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‍The Large and Growing MarketHealthcare is undergoing a paradigm shift. With rising chronic diseases, escalating healthcare costs, and growing dissatisfaction with conventional treatments, patients are turning to Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). CAM is no longer seen as fringe medicine. It is now a mainstream movement, with increasing adoption in hospitals, clinics, and even corporate wellness programs. Over 50% of U.S. physicians recommended at least one complementary health approach to their patients within a 12-month period. 1One-third of Americans use CAM alongside conventional treatments. In Europe, 25-50% of the population uses CAM therapies, including homeopathy, naturopathy, and herbal medicine. In Asia, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda are deeply embedded in cultural and medical systems. 2The Global CAM Market is valued at $100–$400 billion, with a projected growth rate of 15–25%. The U.S. CAM market is valued at over $50 billion 3. Factors driving this growth include:Patients are more proactive about their health.More people are seeking alternative solutions for pain, inflammation, and metabolic disorders.CAM aligns with the booming self-care, fitness, and mental health movements.AI-powered health platforms, wearable biofeedback devices, and personalized wellness programs are making CAM more accessible.Major corporations, insurance providers, and even governments are beginning to integrate CAM into healthcare policies and benefits. 4True healthcare innovation lies in integration — combining the best of conventional medicine with evidence-based CAM therapies.Chronic Disease Management: CAM therapies like acupuncture, herbal medicine, and functional nutrition help manage diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmune disorders without heavy reliance on pharmaceuticals.Pain & Opioid Crisis Solutions: Chiropractic care, acupuncture, and red light therapy offer non-drug alternatives for pain management, reducing opioid dependence.Mental Health & Stress Reduction: Meditation, breathwork, and biofeedback therapies help treat anxiety, depression, PTSD, and insomnia — often as effectively as medication.Personalized & Preventive Healthcare: Functional and integrative medicine focus on root causes rather than symptom suppression, reducing long-term healthcare costs.Patient Demand & Market Trends: Hospitals and clinics adopting CAM see higher patient satisfaction, improved treatment outcomes, and increased revenue. 5Several world-renowned institutions, such as Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and Johns Hopkins, have already integrated CAM into their healthcare offerings—proving that a blended approach is the future of medicine.RegenMed Is Strongly Positioned To BenefitThere is very little data on integrative, complementary, or alternative medicine procedures. Circles represent a clinical grade yet low-cost approach to generating statistically significant datasets for any individual or combination of procedures. RegenMed is already working with doctors around the world in developing such datasets. They will be critical to:Regulation & Standardization: Governments are creating guidelines to ensure CAM therapies meet safety and efficacy standards.Insurance Expansion: More insurance companies are covering CAM services, recognizing their cost-effectiveness.AI & Digital CAM Platforms: Personalized health recommendations using AI-driven diagnostics.Mainstream Adoption of Holistic Wellness: Corporations are investing in employee wellness programs that integrate CAM.Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Psilocybin and MDMA treatments are gaining momentum for mental health breakthroughs.‍‍

Effective February 10, the U.S. government will cut medical research grants by at least $4 billion. This is only one part of an accelerating trend in reducing healthcare expenditures – often by utilizing modern technology. The National Institutes of Health provide funding to thousands of hospitals, medical schools, universities, and independent research organizations. They in turn support more than 300,000 researchers. In many cases, medical science can advance only through expensive laboratories, hundreds of researchers, and associated overhead. In many more cases however, true improvement in healthcare results from letting physicians not researchers lead the way. In other words, the most impactful clinical research is usually developed from the bottom up, not the top down. Today, as in the past, practicing physicians can generate the best informed and therefore most impactful clinical hypotheses. Physicians are an immensely valuable resource which our current approach to medical research fails to utilize. Even in large academic medical institutions, there is a broad divide between research and everyday clinical practice. This is one more reason America spends far more than any other country on healthcare, with generally worse results. RegenMed provides the technical platforms and burden-free processes allowing physicians in any specialty, wherever located, to collaborate on medical research. Medical research which is statistically significant, and can have a positive and broad impact today. Critically, RegenMed delivers these capabilities to physicians and partnering scientists at a far lower price, and with far less burden, than current approaches. It is thus in a strong position to help healthcare institutions deliver genuine value-based medicine.

We thank all of our individual and institutional investors for their support during this fundraising round. We believe we are now well positioned to accelerate our market traction, and will be closing this investment round ahead of schedule on March 6, 2025.As indicated in our updates on this page, we are excited about our opportunities in 2025. We will continue to post further updates here through March 6. This will include the scheduling for a final Investors Webinar. You may also follow us through our Latest and corporate LinkedIn pages.

