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let’s talk about lumbar disc pain

okay now in your little discs

in between your vertebra you have a

couple parts you have the center part

which is a little gel like

center like a jelly and a donut that’s

called the nucleus

palposis okay and then you have these

little rings

around that center disc that part is

called the

annulus fibrosis and then on the top of

the disc

in the bottom of the disc you have

vertebral endplates

that connect the disc to the vertebra

okay

now the little center part called a

nucleus palposis

is like a gel and it’s composed mainly

of something called proto-glycans okay

now what’s

proto-glycans and glycans basically is a

type of carbohydrate

so we have a mixture of protein and a

carbohydrate

and so in that center part of the disc

we have 65 percent

proto-glycans and 15 collagen

which is protein versus the outer

annular fibrosis part

which is mostly collagen okay like 70

collagen and only 20 percent

proto-glycogen

and so the question is why is that in

inside part um

mostly proto-glycogens what’s

significant about that

well anytime you have carbohydrates you

have also

the ability to retain more water so one

of the reasons why that center part

needs to be mainly carbohydrate is to

retain some of that fluid

of course there’s other reasons too but

that inside needs to be more of a gel

so you can actually move and pivot and

have motion

and this is also why when you wake up in

the morning you’re actually

two centimeters taller than when you

went to bed

because this fluid tends to kind of seep

out and then

all that long when you’re resting it can

actually come back and you can expand a

little bit

this is also why as you age you get

shorter and shorter because the discs

become dehydrated

and so the outer rings of that disc are

mostly protein because they don’t need

to have as much water

they just need to be very very strong to

protect

and keep the gel in the center part to

keep the jelly inside the donut right

and what’s really amazing about this

outer ring of this disc

is that it’s super super strong it’s

actually stronger than

bone but what happens when you have a

herniation is you have this inner gel

part

the jelly starts leaking out and starts

breaking through

the annular next part of the disc

the annular or annulus fibrosis okay so

you can have a protrusion

within the disc that does not extend

and even touch the nerve root at all and

so a herniation can be small enough

where it just breaks

through the next layer of the disc okay

where those little

annular fibers are now when you have

this gel that breaks through

the next layer at first

you won’t even feel it you’ll have no

pain okay but over time it starts to

degrade

and it becomes inflammatory and

it becomes more acidic and there’s nerve

endings

in this little annular part of the disc

and that’s where you get pain and i’m

talking about

40 percent of all back pain is

discogenic and that’s what they call it

and so this herniation is not even

touching the nerve root

all this pain is occurring within the

disc itself

and normally it should heal but

sometimes it doesn’t heal the thing that

you need to know

is there’s other reasons why this disc

pain can persist

and there’s still a lot of unknowns

about this but i think that most of

these disc problems

originate from a mechanical problem and

then they get worse

with a dietary problem which i’m going

to get into but i remember when i was in

high school

i did something really really stupid i

went to the gym and i started to do

squats okay

and i squatted 425 pounds

without anyone spotting me and i get to

the bottom

and when i pushed off i had so much

force down in my low back

i felt a little shift go on no pain

but a little shift right so i was able

to squat 425 pounds

and i go home that night i go to bed and

i woke up i

could not even get out of bed and so

that was the start of my disc problems

and of course if we add on that all the

other injuries and all the bad

diet stuff that i did i have to still be

very careful

or my low back will start to haunt me

and

and let me know that it’s still there

but here’s what i think that happens

after the mechanical

initial injury you can then worsen it

with

inflammatory foods okay people with type

2 diabetes and

metabolic syndrome are at risk for disc

herniation okay also chronic

hyperglycemia which means the

consumption of a lot of carbohydrates

over

a period of time starts to create these

um these sticky proteins called advanced

glycated end products which starts to

clog everything up

and create a lot of inflammation a lot

of free radicals

and that can increase the risk of more

herniation

so i think a lot of people with low back

pain have this situation

and what they don’t know is that their

diet is contributing

to more disc problems and the prevention

of it healing correctly so having a

protrusion is not simply about

having some fall or injury and then

now you have a disc protrusion it’s also

the addition of other inflammatory

factors

so this is what i’m going to recommend

if you have low back pain

and you may find that things just clear

up without the need hopefully of

getting surgery number one eliminate

inflammatory foods

okay i’m talking about sugar i’m talking

about

refined carbohydrates

flour products and vegetable oils

especially

omega-6 fatty acids like corn oil canola

soy cottonseed oil very very important

to eliminate those from the diet

you may find your low back pain clears

right up

number two start doing fasting and

intermittent fasting

okay number three start consuming

omega-3

fatty acids okay fish oils cod liver oil

very very important you want a

one-to-one ratio of omega-3

to omega-6 most people have like a 20

to 1 ratio they have way too many omega

6 fatty acids

and they don’t realize that’s it’s just

killing their back

and their discs and the last thing i

would highly recommend to do would be to

take vitamin d3

at least 20 000 iu’s vitamin d is a

natural anti-inflammatory and it can

greatly help your back pain not just

from reducing inflammation

but if you’re deficient in vitamin d one

of the first places you’re going to

notice

a symptom is in your lower back okay

make sure you take some magnesium with

that because magnesium also

helps relax the muscle around the lower

back

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