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Late Night Eating May Be Causing More Than Just Weight Gain

We’ve all experienced those nighttime snack cravings. Perhaps for you it’s a regular habit and every night is a cheese and crackers night with Jimmy Fallon, or maybe it’s a cleverly marketed 30-second cereal commercial that ramps up that late craving, sending you to your kitchen for a bowl of me Lucky Charms. Whether it’s…read more

The Final Marrow Cellutions Review

This past winter, while I was at the Interventional Orthopedics Foundation (IOF) conference, a sales rep for the Marrow Cellutions device approached me. The device had been on our radar for years, but a veterinarian who presented at the conference thought highly of it, so I was intrigued again. That began an ordeal of testing, and now…read more

Return of the Biopsychosocialists and the “Bombproof” SI Joint

Last year, I proudly announced the death of what I call the “biopsychosocialists.” These are doctors who believe that pain is all in the patient’s head and that instead of treating pain, we should be more focused on talking our patients out of the delusion of injury. However, while the rapidly expanding hard data on why…read more

A Case Study Highlighting the Regenexx Flexible Lab Platform

In the world of regenerative medicine, the vast majority of providers out there are using one-size-fits-all kits and bedside machines to process orthobiologics (stem cells, platelet rich plasma, etc.). These kits are usually only designed to make one thing. So they are inflexible. The problem is that patients come in with all sorts of problems to…read more

The Tainted History of Low Fat Diets…

We all grew up with the butter and bacon demon that would kill us all. What if all of that was based on really flawed science and there was no research that showed that eating strict Vegan was any better than downing gallons of bacon grease? Now, decades-old research has been rediscovered showing that the…read more

FloGraft Review: Does This Product Contain Live Stem Cells?

Below is a product handout from FloGraft, one of the many amniotic products being used by physicians who claim to be injecting live amniotic stem cells. It makes many claims about this product, including the suggestion that it has live stem cells. However, testing by a third-party nonprofit showed nothing living, let alone stem cells.…read more

Patients Find Their Voice in Texas!

One of the more bizarre things about the adult stem cell controversies playing out in the news (usually around the upcoming ISSCR annual meeting) has been that patients have been largely left out of the conversation. While every once in a while you’ll see a patient quoted, the vast majority of stories spend their word allotment…read more

Running on Pins and Needles: Cartilage Holes in My 17-Year-Old

Several years ago, my oldest son began reporting knee pain and limping. That began a long ordeal that finally ended yesterday. Let me explain. My Son’s Knees My oldest son is named after my father. He was a premature twin that weighed 2 pounds 4 ounces and came home from the hospital on oxygen. Hence,…read more