Sludge™

Or, What’s Really In That Bottle? - A Protein Primer

0:00 Introduction

0:16 What is a Protein? Learn about folding, and why it matters, and what happens when you take a protein out of its usual neighborhood.

3:17 Oxervate: Big Pharma protein eye drop example from Dompé

3:17 DailyMed listing; pH and osmolarity similar to human tears

4:28: Inactive ingredients = happy neighborhood to keep active ingredient active by stabilizing pH and protein structure (side note: regenerative medicine loves to hate on those “chemical” inactive ingredients)

5:55 Oxervate storage: frozen at pharmacy; refrigerated up to two weeks; discarded after 12 hours; don’t shake

6:39 StimulEyes: Regenerative medicine proteins eye drop example

6:59 The Recipe

7:40 Natural! Biologic! Unstable!

8:42 “A proprietary process that results in a shelf-stable formula that can be stored at room temperature for up to two years”. Snail and DrB collapse laughing.

10:00 Conversation between DrB and Rebecca

10:38 Results of a conversation with RayBiotech, the company that analyzes StimulEyes

12:50 What you think you get, vs what you really get.

14:06 Regener-Eyes

15:13 Summary table: Regenerative Medicine - Selling Sludge™

16:22 DrB and the Snail continue to investigate Neobosis (manufacturer of StimulEyes) and its CEO