Back in 2018 Forever Labs filed a patent to concentrate extracellular vesicles (EV's) from blood, most notably exosomes. The patent sat on the shelf but in 2020 the clinics we work with had to stop performing stem cell banking procedures due to the lockdowns. We had a team, largely sitting on our hands. Plus, the ugly truth was that the banking business, as cool and important as it was/is, wasn't scaling. It's tough to convince someone to stick a needle into their hip and suck out their bone marrow. So, we blew the dust off of the EV patent. We ran studies in the lab and had them validated by outside labs and it turned out that we could concentrate trillions of exosomes from blood and add them to platelet rich plasma treatments (PRP). The team in the lab started calling it a, "Super Shot," and the name stuck. We knew it worked in the lab, but that's a whole lot different than it working in the clinic. We were initially focused on orthobiologic treatments, knees, shoulders, tendons etc. But we became aware that PRP was being used to treat hair loss. We enlisted the National Hair loss Medical Academy to run two studies, one in men and one in women. We saw a 100% response rate. Far greater than standard PRP. We ran a 6 month study in ortho and found that SuperShot accelerated healing and the gains made lasted longer. In short, there is THERE there. The product works. We have secured product distribution in both ortho and aesthetics. We negotiated and were able to get our aesthetics distributor to commit to pay for 40% of the FDA 510k process. We anticipate 510k clearance in 6-8 months, perhaps sooner. The unit ecomoniccs are amazing. I'm pretty excited. It's a lot more fun running a company that sells a product that people can use immediately and that has product-market-fit. The doctors love it. We will still keep the stem cell banking company running, but we believe it's SuperShot that will give our investors the return they signed up for. Aside: I'm going to Brazil in December to see McCartney. Taking my best pal from childhood, another Beatles fanatic. I'm excited. Hope everyone is well. Onward! -TNG
That's awesome! Great to hear the success :) Regarding the Beatles, how did you feel about Now and Then? It felt to me too muddy and repetitive. Very much a mishmash of each Beatle's post Beatles solo career. But not in a good way.
Thank you! I think that's actually a pretty good synopsis of how it sounds. None of the re-vamped songs, including, "Free as a Bird," sound like the Beatles. That said, I listened to Now and Then with no anticipation of greatness. I find it to be a pleasant tune. It's popped into my head a few times this past week. It's a good track, not great. I'm glad it exists though.
I just listened to, “now and then,” again and I have to say, I think it’s actually a really good tune. Melancholy and hopeful all at once. Maybe it doesn’t sound like the Beatles we knew, but it’s the closest to what, I can only guess, the Beatles would have sounded like had they regrouped in 2023. It’ still has that Lennon/McCartney yin/yang, sweet/sour thing going on. I dig it. It’s growing on me.