Autologous conditioned serum

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Photo: a gloved hand setting tubes of spun blood back in a rack, beside the centrifuge
Image: Kevin Dunkleberger, U.S. Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Not approved for people anywhereMeasured in people, not heightBy injectionProtein or enzymeAlso Orthokine

Your own blood left to sit with treated glass beads, which makes the blood cells produce anti-inflammatory molecules, then injected back.

The patient’s own blood incubated with treated glass beads, which raises production of the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist along with other cytokines, then separated and injected. Sold as Orthokine, IRAP and Regenokine.

Inflamm Res, 2003

Risks. Not approved, and the claims that it is appear to be wrong. The risks are those of repeatedly injecting a joint, and every batch is different because it is made fresh from your own blood.

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