Our Broken Healthcare System Is Letting All Of Us DownA large majority of Americans have lost faith in their healthcare system. 1 Seventy percent of physicians and medical students believe that consolidation in healthcare negatively affects patient access to high-quality, cost-effective care. Fundamental problems include:The U.S. spends much more per capita on healthcare than any other country, yet ranks towards the bottom of developed countries in many healthcare metrics. 2Over 21% of U.S. children aged 6–17 are obese. In Japan, the number is about 3%. 395% of medical spending comes after someone gets sick. 4It is difficult to trust the recommendations of healthcare policy makers or medical “experts”. The financial conflicts of interest are extensive and well reported. 5The FDA does not know all the chemicals in our food. 6Drug companies spend heavily to market more drugs, for higher prices, and for longer periods to time to Americans. (In 2023 advertisements from drug makers accounted for half of the ad spending on five popular nightly news shows.) 7A significant number of clinical trials supporting FDA drug approvals had limitations in their design or execution, affecting reproducibility. For example, a 2012 analysis attempted to replicate 53 landmark cancer studies but succeeded in confirming the original results in only 11% of them. 815% of hospital activity and expenditure in OECD countries is a direct result of adverse events. 9This Is Leading To Major Political ConsequencesIt is not surprising that healthcare was a major – and for many Americans the major – issue in recent national elections. 10 As a result, the election outcomes will significantly impact U.S. health policy. 11Patients and physicians alike are demanding better access to trustworthy information, a sharp reduction in unnecessary costs, and policies based on science and common sense rather than on corporate profit. It is now a national governmental imperative to meet these demands.RegenMed Is Well Positioned To Capitalize On These Tectonic Shifts In Healthcare DeliverySolving these fundamental problems begins with unbiased datasets built from the bottom up by independent physicians, and not from the top down by conflicted policymakers and “experts.” Datasets which are clinically relevant to more patients. Datasets which deliver on the promises of “value” and “care”, rather than merely add bureaucracy. Datasets which are transparent to physicians and patients, and are independent of profit motive. Datasets which reflect and evolve on the basis of legitimate medical science and well-correlated outcomes, not the opaque motives of anonymous committees. RegenMed provides the platforms and processes to develop such datasets for any condition or protocol – efficiently and at low-cost. Its technology and processes return to physicians and their patients the power to identify what they, and not drug companies and conflicted “experts”, believe are the diagnoses and treatment protocols most likely to lead to better and cost-effective outcomes. And RegenMed is not stopping there. For example, it is now working on a powerful AI layer which will enable efficient querying of any or all of its datasets. Because of the high-quality of these datasets, we believe that such queries will provide reliable support for everyday clinical decision-making. This is in stark contrast to the AI “hallucinations” and other artifacts of highly manipulated “big data”. 

Nick Tierney: Hello! This is Nick Tierney with RegenMed Circles, and I'm joined by Dr. Grant Pagdin, who's a regenerative medicine and anti-aging expert located in Kelowna, British Columbia. Dr. Pagdin, thank you for your time.Grant Pagdin: Yeah, thanks, Nick. It's a pleasure to be here.‍Nick: Please tell us a little bit about yourself.Grant Pagdin: Well, I got involved with bioidentical hormone replacement back in around 2009, 2010, and I got certified through the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine with their board exams. So, I have expertise in bioidentical hormone replacement, and also in the regenerative procedures involving PRP and stem cells along the way. I also was involved with clinical research that was pharmaceutical, sponsored, and I have my name on about 39 research papers using pharmaceutical medications and trying to get those things to market. In 2019, Health Canada intervened in the stem cell space in Canada and insisted that if we were going to use stem cells to treat osteoarthritis, we had to register a clinical trial. So, I put my own trial together. It's sort of self-funded, self-initiated. I'm the sponsor and the investigator, and I stick handled all through the Health Canada regulations to put my clinical research trial as the pioneering trial in Canada using stem cells for osteoarthritis. So, I have a fairly extensive background in research as well as my background in bioidentical hormones and regenerative procedures.‍Nick: Excellent. And today's topic is going to be bioidentical hormones in particular. So, tell us a little bit about what those are, what they're used for, and a little bit more about some of the challenges and or misconceptions about them.Grant Pagdin: The big challenge in this field is that some of the drug companies are now producing bioidentical options so that you can get a pharmaceutical drug. That's a prescription, and it's available from any pharmacy, and it's standardized. It has a DIN number. It goes through your extended healthcare plan.But some of these products are not available, or not always suitable. So, we ask the compounding pharmacy to make up a special cream, or a lotion, or a recipe, according to the doctor's prescription, and they will use the exact hormone that would be normally present in the body. So, a bioidentical form, and it's formulated in some sort of a method of delivery. So, the challenge for us really is to show that these things are safe and effective, that they work as they ought to, and that they would provide important, meaningful clinical improvements on a par with what the standard prescription pharmaceutical versions might do. That evidence is really lacking in the marketplace right now.And some of the regulatory bodies or the oversight bodies, for instance, Women's Menopause Society, aren’t really coming out strongly in favor of these compounded hormones, because they're not really validated, and the standards of manufacturing are not necessarily uniform across the board. So, we do have some challenges when it comes to showing the safety and the efficacy of these compounded bioidenticals.