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Can a Ketogenic Diet Help Us Live 10 Years Longer?

We’ve all been programmed by the media and academia to believe that eating a high-fat diet is bad. We still have countless jokes scattered throughout pop culture about how someone eating bacon is basically the equivalent of Russian Roulette. However, what if reality were more like Woody Allen’s movie Sleeper. He wakes up in a…read more

PNE: The Chronic Pain Denier Movement

The Internet and social media have changed things. One of those is how easy it is for a concept to “go viral,” meaning to expand quickly through social media. One of those concepts in pain medicine that is also cashing in on the lucrative physical therapy education market is called pain neuroscience education, or PNE…read more

Can Someone Else’s Poop Help Diabetes?

The sheer volume of what’s being discovered now about how the bacteria in our gut determine our physical and mental health is overwhelming. Literally, if your gut bacteria are screwed up, this can be linked with many different diseases and being overweight. Hence, if you remove the “ick” factor, it makes sense that if you…read more

Knee Stem Cell Reviews: Meet Dion and Rocky

As a doctor, there are patients you treat who just walk out the door and you never hear back. The good news is that we have a registry, so if they respond to the multiple pings for outcome data, that information will get recorded. But having it live in a database isn’t, of course, as interesting…read more

One Key to Muscle Strength as You Age: Eat Protein at Every Meal

Did you ever wonder why you rarely see a really old bodybuilder? That’s because we all lose muscle as we age. Is there a simple way to slow this decline? According to one new study, it may be as simple as what you eat and when. Muscle Decline Is a Fact of Aging Muscle decline,…read more

Twain Was Right: We Adults Really Do Get Smarter as We Age

Mark Twain once said, “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” If you’ve ever lived with a teen, you know…read more

Did Regenexx Invent Orthopedic Stem Cell Injections?

You may have noticed that our tagline on the main web page has changed. It’s now, “Where Orthopedic Stem Cell Injections were Invented”. Above you’ll find a great compilation of the patient stories by master filmmaker Doug Orchard. These are real people who we’ve helped over the last few years and this video also ends…read more

Understanding a Knee Arthritis Stem Cell Treatment Failure

One of the things that has always separated Regenexx is that we have no issues discussing our failures. Hence, I periodically blog on patients who didn’t get the expected result. This is the story of a stock futures trader who at first responded but ultimately still needed a knee replacement, despite getting treated with culture-expanded mesenchymal stem…read more