Even the best seed needs good ground

This week I want you to hear a client story first. We're about to release a testimonial video with him, and his story has our whole team fired up.

He had been dealing with knee pain for years. He had arthritis and a torn meniscus, and his doctors told him he would most likely need a knee replacement.

He came to Huemn and did a combination of hyperbaric oxygen and stem cell therapy. Today he tells us he has zero pain. He's moving better, he feels great, and he feels good about the path he chose.

He came in expecting a new knee. Today he tells us his pain is gone.

What the research says about knee surgery

For a painful knee, surgery is often one of the first answers, right up to a full knee replacement. Here's what the research actually shows.

Some knees do need surgery. But before you go under the knife, you deserve to know every option.

What my grandpa knew

I grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, and my grandpa had a saying I still think about: even the best seed won't do much if you don't tend to the ground.

Mowing hay on the ranch in Wyoming.

He was right. Scatter grass seed on hard, compacted ground that's full of weeds, keep the cattle grazing on it, and most of that seed never takes. Control the weeds, prepare the soil, plant when the moisture is right and rest the field from grazing, and that same seed has a real chance to grow.

Why the ground matters

Stem cells work a lot like that seed. When they land in tissue that's full of inflammation and damage, much of their effort goes into cleaning up the mess. That leaves less for the repair work we want them to do.

Hyperbaric is how we tend the ground. You breathe pure oxygen under pressure, which pushes far more oxygen into your blood and tissue. That can help calm inflammation and give damaged tissue what it needs to heal, so the stem cells land somewhere ready to grow.

Hyperbaric may also help your body put its own stem cells to work. In a study at the University of Pennsylvania, a single two-hour hyperbaric session doubled the number of stem cells circulating in the blood. After 20 sessions, that number was eight times higher. Read the study

Put those together and you get what I believe is a smarter way to do stem cell therapy: prepare the ground with hyperbaric, then bring in the stem cells. I don't know of anyone else putting the two together the way we are, and I believe it's going to help a lot of people.

Why Michael is excited

Michael Blanco, MSN, APRN worked in orthopedics in Florida before he joined Huemn. He has seen what years of joint pain take out of people, and how quickly the conversation can turn to surgery. He loves helping people explore every option first, and he's as excited about this combination as I am.

Better humanity begins with better health.

Bill Hanks Founder · Huemn