The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Can We Force Our Brain to Think More Creatively?
When we think of creative types, it likely brings to mind artists, actors, writers, and musicians, but creative thinking is an asset even to our logic-minded left-brainers. Albert Einstein didn’t become a genius physicist and inventor without a great deal of right-brained creative genius as well. In fact, he was also a violinist and once…read more
Metformin: What Does Your Gut Microbiome Have to Do with Blood Sugar?
Many type-2 diabetics and prediabetics take the common medication metformin to help control their blood-sugar levels. Discovered nearly a hundred years ago, metformin has been prescribed in the United States since 1995 and is currently billed as the most common oral medication for type-2 diabetes. While we know that metformin decreases the production of glucose…read more Parkinson’s Risk Increased by…Low Fat Milk?
When was the last time you had a tall glass of whole milk? Not the 2% stuff, not the 1% stuff, and certainly not the you-can-barely-call-it-milk skim stuff—but real full fat whole milk? If you’re one of the American majority, you probably don’t remember because you’ve been under the spell of the low fat craze…read more Can We Delay Dementia? Brain Scavenger Cells May Hold the Key
The body’s clean up crew is made up of scavenger cells called phagocytes. Phagein means “to devour” and -cyte means “cell.” And phagocytes are indeed like billions of little vultures, scarfing down the carcasses of other dead, or dying, cells and consuming foreign materials that shouldn’t be there, like plaque, bacteria, and other infections. In…read more Sleeping May Clear the Clutter from Our Memory
You’d probably have to go all the way back to childhood to remember when you first heard how important it is to get a “good night’s sleep”…that is if your brain didn’t label that memory as weak and scrub it while you were sleeping. A new study sheds light on the relationship between sleep and…read more NSAIDs and Opioids May Not Work for Pain!
As if we needed yet another reason to just say no to NSAIDs and opioids, it seems that some of them just aren’t working. So while you may be getting a lot with these drugs—the risk of sudden-death heart attacks and strokes and GI bleeding with NSAIDS, and addiction and more pain with opioids, for…read more 