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let’s talk about 11 different causes of

leg pain okay

number one lactic acidosis now what the

heck is that well without getting

too

technical it’s a condition where you

have

too much

acid going on in your legs okay lactic

acid

and that is coming from your diet you’re

consuming too many carbs and sugar

and you’re severely lacking vitamin b1

and so now what’s happening is you’re

getting a combination of acidity

and lack of oxygen hypoxia okay and your

legs are going to be very very restless

you’re going to feel

very uncomfortable in the legs

especially at night

i had this condition

uh for quite some years i would

literally get up in the middle of the

night and have to pound my legs because

they were so full of energy

and i had to go running i was running in

the middle of the night to try to get

this energy out because they were

restless okay they would not let me

sleep little did i know that a pint of

ben and jerry’s ice cream every night

for probably over a year

caused this condition not to mention the

other carbs i was consuming

the more carbohydrate and sugar that you

eat the more b1 that you need to

metabolize it okay and so that’s the

underlying cause it’s a b1 deficiency

causing this because the diet’s too high

in carbohydrate

number two pinched nerve okay now of

course being a chiropractor i’ve dealt

with this a lot you can have sciatica

pain you can have some nerve root

pinched on one side that goes right down

the leg that’s not necessarily sciatica

it’s just a different nerve you have to

realize the sonic is a very big nerve

it’s like the width of my thumb goes in

the back part of your leg all the way

down to the foot and if there’s some

type of pinching whether it is arthritis

a bone out of place a disc that could be

one of the causes in which you’d want to

go to a competent chiropractor to get it

checked out i have some videos on

sciatica the the key with sciatica is

keeping the lower back curve in

so you need a little cushion when you

sit down and to keep that curve going

inward

because when you lose the curve you

start getting more compression and that

can pinch the nerves right there and of

course with arthritis if you’re

consuming a lot of omega-6 fatty acids

the soy oil the corn oil the canola

those type of things as well as refined

carbs

you’re going to be in a constant

inflamed state that’s going to keep the

nerve pinched regardless of what type of

treatment that you you get

number three obstruction in your

arteries okay in the legs and so one

form of this obstruction or blockage is

called intermittent claudication

so intermittent means it comes and goes

okay so let’s say you start exercising

and your legs start going numb or they

get cold or they get weak that could be

coming from this obstruction in your

arteries and it’s called intermittent

clarication also the circulation in your

legs decreases to the point where you

lose the hair in your legs the skin on

your legs becomes shiny

but typically this is worse with

activity especially if you’re going up a

hill okay your legs just don’t have the

oxygen

to move so you’re not going to be a very

fast runner all right number four low

vitamin d which is behind

growing pains now a lot of teenagers

experience growing pains right well it

has really nothing to do with their

growing okay it has to do with a vitamin

d deficiency if you give a little

vitamin d

boom completely goes away and they

usually get this at night okay in the

middle of the night for a few hours and

then it gets better worse and it it can

be like a cramping in their calves or it

can be in the quads

now vitamin d is uh really important in

preventing inflammation and pain in your

lower back

so if you’re deficient you can have a

lot of lumbar problems in the lower back

as well as pelvic problems that can

affect your ability to walk it can even

if you’re really deficient as a an

infant it can cause

distortion of the spine it can affect

the curve of the spine it can affect

scoliosis and this creates all sorts of

problems with movement and motions

because the muscles are connected to the

bones and so i think most people would

be very surprised how common this is

with leg pain not just low back pain but

leg pain so as a if you’re confused

what’s going on and you have leg pain

just start taking about 40 000 ius of

vitamin d and within probably a day

you’re going to find that that leg pain

eases up tremendously number five

diabetes now why

would you have leg pain with diabetes

there’s a condition called peripheral

neuropathy okay

so this is nerve damage caused because

of the vascular component the

capillaries

get damaged and they can’t feed the

nerves okay in your feet it can be their

feet pain or leg pain and then it

spreads into the hands and arms it’s

called peripherals because those are the

peripheral parts of your body okay now

what’s interesting about this one is the

remedy for this is actually the same as

for number one

well actually it’s also the same for

this one too obstruction in your artery

because if there’s a

some type of

arterial sclerosis or clot or plaquing

that’s usually too many carbs right so

too many carbs for sugar too much carb

or sugar too much carb or sugar

the remedy for this is vitamin b1 but

you would want to

give it in a

form that goes into the fat tissue like

the myelin sheath which is the outer

part of the nerve so you want to give a

