Are Vitamins better than Statins for Heart Attack Prevention?

Nice article in Huff Post on how a new large study showed that high dose multi-vitamins helped reduce heart attack risk better than statin drugs. Regrettably, the study appears to have been done by researchers who seem to have ignored the sub-analysis. The paper brings up a bigger media attack led by university researchers on…read more

How Chronic Joint Inflammation is Causing Bad Stem Cell Mediated Cartilage Repair

An interesting paper illustrates how chronic joint inflammation can lead to problems with cartilage. In a normal joint your local stem cells constantly replace damaged cartilage by differentiating into more cartilage cells. In a chronically inflamed joint, this normal repair cycle is bad because of the chemicals associated with chronic inflammation. The article is very dense,…read more

Does Eating More Protein Build Bigger Muscles?

Protein drink manufacturers and coaches for eons have recommended eating more protein to weight lifters and athletes. However, making bigger muscles is a complex dance of biochemical reactions, so can we be sure that just throwing more protein into the mix will actually end up in making more muscle? In addition, as we age, muscles…read more

Mom Was Right About Milk and Bones: New Studies Show Your Bones Control Everything from Your Sex Drive to Your Blood Sugar?

We think of bones as inanimate cement, supporting our body. In fact, it’s still this wrong impression of bone as structure only that infects modern orthopedic surgery. For example, as I’ve blogged before, bone is living tissue that reacts. So many bone spurs are evidence that your body is trying to fix itself rather than…read more

Regenexx Stem Cell Supplement

Many years ago in 2005, when we began treating our patient’s orthopedic problems with stem cells, one of the first patient questions we got was, “What supplements might help my stem cells?” The first few times I heard this question, I had no idea. After I kept hearing it, I scoured the US National Library of…read more

Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Cancer: Dissecting the Headlines this Morning

A connection between Omega 3 fatty acids and cancer has been big news of late.  But don’t ever believe the news headlines when they comment on only one salvo in a scientific pissing match. This week the headlines read that omega 3 fatty acids were associated with a higher prostate cancer risk based on this…read more

Cholesterol Drugs Harm Muscles

Cholesterol drugs harm muscles!  As I’ve blogged many times before, we’ve seen severe inhibition of stem cell growth in culture due to statin cholesterol drugs. As a result, I’ve spent time combing the medical literature to trying to understand why. After all, if you believe the ads and studies sponsored by big pharma, these are…read more

Can certain Supplements help your Stem Cells?

Are there stem cell supplements, or asked another way, can certain supplements help your stem cells?  Not a single week goes by without at least one patient asking this critical question. Based on the available information and our clinical experience going back to 2005, I have put together a list of things I think may help…read more