Stem cell reviews of clinics and unproven therapies are an important relatively new part of The Niche.
Data point to thousands of stem cell clinics in the U.S. selling a wide variety of supposed cell therapies. How does one evaluate such clinics? This question is on my mind regularly as so many patients ask me it. I started a new series of fact-checking and review posts of clinics.
The series focuses on the largest or most concerning chains of clinics.
None of these clinics have good clinical trial evidence for safety or efficacy.
I’ve also reviewed sites that promote unproven stem cell clinics as well as dubious kinds of stem cells sold by clinics. There are some really dubious ideas out there. They’re questionable in the sense they don’t make sense or have good data but are already being marketed in some cases.
This resource page contains a list of these stem cell reviews. I’ll update the page as I do more reviews.
Stem cell clinic reviews & fact-checking
- Review of Docere Clinics by Harry Adelson.
- Peter Diamandis Fountain Life clinics: more than stem cell hype?
- DVC Stem & marketing of unproven therapies
- Regenexx: reviews, data, & cost
- Troubling R3 Stem Cell clinic chain
- Panama Stem Cell Institute: cost, safety, efficacy, docs
- Lung Health Institute & cell therapies for lung disease
- Centers for Respiratory Health is new incarnation of clinic Lung Health Institute
- Giostar stem cell clinic chain review, red flags, & lawsuit
- Review of Bioinformant, unproven stem cell clinic promotion
Dubious types of stem cells and approaches to health conditions
- Stem cell therapy for pain & neuropathy
- Stem cell therapy for knees: fact-check, costs, risks
- VSEL stem cells & supposed ‘VSEL treatment’
- Stem cell therapy for autism: still a risky idea
- Stem cell face cream: less than face value
- Pros and cons of cord blood banking
- Stem cell supplements in 2023
- Augustinus Bader cream reviews
- LifeWave patches
- Stem cell therapy for autism: still a risky idea
- Stem cell penile growth fact check