The Aesthetics Advisor

Trying to keep up with the latest stem cell therapy evidence?  There are more than 240,000 scientific publications published on "stem cell' on the  National Library of Medicine (PubMed) . As of May 2021,  more than 8,000 studies  have been launched to investigate the potential of stem cell therapy under the U.S. Clinical Trial Registry. Just for 2020 alone, there were more than 15,000 scientific publications published on "stem cell' on the  National Library of Medicine (PubMed) . There's a lot to read and catch up to. How do we keep up with all these stem cell therapy evidence? www.onedaymd.com Stem Cell Research Summary Stem cell therapy has recently gained popularity as a promising treatment option for conditions where the current medical treatment protocols have been exhausted. However, there is also a lot of confusion due to the overwhelming mixing of credible scientific information and marketing hypes available on the internet. We do get the following quest...

This review article explores a superbly designed, highly navigable website that has continuously updated the evidence-based research on early COVID-19 treatments since June 2020. The website is so exhaustively comprehensive that it could be considered a journal in itself, produced by a team of competent, committed editors. Although this singular resource site has been developed and posted anonymously, one observer commented on Reddit, “It doesn’t really matter who built it, imo. All studies are referenced/linked.” The Website Itself: The Home Page is at c19early.com The studies for Covid’s evidence-based early treatments are divided into sections: Ivermectin, Vitamin D, Hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin C, Zinc and more. Methods and Study Results Ongoing searches of PubMed, medRxiv, ClinicalTrials.gov, The Cochrane Library, Google Scholar, Collabovid, Research Square, ScienceDirect, Oxford University Press, the reference lists of other studies and meta-analyses. The site is updated ...

The so-called mediterranean diet is perhaps the best publicized “healthy diet”, and has been for decades. It was “discovered” by Ancel Keys back in the 1970’s, and is based on the diets that were typical in the mediterranean region during the 60’s and 70’s. Ancel Keys is largely responsible for the current slate of official diet recommendations promulgated by health authorities around the world, most of which are dead wrong. So I’m not a huge fan of the man. I’m also not sure where the idea that the mediterranean diet was healthier came from in the first place. Average life expectancy in Greece back in 1970 was 71 years. In Italy it was also 71 years. In Spain it was 72 years. In contrast, in the United States, life expectancy at the time was 71 years. Hmm. And in the United Kingdom, it was 72 years. So, the Americans who were stuffing their faces with hamburgers, and the Brits who were stuffing their faces with marmite on toast, were not actually living any shorter lives than the Sout...

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been FDA approved for 65-years. Once a medication is FDA approved it can be prescribed by a physician for any reason. If the medication is prescribed for the specific reason the drug manufacturer requested (e.g. pneumonia) that is called “on-label” use, and if it is prescribed for a different reason (e.g. bladder infection) that is called “off-label” use. Being on or off label is not related to the drug’s safety or efficacy. On-label designation means the FDA permits the drug manufacturer to advertise for a specific diagnosis. Physicians prescribe “off-label” 21% of the time and never consider if a drug is on or off label in their daily practice. There are many reasons for this including: physicians are already regulated by medical malpractice regulations and it is very expensive for a drug manufacturer to get additional “on-label” designations. The other reason doctors are always allowed to prescribe off label is because it is desirable for doctors to be a...