‍Nick: So, in the field of stem cells, you mentioned that you self-organized a clinical trial which you brought to Health Canada, and are now conducting. Probably, the rare practitioner that can put all of those pieces together, and afford to be able to run a clinical trial. What are the other options for generating clinical evidence. How else can we start to collect data on BHRT?Grant Pagdin: As you've alluded there, Nick, putting together a registered clinical trial, is a very onerous proposition. But an emerging way of achieving some meaningful data is what's called real-world data collection. So, what we do is rather than having a registered clinical trial where patients are randomized either to receive a placebo or an active drug, what we do is we take a cadre of patients that have similar symptoms and similar presentation. We put them on some treatment, and we track their outcomes with patient-reported outcome tools. I don't have to register that as a clinical trial. I don't have to have ethics oversight. We just have to have the patient that consents to, first of all, the treatment with the hormones and participation in the data collection. ‍Nick: So, you're doing this real-world data collection already, it sounds like, and what are the types of patients that you're tracking after prescribing BHRT?Grant Pagdin: So, in my testosterone replacement Circle, these are males that are registering with us for the onset of testosterone replacement. They've been deemed to be suitable candidates based on their symptoms and their blood test results.They do a questionnaire at baseline that gives us an idea of some validated symptom scores that they are dealing with. Then we initiate testosterone replacement. It could be done either as an injectable pharmaceutical substance, or as a compounded topical transdermal substance. And so, I record that at the beginning of the Circle of which sort of approach we're using for hormones, and then the individual is prompted to repeat the symptom score 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months into the treatment. And that way we can track how well they're doing. ‍Nick: And on the clinical side, what is the type of data that you're really interested in entering and then correlating against those outcomes?Grant Pagdin: Sure. So, as the provider I'm going to be entering into the Circle the data around the severity of the symptoms, the nature of the prescribed treatment, whether it's going to be an injectable testosterone, and the exact dose or transdermal testosterone, and the dose as well as the baseline lab levels. You know the total testosterone, free bioavailable testosterone SHBG, some of the parameters that we want to track. So, it's the responsibility of the provider to enter some of that basic data information at the baseline and then again at follow up. If we have follow-up lab tests, I typically do my follow-up labs at 3 months and 6 months. So, I would have a little bit of data to enter at those time points. But it's not particularly onerous for the provider. There's just some basic information that we want to register in that data set.‍Nick: So, that's great, Dr. Pagdin. So, you're collecting a lot of great patient data. You're spending the time to enter in a lot of specific prescription and other data related to formulations. What are you doing it for? What will you be using the data for?Grant Pagdin: Well, there's really 3 benefits that are obvious that I can think of, Nick. The 1st is the benefit for the patient themselves to feel engaged in the program, to be able to track their progress and have some objective numbers that they can see that helps them to track their outcome.The 2nd is for the provider. So, I want to know, am I, you know, am I hitting the mark? Do I need to make some adjustments, you know? And how is this particular patient doing compared to the overall cohort? So, it helps me to refine my prescribing and optimize the treatment of the patient.And the 3rd is that these API suppliers that produce these ingredients to make the compounded hormones, they're very interested in the efficacy and the outcomes, and that data would be very valuable to them. So, if there's a way that we can monetize this in a licensing way to be able to make that data available to these manufacturers and suppliers, that would be just, you know, an extra bonus.‍Nick: And so, Dr. Pagdin, so far, you're describing something you've already started, are doing yourself have been doing for over a year now with us. Is there a way for other doctors to participate?Grant Pagdin: Yes, I've established these Circles for some time now, just a little over a year. In the Hormone Replacement Circle for men I have over 300 registered subjects. In my Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Circle for women, I have over 250. So, what I would do is - I would invite other providers that are working in this field to contribute their cases to these Circles, so that we can have even more data available. So, for instance, if I had 10 providers, all contributing 100 patients each over the next 6 months to my Circle, well, we'd have, you know, thousands of patients in the Circle, and that data just becomes so much more powerful when it gets to those kinds of numbers. Keep in mind that it's anonymized data. So, you don't get to see the names of the patients. But you get the power of this amalgamated data from a number of providers as a contributor. Then also the other benefit, if you are contributing as a provider, you would be able to avail yourself of some of the financial rewards that could come from the licensing of the data to the manufacturers and the pharmacies.So, if there are any colleagues out there working in this bioidentical field, you could join the team of providers contributing data to the Circle, have access to that data for your own patients, for your own purposes, and also have access to the potential for licensing this data.