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Does the Season Impact a Bone Marrow Draw?

Several months ago, during one of our weekly Friday Facebook Live events, a patient asked a super interesting question. What did they ask? If the season of your bone marrow draw impacted the recovery of cells. Let’s dig in. BMA 101 A Bone Marrow Concentrate (BMC) procedure contains your own stem and other cells and…read more

Is Chronic Pain Causing You to Make Bad Decisions?

Does the brain control the heart or is it the other way around? Does chronic fight or flight cause people to make bad decisions? This is a critical topic for patients with chronic pain. Let’s dig into some new research that upset what we thought we knew about how the brain works. Tachycardia Tachycardia means…read more

The First Guy Through the Wall Always Gets Bloody…

This morning I’d like to share a quote from the movie “Moneyball”. The context is to contemplate my journey since 2005 and to provide inspiration for innovators dealing with the weight of being first. It’s been a hell of a ride and while I might tweak a few things, I wouldn’t trade it for a…read more

Now For Something Completely Different: Elon’s Bots

As you might imagine, I’m a big Elon Musk fan. This past week, he made an announcement that I have little doubt will again change society as we know it. Let’s dig in. The Jetsons You may be way too young to remember the Jetsons. This was a 1960s cartoon that showed a future where…read more

Conferences, Conferences, and More Conferences

These past few weeks and through October I will be lecturing at 7 medical conferences extolling the virtues and data behind interventional orthobiologics. What’s interesting is how COVID has morphed the playing field so you can literally be two places at once. Let’s dig in. My Lectures Through the years, as CMO of Regenexx, I…read more

Amniotic Medicare Billing Scams are Now Blowing Up

Let’s say you’re on Medicare and you attend a seminar that says that a chiropractic office can fix your knee arthritis by injecting an amniotic product and it’s covered by Medicare! Likely tens of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries pulled the trigger on these procedures and now, Medicare is deciding to go after those providers that…read more

A Major Chiro Stem Cell Scammer Bites the Dust

Yesterday, the Attorney General of the state of Georgia and the FTC charged numerous companies linked to Stem Cell Institute of America (SCIA) with violations of the Georgia and FTC act. This was great to see as I have been tracking SCIA’s shenanigans for many years. Let’s dig in. Who Is Stem Cell Institute of…read more

Do Ultrashort Bouts of Maximal Exercise Help?

I remember magazine Ads for a $15,000 exercise machine that advertised that you could work out really hard for 4 minutes a day and become fit. This was either a nutty way to make tons of money or a curious quirk of human physiology. So which was it? A recent study may suggest that this…read more