| Reader, I know that living with chronic, life-altering joint pain can make you desperate for relief.
It's something I hear every day from my patients…
Today, an estimated 60 million Americans suffer daily from arthritis or chronic joint pain.
That number only increases as the population gets older.
In a new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, researchers looked at a group of more than 18,000 people over the age of 50.
Nearly 25% reported living with significant, chronic pain. Researchers found that those people functioned as if they were two decades older.1
In other words, a 50-year-old with pain functions just like a 70-year-old without pain.
Modern medicine has very little success in treating bad joints. You see, most doctors rely on Big Pharma drugs — and they are a disaster.
Their addictive opioid drugs have led to a deadly epidemic. And drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex block an enzyme called COX-2 that causes pain and inflammation.
But these drugs also cause excessive blood clotting. They increase your risk of heart attack and stroke.
Steroid drugs and creams turn OFF your body's own natural repair and rejuvenation mechanisms. And they cause you to age more quickly.
Big Pharma's newest drugs are "biologics."
You've seen them in TV ads for Humira and Enbrel. They suppress the immune system. But that opens you up to serious infections. Studies link them to pneumonia, as well as lymphoma, tuberculosis, skin, gastrointestinal, breast, and lung tumors.2,3
And when all these drugs fail, mainstream medicine uses risky, expensive, and invasive surgeries to try to repair joint damage. Or they replace your joints with a hunk of metal.
Here at the Sears Institute for Anti-Aging Medicine, I offer my patients a real, long-term solution to joint pain. Regenerate Your Joints Safely And Naturally The medical industry doesn't get this fundamental truth… Your body has the ability to heal itself.
But regenerative, anti-aging medicine is all about harnessing this healing power in your own body using platelet-rich plasma (PRP).
PRP uses natural compounds from your own blood to regenerate the tissue, collagen, tendons, ligaments, and restore youthful joints. Here's how it works...
A doctor draws a small amount of your blood and runs it through a centrifuge. The machine separates out red blood cells. It leaves behind plasma with a high concentration of platelets. PRP is 5 to 10 times richer in platelets than whole blood.
You probably know platelets as blood clotters.
But we've learned in the past few years they're so much more. They are also your body's emergency response team.
Platelets attract stem cells to any injury or damage. Stem cells are the basic building blocks of your entire body. They can transform themselves into any other kind of human cell — whether it's a heart muscle cell, a blood cell, a liver cell, or a nerve cell. They can become whatever kind of cell your joints need.
And inside every single stem cell is a stash of powerful "secret weapons" called human growth factors (HGFs). These are tiny proteins.
Stem cells release HGFs to act as a kind of communication system. These messengers signal the local cells to make more cells or create a new type of cell. They help regenerate injured tissues.
But here's the problem...
You lose stem cells and their HGFs as you age. It makes your body's recovery process longer and harder. Joint injuries don't heal as fast. Chronic problems develop.
But with PRP injections, you get an abundance of stem cells and HGFs. They help create new bone, muscle, cartilage, ligament, and tendon tissue. The additional growth factors in PRP help heal injured tissue up to 100% faster than normal.4
Studies show PRP injections improve joint function - Arthritis
- Torn muscles
- Inflamed tendons
- Damaged joint cartilage
- Injured ligaments
- Knee osteoarthritis
- Elbow, wrist, shoulder, hip, knee, and ankle
- Tendinosis
I predict that someday PRP will replace surgery for most joint problems.
It's fast and relatively painless. It doesn't require any recovery care. br>
And you don't lose any time from work or your daily routine. What Sets PRP At The Sears Institute Apart From The Rest At my clinic, I treat my patients using an enhanced PRP therapy protocol you can only get at the Sears Institute for Anti-Aging Medicine.
Here's what sets our therapy apart:
We use a combination of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and platelet-poor plasma (PPP) that capture a higher concentration of plasma proteins, called alpha two macroglobulin (a2M), and growth factors.
Using a2M drastically changes the biochemistry of a joint. It stops disease progression by binding to and removing cartilage-destroying inflammatory proteins. This provides long-term relief from pain.
But here's what truly sets us apart from every other PRP provider in the country…
Each patient can receive pre- and post-optimal platelet and stem cell activation using: - Intramuscular glutathione injection
- IV nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)
- Hyperbaric oxygen before and after PRP procedures
This triple punch has been shown to improve clinical outcomes. To Your Good Health, 
Al Sears, MD, CNS
References: - Covinsky KE, et al. "Pain, functional limitations, and aging." J Am Geriatric Soc. 2009 Sep; 57(9): 1556–1561.
- Kalyoncu U, et al. "Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in a rheumatoid arthritis patient treated with adalimumab." Scand J Infect Dis. 2007;39(5):475-8.
- Scheinfeld N. "Adalimumab: A review of side effects." Expert Opin Drug Saf. 2005 Jul;4(4):637-41.
- Johns Hopkins Medicine. "Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections." www.hopkinsmedicine.org/plateletrich-plasma-prp-treatment. Accessed on January 3, 2024.
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