Section 6.5 · The audit trail

Comparison sources
&methodology.

If we compare ourselves to named clinics, we owe you the receipts. Everything we say about another clinic in §6.1 through §6.4 comes from that clinic's own public material. Here is where each of those sources lives.

4clinics
Named operators
CPI · SCI · Ways2Well · BioX
0private
Off-record claims
Public material only
1/year
Review cadence
Or sooner on a real change
May2026
Last checked
Sources re-verified

The audit trail. Open by design.

The four pages before this one, §6.1 (CPI), §6.2 (Stem Cell Institute, Panama), §6.3 (Ways2Well), and §6.4 (BioXcellerator), describe other clinics. This page is where every one of those descriptions is sourced.

One rule for the whole section: anything we say about another clinic comes from that clinic's own public material, or is labeled "not stated" when their material is silent. No leaked documents, no private quotes, no "what someone told us on a sales call." If we cannot show you, we do not say it.

These pages are deliberately light on claims. They compare the trip and the experience, a day versus a longer stay, not cells, labs, or outcomes. That keeps the source list short, and this page short with it.

Sources 014 ·Where each claim comes from

Four clinics, their own public material.

Each comparison draws on a small, public set of sources. They are listed below, clinic by clinic, with a link you can open yourself.

§6.1
CPI Cell Therapy
Cellular Performance Institute · Tijuana, MX
3 sources
The 5-Day Protocol, the Hyatt hotel stay, ground transport and border handling, the daily ride between hotel and hospital.
Location in Tijuana, a short drive from San Diego, and the UFC partnership.
A patient's walkthrough Glamour and Gains, glamourandgains.com
The Monday pickup, the Hyatt stay, and the private Sprinter van, from a first-person account.
§6.2
Stem Cell Institute
SCI · Panama City, Panama
1 source
SCI website cellmedicine.com
Location in Panama City, the multi-day program, and the hotel-and-transport arrangement for the stay.
Flight distance Great-circle distance, LAX origin
The travel figures (roughly a few thousand miles, usually with a connection). Geographic, not a clinic claim.
§6.3
Ways2Well
U.S. · Texas + telehealth
Regulatory + science
Ways2Well website ways2well.com
U.S. wellness practice, Texas plus telehealth, founder, and the same-day regenerative offering.
FDA framework, 21 CFR Part 1271 ecfr.gov · 21 CFR Part 1271
The Section 361 versus Section 351 line, the spine of why the two are different products.
Section 3 science articles §3.6, §1.1, and the rest of the Section 3 cluster
The cell-biology background, in plain English, for readers who want the detail.
§6.4
BioXcellerator
Medellin, Colombia
1 source
BioXcellerator website bioxcellerator.com
Location in Medellin, the multi-day wellness stay, and the hotel, transfers, and concierge built into the trip.
Flight distance Great-circle distance, LAX origin
The travel figures (an international flight, usually with a connection from the West Coast). Geographic, not a clinic claim.
Method 02±The rules we follow

What we do, and what we deliberately don't.

A comparison written by one of the clinics being compared is easier to trust when the rules are on the table. Here they are.

Figure 6.5.1 · How we source a comparison

Three do's, three don'ts.

What we do
Public material only.

Every claim about another clinic comes from their own website or a public, first-person account, something you could find without our help.

What we don't do
No private documents.

No leaked PDFs, no internal cost sheets, nothing a member of the public cannot see. If we cannot show you, we do not claim it.

What we do
"Not stated" when silent.

When a clinic's material does not address something, we say "not stated," not "they don't do it." Silence is just silence.

What we don't do
No outcome claims.

We do not compare clinical results between clinics. Outcomes across different patients and protocols are not meaningfully comparable.

What we do
Right of reply.

If a named clinic believes we have it wrong, we will correct or remove the line on receipt of evidence. [email protected] reaches us directly.

What we don't do
No anonymous comparisons.

We do not write "some clinics do X" without naming who. Anonymous comparisons let a writer attack a fictional worst case. We name the clinic.

Limits 03·Honesty about the limits

What this page cannot do, and when we check it.

A source list is a tool, not a guarantee that the comparison is perfectly fair, complete, or current. Two honest limits, and our review cadence.

Figure 6.5.2 · The honest limits

Two things this page does not give you.

  • It does not compare outcomes. We do not publish clinical-outcome claims about other clinics. Results across different patients, conditions, and protocols are not meaningfully comparable, so there is no outcome row anywhere in §6.1 through §6.4.
  • It can lag a quiet change. If a clinic changes its program without updating its website, our pages stay behind until their public material catches up. That is unavoidable for any public-source method, which is why we re-check.
Figure 6.5.3 · Review status

Reviewed once a year.

Last checked: May 2026. We re-verify every source on this page about once a year. If a clinic makes a real, public change before then, we update the affected page sooner.

If you spot something: write to [email protected] with the page, the line, and the public source you think we have wrong. We read every note and reply, even when we end up disagreeing.

§ 6.5.4 · The short version

Sourced, simple, and checked.

Everything we say about CPI, Stem Cell Institute, Ways2Well, and BioXcellerator comes from their own public material, linked here. Where their material is silent, we say "not stated" rather than guess.

We do not compare outcomes, we do not use private documents, and we take corrections. We re-check the sources about once a year. The receipts live on this page.