Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Davenport, the DPC guru, talking to you today. I wanted to educate all of you about a new medical device that my wife, Christine, and I have begun to use.
This device is from a company called Life Wave and it’s called the X-39 patch. I’m really not going to get into all of the science of it because it gets pretty complicated. The simple reality is that this little patch has micronized crystals in it that reflect the heat which can be referred to as infrared light back into the body. Now what this does is it regulates copper peptides and those copper peptides actually stimulate stem cell reactivation. I think many of you may have heard of the term stem cells before and these types of cells basically help to heal the tissues of the body. This type of light therapy is called photobiomodulation. Just like ultraviolet light helps your skin form vitamin D, this near infrared light raises the copper peptides, leading to more stem cell activity. What’s fascinating about these patches is that when you regulate the stem cells in your body they begin to heal tissues. This is so important as we age because we lose approximately half of our stem cell activity by age 30 and by age 60 we essentially don’t make any new stem cells at all. This is a massive factor with respect to aging. So Christine and I have begun using these patches ourselves and we’re beginning to talk about them to our patients.
It’s always been a challenge for me for some of these non-traditional types of medical care because I don’t ever want to betray the trust of my patients with respect to presenting evidence-based recommendations. But I also realize that evidence-based recommendations are almost always funded by the pharmaceutical industry. To do really good science takes millions and millions of dollars for the studies and generally speaking the only entities willing to spend millions of dollars trying to answer questions are the entities that are going to make billions of dollars on the results of those studies. So there’s no doubt in the modern medical industrial complex that the huge majority of our evidence-based medicine does come from the pharmaceutical industry.
This makes it a challenge when looking at new technologies and new devices that don’t have anything to do with pharmaceuticals. This is very much the place where this X-39 patch would be. As a medical device, it is FDA approved but hasn’t been tested like pharmaceuticals would be to the highest level of medical evidence and scrutiny. However, anecdotal evidence is still evidence and Life Wave has many studies on this medical technology.
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