Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter introduces orthobiologics and explains Pinnacle’s two main types of therapies, focusing on stem cell–based approaches. He contrasts practices used abroad (e.g., stem cell infusions, animal-derived exosomes, cosmetic uses) with U.S. regulatory limits that disallow non‑autologous/animal-derived cells. The segment is an explanatory overview aimed at clarifying what stem cell treatments entail and where U.S. rules differ.
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Orthobiologics is just a really fascinating and sort of upcoming science. It's not new. People have been looking at biology and how do we augment our own ability to heal and use that and focus and directed ways. And that's the idea behind orthobiologics. So we have two main types of orthobiologics that we do at Pinnacle, and we can talk about stem cell and what that is in the United States. Stem cell is, is where we take cells that can become other things. And so in the case of, of like folks who are going down to Panama and out of the country to do stem cell treatments, there's multiple different things that they can do. But in some cases they're doing stem cell infusions that are supposedly youthening them a little bit. In some cases, they're using stem cells from other types of animals, like cows or bovine stem cells. And usually it's like those are called exosomes that originate outside the body. Right? Like it's not autologous, not not coming from you. And exosomes can be a really powerful. The idea is that we inject these cells into and they're biologically active or fragments of cells that you can put into skin for vampire facials or hair to help you regrow hair. And these can be incredibly effective. In the United States, using cells from some other organism is not acceptable. So the FDA doesn't let us do that.