person something called benfotamine okay

benfotamine

with this one you can give them just the

water soluble b1 i like nutritional

yeast

but ultimately the correction of this is

getting rid of the carbs but you can

actually make a person feel better by

just taking b1 and of course the same

remedy for this too all right number six

flat feet now if your foundation is

not supporting the whole body with the

correct arch well that can throw off

your knees it can throw off your hips it

can cause some serious serious leg pain

i’m speaking from experience i had flat

feet my whole life i used arch supports

didn’t really work in fact it made

things worse um it wasn’t until i got

rid of those and started working on

strengthening exercises and stretches

that i got relief with this and now i

wear these completely flat

sole shoes they’re called the barefoot

shoes and they’re great they force your

toes and your feet to actually

strengthen the muscles and it’s the best

thing ever and of course this one is

tied in with a vitamin d deficiency

probably early on

okay number seven tight psoas and quads

i had this problem as well for many

years from riding a bike so you’re doing

this one motion over and over and over

and you’re strengthening your quads and

your psoas and then when you stand up

this is too tight and that’s going to

throw up your back and that’s going to

refer pain down to the legs so if we

take a look at this so far i had this

one this one

this one

almost had this one but not quite i was

a pre-diabetic this one right here and

this one so i’m talking from experience

but if we add number eight i’ve also had

old injuries and i’m talking to your

ankle okay

so let’s say for example you sprained

your ankle or broke her ankle on one

side you’re going to limp you’re going

to put the pressure on the opposite side

so you’re going to walk a little bit

differently you’re going to adapt to

that and then

one two three years down the road

what’s going to happen is you’re going

to notice leg pain or ankle pain or knee

pain or back pain that’s just because

your gait has been compensating

i have a really good

video on this i’m going to put it down

below and i also have a very good video

on this one too to how to reverse this

right here

but this can definitely

be a cause in fact you just want to ask

yourself

have you ever had any ankle injuries

foot injuries knee injuries okay have

you ever fallen your tailbone

those can come back to haunt you if you

don’t know how to fix them and i’m going

to put some videos down on how to fix

them number nine deep vein thrombosis so

this is a little different than the

artery problem right here but you can

have an obstruction in the veins as well

coming from the same root cause because

there’s an actual clot that’s blocking

blood flow and that’s definitely going

to cause leg pain all right 10

over training

so many people exercise

way too often not letting their legs

rest and recover and they end up having

soreness and then they exercise over

soreness and the exercise of soreness

and they’re just not connecting the dots

if this person

gave themselves

like a week or maybe even two weeks of

rest

and then just noticed how much better

their muscles feel because they allowed

it to rest

they would really get it but they’re

just so used to this you have to

exercise every day you know there’s a

couple points about weak muscles and

nutrition

if you’re low in vitamin e

your muscles will be

a bit weak okay

and you should even test that if you

ever feel kind of weak sometimes take

some vitamin e wait about an hour and

see how much stronger you feel

okay when you walk and exercise

low sodium

or low salt

especially when you’re doing fasting can

make your muscles weak it’s another

cause

now low omega-3 will increase the time

of soreness

so this person that does training should

increase their omega-3 to decrease

soreness and increase

recovery all right number 11 stenosis

what is that well you have the spinal

column okay and then you have the spinal

cord in the spinal column there’s just

not enough space for the spinal cord and

so there’s obstruction on the spinal

cord and that can definitely cause leg

pain okay

so that could come from either the

ligaments around the spinal column being

too thick it can come from arthritis or

spurring okay right next to the joints

or it can also come from just

inflammation that just won’t allow the

space to open up so with this right here

i would highly recommend you work on

getting the curve back on your lower

back first okay i’ll put the videos down

below

getting rid of refined carbs and sugar

taking

things like vitamin k2 to help maybe

possibly remove some calcium

and if you tried everything and

nothing’s worked there’s a really great

non-invasive surgery

that my mother did that was very

effective and trim that thickened um

ligament and take out these little

osteophytes and spurring

i mean the hole they go through is like

a very small hole and they’re covered up

with a band-aid it’s not a major

laminectomy where they’re doing

all sorts of uh

invasive type work

because here’s the problem when you do

surgery the scar tissue after the

surgery is sometimes worse than the

actual

before the surgery so

i’ll write down that procedure down

below but there is a point where people

need surgery all right so for the next

video that you should watch it should be

this one right here for the tight psoas

i put it up right here check it out