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    Why We Don't Recommend Stem Cell Therapy (Yet)

    ·June 27, 2026·9 min read

    The short answer

    Are you anti-stem-cell?

    No — we're anti-stem-cell-as-shortcut. The therapy has real applications in orthopedic repair, certain autoimmune conditions, and select neurodegenerative pictures. The marketing has run far ahead of the evidence, the source-and-quality question is largely unregulated, and most patients pursuing it would benefit more from sequencing the upstream work first.

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    Outline

    1. What stem cell therapy actually is (autologous vs allogenic vs MSC vs exosomes — these are not the same thing).
    2. The patient archetypes where it's genuinely useful.
    3. The regulatory mess — US vs Panama/Mexico/Cayman/EU.
    4. Source quality — the part the marketing doesn't talk about.
    5. Why terrain matters more than the cells — what we sequence first.
    6. The economics — and the patient profile that pays for the wrong reason.
    7. When we'd recommend it (rare, specific, sequenced) and when we won't (most cases).
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