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So today we’re going to take a part of

your body the lower back to be able to

identify deeper problems nutritionally

typically when someone has low back pain

what do they do they treat it right and

then they might take some medication and

they go on their way but there’s no real

understanding of what’s really behind

this low back pain especially if it

becomes chronic but you can do this with

any part of the body if you understand

the connections today we’re going to

focus primarily on the lower back and

we’re going to emphasize the nutritional

deficiency connection to lower back pain

now out of all the vitamins you can be

deficient in

vitamin D is the one that will create

low back pain probably more than any

other deficiency you see vitamin D is a

very powerful anti-inflammatory and when

you become deficient in vitamin D

probably the first place you’re going to

notice it is in your lower back if an

infant is deficient in vitamin D maybe

because the mom was deficient during

pregnancy they can end up with all sorts

of structural skeletal problems like

bowed legs flat feet scoliosis problems

with your teeth chances are you might

need braces to correct an original

vitamin D deficiency vitamin D is also

intimately involved with bone formation

and if you’re deficient you could

develop osteoporosis but not only

osteoporosis

osteopenia which is kind of a milder

version of osteoporosis but also this

other condition called

osteomalacia which is a severe

deficiency in children and their bones

become very very soft now one thing

that’s related to vitamin D you may just

be efficient about M D or there could be

two other minerals that are deficient

that are aggravating or interfering with

your vitamin D levels in your blood one

is magnesium in fact you need magnesium

to help you metabolize and absorb

vitamin D vitamin D doesn’t work that

well without magnesium if you have a

stiff back or your muscles are crappy in

your lower back and they can’t seem to

relax

suspect it could be a magnesium

deficiency the other mineral involved in

this is boron Boron also increases

vitamin D in the body the absorption the

half-life vitamin D stays in your body

longer with Boron Boron also helps

increase magnesium and Boron is a really

good anti-inflammatory now if we look at

the other side of magnesium we get this

mineral called calcium

and if you have too much calcium that’s

accumulating in your lower back that

could be called arthritis where you’re

getting these bone spurs or calcium

deposits

or this other condition called stenosis

now stenosis is a situation where the

spinal column around the spinal cord is

not allowing enough space one reason for

that could be calcium buildup inside the

canal and so whether you have this

stenosis in your lower back or stenosis

in your arteries

or even arthritis the key vitamin to

focus on is vitamin K2 vitamin K2 helps

mobilize and remove calcium from the

soft tissues into the bone so it takes

calcium deposits and keeps them in the

right place and a lot of people are

deficient in vitamin K2 so vitamin K2

and vitamin D work together but I just

want to put that in the radar because if

you’re trying to solve a problem and you

don’t have all the information and you

don’t know that when you take vitamin D3

you need K2 you can end up not really

getting the results that you want now

another vitamin that’s involved with a

weak back suspect a vitamin E deficiency

now you have to realize that Alpha

tocopherol is not

vitamin E that might be one piece of

this vitamin E complex but just by

taking Alpha tocopherol it’s probably

not going to do anything for your week

back what you want to take is either you

have two choices the whole vitamin E

complex maybe taking some wheat trim oil

which has everything

or you can take

the tocatrinal complex which is kind of

a newly discovered part of the vitamin E

complex which seems to work really good

in fact better than the tocopherols and

so you can either get a tocotrinal

complex okay or a wheat germ oil that

will greatly strengthen your lower back

I remember in practice I would

demonstrate this and someone with a weak

muscle especially of the lower back and

then they would take some vitamin E

within minutes they would become strong

so if you have problems with weak

muscles think about vitamin E the real

complex vitamin E also increases oxygen

into the muscles it’s actually really

good to counter angina which is a lack

of oxygen in your heart in fact you’ll

probably see empty bottles of vitamin E

at the top of most of the mountains on

planet Earth from climbers that use

vitamin E to handle some of the the

oxygen deficiency problems they have at

higher altitudes vitamin E also is great

for muscle atrophy if someone is losing

muscle okay maybe they’re getting older

and they have a loss of muscle vitamin E

is really really important vitamin E is

also good for hot flashes but I would

make sure it’s in the form of this wheat

germ oil now another mineral which is

really a trace mineral that’s involved

in lower back pain

actually has to do with what’s going on

to your disk okay

manganese which sounds very similar to

magnesium but it’s completely different

is associated with disk problems in

collagen problems all these trace

minerals are involved in helping certain

proteins work and manganese is very

essential for collagen especially in

your discs your ligaments and your

tendons so if your manganese deficient

you can end up with all sorts of

problems in the disc a manganese

deficiency can also increase your risk

of getting scoliosis now generally

speaking

uh if you’re consuming too many omega-6

fatty acids because you’re on a diet

that involves a lot of grains or seed

oils and you don’t have enough fish oils

with the Omega three fatty acids that

can set you up for overall inflammation

in the body or for example you’re in a

diet that’s very high in sugar and carbs

that can keep you inflamed so there are

many different things that are not

necessarily related to a vitamin

deficiency that can cause low back pain

like even kidney stones for example if

you have kidney stones you’re going to

feel problems higher up in your lower

back okay it’ll be like this deeper

gnawing tight painful area in the upper

part of your lower back that can spread

around to the front now you could also

have a gallstone that could mimic that

especially if it’s on the right side so

now you have a deeper understanding of

how to evaluate lower back pain and a

lot of different connecting deficiencies

that could be at the root of it if you

haven’t seen this video and how to

identify nutritional deficiencies by

using the face

check it out I put it up right here