now a new study confirms and supports other studies that show what I have observed for years, that the payments of…read more