The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Can a Broken Orthopedic Surgery Care System Fix Itself with Interventional Orthopedics?
For many reasons of perverse incentives, the American healthcare system is the world’s most expensive way ever devised to deliver healthcare. One of the biggest line items in any health plan is elective orthopedic surgery costs. Hence, reducing that cost saves any employer big bucks. One of the ways to bend that spending curve down…read more
One Way to Improve Brain Function May Be Nuts
We already know that nuts are good for you. However, can they help your brain? As we all get older, the noggin gets a little less sharp. So let’s review. What We Already Know About Good Health and Nut Consumption Walnuts make the rounds on this blog occasionally and for good reason: they are truly one…read more Are Eggs Really Bad for Us…Again?
Eggs are nature’s power food. They have gobs of protein and macronutrients. However, they have also been at the “heart” of the great twentieth-century cholesterol scam. Despite recent research showing no connections between eating eggs and heart disease risk, new research just added a little more sizzle to this frying pan of controversy. Let me…read more Why We Throw Away Trillions of Exosomes Each Month…
I’ve just returned from our licensed Cayman Island advanced-practice site, where we can culture expand to get many more stem cells. At the Cayman site, it’s likely that trillions or hundreds of trillions of exosomes are produced each month by the cells in culture. However, we throw them all away. Why? Let’s explore that and in…read more Goodbye from Grand Cayman Again!
It’s time to leave Grand Cayman again! I’ve been down here at our advanced stem cell practice site for the past two weeks and it’s now time to head back to the mountains of Colorado. So what have I been up to for the past 14 days? Culture-Expanded Mesenchymal Stem Cells To learn more about what…read more Can Your Number of Push-Ups Predict Your Risk of Heart Disease?
How many push-ups can you do? Does it really matter? A new study shows that it might. What Is Cardiovascular Disease? Cardiovascular disease (CVD) includes many diseases of the heart and coronary vessels. When you see the term “cardiovascular disease,” or “CVD,” however, it typically means heart disease caused by a build-up of plaque on…read more 